i agree. I have never believed al-qaida exist. sure there are some bad people with guns and bombs, but hey - who made those guns and bombs? not some guys in a cave that's for sure. and anyway, surely the whole point fo having a terror-training area is to practice firing guns, making bombs and so forth - not sending email.
it's a bit like believeing that a bunch of guys, having practiced a bit on flight sims, could hijack 4 planes simultaniously and then fly them with exact precision into their targets. It's never gonna happen without some 'official' help.
You are exactly right. I was there and questioned that decision constantly. Still, boo.com was a terrific place to work. I met some awesome people there who are still good friends, and every job I have interviewed for since has questioned me at lenght about my time at boo. They made some dibolical technical choices, but the real killer for them was the approx £11k it cost to add one product to their shop. That's a lot of Spoon watches to sell.
Exactly. The whole idea is a cute techy trick and will be great for a nightclub owner or such, but it's not 'green' fire. It's in fact very energy innefficient. Still you can always buy carbon credits to offset that.
I'll say. MKDD was shit. All Nintendo need do is release a whole bunch of new tracks for MK64 and i'd spend more than my stupid GC cost to buy that cartridge. I still play MK64 on an almost daily basis and it came out in 1996!
Great link thanks. I reallly enjoy reading Jon Ronson's articles and interviews. He wrote the most excellent book recently, "The men who stare at goats." It's totally worth a read. All about US Military's fascination with the occult, and featuring some great interviews with genuinely scary whackos.
this discussion has just got me wondering. if i encounter a private network, what protocol exists for me to request temporary access? when i configure my airport base-station there are fields for my contact details. why don't the client softwares add a simple "hi, i'm dave. i've just moved into the building and have not got my network set up yet, do you mind if i use yours? i'm in flat 21 pop over and say hi." if i got a message from my base-station telling me my new neighbour needed access, i'd almost certainly be happy to help.
Ray Kurzweil invented the Kurzweil Reader and loads of other cool things. The first true piano synth too - the Kurzweil Keyboard. He's got laurels as long as your arm.
would love to see them land a robot on one next. sure nasa can put a huge copper bold in front of a comet, but it's a much cooler trick to try to actually get in its path and then speed up, armageddon style and land on the sucker. then let robots report back on it as it wizzes thru the universe.
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hmm - wonders... does transmit include streaming it from my powerbook to my stereo via AirportExpress?
something doesn't add up. 828 feet of books = $8000 of books?
so say these books are all about $9.99 and so there are about 828 of them - does that mean that each book is on average a foot thick? as i look around my books I see very few books approaching 4 inches thick, let alone a full foot. there's a russian - english dictionary on the shelf that's about 25cm thick; almost a foot.
so if the books are more normal penguin editions they are at most half an inch thick. that's more like 20,000 books. which is a complete bargain at $0.40 per book. and even if you don't read them all, they are a valuable resource for your descendants that will keep on entertaining when the oil is all gone.
Hello! So if we could go back in time then somehow the universe we go back to will be constructed such that a) we can see it as ghosts, or b) somehow circumstances will always contrive to avoid a paradox in the future. What a bunch of bollocks. The beeb must be hard up for science news today.
The other day i was givena tour around one of the big newspapers here in amsterdam and was could not avoid noticing the many hundreds of G5s (for pre-press and art/web production) and sunflower iMacs (for everyone else). I asked how many IT staff they had and the answer was 2. Two people do the system admin etc for an entire newspaper. They also eschewed a 'real' content management system for their web publishing because their head of web publishing prefers to use templates and to write ad-hoc applescripts. And all works brilliantly. Seriously if you've ever worked in a 100% osx environment then you know just how excellent it can be. Apple becoming another Microsoft - if only. I doubt too many people would complain about Apple dominating the OS landscape the way MS does now.
indeed. the only 'sleeper cells' in europe were set up by the US and UK secret services in collaboration with far-right terrorists in every Western European country just after WW][. Called Operation Gladio in Italy and other names in other countries - this network was kept secret from even their own Governments. It was exposed in the 1990s. see the book on Gladio or just google for Gladio + NATO. The book describes a litany of murder, coups, 'false-flag' operations and more, all comitted by Gladio operatives with the blessing, and protection of the US and UK - meant not to prevent a Soviet occupation of NATO countries, but to make sure that 'left-leaning' parties stayed well out of power. democracy be damnned.
Doctor: "Steven you have less than 24 hours to live." Steven King: "I'm gonna have to ask for a second opinion" Doctor: "Okay: You are the King of Horror".
extortion? ddos? weather prediction? currency speculation? virtual nuclear tests? total informational awareness? why knows why they'd want it. but i know why i'd want it.
Surely it's only a matter of time before some 'Terminator' from the future turns up to terminate Professor Gadh with extreme prejudice, as it were. And by doing so this 'Terminator' nullifies its whole existance, thus it never could have come back to kill him. The consequence of this is that Rajit gets to deveop this tecvhnology giving rise to a 'Terminator' that can go back in time to terminate him, meaning almost instantly the universe dies as its stack and its heap collide. And we're back to square one again.
here's a short list of things invented down under. like football, and the refridgerator, and Ultrasound, and the Black box flight recorder, and the Scramjet.
you merkins think you as so clever, "1995 - Jindalee Radar System - The United States of America spent $11 billion developing an aeroplane that could not be detected by radar. Scientists at the CSIRO then concluded that if the plane could not be detected, perhaps the turbulance it makes passing through air could be. $1.5 million later, the Jindalee Radar system had transformed the stealth bomber into nothing more than an unusual looking aircraft."
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i agree. I have never believed al-qaida exist. sure there are some bad people with guns and bombs, but hey - who made those guns and bombs? not some guys in a cave that's for sure. and anyway, surely the whole point fo having a terror-training area is to practice firing guns, making bombs and so forth - not sending email.
it's a bit like believeing that a bunch of guys, having practiced a bit on flight sims, could hijack 4 planes simultaniously and then fly them with exact precision into their targets. It's never gonna happen without some 'official' help.
You are exactly right. I was there and questioned that decision constantly. Still, boo.com was a terrific place to work. I met some awesome people there who are still good friends, and every job I have interviewed for since has questioned me at lenght about my time at boo. They made some dibolical technical choices, but the real killer for them was the approx £11k it cost to add one product to their shop. That's a lot of Spoon watches to sell.
Exactly. The whole idea is a cute techy trick and will be great for a nightclub owner or such, but it's not 'green' fire. It's in fact very energy innefficient. Still you can always buy carbon credits to offset that.
I'll say. MKDD was shit. All Nintendo need do is release a whole bunch of new tracks for MK64 and i'd spend more than my stupid GC cost to buy that cartridge. I still play MK64 on an almost daily basis and it came out in 1996!
Great link thanks. I reallly enjoy reading Jon Ronson's articles and interviews. He wrote the most excellent book recently, "The men who stare at goats." It's totally worth a read. All about US Military's fascination with the occult, and featuring some great interviews with genuinely scary whackos.
The real name will be Windows 2005 FogHorn.
In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me --
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
- Martin Niemoeller (1946)
this discussion has just got me wondering. if i encounter a private network, what protocol exists for me to request temporary access? when i configure my airport base-station there are fields for my contact details. why don't the client softwares add a simple "hi, i'm dave. i've just moved into the building and have not got my network set up yet, do you mind if i use yours? i'm in flat 21 pop over and say hi." if i got a message from my base-station telling me my new neighbour needed access, i'd almost certainly be happy to help.
Ray Kurzweil invented the Kurzweil Reader and loads of other cool things. The first true piano synth too - the Kurzweil Keyboard. He's got laurels as long as your arm.
That's fucking awesome! Much more subtle than just letting the comet plough into you. Hooray for the ESA!
thanks for the link.
would love to see them land a robot on one next. sure nasa can put a huge copper bold in front of a comet, but it's a much cooler trick to try to actually get in its path and then speed up, armageddon style and land on the sucker. then let robots report back on it as it wizzes thru the universe.
hmm - wonders... does transmit include streaming it from my powerbook to my stereo via AirportExpress?
something doesn't add up. 828 feet of books = $8000 of books? so say these books are all about $9.99 and so there are about 828 of them - does that mean that each book is on average a foot thick? as i look around my books I see very few books approaching 4 inches thick, let alone a full foot. there's a russian - english dictionary on the shelf that's about 25cm thick; almost a foot. so if the books are more normal penguin editions they are at most half an inch thick. that's more like 20,000 books. which is a complete bargain at $0.40 per book. and even if you don't read them all, they are a valuable resource for your descendants that will keep on entertaining when the oil is all gone.
Hello! So if we could go back in time then somehow the universe we go back to will be constructed such that a) we can see it as ghosts, or b) somehow circumstances will always contrive to avoid a paradox in the future. What a bunch of bollocks. The beeb must be hard up for science news today.
The other day i was givena tour around one of the big newspapers here in amsterdam and was could not avoid noticing the many hundreds of G5s (for pre-press and art/web production) and sunflower iMacs (for everyone else). I asked how many IT staff they had and the answer was 2. Two people do the system admin etc for an entire newspaper. They also eschewed a 'real' content management system for their web publishing because their head of web publishing prefers to use templates and to write ad-hoc applescripts. And all works brilliantly. Seriously if you've ever worked in a 100% osx environment then you know just how excellent it can be. Apple becoming another Microsoft - if only. I doubt too many people would complain about Apple dominating the OS landscape the way MS does now.
fine, but in Soviet Russia nasty russian hitmen order you to do what's necessary.
weird, mine says "4891-ereh-saw-dlefztreHydnaA"
indeed. the only 'sleeper cells' in europe were set up by the US and UK secret services in collaboration with far-right terrorists in every Western European country just after WW][. Called Operation Gladio in Italy and other names in other countries - this network was kept secret from even their own Governments. It was exposed in the 1990s. see the book on Gladio or just google for Gladio + NATO. The book describes a litany of murder, coups, 'false-flag' operations and more, all comitted by Gladio operatives with the blessing, and protection of the US and UK - meant not to prevent a Soviet occupation of NATO countries, but to make sure that 'left-leaning' parties stayed well out of power. democracy be damnned.
Only yesterday...
Doctor: "Steven you have less than 24 hours to live."
Steven King: "I'm gonna have to ask for a second opinion"
Doctor: "Okay: You are the King of Horror".
- apple: power 2, transferable power 1, resistance 4, income 2
- Intel: power 4, transferable power 2, resistance 3, income 3
- Microsoft: power 5, transferable power 2, resistance 2 income 6
hmmm...how's that hat taste?
extortion? ddos? weather prediction? currency speculation? virtual nuclear tests? total informational awareness? why knows why they'd want it. but i know why i'd want it.
Surely it's only a matter of time before some 'Terminator' from the future turns up to terminate Professor Gadh with extreme prejudice, as it were. And by doing so this 'Terminator' nullifies its whole existance, thus it never could have come back to kill him. The consequence of this is that Rajit gets to deveop this tecvhnology giving rise to a 'Terminator' that can go back in time to terminate him, meaning almost instantly the universe dies as its stack and its heap collide. And we're back to square one again.
here's a short list of things invented down under. like football, and the refridgerator, and Ultrasound, and the Black box flight recorder, and the Scramjet.
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you merkins think you as so clever, " 1995 - Jindalee Radar System - The United States of America spent $11 billion developing an aeroplane that could not be detected by radar. Scientists at the CSIRO then concluded that if the plane could not be detected, perhaps the turbulance it makes passing through air could be. $1.5 million later, the Jindalee Radar system had transformed the stealth bomber into nothing more than an unusual looking aircraft."
haha
just like the sex-slavery trade.