in the ticket thing, but are too lazy to follow instructions Try this
I personally find most companies to be like this and would richly like to teach the corporate world that we are not going to just bend over and take it anymore.
Naturally, when you base your beliefs on only that which you can see, and then you start giving what you can see qualifications as to whether to include them into the big picture or not, you can come up with whatever scenario you feel like.
I think there may be a company in the US that markets this way, but I can't be too sure. Is it Macrohard, Microshaft, Evil empire, oh well I think it's something like that.
Attention - Anyone who thinks I havn't caught onto the concept of long ping times between inter-stella distances.
The idea of deathmatching with people on mars on a 6 minute ping, at first, made me laugh. Not in the that's really funny kind of laugh, but in the monkey who's a little nervous about his situation kind of way. Honestly, it hurts to try and work out a way around that lag. I usually fall into the "can't we just use sub-space?" trap.
Anyway, incase you didn't know, your comments are not funny, original, or even nearly observational.
Earth has existed for about half that time and in all that time, through billions of years of Evolution, only ONE species has emerged sentient.
You conceited f*ck! May I suggest looking around this planet to see if there is anything that may suggest a previous sentient species *cough*Easter Island*cough*. Or perhaps a current parallel sentient species *cough*dolphins*cough*, or even the fact that if I wasn't human, I would (just like any other wild animal that has experienced humans before) avoid humanity with all my ability.
>> I suspect that independant verification attempts will not work when using non-ferrous target materials.
Actually, I first saw this story in 1996. It was initially thought that the scientist had reduced gravity in an area that went further than was measurable, straight up from a spinning super conducting experiment.
They would not have even noticed the effect if one of them wasn't smoking a cigarette. It was the ciggie smoke that they observed behaving strangely in the area above the experiment.
Running upstairs, they noticed that the effect went all the way through the building, throught each floor, in the area immediately above the experiment.
I was actually dissapointed to see the story hushed up for further research after only a couple of months. I still have an archive somewhere of all this stuff.
Anywho, great to see this progressing. I just knew we were going to get some real gravity revelations in my lifetime.
Is anyone else finding that the bindings in a lot of paperbacks actually come apart during the first read, nowdays. It may not be better but at least in digital form pages won't be falling off my screen.
- BTW. I have seen the film, but it was a long time ago, can anyone tell me how the Interview with the Vampire book finishes?
Flagstaff Gardens are good, but the market may get in our way. Either Flagstaff - for greater exposure, or Fitzroy Gardens (CBD) for a different option. Anyone?
Yo, mod this guy up. He has caught onto the simple fact that since ten year jail terms were introduced for teenage pregnancies, teenage pregancy stats have fallen.
....what, no jail for teenage pregnancies? What made the rates drop? Surely it wasn't just telling the kids that they can get pregnant if they're not carefull, and therefore opening them up to the idea of responsibility for themselves and their own actions?
Isn't there some saying that reminds us that the most ridiculous clauses in a contract - the ones we think "that'll never be upheld if this goes to court" about are the very same clauses that often bring down otherwise watertight cases.
How about if I remove you from your family and loved ones and lock you up in a prison in, say, Siberia. You will be assured the right to trial, etc. It will take a while, though.
1st - see above.
2nd - Who pretends otherwise. You would have to be pretty simple to think that a profit making corperation, in this day and age, is primarily concerned with the individual's needs. They tell you their version of things. Just like when relating your own life story, you don't go too far into things you find uncomfortable to talk about or have in the public domain.
Stop all this whining about whether we'll be able to search the web in the future. History has shown us that once the product lifecycle of a search engine starts to wain, they pretty much start selling space to keep the income up. One day, someone will not do this. Their "newest thing"TM status will die off and they will plataeu out at what will become their average hitrate. Remaining on course with the reputable results will stop reputable results from being seen as a faddy "newest thing"TM and evolve them into a marketable commodity.
There will definately be a place for relevant, concise information in the information economy.
Blue Neon Head:"Come on now... no one's saying this isn't their right."
Text of the complaint:..."request that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate whether these companies
are violating federal prohibitions against deceptive acts or practices"
Bendude:Oh, I see now, the question is whether it's ethical to jump into a discussion half cocked. I know I certainly wouldn't want to get caught doing that.
"This is just the latest example of how advertising is creeping into every nook and cranny of our lives and culture," Ruskin said. "Americans
are tired of it, and the backlash is growing."
No, I made that up. Copyright is clearly a much more important issue than public safety or a persons right not to get hot lead blasted into them.
In other news... Gunmakers open to voluntary arms tracing plan But the United States announced this week that it would oppose any commitment made at the conference to negotiations that would lead to a
legally binding commitment, including on marking and tracing....... .....The George W. Bush administration is a strong supporter of private gun ownership.....
Washington Challenges UN Attack on Small Arms Trade The United States on Monday warned a U.N. meeting on small arms trafficking it was prepared to do battle to defend the rights of arms makers and legal gun owners -- even when the guns they want to own were specifically designed for war......
When they came for the 'net browsers, I said nothing, we wern't really interested in the net anyway. When they came for the audiophiles, again it was nothing to do with us so we let it happen. Now they're coming after us - who's going to help us?
Any other company & my heart may blead a little, however, Kodak locks you into their proprietry quasi-tiff format once you start using their software. I think it's a bit rich that they're pissed Microsoft are trying to lock consumers away from what Kodak's been locking them into.
Years ago, I saw a cartoon somewhere of a couple of young ladies talking whilst old men we're busily working away at computer terminals behind them. One of the girls says to the other "You know, they've just improved so much since I taught them how to search for porn."
I always wondered how close to the truth that idea was, until I had to instruct a 70 something guy at work on how to use the internet. I started off showing him some of the usual things, search engines, typing addresses directly in, etc. He was floundering along until I showed him some porn. Now he does all his own surfing, only asking for help with little hints and tricks to do what he wants faster. He now has a vision of what it is he wants to do, which I think was the problem in the first place.
Now that it seems to be happening, I can claim this was all inevitable. I have personally been looking for an opportunity to turn these new laws against their creators, and now the legal arena seems so polluted with all this IP crap that these companies are just going to rip each other to shreds without anyone else having to lift a finger. Just be careful they don't take the rest of us with them, though.
Re:Recording Industry vs. Napster: >>I would tend to say that I would hope they could come to some accommodation without more legislation, more regulation.
A lovely sentiment. Unfortunately I am now at the point where I don't believe anything said by a politician (particularly when it agrees with me) It looks simply like rhetoric and that it's designed to shut me up while they do whatever they want. I may not be right but I sure as hell feel that way.
First - my apologies to anyone who didn't shout this post down. I got so sick of the shouters that I had to reply before making sure I'd read all 11 other replys.
Lover's Arrival, The, is 100% correct about science's attitude to these sort of things.
I work with a guy who is studying Pathology at the moment. He is so excited about the work he gets to do on work experience, he thinks the scientists he works with are the be all and end all of medical research.
Essentially the story is that all the testing they do is on computer models. Organic material is tested against the introduction of various chemicals and compounds in a computer simulation and those results are taken as gospel.
He tells me that the programs are perfect and everything has been taken into account. Then I ask him about things like ectoplasm and the recorded phenomenum of observation & expectation effecting the results of scientific experiments. He bows his head, looks sheepish, says nothing to me, and then tells everyone else "Ben's really out there, you know".
True, the guy is only a scientist in training, but he is getting his "we are perfect" attitudes from his mentors. He knows all the things I'm talking about, but is willing to forget about them or suppose they are made up so they don't get in the way of a good Pathology test.
I have always slept easily knowing that the story could not finish until there had been an assasination attempt on Arthur's life. Once that occured, the mish-mash of time streams leading up to that moment guaranteed me an unlimited source of possible scenarios that Adams could include in future releases. Now I must return to the humdrum reality of my life. I may be creating the future, but one of the guys who thought up that future has now left us and taken with him a lot of new inspiration.
I look foward to enjoying more of your work once I join you in the next world, Douglas. Until then, so long and thanks...
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in the ticket thing, but are too lazy to follow instructions Try this
I personally find most companies to be like this and would richly like to teach the corporate world that we are not going to just bend over and take it anymore.
Naturally, when you base your beliefs on only that which you can see, and then you start giving what you can see qualifications as to whether to include them into the big picture or not, you can come up with whatever scenario you feel like.
I think there may be a company in the US that markets this way, but I can't be too sure. Is it Macrohard, Microshaft, Evil empire, oh well I think it's something like that.
Attention - Anyone who thinks I havn't caught onto the concept of long ping times between inter-stella distances.
The idea of deathmatching with people on mars on a 6 minute ping, at first, made me laugh. Not in the that's really funny kind of laugh, but in the monkey who's a little nervous about his situation kind of way.
Honestly, it hurts to try and work out a way around that lag. I usually fall into the "can't we just use sub-space?" trap.
Anyway, incase you didn't know, your comments are not funny, original, or even nearly observational.
(Sorry -Having a bad week - not usually so anal)
Earth has existed for about half that time and in all that time, through billions of years of Evolution, only ONE species has emerged sentient.
You conceited f*ck!
May I suggest looking around this planet to see if there is anything that may suggest a previous sentient species *cough*Easter Island*cough*. Or perhaps a current parallel sentient species *cough*dolphins*cough*, or even the fact that if I wasn't human, I would (just like any other wild animal that has experienced humans before) avoid humanity with all my ability.
>> I suspect that independant verification attempts will not work when using non-ferrous target materials.
Actually, I first saw this story in 1996. It was initially thought that the scientist had reduced gravity in an area that went further than was measurable, straight up from a spinning super conducting experiment.
They would not have even noticed the effect if one of them wasn't smoking a cigarette. It was the ciggie smoke that they observed behaving strangely in the area above the experiment.
Running upstairs, they noticed that the effect went all the way through the building, throught each floor, in the area immediately above the experiment.
I was actually dissapointed to see the story hushed up for further research after only a couple of months. I still have an archive somewhere of all this stuff.
Anywho, great to see this progressing. I just knew we were going to get some real gravity revelations in my lifetime.
Oh, here's something.
Is anyone else finding that the bindings in a lot of paperbacks actually come apart during the first read, nowdays. It may not be better but at least in digital form pages won't be falling off my screen.
- BTW. I have seen the film, but it was a long time ago, can anyone tell me how the Interview with the Vampire book finishes?
Flagstaff Gardens are good, but the market may get in our way. Either Flagstaff - for greater exposure, or Fitzroy Gardens (CBD) for a different option. Anyone?
Anyone interested in a Melbourne, Australia, Linux 10th anniversary picnic and BBQ on Saturday, August 25.
Having used so many flimsy excuses for a piss up, I think it would be a shame to let this one go.
you don't have too much experience with the moderators do you?
Yo, mod this guy up. He has caught onto the simple fact that since ten year jail terms were introduced for teenage pregnancies, teenage pregancy stats have fallen.
....what, no jail for teenage pregnancies? What made the rates drop? Surely it wasn't just telling the kids that they can get pregnant if they're not carefull, and therefore opening them up to the idea of responsibility for themselves and their own actions?
Ooops!.. </SARCASM> (Sorry.)
Isn't there some saying that reminds us that the most ridiculous clauses in a contract - the ones we think "that'll never be upheld if this goes to court" about are the very same clauses that often bring down otherwise watertight cases.
How about if I remove you from your family and loved ones and lock you up in a prison in, say, Siberia. You will be assured the right to trial, etc. It will take a while, though.
Will you be so ready to make concessions then?
1st - see above.
2nd - Who pretends otherwise. You would have to be pretty simple to think that a profit making corperation, in this day and age, is primarily concerned with the individual's needs. They tell you their version of things. Just like when relating your own life story, you don't go too far into things you find uncomfortable to talk about or have in the public domain.
Stop all this whining about whether we'll be able to search the web in the future. History has shown us that once the product lifecycle of a search engine starts to wain, they pretty much start selling space to keep the income up.
One day, someone will not do this. Their "newest thing"TM status will die off and they will plataeu out at what will become their average hitrate. Remaining on course with the reputable results will stop reputable results from being seen as a faddy "newest thing"TM and evolve them into a marketable commodity.
There will definately be a place for relevant, concise information in the information economy.
Blue Neon Head: "Come on now
Text of the complaint:
Bendude:Oh, I see now, the question is whether it's ethical to jump into a discussion half cocked. I know I certainly wouldn't want to get caught doing that.
....seems to be more of an advertisment for Commercial Alert's website and what they do.
"This is just the latest example of how advertising is creeping into every nook and cranny of our lives and culture," Ruskin said. "Americans are tired of it, and the backlash is growing."
..."look like information from an objective database selected by an objective algorithm. But really they are paid ads in disguise."
Where is this magical search engine that looks like the description above. I've never come across anything like it whilst searching the web.
No, I made that up. Copyright is clearly a much more important issue than public safety or a persons right not to get hot lead blasted into them.
In other news...
Gunmakers open to voluntary arms tracing plan
But the United States announced this week that it would oppose any commitment made at the conference to negotiations that would lead to a legally binding commitment, including on marking and tracing.......
.....The George W. Bush administration is a strong supporter of private gun ownership.....
Washington Challenges UN Attack on Small Arms Trade
The United States on Monday warned a U.N. meeting on small arms trafficking it was prepared to do battle to defend the rights of arms makers and legal gun owners -- even when the guns they want to own were specifically designed for war......
When they came for the 'net browsers, I said nothing, we wern't really interested in the net anyway. When they came for the audiophiles, again it was nothing to do with us so we let it happen. Now they're coming after us - who's going to help us?
Any other company & my heart may blead a little, however, Kodak locks you into their proprietry quasi-tiff format once you start using their software. I think it's a bit rich that they're pissed Microsoft are trying to lock consumers away from what Kodak's been locking them into.
Years ago, I saw a cartoon somewhere of a couple of young ladies talking whilst old men we're busily working away at computer terminals behind them. One of the girls says to the other "You know, they've just improved so much since I taught them how to search for porn."
I always wondered how close to the truth that idea was, until I had to instruct a 70 something guy at work on how to use the internet. I started off showing him some of the usual things, search engines, typing addresses directly in, etc. He was floundering along until I showed him some porn. Now he does all his own surfing, only asking for help with little hints and tricks to do what he wants faster. He now has a vision of what it is he wants to do, which I think was the problem in the first place.
Now that it seems to be happening, I can claim this was all inevitable.
I have personally been looking for an opportunity to turn these new laws against their creators, and now the legal arena seems so polluted with all this IP crap that these companies are just going to rip each other to shreds without anyone else having to lift a finger.
Just be careful they don't take the rest of us with them, though.
Re:Recording Industry vs. Napster:
>>I would tend to say that I would hope they could come to some accommodation without more legislation, more regulation.
A lovely sentiment. Unfortunately I am now at the point where I don't believe anything said by a politician (particularly when it agrees with me) It looks simply like rhetoric and that it's designed to shut me up while they do whatever they want. I may not be right but I sure as hell feel that way.
First - my apologies to anyone who didn't shout this post down. I got so sick of the shouters that I had to reply before making sure I'd read all 11 other replys.
Lover's Arrival, The, is 100% correct about science's attitude to these sort of things.
I work with a guy who is studying Pathology at the moment. He is so excited about the work he gets to do on work experience, he thinks the scientists he works with are the be all and end all of medical research.
Essentially the story is that all the testing they do is on computer models. Organic material is tested against the introduction of various chemicals and compounds in a computer simulation and those results are taken as gospel.
He tells me that the programs are perfect and everything has been taken into account. Then I ask him about things like ectoplasm and the recorded phenomenum of observation & expectation effecting the results of scientific experiments. He bows his head, looks sheepish, says nothing to me, and then tells everyone else "Ben's really out there, you know".
True, the guy is only a scientist in training, but he is getting his "we are perfect" attitudes from his mentors. He knows all the things I'm talking about, but is willing to forget about them or suppose they are made up so they don't get in the way of a good Pathology test.
God didn't finish his final message to his creation. The quote normally finishes with an assurance that normal services will be resumed shortly.
Does this mean they will now be resuming or have the chances of this happening just been dashed?
I have always slept easily knowing that the story could not finish until there had been an assasination attempt on Arthur's life. Once that occured, the mish-mash of time streams leading up to that moment guaranteed me an unlimited source of possible scenarios that Adams could include in future releases.
Now I must return to the humdrum reality of my life. I may be creating the future, but one of the guys who thought up that future has now left us and taken with him a lot of new inspiration.
I look foward to enjoying more of your work once I join you in the next world, Douglas. Until then, so long and thanks...