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i interned at the local office of one of our us senators. in my experience, correspondence is taken very seriously. EVERY letter is read - mostly by aides - and counted, and answered.
you will not be wasting your time by writing a letter.
One day, not too far off, our friend (let's call him Troll, for now) goes of to bed. Empty bottles of jolt litter the floor, and the sheets stink, but he's really tired. Not even the pale green glow of the slashdot page can keep him awake.
Next thing he knows is that at some ungodly hour jackbooted stormtroopers with high-intsnsity lasers drag him out of bed, waving at the early hours of the morning, waving some strange warrant, and muttering about tacos.
I hate my Aptiva and that recovery disk. Damn you to hell IBM!
My hatred of Aptivas and IBM because of that recovery disk system knows no bounds. I had to reinstall it once, and spend countles hours getting rid of all the doo-dahs and all the other crap they put in them, and I am also stuck with their partitions. On the bright side, I learned how to build my own system--and run Linux--for fear that I would forever be trapped that way again.
According to the law passed by the Pennsylvania legislature:
"Computer virus." A computer program copied to or installed on a computer without the informed consent of the owner of the computer that may replicate itself and that causes unauthorized activities within or by the computer.
you can look for it here: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/billroom.h tm
The item is actually old news. For those of you who missed it originally, I will re-post here the text oif a previous, and more exciting. development:
Overclocker Creates Rift in Space-Time Continuum
Santa Cruz, CA - A rift in the space-time continuum was created today when overclocker Jamie Aperman ran a 750 MHz Coppermine Pentium III at 1.6 GHz. Overclocking has long been blamed for causing global warming, but this is the first occasion that the fabric of space-time has been damaged.
MIT Professor George Greznowski said, "It appears that the CPU was operating so fast that it began to execute instructions before they arrived. This execution of future instructions created a small tear in the fabric of space-time itself through which part of the motherboard passed into a parallel universe."
No one was injured in the accident, but a computer motherboard was partially damaged. Mr. Aperman better known as SpeedPhreeek said, "I'm pissed. I lost a brand new Alpha Cooler and Coppermine to a parallel universe. I called my insurance company and they don't cover losses to rifts in the space-time continuum."
Intel researchers have long warned of such damage to the space-time continuum, and added clock multiplier locks to their CPUs before they were required by Congress. A bill is now in the US Senate which would require a three day waiting period for purchasers of Alpha Cooling Fans and Peltier cooling devices. The bill would also require clock multiplier locks on all new processors.
Overclocking advocate Horace Spencer said, "This bill before Congress won't prevent overclocking. They'll just create a black market for non-locked processors. Most of the top overclockers already get their goods from Taiwan." (link no registration req. here: http://bbspot.com/News/2000/5/clock_rift.html)
the ultra-competitive, take-no-prisoners attitude that Microsoft has displayed for most (all?) of its existance is both an asset and a liability. the kerberos issue is just one more example of how that attitude is diffused throughout the organization, and how a systemic remedy is needed.
i doubt that microsoft takes linux,/., and open source very seriously. that is not to say that there are microsoft employees who do takes these matters seriously, but that on the whole it it an insular, self-referential, and arrogant institution.
Western civilization differs in many ways from non-Western ones. One of the most fundamental ways in which they differ is in the rights (and concommitant responsibilities) of citizens.
These rights and resposibilities have three interrelated - and interdependent - components:
1. The right to serve on, and be tried by, juries.
2. The right to vote.
3. The right to bear arms.
One could easily define a totalitarian regime simply on the basis of these three elements. People are freer to the extent that their government recognizes these rights, and less free to the extent that they are limited.
Indeed, the progress of freedom in human history has been the extension of these rights to greater segments of the population. In fifth century (BC) Athens, for example, only male citizens had the right to trial by jury, only they could sit on juries, only they could vote in the assembly, and they carried the burden of fighting for their city (and had to pay for their weapons). In today's United States, the definition of citizenship has expended to include women and the descendents of slaves, and to a great extent the protection of our laws - trial by jury in criminal cases, for example - extend to foreigners as well (all of these things unthinkable in classical times).
The concept of citizenship itself is a western invention, and it's predicated on a state of tension between the individual and the state. The state derives its legitimacy and power form its citizens, and not vice-versa. Thus the bill of rights does not GRANT citizens certain rights, but rather FORBIDS the government from passing laws that are in conflict with the intrinsic rights of its citizens.
Registration of guns is a necessary step on the road to confiscation, and there lies the path to tyranny and despotism. Twenty-first century Americans seem to be a charmed people, oblivious to the historical aberration that their freedoms represent. Demagogues and liberals are quick to dangle the promise of safety in well-intentioned schemes that do not account for the ugly realities of human nature or the easy souring of governments.
Take the South. Black farmers, given the second amendment, were able to provide a measure of protection to their families and themselves that would not have existed otherwise. Were it not for the second amendment, there would have been many more lynchings and killings of blacks, especially during the fifties.
Or think of times of social disturbance. Our house and neighborhood were destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Were it not for quickly-assembled bands of neighbors, many people I know would have lost the little they had left to looters and thieves.
Guns, ballot boxes, and juries are all parts of the same thing. They all exist to protect your freedom, both from governments and from other people.
Western civilization differs in many ways from non-Western ones. One of the most fundamental ways in which they differ is in the rights (and concommitant responsibilities) of citizens.
These rights and resposibilities have three interrelated - and interdependent - components:
1. The right to serve on, and be tried by, juries.
2. The right to vote.
3. The right to bear arms.
One could easily define a totalitarian regime simply on the basis of these three elements. People are freer to the extent that their government recognizes these rights, and less free to the extent that they are limited.
Indeed, the progress of freedom in human history has been the extension of these rights to greater segments of the population. In fifth century (BC) Athens, for example, only male citizens had the right to trial by jury, only they could sit on juries, only they could vote in the assembly, and they carried the burden of fighting for their city (and had to pay for their weapons). In today's United States, the definition of citizenship has expended to include women and the descendents of slaves, and to a great extent the protection of our laws - trial by jury in criminal cases, for example - extend to foreigners as well (all of these things unthinkable in classical times).
The concept of citizenship itself is a western invention, and it's predicated on a state of tension between the individual and the state. The state derives its legitimacy and power form its citizens, and not vice-versa. Thus the bill of rights does not GRANT citizens certain rights, but rather FORBIDS the government from passing laws that are in conflict with the intrinsic rights of its citizens.
Registration of guns is a necessary step on the road to confiscation, and there lies the path to tyranny and despotism. Twenty-first century Americans seem to be a charmed people, oblivious to the historical aberration that their freedoms represent. Demagogues and liberals are quick to dangle the promise of safety in well-intentioned schemes that do not account for the ugly realities of human nature or the easy souring of governments.
Take the South. Black farmers, given the second amendment, were able to provide a measure of protection to their families and themselves that would not have existed otherwise. Were it not for the second amendment, there would have been many more lynchings and killings of blacks, especially during the fifties.
Or think of times of social disturbance. Our house and neighborhood were destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Were it not for quickly-assembled bands of neighbors, many people I know would have lost the little they had left to looters and thieves.
Guns, ballot boxes, and juries are all parts of the same thing. They all exist to protect your freedom, both from governments and from other people.
Ye Gods! although i didn't realize it at the time, it makes PERFECT sense for the chinese to have a hand in this. after all, they helped re-elect clinton, right? and they are developing a version of linux called Red Flag...hmmm..hey! i wonder if the developers of the game are using RED FLAG to develop this game. after all, china does have a LOT of people, so a massively multiplayer game makes sense.
i'm going to have to contact my undergound right-wing cell and communicate this breakthorugh insight
"Personally, I want Arianne to be like a utopical world where a society works in harmony for a commons goals, but because it is only a dream, Wars happen along the world, like these you read in Tolkien's books. That's for me Arianne."
this game will be a dud, not because of problems with graphics, or programming, but because the concept is unrealistic and, more importantly, unappealing.
utopian societies are boring enough, but someone else's utopia is the pits. the only thing worse than an utopian game is an utopian politician trying to impose his vision of a perfect society on the rest of us, like here: http://www.algore2000.com/agenda/
Slashdot Mirror
you can download from here
i interned at the local office of one of our us senators. in my experience, correspondence is taken very seriously. EVERY letter is read - mostly by aides - and counted, and answered.
you will not be wasting your time by writing a letter.
One day, not too far off, our friend (let's call him Troll, for now) goes of to bed. Empty bottles of jolt litter the floor, and the sheets stink, but he's really tired. Not even the pale green glow of the slashdot page can keep him awake.
Next thing he knows is that at some ungodly hour jackbooted stormtroopers with high-intsnsity lasers drag him out of bed, waving at the early hours of the morning, waving some strange warrant, and muttering about tacos.
The best way to generate 40Gbps, as everyone knows, is by using thousands of trained monkeys typing on thousands of typewriters.
If you give them enough time, you will also get Hamlet as a by-product.
I have been runing RC5 clients for nearly two years, some of them run on oc'd computers.
What I find useful about overclocking is that i can use the extra heat to cook my grits.according to several reviewers, quicken and quickbooks by Intuit run fine on WINE.
I hate my Aptiva and that recovery disk. Damn you to hell IBM!
My hatred of Aptivas and IBM because of that recovery disk system knows no bounds. I had to reinstall it once, and spend countles hours getting rid of all the doo-dahs and all the other crap they put in them, and I am also stuck with their partitions. On the bright side, I learned how to build my own system--and run Linux--for fear that I would forever be trapped that way again.
joyous children play in parks,
not yet hacked by life.jumps from machine to machine
who knows its maker?According to the law passed by the Pennsylvania legislature:
"Computer virus." A computer program copied to or installed on a computer without the informed consent of the owner of the computer that may replicate itself and that causes unauthorized activities within or by the computer.
you can look for it here: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/billroom.h tm
jealous, coward snipes.
hides in anonimity.
knows no subtlety.
writer ponders wrong
question. should spend time on book.
too much internet.
script kid hacks machine
anger, rage come over you.
hot grits give relief.
Beowulf/Jornada Haiku
H-P jornadas
make slow beowulf clusters
and have funny screens.
The item is actually old news. For those of you who missed it originally, I will re-post here the text oif a previous, and more exciting. development:
Overclocker Creates Rift in Space-Time Continuum
someone recently wrote:
"Assuming your facts are correct, wouldn't it be much nicer to educate your fellow man than to insult him? you fucking moron."
indeed.a TRS-80 I have lying around somewhere, and an ATARI console.
the ultra-competitive, take-no-prisoners attitude that Microsoft has displayed for most (all?) of its existance is both an asset and a liability. the kerberos issue is just one more example of how that attitude is diffused throughout the organization, and how a systemic remedy is needed.
i doubt that microsoft takes linux, /., and open source very seriously. that is not to say that there are microsoft employees who do takes these matters seriously, but that on the whole it it an insular, self-referential, and arrogant institution.
the post above has got to be one of the stupidest, most self-contradictory, worthless things i've read on /. since, well, my own posts.
Western civilization differs in many ways from non-Western ones. One of the most fundamental ways in which they differ is in the rights (and concommitant responsibilities) of citizens.
These rights and resposibilities have three interrelated - and interdependent - components :
1. The right to serve on, and be tried by, juries.
2. The right to vote.
3. The right to bear arms.
One could easily define a totalitarian regime simply on the basis of these three elements. People are freer to the extent that their government recognizes these rights, and less free to the extent that they are limited.
Indeed, the progress of freedom in human history has been the extension of these rights to greater segments of the population. In fifth century (BC) Athens, for example, only male citizens had the right to trial by jury, only they could sit on juries, only they could vote in the assembly, and they carried the burden of fighting for their city (and had to pay for their weapons). In today's United States, the definition of citizenship has expended to include women and the descendents of slaves, and to a great extent the protection of our laws - trial by jury in criminal cases, for example - extend to foreigners as well (all of these things unthinkable in classical times).
The concept of citizenship itself is a western invention, and it's predicated on a state of tension between the individual and the state. The state derives its legitimacy and power form its citizens, and not vice-versa. Thus the bill of rights does not GRANT citizens certain rights, but rather FORBIDS the government from passing laws that are in conflict with the intrinsic rights of its citizens.
Registration of guns is a necessary step on the road to confiscation, and there lies the path to tyranny and despotism. Twenty-first century Americans seem to be a charmed people, oblivious to the historical aberration that their freedoms represent. Demagogues and liberals are quick to dangle the promise of safety in well-intentioned schemes that do not account for the ugly realities of human nature or the easy souring of governments.
Take the South. Black farmers, given the second amendment, were able to provide a measure of protection to their families and themselves that would not have existed otherwise. Were it not for the second amendment, there would have been many more lynchings and killings of blacks, especially during the fifties.
Or think of times of social disturbance. Our house and neighborhood were destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Were it not for quickly-assembled bands of neighbors, many people I know would have lost the little they had left to looters and thieves.
Guns, ballot boxes, and juries are all parts of the same thing. They all exist to protect your freedom, both from governments and from other people.
Western civilization differs in many ways from non-Western ones. One of the most fundamental ways in which they differ is in the rights (and concommitant responsibilities) of citizens.
These rights and resposibilities have three interrelated - and interdependent - components :
1. The right to serve on, and be tried by, juries.
2. The right to vote.
3. The right to bear arms.
One could easily define a totalitarian regime simply on the basis of these three elements. People are freer to the extent that their government recognizes these rights, and less free to the extent that they are limited.
Indeed, the progress of freedom in human history has been the extension of these rights to greater segments of the population. In fifth century (BC) Athens, for example, only male citizens had the right to trial by jury, only they could sit on juries, only they could vote in the assembly, and they carried the burden of fighting for their city (and had to pay for their weapons). In today's United States, the definition of citizenship has expended to include women and the descendents of slaves, and to a great extent the protection of our laws - trial by jury in criminal cases, for example - extend to foreigners as well (all of these things unthinkable in classical times).
The concept of citizenship itself is a western invention, and it's predicated on a state of tension between the individual and the state. The state derives its legitimacy and power form its citizens, and not vice-versa. Thus the bill of rights does not GRANT citizens certain rights, but rather FORBIDS the government from passing laws that are in conflict with the intrinsic rights of its citizens.
Registration of guns is a necessary step on the road to confiscation, and there lies the path to tyranny and despotism. Twenty-first century Americans seem to be a charmed people, oblivious to the historical aberration that their freedoms represent. Demagogues and liberals are quick to dangle the promise of safety in well-intentioned schemes that do not account for the ugly realities of human nature or the easy souring of governments.
Take the South. Black farmers, given the second amendment, were able to provide a measure of protection to their families and themselves that would not have existed otherwise. Were it not for the second amendment, there would have been many more lynchings and killings of blacks, especially during the fifties.
Or think of times of social disturbance. Our house and neighborhood were destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Were it not for quickly-assembled bands of neighbors, many people I know would have lost the little they had left to looters and thieves.
Guns, ballot boxes, and juries are all parts of the same thing. They all exist to protect your freedom, both from governments and from other people.
Who cares about updates? Looks like they've got us pretty good.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpaten ts.html
when you can have kojak?
(ducks)
Ye Gods! although i didn't realize it at the time, it makes PERFECT sense for the chinese to have a hand in this. after all, they helped re-elect clinton, right? and they are developing a version of linux called Red Flag...hmmm..hey! i wonder if the developers of the game are using RED FLAG to develop this game. after all, china does have a LOT of people, so a massively multiplayer game makes sense.
i'm going to have to contact my undergound right-wing cell and communicate this breakthorugh insight
"Personally, I want Arianne to be like a utopical world where a society works in harmony for a commons goals, but because it is only a dream, Wars happen along the world, like these you read in Tolkien's books. That's for me Arianne."
this game will be a dud, not because of problems with graphics, or programming, but because the concept is unrealistic and, more importantly, unappealing.
utopian societies are boring enough, but someone else's utopia is the pits. the only thing worse than an utopian game is an utopian politician trying to impose his vision of a perfect society on the rest of us, like here: http://www.algore2000.com/agenda/