All humans are machines, built up to amazing complexity in the tools of flesh, sinew, bone and chemicals instead of steel panels, rivets and framework.
Oh, and humans run the single most complicated OS ever.:) And we're just now beginning to find the bugs. Maybe the human race just doesn't scale well?
The reason we have contingency plans for nuking Russia is because Russia has the most nukes besides us, and is not entirely stable politically. We certainly don't expect that Putin's going to do anything that would activate those plans, but what if there were another coup? The point is that we want to work out these worst case scenarios NOW, so that if (god forbid) any of it ever comes to pass, we know what to do, and we're not just running around like chickens with our heads cut off.
I have a shotgun. My neighbor has a shotgun. Despite your ideas, my plan not to have my neighbor use his shotgun on me is not to piss him off. I don't have a "contingency plan" to invade my neighbor's house with my shotgun just in case he decides to use his. This basic principle works, because in a civilized society, he's doing the exact same thing.
Go ahead and tell me why nations are any different.
but more a sign of how convenience.has won over modern society. More people will eat at McD's because it's now faster than anything else, choke up on their fries and Big Mac, and the country as a whole gets five pounds heavier and less healthy overall.
I can tell you that if turnitin.com is anything like slashdot, they'll just mod the paper into oblivion if it doesn't jive with the editors' opinions [slashdot.org]. But hey, what do I know?
Shh...the admins...they'll hear you...they're everywhere...they'll $rtbl us both...
Still, I really resent the idea of having to create and disseminate an entire desktop just for the sake of one little database.
You might wanna look into deploying a little gem called ScriptLogic which automatically creates shortcuts, user desktops, Exchange box setups, et cetera for every user as they log in.
As a database administrator / designer working with imaging databases in a WinFrame Citrix enviroment, you might want to make absolutely sure all of your software will run before you buy. Some of our compilers and custom tools absolutely will not load or execute properly on the Citrix server, yet work perfectly fine on every other NT platform on the planet.
Weeeeeee. Oh yeah, and some apps simply will not run. WordPerfect2000 and some others come to mind.
...does anyone have a version that will run on a modern machine? I'd love to while away a day setting the one ship into a permanent orbit around the planet and zapping it with the other.:)
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I consulted with an attorney (got 5 of them in the family, holidays are JUST LOVELY)
So, did your Christmas presents have license agreements inside the wrapping? Was there litigation filed over dinner?
There I learn a new meaning of pain and suffering as my opinions are slowly ignored over a period of 1,000 years (because I'm too inexperienced and naive to realise that they're really just "doing things properly").
Start with a cage containing five monkeys. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put a set of stairs under it.
Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result (all the monkeys are sprayed with cold water).
Pretty soon, when any monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, turn off the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Again, replace a third original monkey with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well. Two of the four monkeys that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing the fourth and fifth original monkeys, all the monkeys which have been sprayed with cold water have been replaced. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs. Why not?
Because that's the way it's always been around here. And that's how company policy begins...
Roswell was most likely just a smokescreen to divert attention from the fact that Nazi scientists were working for the US to develop their rocketry program. They probably realized that if they produced "evidence" of a crashed saucer and then quickly backtracked and denied it (substituting a weather balloon for the saucer) that people would think there was a conspiracy to cover up the alien crash. Worked pretty damn good. Meanwhile, no one is even thinking about having the former enemy on the public payroll.
Your explanation, sir, is simple, makes perfect sense and is quite reasonable. I'm sure you'll understand that myself and others will have to discredit you by screaming "The truth is out there!" and refusing to listen.:)
Doesn't say unlimited, says they'll give you some cash. And as for combat, from reading the article, I don't think it's combat ala Robotica + Battlebots, but more demolition derby sort of thing.
Nah, do this. Buy as many CD's as you can afford to on a Visa/Mastercard. Then, take home, and what a surprise, they don't play. Bring them back, and tell the counterjock that you've never recieved "fit-for-service" goods and that if you don't get a refund, you'll call Visa and tell them to stop payment. Then do so.
Digital Convergence Fashion Show held in the main hall. Though the models didn't er quite know what they where suppossed to do with these gadgets damn did they look good showing them off.
Isn't Digital Convergence the same makers of the cuecats, those lovely scanners that look like dildos? If so, that must have been fantastic pr0n.:)
It worked. I actually hacked into a Microsoft server and set up a script to vote for.Net on zdnet from MS with hopes they would get caught and have an awful story written about them. HAHAHAHAH!!!!!
Sorta OT, but along the same lines. Last week I used someone else's login/pw to access the SourceSafe server, and completely rewrote this guy's code, commented it just like he does, and followed a completely different method. Today was the review, and everyone brought cameras, like I'd asked them to. Teehee.
I decoded the image and here [xenu.net] it is! Those damn scientologists were right! This just proves my theory that the reason all those powerful folks become scientologists because they have actually spoken to Xenu! This "Search for Terrestrial Intelligence" is really just another scientologist ploy to get other alien races to follow the wisdom of Xenu!
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If you consider hygiene, maybe.
LV
All humans are machines, built up to amazing complexity in the tools of flesh, sinew, bone and chemicals instead of steel panels, rivets and framework.
:) And we're just now beginning to find the bugs. Maybe the human race just doesn't scale well?
Oh, and humans run the single most complicated OS ever.
LV
Not the fans, the developers! Developers! [b]Developers![/b]
I love that video.
LV
It's the only way they could fit RMS's ego on the screen.
Relax, it's a joke. I can feel the flames already.
I have a shotgun. My neighbor has a shotgun. Despite your ideas, my plan not to have my neighbor use his shotgun on me is not to piss him off. I don't have a "contingency plan" to invade my neighbor's house with my shotgun just in case he decides to use his. This basic principle works, because in a civilized society, he's doing the exact same thing.
Go ahead and tell me why nations are any different.
Cheers,
LV
but more a sign of how convenience.has won over modern society. More people will eat at McD's because it's now faster than anything else, choke up on their fries and Big Mac, and the country as a whole gets five pounds heavier and less healthy overall.
Neat idea, but I'll pass, thank you.
LV
Shh...the admins...they'll hear you...they're everywhere...they'll $rtbl us both...
LV
I'm not sure if I'm right on this or not, but Mundie reminds me of the classic "misdirection" ploy.
You might wanna look into deploying a little gem called ScriptLogic which automatically creates shortcuts, user desktops, Exchange box setups, et cetera for every user as they log in.
Cheers,
LV
As a database administrator / designer working with imaging databases in a WinFrame Citrix enviroment, you might want to make absolutely sure all of your software will run before you buy. Some of our compilers and custom tools absolutely will not load or execute properly on the Citrix server, yet work perfectly fine on every other NT platform on the planet.
Weeeeeee. Oh yeah, and some apps simply will not run. WordPerfect2000 and some others come to mind.
Cheers,
LV
...does anyone have a version that will run on a modern machine? I'd love to while away a day setting the one ship into a permanent orbit around the planet and zapping it with the other. :)
So, did your Christmas presents have license agreements inside the wrapping? Was there litigation filed over dinner?
LV
Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put a set of stairs under it.
Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result (all the monkeys are
sprayed with cold water).
Pretty soon, when any monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, turn off the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Again, replace a third original monkey with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well. Two of the four monkeys that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing the fourth and fifth original monkeys, all the monkeys which have been sprayed with cold water have been replaced.
Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs. Why not?
Because that's the way it's always been around here. And that's how company policy begins...
Your explanation, sir, is simple, makes perfect sense and is quite reasonable. I'm sure you'll understand that myself and others will have to discredit you by screaming "The truth is out there!" and refusing to listen.
Doesn't say unlimited, says they'll give you some cash. And as for combat, from reading the article, I don't think it's combat ala Robotica + Battlebots, but more demolition derby sort of thing.
LV
My homeowner's insurance actually covers impact by falling equipment, meaning telephone poles usually, but I guess satellites could be covered.
LV
And this is an excuse why? Really, where else would you launch a space capsule from? Space?
LV
Very cool, but what does Callista Flockhart think of it? Have you heard back from her?
And, since you built the whole thing out of the 1x1's, is this indicative of your opinion that she needs to eat more?
LV
Nah, do this. Buy as many CD's as you can afford to on a Visa/Mastercard. Then, take home, and what a surprise, they don't play. Bring them back, and tell the counterjock that you've never recieved "fit-for-service" goods and that if you don't get a refund, you'll call Visa and tell them to stop payment. Then do so.
LV
Isn't Digital Convergence the same makers of the cuecats, those lovely scanners that look like dildos? If so, that must have been fantastic pr0n.
Link stolen from earlier comment.
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http://www.halcyon.com/blackbox/hw/wipp/wipp.ht
Exercised your free speech recently?
LV
Sorta OT, but along the same lines. Last week I used someone else's login/pw to access the SourceSafe server, and completely rewrote this guy's code, commented it just like he does, and followed a completely different method. Today was the review, and everyone brought cameras, like I'd asked them to. Teehee.
LV
Or you could name him JOIN, because it'll be a constant reminder to get around to writing it.
LV
+1, Litigious Scientology Reference