Well, it might appear to the untutored that the falling-off in the teaching of Greek and Latin is a sign of "dumbing-down" in our classrooms. That rather than turning out bright, capable people who can deal with a wide variety of things on a number of different levels, we're just turning out more grist for the mill of the workplace. I say "to the untutored," that it might appear that way. To those of us in the know, however, the picture is far less gloomy.
Sixty years ago, we were in the middle of World War II. We were pitted against Adolf Hitler, who in addition to troops and machines of war, had sizable occult resources as well. Not only did our boys have to contend with enemy guns and knives, but mostrous Things from beyond the depths of time. Entire platoons vanished without so much as a sound, sucked into nothingness. We needed brave men with a thorough understanding of those classic languages, in which so much of our occult heritage rested, so that they could summon Things of their own, things to combat Hitler's dark summonings. Hiroshima and Nagasaki provided a visible end to the war. However, it was the invisible summoning of He Who Must Not Be Named that made certain the Axis powers would never unite again under Hitler's banner.
Nowadays, we neither need nor want that kind of magickal muscle. There's too much danger of an educated inner-city kid going rogue, and calling down Shoggoths and the get of Cthulhu on us. Thank your lucky stars that our kids don't know or believe that.
To my mind E2 and h2g2 are two such projects, attempting to "contain absolutely everything worth knowing about anything." Look at those to see what this encyclopaedia might look like.
If you're not so keen on that, then tell us - who would you have moderate and index this encyclopaedia? What criteria would you use to screen a potential moderator? Do you have more right than, say, someone from Yemen to choose these things?
It's a fine idea, and a useful one. The bitch is in the implementation.
He's holding some kind of celebrity golf tournament out on Kiawah Island (South Carolina)for charity. I'm not sure of the exact date, but it's sometime soon, I think, because I just heard about it on the radio.
This is what you get for living in Charleston, SC. Too frigging many churches, and Hootie and the Blowfish living in your town.
Why don't you just get the links set up, and then everybody go in on a T-1 (or two, or three, or what have you) for the Internet connection? Have one person take on the job of monitoring the T, and maybe have your router do traffic shaping (if it supports it) to keep people from hogging the bandwidth. It seems like you could pull it off, at least in theory.
I don't think that increasing the availability of xDSL is necessarily a high priority for the Telcos, at least with respect to the money involved. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find exact numbers (and I'd welcome any numbers people would care to submit). It's my understanding, though, that the profit margin for xDSL is slim to none, after you take into account staffing costs. Honestly, I think basic POTS is the most profitable for the Telcos, as there isn't as much tech support / customer service required.
This sounds exactly like Heinlein's "Torch" ships in "Time for the Stars," published 1956, and some of his subsequent work. I liked the idea then, and I liked the idea now. Space is chock-full of radiation, relatively speaking, so irradiating a bit more near-vacuum shouldn't be a problem, should it?
They dumped Mariah Carey because she told them to. You see, the whole "Crappy Pop Diva" persona that Carey puts forth is just a clever ruse. She doesn't want people to look too deeply at her.
In reality, Mariah Carey is a member, along with Red Green and that little annoying Pepsi girl, of a terrifying triumvirate! The Three, as they are referred to in certain circles, are at the heart of all that is unhealthy and evil in the world (except for Ricky Martin and Teletubbies - they're just flukes.)
"Something very strong," to my mind, would be a server and operating system that is not as vulnerable to these exploits as current technology (mostly M$, but anything with big gaping security holes.)
"Something very strong," would hopefully mean open-source server software and operating systems that are written as securely as the programmer is able, and rigorous testing of those servers in production environments.
I'm proud of every drop of "skull-sweat" that goes into every piece of open source software. Unfortunately, the state of the art in virus/worm technology is such that more "skull-sweat" is required to protect against them. I know that the open source community is up to the task.
What about creating a database similar to MAPS or ORBS, containing IPs of known generators of Usenet spam? This way, news admins (the relevant servers would have to be the ones that the spammers post to) could configure their routers to drop packets from IPs in the database, and they could also drop packets from "rogue" news servers, those servers that accepted and propagated posts from spammers.
When I say spammers, I include any person or organization that generates a high volume of electronically generated posts, e.g. headhunters, e-mail marketers, etc.
Feasible? Not feasible? I'm not sure. What do you think?
However, in some states (Illinois, for one) you can be held in contempt of court for not paying on a judgement against you. This means that you can get thrown in jail. I know this from personal experience (yucky). I don't know how this applies to a corporate entity, however.
I understand that it's a lot of hassle for them to go to the trouble of compiling all their apps for sparc architechture, and you wouldn't want to go to all that trouble if just a few people were going to use it. But...
How many people is "low demand"? I mean, it's not like it would ever be anywhere near the demand for x86, but I'm sure there are a lot of people who appreciate having a distro they can stick on some old SparcStation.
Are we going to be able to compile (and therefore have MacOS X targets) these niffy tools like we can on our Linux boxen? I'd really hate it if we had to wait on someone else for new versions of this stuff. Maybe I'm too used to having my niffy Linux box and upgrading with every new release of Sendmail.:)
www.ejournalism.com have put together a central site with the various legal motions and such filed, as well as annoy.com's response to the case.
It seems to me that U.S. case law is taking an ominous turn with all the stuff that's been going on regarding insulting messages being said anonymously. Shouldn't slander and libel be reserved for people and/or organizations that make official statements that are libelous and/or slanderous?
Let's say I have a friend named Joe. One day, Joe asks me to put up some flyers for him, and I don't ask what they are, nor do I look at them longer than it takes me to put up the flyers. Am I then liable for their content? Or am I legally bound to reveal that it was Joe who asked me to put them up?
Summed up, my feelings are, "If you're a duck, shed water." I think most people take anything they read that's posted anonymously with a large grain of salt. After all, an anonymous post shouldn't really be perceived to have a lot of credibility, should it?
I don't so much think that she's being hypocritical, as she's asking Universal to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak. It's her view, as I see it, that if Universal is suing for damages in the name of protecting its artists, the artists should get a cut.
If Courtney Love's petition is denied, as I expect it will be, I think it will remove a good sized chunk of credibility from at least Universal's position, if not RIAA as well.
While I agree that individual artists should always have the right to decide how their music is distributed, I'm very leery of someone who is "acting for the good" of someone else.
Universal is in the business of making money. The way that they make money is to promote certain musical artists, and then take a percentage of the sales from their recordings. Obvious. But this $100M suit, IMNSHO, was for 2 reasons.
1) To attempt to reduce the distribution of their artists' recordings by means that pay no royalties. In other words, to protect their meal ticket.
2) To attack an organization that promotes something that might endanger their meal ticket. They could just as easily file suit against Maxell or TDK, because they make cassette tapes that people can record copyrighted music onto. MP3.com simply suffers from the disadvantage of being a new, and not widely understood, way of doing the same thing.
Universal couldn't care less about their artists. If an artist does something that causes their sales to drop, and continue to underperform, Universal would chuck him/her/them out on the street without so much as a "By your leave."
I know I'm preaching to the choir, here, but I figured I'd say my piece anyway.
In fact, among the "Gangster Ho" population as a whole, the Estonian Librebashenallesfreundengeldsexxer (Gangster Ho) is widely regarded as the most attractive in the Western Hemisphere. Prominent Librebashenallesfreundengeldsexxerzen are often fervently sought out by other members of the Gangster Ho community, and asked for advice on such diverse topics as Kantian fundamentalism, the lavatory habits of the Visigoths, and the best ways of putting a cap in someone's ass.
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I intend to develop an application of the recent swing patent that combats bioterrorism.
"A method of swinging side-to-side and whacking any terrorists that get in one's way with a stick."
Well, it might appear to the untutored that the falling-off in the teaching of Greek and Latin is a sign of "dumbing-down" in our classrooms. That rather than turning out bright, capable people who can deal with a wide variety of things on a number of different levels, we're just turning out more grist for the mill of the workplace. I say "to the untutored," that it might appear that way. To those of us in the know, however, the picture is far less gloomy.
Sixty years ago, we were in the middle of World War II. We were pitted against Adolf Hitler, who in addition to troops and machines of war, had sizable occult resources as well. Not only did our boys have to contend with enemy guns and knives, but mostrous Things from beyond the depths of time. Entire platoons vanished without so much as a sound, sucked into nothingness. We needed brave men with a thorough understanding of those classic languages, in which so much of our occult heritage rested, so that they could summon Things of their own, things to combat Hitler's dark summonings. Hiroshima and Nagasaki provided a visible end to the war. However, it was the invisible summoning of He Who Must Not Be Named that made certain the Axis powers would never unite again under Hitler's banner.
Nowadays, we neither need nor want that kind of magickal muscle. There's too much danger of an educated inner-city kid going rogue, and calling down Shoggoths and the get of Cthulhu on us. Thank your lucky stars that our kids don't know or believe that.
Treble damage is triple damage, or three times Google's damages.
To my mind E2 and h2g2 are two such projects, attempting to "contain absolutely everything worth knowing about anything." Look at those to see what this encyclopaedia might look like.
If you're not so keen on that, then tell us - who would you have moderate and index this encyclopaedia? What criteria would you use to screen a potential moderator? Do you have more right than, say, someone from Yemen to choose these things?
It's a fine idea, and a useful one. The bitch is in the implementation.
As I recall, the event is put on by the whole band.
Well, since you asked...
He's holding some kind of celebrity golf tournament out on Kiawah Island (South Carolina)for charity. I'm not sure of the exact date, but it's sometime soon, I think, because I just heard about it on the radio.
This is what you get for living in Charleston, SC. Too frigging many churches, and Hootie and the Blowfish living in your town.
Why don't you just get the links set up, and then everybody go in on a T-1 (or two, or three, or what have you) for the Internet connection? Have one person take on the job of monitoring the T, and maybe have your router do traffic shaping (if it supports it) to keep people from hogging the bandwidth. It seems like you could pull it off, at least in theory.
I don't think that increasing the availability of xDSL is necessarily a high priority for the Telcos, at least with respect to the money involved. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find exact numbers (and I'd welcome any numbers people would care to submit). It's my understanding, though, that the profit margin for xDSL is slim to none, after you take into account staffing costs. Honestly, I think basic POTS is the most profitable for the Telcos, as there isn't as much tech support / customer service required.
This sounds exactly like Heinlein's "Torch" ships in "Time for the Stars," published 1956, and some of his subsequent work. I liked the idea then, and I liked the idea now. Space is chock-full of radiation, relatively speaking, so irradiating a bit more near-vacuum shouldn't be a problem, should it?
They dumped Mariah Carey because she told them to. You see, the whole "Crappy Pop Diva" persona that Carey puts forth is just a clever ruse. She doesn't want people to look too deeply at her.
In reality, Mariah Carey is a member, along with Red Green and that little annoying Pepsi girl, of a terrifying triumvirate! The Three, as they are referred to in certain circles, are at the heart of all that is unhealthy and evil in the world (except for Ricky Martin and Teletubbies - they're just flukes.)
This discussion has nothing to do with the article. Take it somewhere else, or at the very least to a new thread.
As a burgeoning (very much so!) audiophile myself, I simply rip CDs into 256-kbit MP3s. I find the quality is quite acceptable.
"Something very strong," to my mind, would be a server and operating system that is not as vulnerable to these exploits as current technology (mostly M$, but anything with big gaping security holes.)
"Something very strong," would hopefully mean open-source server software and operating systems that are written as securely as the programmer is able, and rigorous testing of those servers in production environments.
I'm proud of every drop of "skull-sweat" that goes into every piece of open source software. Unfortunately, the state of the art in virus/worm technology is such that more "skull-sweat" is required to protect against them. I know that the open source community is up to the task.
Indeed. My cat has black and white fur. Therefore all cats have black and white fur.
When I say spammers, I include any person or organization that generates a high volume of electronically generated posts, e.g. headhunters, e-mail marketers, etc.
Feasible? Not feasible? I'm not sure. What do you think?
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However, in some states (Illinois, for one) you can be held in contempt of court for not paying on a judgement against you. This means that you can get thrown in jail. I know this from personal experience (yucky). I don't know how this applies to a corporate entity, however.
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.
If it does not come down at that exact date and time, dire consequences will occur to Mir's immortal soul and stuff!
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.
How many people is "low demand"? I mean, it's not like it would ever be anywhere near the demand for x86, but I'm sure there are a lot of people who appreciate having a distro they can stick on some old SparcStation.
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.
It seems to me that U.S. case law is taking an ominous turn with all the stuff that's been going on regarding insulting messages being said anonymously. Shouldn't slander and libel be reserved for people and/or organizations that make official statements that are libelous and/or slanderous?
Let's say I have a friend named Joe. One day, Joe asks me to put up some flyers for him, and I don't ask what they are, nor do I look at them longer than it takes me to put up the flyers. Am I then liable for their content? Or am I legally bound to reveal that it was Joe who asked me to put them up?
Summed up, my feelings are, "If you're a duck, shed water." I think most people take anything they read that's posted anonymously with a large grain of salt. After all, an anonymous post shouldn't really be perceived to have a lot of credibility, should it?
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.
Annoy.com Claims Victory for Free Speech
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While I agree that individual artists should always have the right to decide how their music is distributed, I'm very leery of someone who is "acting for the good" of someone else.
Universal is in the business of making money. The way that they make money is to promote certain musical artists, and then take a percentage of the sales from their recordings. Obvious. But this $100M suit, IMNSHO, was for 2 reasons.
1) To attempt to reduce the distribution of their artists' recordings by means that pay no royalties. In other words, to protect their meal ticket.
2) To attack an organization that promotes something that might endanger their meal ticket. They could just as easily file suit against Maxell or TDK, because they make cassette tapes that people can record copyrighted music onto. MP3.com simply suffers from the disadvantage of being a new, and not widely understood, way of doing the same thing.
Universal couldn't care less about their artists. If an artist does something that causes their sales to drop, and continue to underperform, Universal would chuck him/her/them out on the street without so much as a "By your leave."
I know I'm preaching to the choir, here, but I figured I'd say my piece anyway.
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.