the excerpt from his new book reads like somebody's (anybody's) blog.
Neuromancer worked because it was about a future that didn't (yet) exist, and ironically the book molded much of what now exists. Pattern Recognition is apparently telling me about things (Macs, Hotmail, 501s) that I already have, and the characters don't seem all that interesting. Anybody can write this book.
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What fantasy world are you living in?
When the feds want to do something that the locals don't want to do, they just ignore them (and inconvenient things like that "Constitution" document). I won't even cite examples, because you can pick up any newspaper on any given day and find them.
OTOH, most of the "black" helicopters people see are just normal military helicopters. Contrary to what some morons apparently believe, most military helicopters are not painted in red white and blue with a big "hit me" sticker on the tail boom. They're generally dark OD with black lettering, which in many conditions is impossible to see, because the whole thing looks black.
I'm alot more worried about human rights abuses by the Department of Justice than UN troops massing at railroad depots in Galveston. Reality is plenty bad enough.
It [b]is[/b] useless. You will [i]never[/i] convince me to give up my guns through an intellectual argument of any kind. Interestingly, it appears that anti-gun rights people are finally accepting this, and as a result will increasingly be shown for the obvious hypocrites they are.
You see, the only way you will ever take away our guns is through force. And as old Mao said, "All power comes from the barrel of a gun," so that force is going to have to be armed. An unarmed group will never be able to disarm an armed populace, so in order to disarm some you are going to have to arm others. How ironic, and how hypocritical that would be. Essentially it will be an admission that guns can be used for "good" as well as "evil," since in the twisted logic of the anti-self defense movement, disarming people is a 'good thing,' and armed, law abiding citizens are 'bad'.
The argument is not about disarming criminals - it can't be, because EVERYONE agrees that criminals should be disarmed. Furthermore, an argument about disarming criminals is pointless, because it's an impossibility. It is just too easy to make a firearm, not to mention those in existence already. At the end of the day, you know what the argument is really about, but you just don't want to admit it.
Contrary to what you were taught in school, in this (increasingly less) free and democratic nation, the army does not enforce laws. In fact, the Army is prohibited _by_ law from being use for law enforcement. It's a part of the Department of Defense.
Law enforcement at the Federal Government level is a function of the Department of Justice and the lovely and talented Janet Reno.
In regards to the original topic: When our defense relies mainl y upon high technology and geeks, and we are faced with an actual war, as opposed to a low-intensity conflict or "peacekeeping" mission, we will lose.
This wouldn't be surprising; some military units in the field during Desert Storm were using commercial (handheld) GPS units, not military ones. SAS were using small Magellan units, I'd put money on them being commercial ones. OTOH, ground pounders don't necessarily need the pinpoint accuracy that the fine folks moving at 500 mph over the desert do.
A quick comment from the irresponsible leader of Kosmic. I would invite Mr. Neely to attempt to do what I've done with KFMF in the last seven years, in exactly the same manner, and then get back to me about what a non-job it is.
incidentally on the subject of old debts and lack of gainful employment, mr. brett neely owes me US$35 for a CPU he purchased from me in early 1996, which he was unable to pay for at the time. nevertheless i figured he needed it more than i did, so i gave it to him. unfortunately brett seems to think that since i was unable to attend an event in summer '96, where he promised to pay for it, the debt was voided. some people might call this hypocrisy. personally i prefer not to call people names in a public forum =)
just to prove what a "selfish, unfair non-leader "i am, and how concerned i am with "profits from all sales of Kosmic related merchandise" i am, i will be releasing my "low grey cloud" cd in it's entirely in MP3 within the next 24 hours on the website. must be another marketing ploy!;)
Fortunately Vision Online is aware of our bandwith requirements and have been gracious enough to say that's fine with them. They've got two DS3s, so we should be good to go in that department.
If it came down to paying for colocation, we'd be gone! There's just no way to subsidize that kind of cost. Thank God that's not the case.
Also, i should mention, any potential advertisers out there, feel free to contact me at maelcum@kosmic.org.. every bit helps!
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the excerpt from his new book reads like somebody's (anybody's) blog.
Neuromancer worked because it was about a future that didn't (yet) exist, and ironically the book molded much of what now exists. Pattern Recognition is apparently telling me about things (Macs, Hotmail, 501s) that I already have, and the characters don't seem all that interesting. Anybody can write this book.
What fantasy world are you living in?
When the feds want to do something that the locals don't want to do, they just ignore them (and inconvenient things like that "Constitution" document). I won't even cite examples, because you can pick up any newspaper on any given day and find them.
OTOH, most of the "black" helicopters people see are just normal military helicopters. Contrary to what some morons apparently believe, most military helicopters are not painted in red white and blue with a big "hit me" sticker on the tail boom. They're generally dark OD with black lettering, which in many conditions is impossible to see, because the whole thing looks black.
I'm alot more worried about human rights abuses by the Department of Justice than UN troops massing at railroad depots in Galveston. Reality is plenty bad enough.
It [b]is[/b] useless. You will [i]never[/i] convince me to give up my guns through an intellectual argument of any kind. Interestingly, it appears that anti-gun rights people are finally accepting this, and as a result will increasingly be shown for the obvious hypocrites they are.
You see, the only way you will ever take away our guns is through force. And as old Mao said, "All power comes from the barrel of a gun," so that force is going to have to be armed. An unarmed group will never be able to disarm an armed populace, so in order to disarm some you are going to have to arm others. How ironic, and how hypocritical that would be. Essentially it will be an admission that guns can be used for "good" as well as "evil," since in the twisted logic of the anti-self defense movement, disarming people is a 'good thing,' and armed, law abiding citizens are 'bad'.
The argument is not about disarming criminals - it can't be, because EVERYONE agrees that criminals should be disarmed. Furthermore, an argument about disarming criminals is pointless, because it's an impossibility. It is just too easy to make a firearm, not to mention those in existence already. At the end of the day, you know what the argument is really about, but you just don't want to admit it.
I can't decide which is worse: Scientology or the RIAA.
Like there is any difference!
Personally I think IT workers would be better served forming well-armed militias.
:)
And if your union is "like" the militia, tell your mafia bosses to stop supporting governmental initiatives to disarm the citizenry
Contrary to what you were taught in school, in this (increasingly less) free and democratic nation, the army does not enforce laws. In fact, the Army is prohibited _by_ law from being use for law enforcement. It's a part of the Department of Defense.
Law enforcement at the Federal Government level is a function of the Department of Justice and the lovely and talented Janet Reno.
In regards to the original topic:
When our defense relies mainl y upon high technology and geeks, and we are faced with an actual war, as opposed to a low-intensity conflict or "peacekeeping" mission, we will lose.
This wouldn't be surprising; some military units in the field during Desert Storm were using commercial (handheld) GPS units, not military ones. SAS were using small Magellan units, I'd put money on them being commercial ones. OTOH, ground pounders don't necessarily need the pinpoint accuracy that the fine folks moving at 500 mph over the desert do.
A quick comment from the irresponsible leader of Kosmic. I would invite Mr. Neely to attempt to do what I've done with KFMF in the last seven years, in exactly the same manner, and then get back to me about what a non-job it is.
;)
incidentally on the subject of old debts and lack of gainful employment, mr. brett neely owes me US$35 for a CPU he purchased from me in early 1996, which he was unable to pay for at the time. nevertheless i figured he needed it more than i did, so i gave it to him. unfortunately brett seems to think that since i was unable to attend an event in summer '96, where he promised to pay for it, the debt was voided. some people might call this hypocrisy. personally i prefer not to call people names in a public forum =)
just to prove what a "selfish, unfair non-leader "i am, and how concerned i am with "profits from all sales of Kosmic related merchandise" i am, i will be releasing my "low grey cloud" cd in it's entirely in MP3 within the next 24 hours on the website. must be another marketing ploy!
Fortunately Vision Online is aware of our bandwith requirements and have been gracious enough to say that's fine with them. They've got two DS3s, so we should be good to go in that department.
If it came down to paying for colocation, we'd be gone! There's just no way to subsidize that kind of cost. Thank God that's not the case.
Also, i should mention, any potential advertisers out there, feel free to contact me at maelcum@kosmic.org.. every bit helps!