True, True. I hunt down spammers kind of regular. Since I am on this machine or that most of the day I can often even catch the person online. Sniff them out a little and report to the ISP after a trace route.
It does work. Sometimes when done right a whole bunch of spam influx just vanishes. Unfortunately, the spammers eventually find the address again and it starts all over. I have gotten a few emails on follow ups and resolutions to spam complaints from ISP's and those just warm your heart;)
I have not managed to get on a spammers blacklist yet, as you have mentioned after many years of hunting the pests down I don't truly think that a spammers black list exists. If it does, it wouldn't surprise me to find out they pass it on to the 'hey add this guy to every email list you can cause he fucked me' list. That I have seen. I went after a spammer who was located in the Netherlands once. His ISP wasn't to cooperative. I complained to their upstream provider nothing there either. With the help of my ISP and a few other folks who had complained (at my ISP) eventually contact was made and the upstream provider took some action. In the mean time either they (or the spammer, maybe they were one in the same) proceeded to flood my inbox with 'viagra alternatives' spam for 5 days straight (in the neighborhood of 120 per day or so).
Count your blessings on the lack of spam in your inbox and hunt those few that do trickle in down!
Now if anyone can explain this my curiosity will be satisfied for the day:
Domain Name: FUCKSPRINT.COM
Registrar: CORE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS
Whois Server: whois.corenic.net
Referral URL: www.corenic.net
Name Server: NS2.ICSNET.NET
Name Server: PHALSE.2600.COM
Updated Date: 26-sep-1999
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:39:18 EDT
Actually with the wonderful job NASA and duhbya are doing to piss off the Russians it would not surprise me if they do build Mir2.
It would benefit them in their economy and sense of national pride etc. Additionally it is probably much cheaper to build Mir2 than try to keep up with ISS and all of its 'training' and 'beaurocratic' requirements.
I seen a 'CAD' drawing of a guys dream house once. He did it in Excel by filling in cells with different colors. I couldn't beleive it when I saw it. So much time and effort to do that. Then he informed me he worked for the county managers office...exactly why he had sooo much extra time.
The American public, due to cultural reasons and media induced propaganda won't stand for an apology... I'll adress this in a sec. The Chinese public, due to cultural reasons and government induced propaganda won't accept anything less than a full apology...
We were actively gathering intelligence data on the Chinese. The fact that the crew was busy destroying it as the plane was descending verifies it. Would it be so difficult for us to say 'Yeah, we were spying on you and we are sorry' get our personnel back and tomorrow business as usual?
Duhbya does not speak for all of us. His cronies pulled the a successful non military coup, his posturing and egotistical/militaristic republican view do not in fact speak for the Majority of the US seeing he did not win the popular vote. My main reason for voting Gore was not to let this war mongering village idiot assume the throne. Duhbya wants the cold war back and he wants it back very badly. It will make his friends a lot of money and make the GOP look strong again. That is why we won't apologize, make no mistake about that. Billions of dollars in the right corporate republican pockets are way more important to Duhbya than the military personnel held captive. He will play this up as much as possible and eventually apologize. This will bolster his War machine here and he will be able to spend, spend, spend on new military gadgets that his dad and Reagan started developing before the Clinton administrations said whoa there and cut spending. The sheeples here will say it is money well spent and turn a blind eye as we all relive the cold war or atleats the Reagan Bush era of militarism and nationalism. Look at how good a job Duhbya is doing at pissing off the Russians if you need further evidence. It has nothing to do with American's not standing for it. We were threataning the sovereignty of the Chinese people. Real or not that is their perception of it. It is their inherent right to feel that way just as we would if the tables were turned. A Chinese plane doing recon that close to the US would more than likely be shot down. Heck, we have shot down Libyan planes for coming near ships in the mediterranian and that's just a few thousand miles from our coast line.For them it is an issue of saving face from the western barbarians, thousands of years of culturaly ingrained beliefs. In our case we are just beginning as a nation to be able to say hundreds and walk the planet arrogantly proclaiming our righteousness, hence for us it is about dollars and budgets and who stays in charge for the next election.Sad Really.
...the salaryman still comes to work at 7 or 8 and leaves at 10 to drink with the boss until 1 and expects to do this for one company his entire life.
You grasp something a lot of people here are missing. I am not sure if it is so much of a downside as you imply though. The 'overworked' employee aspect of this may well be a very American point of view. I think it sucks but we should not be so quick to judge.Japanese companies and the government really plan for the long haul. It is not uncommon for a Japanese business plan to be highly detailed and projected out to 120 years. They plan to hire several generations of employees and often from the same families. This is culturaly ingrained since feudal times. So, unlike in the US, a person will do everything to keep their job, express loyalty to their company, focus their lives around the people in their company. Sort of an extended family with a historical job security plan.
Bizarre, oppresive and uninspiring? Mobil Girls and group think? One step closer to borg? It may seem like that to an individualistic society like ours. I think in all the chaos of their techno revolution this facet will bring them through and Gibson may very well be on the mark. The long term planning, however wierdly distorted by technology pulling at it from every conceivable direction, will prevail and even out the swing in direction of Japan as a society. Maybe for them being a little 'behind' will hurl them 'ahead'. Their culture will probably adapt to it better perhaps even pervadeing the techno/cultural trends globally.
Sorry to pop this into the discussion so late but here goes.
If you go to Miami, as you enter the city driving down I-95 you will see 78 cameras. We counted them a few weeks ago but more are popping up on other major thoroughfares. The cameras are on their own poles and are remotely controlled. We were told that this was a traffic cam system designed to help broadcast and update news information relating to the over congestion on our highways. Guess what? Most of the cameras don't point to the highway. They point into the economically and ethnically challenged neighborhoods that I-95 runs through on your way to down town Miami.
Normally, I wouldn't have an issue with the cameras per se if they were indeed doing what they were supposed to be doing. They are not and the fact that the density of cameras is much lower in the nicer neighborhoods towards the end of I-95 smacks of racism. If you want to surveil the community you should do it evenly and fairly. There is no reason to have 4 or 5 cameras on a post pointing into mostly black neighborhoods and only 1 on a post in nicer areas pointing at the highway. White people and Latins commit crimes too.
I notice a lot of people out there complaining about this as an invasion of privacy. Please... You have no expextation to privacy outside your home. How do you think they caught McVeigh? The feds grabbed footage from every sevurity cam, ATM machine etc in Oklahoma city and synced up the video. They saw him park the truck. They saw McNichols pick him up and they even had the majority of the escape route caught on tape too. This is not a bad thing really. Not a good thing either but the continuing decline of society it just may be necessary.
So we go for the hammer and drive it out. (not everybody gets to hammer on $1.4B of hardware).
Sweet. I thought I was a bad ass taking a hammer to an Apollo mini in the 80's but this easily tops that. A liitle help in the right place from a BigFrigginHammer always does the trick. Joy.
What is going to happen when toasters and fridges start to auto update and they break? You don't have the flex to grab your floppies or cd's to reinstall the previous version. Will my toast be burned along with my house? My beer warm and my ice cubes wet?
We've all done an upgrade at one point or another that broke usability on a machine. I wonder how this is going to pan out as this upgrade model becomes more prevalent.
Which makes them smarter than us -- few Americans will admit that we have too many impulsive gun nuts.
Ya know, we may have a few too many gun nuts as you are quick to point out BUT we have way more alcoholics than 'gun nuts'. What really makes them smarter than us is that they realize how much of a problem alcoholism really is.
Welp. I am no expert here but maybe this thought will add to the discussion:
The atmosphere here on earth and the gasses we generally refer to as 'air' exhibit many fluidic properties. Mars has an atmosphere that is nowhere near as dense as Earth's at see level but it is highly active and prone to huge dust storms and dust devils that scar the surface. Water errosion and wind errosion in images from Mars maybe comletely indistinguishable as to what created the features. That being the case I would have to say it is all just educated guess work at this point and the wars over how will rage on.
Yeah, I see the fact that this is personal email. Its sad that he can't actually communicate with friends and family but that is why he should be able to use encryption. Does he as pres not deserve the right to secure and private personal communications?
The fifth ammendment protects him from having to give out his key(Well IANAL but there are millions of lawayers out there who would love to defend the constitution on behalf of a Presidential defendant).
And this begs the question: What the fuck is our President doing sending unsecure unencrypted email in the first place?
I truly long for those golden days when flames were flames and the signal much stronger than the noise. Before there was the web and gui's and dsl. Dial up on a screamin' 300 baud compuserve account to send email to your friends who's address were silly numbers? Yeah, me too, I am 30 and been messing around with this stuff for 2/3's of my life... I agree with you but I think you are missing something really important:
The Internet will be the great equalizer in times to come and our hard core techno eliteist mentality will disappear (at least to those unwilling to scratch below the surface) as more come to realize that this is the information age. Think of how many more influences and directions will be explored in the use of the net and how many more minds will grow as the user demographic changes. Sure, the level of lameness will go up and the noise increase geometrically. These new netizens will move along the technology without directly developing it by using application X because it has nice features versus application Z which crashes all the time and trend Y becomes mainstream instead of 'merely a trend.' They will open doors and in time be able to look back and exclaim "I remember when I used to surf the Web..."just as you and I can right now. The web as we know it today will not even closely resemble the net 5 years from now because the shift from net as a luxury to net as a utility is happening. I used to bitch about all the AOLamers that would clog the web and vandalize sites, news groups, message boards, etc. (troll=graffiti, no?). As time passes I realize it is all just part of the noise and the real evolution of the web is just begining. They are the masses and eventually their collective influence will shape the big picture of the net. I say bring them on, let go of the past for it is these very people that are whom the net was built for. When everyone, at all income levels and educational levels and ethno/religious backgrounds have access to information things will get really interesting. Besides, the digirati will never completely disappear, just shift to some other channel where the signal is the same vibe as you and the noise still low.
I say: DO NOT TOUCH THIS CLIENT PROJECT. DO NOT. The potential legal entanglement is frightening. Exactly. My advice to him is to get a good lawyer NOW and don't skimp on the selection of said legal vulture based on $.
the comercials that ibm did about linux with Cirroc Lofton (ok I may have totally spelled that WRONG) of startrek DS9 fame? I saw it air once and then never again.
If you missed it AdCritic has it here.
...but real art appeals to people who aren't artists.
Is this absolute? It can't be. 'Art' as is commonly interpreted is really in the eye of the beholder. Before you flame me for the cliche hear me out. Most of the replies to your thread bring into perspective that 'Art', 'Artistic' and 'Artful' are very broad in a conceptual sense.
I may like Valejo but not Mondrian. I am an artist so I would have my own views regarding what appeals to me. Yet, 'Art' comes in many shapes, sizes and flavors. Look at the martial arts. Some may view them as fighting, no 'Art' at all, yet the aesthetic of forms in practice appeals to many in and out of the martial arts. Programming is no different nor is say ballet or music. Pagnini? Stimulating. Eminem? Change the stations. Both are artists but how could one compare the appeal or aesthetic there? How about cooking? How about professional athletes? Michael Jordan is amazing to watch in action. Is Jordan not and artist in his own right?Architecture an 'art'? hrm we have lived in man made versions of caves for a very long time. Morphosis creates very wild tectonic designs that hardly resemble the caves that thier structures inherently are. Palladio, Merrick, DeGarmo and Wright all made caves too yet the Kaufman house (falling water) is considered a milestone in architecture and the Biltmore a milestone in excess. Those that take pleasure in its design love it, those that don't see it as just another cave for us silly hairless apes. Same thing could be said of Strategic Planning and warfare. Did Norm and the boys put together and execute a great battle plan in the Persian Gulf War? Wait... war is ugly, no aesthetic or appeal... your view possibly or just maybe you had appreciation for the poetry in motion as they executed a carefully crafted ingenius plan...'Art' is where a person takes their craft to the next level based upon the drive, dedication or passion that a person puts into the 'work'. How about John Carmack and company when id released DOOM or Linus with the linux kernel? Beautifully crafted tomes of code that elevate the 'art' of computer programming and the user experience. A C program can be a beautiful thing to a non programmer: does it work? does it do what i need it to? does it crash more than win98? can it do it faster than someother persons 'work'? To a programmer the very same program is ugly, no elegance and finesse. A seasoned or dedicated professionals work should be viewed as 'Art'. If they are worth thier salt they already view it that way.
Man, now I am shattered. Why did you have to spoil it for me? A lifetime of wandering around aimlessly ruined completely by you! All this time I thought it was those pan dimensional beings known as mice running thier quaint little experiment on us mostly harmless hairless apes.
Do you have a link to information on this? Sounds interesting, if not plausable, but I can't seem to find any information about it. I searched around on Google and found Kieth Henson did indeed work on space tethers and related concepts but none of them are as you described. Thank you.
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True, True. I hunt down spammers kind of regular. Since I am on this machine or that most of the day I can often even catch the person online. Sniff them out a little and report to the ISP after a trace route. It does work. Sometimes when done right a whole bunch of spam influx just vanishes. Unfortunately, the spammers eventually find the address again and it starts all over. I have gotten a few emails on follow ups and resolutions to spam complaints from ISP's and those just warm your heart ;)
I have not managed to get on a spammers blacklist yet, as you have mentioned after many years of hunting the pests down I don't truly think that a spammers black list exists. If it does, it wouldn't surprise me to find out they pass it on to the 'hey add this guy to every email list you can cause he fucked me' list. That I have seen. I went after a spammer who was located in the Netherlands once. His ISP wasn't to cooperative. I complained to their upstream provider nothing there either. With the help of my ISP and a few other folks who had complained (at my ISP) eventually contact was made and the upstream provider took some action. In the mean time either they (or the spammer, maybe they were one in the same) proceeded to flood my inbox with 'viagra alternatives' spam for 5 days straight (in the neighborhood of 120 per day or so).
Count your blessings on the lack of spam in your inbox and hunt those few that do trickle in down!
If they were wise, in my opinion, they should sell out right now. Sell out and run with the cash. I hope they read that, I really, really do.
here it is for the lazy: fucksprint
Now if anyone can explain this my curiosity will be satisfied for the day:
Domain Name: FUCKSPRINT.COM
Registrar: CORE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS
Whois Server: whois.corenic.net
Referral URL: www.corenic.net
Name Server: NS2.ICSNET.NET
Name Server: PHALSE.2600.COM
Updated Date: 26-sep-1999
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:39:18 EDT
because pandering to corporations helps generate re-election funds.
Actually with the wonderful job NASA and duhbya are doing to piss off the Russians it would not surprise me if they do build Mir2.
It would benefit them in their economy and sense of national pride etc. Additionally it is probably much cheaper to build Mir2 than try to keep up with ISS and all of its 'training' and 'beaurocratic' requirements.
"AOL may be able to make hay by claiming the moral/family 'high ground' " I never in my life thought i'd read those words in that combination.
I seen a 'CAD' drawing of a guys dream house once. He did it in Excel by filling in cells with different colors. I couldn't beleive it when I saw it. So much time and effort to do that. Then he informed me he worked for the county managers office...exactly why he had sooo much extra time.
The American public, due to cultural reasons and media induced propaganda won't stand for an apology... I'll adress this in a sec. The Chinese public, due to cultural reasons and government induced propaganda won't accept anything less than a full apology... We were actively gathering intelligence data on the Chinese. The fact that the crew was busy destroying it as the plane was descending verifies it. Would it be so difficult for us to say 'Yeah, we were spying on you and we are sorry' get our personnel back and tomorrow business as usual? Duhbya does not speak for all of us. His cronies pulled the a successful non military coup, his posturing and egotistical/militaristic republican view do not in fact speak for the Majority of the US seeing he did not win the popular vote. My main reason for voting Gore was not to let this war mongering village idiot assume the throne. Duhbya wants the cold war back and he wants it back very badly. It will make his friends a lot of money and make the GOP look strong again. That is why we won't apologize, make no mistake about that. Billions of dollars in the right corporate republican pockets are way more important to Duhbya than the military personnel held captive. He will play this up as much as possible and eventually apologize. This will bolster his War machine here and he will be able to spend, spend, spend on new military gadgets that his dad and Reagan started developing before the Clinton administrations said whoa there and cut spending. The sheeples here will say it is money well spent and turn a blind eye as we all relive the cold war or atleats the Reagan Bush era of militarism and nationalism. Look at how good a job Duhbya is doing at pissing off the Russians if you need further evidence. It has nothing to do with American's not standing for it. We were threataning the sovereignty of the Chinese people. Real or not that is their perception of it. It is their inherent right to feel that way just as we would if the tables were turned. A Chinese plane doing recon that close to the US would more than likely be shot down. Heck, we have shot down Libyan planes for coming near ships in the mediterranian and that's just a few thousand miles from our coast line.For them it is an issue of saving face from the western barbarians, thousands of years of culturaly ingrained beliefs. In our case we are just beginning as a nation to be able to say hundreds and walk the planet arrogantly proclaiming our righteousness, hence for us it is about dollars and budgets and who stays in charge for the next election.Sad Really.
...the salaryman still comes to work at 7 or 8 and leaves at 10 to drink with the boss until 1 and expects to do this for one company his entire life. You grasp something a lot of people here are missing. I am not sure if it is so much of a downside as you imply though. The 'overworked' employee aspect of this may well be a very American point of view. I think it sucks but we should not be so quick to judge.Japanese companies and the government really plan for the long haul. It is not uncommon for a Japanese business plan to be highly detailed and projected out to 120 years. They plan to hire several generations of employees and often from the same families. This is culturaly ingrained since feudal times. So, unlike in the US, a person will do everything to keep their job, express loyalty to their company, focus their lives around the people in their company. Sort of an extended family with a historical job security plan. Bizarre, oppresive and uninspiring? Mobil Girls and group think? One step closer to borg? It may seem like that to an individualistic society like ours. I think in all the chaos of their techno revolution this facet will bring them through and Gibson may very well be on the mark. The long term planning, however wierdly distorted by technology pulling at it from every conceivable direction, will prevail and even out the swing in direction of Japan as a society. Maybe for them being a little 'behind' will hurl them 'ahead'. Their culture will probably adapt to it better perhaps even pervadeing the techno/cultural trends globally.
Sorry to pop this into the discussion so late but here goes. If you go to Miami, as you enter the city driving down I-95 you will see 78 cameras. We counted them a few weeks ago but more are popping up on other major thoroughfares. The cameras are on their own poles and are remotely controlled. We were told that this was a traffic cam system designed to help broadcast and update news information relating to the over congestion on our highways. Guess what? Most of the cameras don't point to the highway. They point into the economically and ethnically challenged neighborhoods that I-95 runs through on your way to down town Miami. Normally, I wouldn't have an issue with the cameras per se if they were indeed doing what they were supposed to be doing. They are not and the fact that the density of cameras is much lower in the nicer neighborhoods towards the end of I-95 smacks of racism. If you want to surveil the community you should do it evenly and fairly. There is no reason to have 4 or 5 cameras on a post pointing into mostly black neighborhoods and only 1 on a post in nicer areas pointing at the highway. White people and Latins commit crimes too. I notice a lot of people out there complaining about this as an invasion of privacy. Please... You have no expextation to privacy outside your home. How do you think they caught McVeigh? The feds grabbed footage from every sevurity cam, ATM machine etc in Oklahoma city and synced up the video. They saw him park the truck. They saw McNichols pick him up and they even had the majority of the escape route caught on tape too. This is not a bad thing really. Not a good thing either but the continuing decline of society it just may be necessary.
So we go for the hammer and drive it out. (not everybody gets to hammer on $1.4B of hardware). Sweet. I thought I was a bad ass taking a hammer to an Apollo mini in the 80's but this easily tops that. A liitle help in the right place from a BigFrigginHammer always does the trick. Joy.
What is going to happen when toasters and fridges start to auto update and they break? You don't have the flex to grab your floppies or cd's to reinstall the previous version. Will my toast be burned along with my house? My beer warm and my ice cubes wet? We've all done an upgrade at one point or another that broke usability on a machine. I wonder how this is going to pan out as this upgrade model becomes more prevalent.
Was the crash incident really due to fatigue as stated in the press releases at the time or was it a result of the first DUI in space?
Which makes them smarter than us -- few Americans will admit that we have too many impulsive gun nuts. Ya know, we may have a few too many gun nuts as you are quick to point out BUT we have way more alcoholics than 'gun nuts'. What really makes them smarter than us is that they realize how much of a problem alcoholism really is.
hehe. damn this is a classic Book-A-Minute type review. Too bad they don't have a computing section. Thanks.
Welp. I am no expert here but maybe this thought will add to the discussion: The atmosphere here on earth and the gasses we generally refer to as 'air' exhibit many fluidic properties. Mars has an atmosphere that is nowhere near as dense as Earth's at see level but it is highly active and prone to huge dust storms and dust devils that scar the surface. Water errosion and wind errosion in images from Mars maybe comletely indistinguishable as to what created the features. That being the case I would have to say it is all just educated guess work at this point and the wars over how will rage on.
Yeah, I see the fact that this is personal email. Its sad that he can't actually communicate with friends and family but that is why he should be able to use encryption. Does he as pres not deserve the right to secure and private personal communications?
- That PGP is pretty easy to use.
- The fifth ammendment protects him from having to give out his key(Well IANAL but there are millions of lawayers out there who would love to defend the constitution on behalf of a Presidential defendant).
And this begs the question: What the fuck is our President doing sending unsecure unencrypted email in the first place?I truly long for those golden days when flames were flames and the signal much stronger than the noise. Before there was the web and gui's and dsl. Dial up on a screamin' 300 baud compuserve account to send email to your friends who's address were silly numbers? Yeah, me too, I am 30 and been messing around with this stuff for 2/3's of my life... I agree with you but I think you are missing something really important: The Internet will be the great equalizer in times to come and our hard core techno eliteist mentality will disappear (at least to those unwilling to scratch below the surface) as more come to realize that this is the information age. Think of how many more influences and directions will be explored in the use of the net and how many more minds will grow as the user demographic changes. Sure, the level of lameness will go up and the noise increase geometrically. These new netizens will move along the technology without directly developing it by using application X because it has nice features versus application Z which crashes all the time and trend Y becomes mainstream instead of 'merely a trend.' They will open doors and in time be able to look back and exclaim "I remember when I used to surf the Web..."just as you and I can right now. The web as we know it today will not even closely resemble the net 5 years from now because the shift from net as a luxury to net as a utility is happening. I used to bitch about all the AOLamers that would clog the web and vandalize sites, news groups, message boards, etc. (troll=graffiti, no?). As time passes I realize it is all just part of the noise and the real evolution of the web is just begining. They are the masses and eventually their collective influence will shape the big picture of the net. I say bring them on, let go of the past for it is these very people that are whom the net was built for. When everyone, at all income levels and educational levels and ethno/religious backgrounds have access to information things will get really interesting. Besides, the digirati will never completely disappear, just shift to some other channel where the signal is the same vibe as you and the noise still low.
I say: DO NOT TOUCH THIS CLIENT PROJECT. DO NOT. The potential legal entanglement is frightening. Exactly. My advice to him is to get a good lawyer NOW and don't skimp on the selection of said legal vulture based on $.
yeah, that's who I meant.... thanks :)
the comercials that ibm did about linux with Cirroc Lofton (ok I may have totally spelled that WRONG) of startrek DS9 fame? I saw it air once and then never again. If you missed it AdCritic has it here.
...but real art appeals to people who aren't artists. Is this absolute? It can't be. 'Art' as is commonly interpreted is really in the eye of the beholder. Before you flame me for the cliche hear me out. Most of the replies to your thread bring into perspective that 'Art', 'Artistic' and 'Artful' are very broad in a conceptual sense. I may like Valejo but not Mondrian. I am an artist so I would have my own views regarding what appeals to me. Yet, 'Art' comes in many shapes, sizes and flavors. Look at the martial arts. Some may view them as fighting, no 'Art' at all, yet the aesthetic of forms in practice appeals to many in and out of the martial arts. Programming is no different nor is say ballet or music. Pagnini? Stimulating. Eminem? Change the stations. Both are artists but how could one compare the appeal or aesthetic there? How about cooking? How about professional athletes? Michael Jordan is amazing to watch in action. Is Jordan not and artist in his own right?Architecture an 'art'? hrm we have lived in man made versions of caves for a very long time. Morphosis creates very wild tectonic designs that hardly resemble the caves that thier structures inherently are. Palladio, Merrick, DeGarmo and Wright all made caves too yet the Kaufman house (falling water) is considered a milestone in architecture and the Biltmore a milestone in excess. Those that take pleasure in its design love it, those that don't see it as just another cave for us silly hairless apes. Same thing could be said of Strategic Planning and warfare. Did Norm and the boys put together and execute a great battle plan in the Persian Gulf War? Wait... war is ugly, no aesthetic or appeal... your view possibly or just maybe you had appreciation for the poetry in motion as they executed a carefully crafted ingenius plan...'Art' is where a person takes their craft to the next level based upon the drive, dedication or passion that a person puts into the 'work'. How about John Carmack and company when id released DOOM or Linus with the linux kernel? Beautifully crafted tomes of code that elevate the 'art' of computer programming and the user experience. A C program can be a beautiful thing to a non programmer: does it work? does it do what i need it to? does it crash more than win98? can it do it faster than someother persons 'work'? To a programmer the very same program is ugly, no elegance and finesse. A seasoned or dedicated professionals work should be viewed as 'Art'. If they are worth thier salt they already view it that way.
Man, now I am shattered. Why did you have to spoil it for me? A lifetime of wandering around aimlessly ruined completely by you! All this time I thought it was those pan dimensional beings known as mice running thier quaint little experiment on us mostly harmless hairless apes.
Do you have a link to information on this? Sounds interesting, if not plausable, but I can't seem to find any information about it. I searched around on Google and found Kieth Henson did indeed work on space tethers and related concepts but none of them are as you described. Thank you.