You all seem to be missing the point that we as a nation have had NOTHING of political chaos compared to the kinds which occur in Chile, Argentina, Iran, Russia, &c &c &c. Nobody rioted, nobody looted, and, contrary to The Onion last week, nobody got up and declared themselves dictator. We should all be happy - at least *some* part of the Grand Experiment still works.
Man, I saw this headline and thought "Wave Driven Generators... I'd need a tidal harness and, what, Photon/Wave Mechanics?" Ugh. Alpha Centauri is too addictive.
"Think I'll take some crack to slow down."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Foolish humans. You have seen the powers of Microsoft's evil armies, and yet you did not run. Now you will be crushed by its almighty capitol Power. QUAKE (III) IN FEAR, FOOLS!
Seriously, though, when was the last time you actually had to *upgrade* a M$ product? There's going to be a lot of folks hanging on to M$O2K and the like, don'cha know.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Yes, but you certainly do have a higher grade of education, don't you (Imagine teaching things children actually *need* *to* *know*... gee) And when was the last time you had two highly immature men clamoring for the (laughs) *highest* office in the nation? Besides, I wouldn't be moving to England (it's too civilized), I'd be moving to Wales, which is my genetic and familial homeland. Don't forget whose head was buried under the Tower of London until it was dug up and let all the Romans in, eh.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
After reading this article, I now want to move to Britan, since a) their police have much more entertaining ways of solving crimes, and 2) their papers have a much higher quality of writing.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
... is that this is the point of such companies existing. Companies, in the "old" days, held the original master recordings or, in the case of movies, the master prints. They then leased out the right to make copies of these to companies set up expressly for that purpose (and often existing as subsidiaries of the production house). However, as technology expanded and the populus got the ability to do this copying itself, laws were created to suddenly prevent you from protecting yourself if you were caught with what was (and still is) considered the property of the corp. The other option is to *not* release the tech to the people, but that looks pretty bad to most folks (ie solar power not really getting a foothold in America due to corporate interests).
BUT... This is what happens when people live in a mindset that money is everything. It is *not*. You can't eat it, you can't build a house out of it. Set it aside.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Orson Scott Card has to be one of the best writers of *anything* to come down the pike in a long time. He's as moral as Asimov and Heinlen, as original as Frank Herbert, and such an interesting writer. Right now I'm in the middle of the Alvin Maker series, which is a great fantasy Alt.History. Read it!
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Wow. Imagine actually trying to generate revenue by *selling* services. There are some things you pay for, and some things you don't. (www.join4free.com). Caveat Emptor, etiam non pro email vendant:).
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Indeed. People also tend to forget the fact that the old pre-christian Hellenistic world was quite advanced - Horologoi, great trierimes, military strength, really advanced forms of math, the beginnings of steam power (but slaves are cheaper, so that's right out). Even so, when the Greeks hit Egypt 2500 years or so ago, they were real quick to put down the native's advancements (medicine, greater mathematical skills, even greater military ideas) in part because they were known solely to the priests.
Also, think for a second: why is so all-out important that these tombs align to some ball of gas in the sky? Any flames^H^H^H ideas on that?:P
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
What folks these days seem to forget (at least those outside the geek-scientist-astronomer-redundant cult) is that the heavens are in motion, just as the earth is. In fact, the whole frikkin' multi/uni-verse is in motion. Thanks to that wonderful tilt to the axis, our vision of the heavens changes by noticible amounts every two-three thousand years. Anybody trying to say "oh, these are aligned to such-and-such" need to take into account what the skies were like when these things were built. Four thousand years ago, Mizar *was* the pole star. There's none of this "get x-and-y aligned" crap involved. Sorry.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Folks, the time has come, or rather it has passed. Netscape lost the war, freed its source, and now exploits the hard labor of worldwide coders for its own benefit. Our predecessors couldn't stop plutocrats from gaining unwanted capital, but we can: don't use Netscape! Don't wanna use IE? Mozilla's still pretty good in its most recent incarnations, and Opera works well with only minor plugin compatiblity problems:) RISE UP!
"As long as we sanction the bum on the plush/
The other will always be there/
But rid ourselves of the bum on the plush/
And the other will disappear!
So do yourselves a wonderful favor/
Get rid of the wasted crush/
Don't worry about the bum on the rods/
Get rid of the bum on the plush."
-- The Two Bums, J. Hill
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Atlantic Records has even begun to include the Winamp program on
some music CDs, such as Matchbox 20's latest release, ``Mad Season.'' This basically provides all the software someone with a CD burner would need to make illegal, high-quality copies.
I'm sorry? When did winamp *make* mp3's? And since when could you burn cd's from winamp?
Whatever they're on, it should be illegal - unless you're (insert name of relevant drug-using "star" here).
"I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
These are both great insights into this subject, but what seems to be left out the most is the fact that you are *blowing up* a part of the earth. First gunpowder, then dynamite, then plastic explosives, now nukes - do civil engineers as a whole (not the individuals) have no natural conscience? Wake up, people! That mountain is there for a reason; if you want to go around it, go around it, and if you want to go across it go across it, but fa crissakes don't *blow* the durn thing up!
Sorry for ranting, I know it's bad, but look - you've got mabye fifty, sixty years left before you all do something really stupid and blow this planet to hell. With any luck, I'll be gone by then.
"I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
Okay, three words and I'll hush:
"Roman Gladitorial Combat"
(I lied) Domestication of violence allowed a bunch of Etrusican Greeks to rise to dominance and become extremely powerful and decadant. Of couse, you can't let the plebs vote themselves bread and circuses, or that's all you'll have.
The Vaulted Road... it's coming, and you don't know where, when, or why... "I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
thought that one of the worst things one could do was sell one's words for money. After all, you had a pater familiae who stopped your legal disputes in a clear and sensible manner.
What do the laws do, where money alone rules/
Or where no poor person is able to win?/
They themselves who spend their time with the Cynic purse/
Often are accustomed to selling their words for money/
Therefore judgement is nothing, unless the selling is a public thing/
and the Judge who sits in the case passes judgement on things that have been BOUGHT."
-Ascyltos, Satyricon
"I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
Today my teacher went off on how wonderful Bill Gates is, and it occoured to me that (gasp!) she may be right. I mean, he is someone who rose from a HS dropout to found an evil software company that makes consumers *unwilling* betatesters and ships buggy, crashy products. Still, he's nice enough to _give away_ large amounts of money to people who need it.
A Random Thought: If consumers are Beta-Testers, to whom does the *final* product ship?
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You all seem to be missing the point that we as a nation have had NOTHING of political chaos compared to the kinds which occur in Chile, Argentina, Iran, Russia, &c &c &c. Nobody rioted, nobody looted, and, contrary to The Onion last week, nobody got up and declared themselves dictator. We should all be happy - at least *some* part of the Grand Experiment still works.
"hoi polloi" technically already has a definite article, so saying "the hoi polloi" is pretty redundant.
(retreats into ivory tower)
Good for Linus' wife for getting that new release out before her husband.
(ducks to avoid the 'maters)
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Man, I saw this headline and thought "Wave Driven Generators... I'd need a tidal harness and, what, Photon/Wave Mechanics?" Ugh. Alpha Centauri is too addictive.
"Think I'll take some crack to slow down."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Foolish humans. You have seen the powers of Microsoft's evil armies, and yet you did not run. Now you will be crushed by its almighty capitol Power. QUAKE (III) IN FEAR, FOOLS!
Seriously, though, when was the last time you actually had to *upgrade* a M$ product? There's going to be a lot of folks hanging on to M$O2K and the like, don'cha know.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
You've shattered my Heinlenesque view of a future America. Shame on you.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Yes, but you certainly do have a higher grade of education, don't you (Imagine teaching things children actually *need* *to* *know*... gee) And when was the last time you had two highly immature men clamoring for the (laughs) *highest* office in the nation? Besides, I wouldn't be moving to England (it's too civilized), I'd be moving to Wales, which is my genetic and familial homeland. Don't forget whose head was buried under the Tower of London until it was dug up and let all the Romans in, eh.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
After reading this article, I now want to move to Britan, since a) their police have much more entertaining ways of solving crimes, and 2) their papers have a much higher quality of writing.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
... is that this is the point of such companies existing. Companies, in the "old" days, held the original master recordings or, in the case of movies, the master prints. They then leased out the right to make copies of these to companies set up expressly for that purpose (and often existing as subsidiaries of the production house). However, as technology expanded and the populus got the ability to do this copying itself, laws were created to suddenly prevent you from protecting yourself if you were caught with what was (and still is) considered the property of the corp. The other option is to *not* release the tech to the people, but that looks pretty bad to most folks (ie solar power not really getting a foothold in America due to corporate interests).
BUT... This is what happens when people live in a mindset that money is everything. It is *not*. You can't eat it, you can't build a house out of it. Set it aside.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Orson Scott Card has to be one of the best writers of *anything* to come down the pike in a long time. He's as moral as Asimov and Heinlen, as original as Frank Herbert, and such an interesting writer. Right now I'm in the middle of the Alvin Maker series, which is a great fantasy Alt.History. Read it!
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Wow. Imagine actually trying to generate revenue by *selling* services. There are some things you pay for, and some things you don't. (www.join4free.com). Caveat Emptor, etiam non pro email vendant :).
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Indeed. People also tend to forget the fact that the old pre-christian Hellenistic world was quite advanced - Horologoi, great trierimes, military strength, really advanced forms of math, the beginnings of steam power (but slaves are cheaper, so that's right out). Even so, when the Greeks hit Egypt 2500 years or so ago, they were real quick to put down the native's advancements (medicine, greater mathematical skills, even greater military ideas) in part because they were known solely to the priests.
:P
Also, think for a second: why is so all-out important that these tombs align to some ball of gas in the sky? Any flames^H^H^H ideas on that?
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
What folks these days seem to forget (at least those outside the geek-scientist-astronomer-redundant cult) is that the heavens are in motion, just as the earth is. In fact, the whole frikkin' multi/uni-verse is in motion. Thanks to that wonderful tilt to the axis, our vision of the heavens changes by noticible amounts every two-three thousand years. Anybody trying to say "oh, these are aligned to such-and-such" need to take into account what the skies were like when these things were built. Four thousand years ago, Mizar *was* the pole star. There's none of this "get x-and-y aligned" crap involved. Sorry.
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
Folks, the time has come, or rather it has passed. Netscape lost the war, freed its source, and now exploits the hard labor of worldwide coders for its own benefit. Our predecessors couldn't stop plutocrats from gaining unwanted capital, but we can: don't use Netscape! Don't wanna use IE? Mozilla's still pretty good in its most recent incarnations, and Opera works well with only minor plugin compatiblity problems :) RISE UP!
"As long as we sanction the bum on the plush/
The other will always be there/
But rid ourselves of the bum on the plush/
And the other will disappear!
So do yourselves a wonderful favor/
Get rid of the wasted crush/
Don't worry about the bum on the rods/
Get rid of the bum on the plush."
-- The Two Bums, J. Hill
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
some music CDs, such as Matchbox 20's latest release, ``Mad
Season.'' This basically provides all the software someone with a
CD burner would need to make illegal, high-quality copies.
I'm sorry? When did winamp *make* mp3's? And since when could you burn cd's from winamp?
Whatever they're on, it should be illegal - unless you're (insert name of relevant drug-using "star" here).
"I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
These are both great insights into this subject, but what seems to be left out the most is the fact that you are *blowing up* a part of the earth. First gunpowder, then dynamite, then plastic explosives, now nukes - do civil engineers as a whole (not the individuals) have no natural conscience? Wake up, people! That mountain is there for a reason; if you want to go around it, go around it, and if you want to go across it go across it, but fa crissakes don't *blow* the durn thing up!
Sorry for ranting, I know it's bad, but look - you've got mabye fifty, sixty years left before you all do something really stupid and blow this planet to hell. With any luck, I'll be gone by then.
"I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
I have cleaned up the pic and sharpened it, but I don't have anyplace webwise to put it. Any takers?
Email notcarlos@hotmail.com
"I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
Okay, three words and I'll hush:
"Roman Gladitorial Combat"
(I lied) Domestication of violence allowed a bunch of Etrusican Greeks to rise to dominance and become extremely powerful and decadant. Of couse, you can't let the plebs vote themselves bread and circuses, or that's all you'll have.
The Vaulted Road... it's coming, and you don't know where, when, or why...
"I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
Did anyone notice the WinAmp at the bottom? Scary stuff indeed.
Who else thinks Windows should slowly be regulated to newbies?
"I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
What do the laws do, where money alone rules/
Or where no poor person is able to win?/
They themselves who spend their time with the Cynic purse/
Often are accustomed to selling their words for money/
Therefore judgement is nothing, unless the selling is a public thing/
and the Judge who sits in the case passes judgement on things that have been BOUGHT."
-Ascyltos, Satyricon
"I am so cool, you could keep a side of meat in me for a month
Today my teacher went off on how wonderful Bill Gates is, and it occoured to me that (gasp!) she may be right. I mean, he is someone who rose from a HS dropout to found an evil software company that makes consumers *unwilling* betatesters and ships buggy, crashy products. Still, he's nice enough to _give away_ large amounts of money to people who need it.
A Random Thought: If consumers are Beta-Testers, to whom does the *final* product ship?
Yeah, right.
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