As an American who has been to Britain, I have to say that in comparison, riding on a British train is a divine experience of pleasure.
When you're on AmTrack, you want to put your head on the rails in front of an oncoming train, rather than be forced to actually ride on board.
You whiney Brits don't know how good you have it.
The US used to be the greatest rail network in the world. Now, there is only one passenger line, and it's federally funded. Last time I rode, what would have been a 3 hour drive was an 8 hour hellish ordeal via rail. American passenger trains are loud, slow, bumpy, and have crappy seats, and poor service. British trains are smooth, luxurious and quick by comparison. And they actually name the individual engines all these strange names like "The Duke of Wolverton" etc. Just like in Thomas the Tank Engine.
Why was it worth anybody's time to write a review of this horrible piece of crap? I *SO* wish this show would just go away, and everybody could just forget it ever existed, so we could all reflect fondly on the era of the 80's and 90's where Science Fiction nearly gained mainstream acceptance on television.
How about voluntarily giving up your Fourth Amendment right against search as a condition of owning a home on US Soil?
This could be easily perverted any one of a zillion different ways - and none of them are as elegant as an executive order declaring a state of emergency in the "drug war".
"As for the spam argument, that's ridiculous. All a user sees is a dotted underline on a piece of text which allows the user to get more information."
Yes, but consider the source of that information - it can be slanted any way Microsoft wishes. No other power on earth has ever had that kind of editorial control. Anybody with half a brain ought to be terrified at the prospect.
and the maddening thing is;
they planned, speced, and developed this feature, all without one single person standing up and mentioning this one fact; it's opt-out rather than opt-in. You change your site for us, not we change our browser for you.
This quote stolen from a recent slashdot discussion regarding criticism of JRR Tolkein's work by a literary critic with a chip on his shoulder about Lord Of The Rings being rated as one of the most important works of the 20th century. (it's not. Dianetics is;)
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
Jamie is saying that it's ingrained into us to desire "cool". Wanting "cool" is human.
You're saying that we're coerced into it, and that being human is wanting to overcome this coersion.
In fact, this whole argument is the argument of whether humans even have "free will". Isn't it?
ya see, that's why I keep Jon Katz enabled. So I can find these poor lost souls and say; you can go into your profile and disable Jon Katz!!! And ANY MS bashing article.
seems to me that "goblins" were what denizens of the Shire called them, and "Orcs" was the more common Human/elf term.
I'm currently at the end of Fellowship, and I've noticed Goblin and Orc being used interchangably, but mostly, Goblin is used when a Hobbit is speaking. Or when someone is speaking to a Hobbit. But when they're speaking to the group containing some Hobbits, it's been "Orc".
I know this is going to sound cowardly to this crowd, but the MOST important thing to you right now, is your future.
I say, JETTISON the IP. Do ANYTHING it takes to not get expelled, cooperate in any way possible. Get your degree, and get out.
Bad experience, lesson learned. Don't fuck with fascists.
The time (and money) you've spent on your degree has got to be WAY more important than any of this other bullshit. Don't risk that because of some free-speech bullshit, you will not win this battle, and frankly, it's not worth winning in this case. Suffer the indignity, and get on with life.
There are better ways to beat this fascism, you don't have to be the martyr. Let somebody who's better positioned, better funded, and especially more idealistic, take it on the chin for this one.
Scuds were designed and built in Russia. Not a domestic product of Iraq - though they were later given plans and learned to copy them. The home-built variety of Iraqi Scuds had a much higher failure rate, and tended to break up on reentry.
well, that's because in reality, there is only ONE law. The law of the jungle. Survival of the fittest.
This is how society works today. We have our structures of law and order, presumably to benefit society as a whole, but in fact, this structure of law and order serves to benefit mainly those already in power, and to preserve their status. The battlefield has been altered from tooth and claw to money and power. The victor becomes stronger, and the loser becomes homeless, economically destroyed, and as good as physically dead. The threat is neutralized.
But when it comes down to it, all of those laws and regulations can be brushed aside, and when survival becomes a question, the answer is at the business-end of a gun. Step out of line, and it becomes a physical struggle for life-and-death. The whole thing is based on the law of the jungle folks.
Isn't murder illegal? A crime? It's one of the most basic laws of human civilization. Pretty much all human civilizations share a prohibition against wanton killing of other humans.
What if a cop thinks you were going for a gun when you were getting your ID? What if a very rich and powerful person is threatened by you and can afford a discreet hit? What if your nation will not give access to a critical resource to a much more powerful nation. In all cases, the fact that murder is a crime falls by the wayside, and the stronger animal kills the weaker animal.
My ancestors were white, came to the US in the 1860's from Northern Europe.
They came in a deal with a mining company in Northern Michigan, who paid their passage in return for their availability to work off the debt in the copper mines.
Unfortunately, once they got there, they found out that the copper mines were in a town where everything else was also owned by the mining company. The stores, the housing. Everything. And there were no other towns for hundreds of miles.
They were free, but virtually slaves. The longer they lived there, the deeper they got in debt, because wages did not cover the living expenses, let alone begin to pay back the debt.
Plus, the local law enforcement and judiciary were also "owned" by the mining company.
I've heard all the arguments FOR unrestrained capitalism, and none of them override the fact that people can and will be exploited as slaves, by those in power, as long as those in power can get away with it. In the latter part of the 19th century, and the early part of th 20th, the US began to recognize this problem, and act to prevent it, passing numerous laws restricting business from unfairly exploiting people.
The problem with that is, you're on a slippery slope to communism. But if you do nothing, you're on a slippery slope to slavery.
My ancestors were lucky; they were "rescued" by a rich relative, who had come to America, and got rich as a farmer in Iowa (not actually related, but from the same part of Norway). They eventually paid their debts, bought land of their own, and became wealthy successful farmers themselves. But not everyone is lucky enough to have a rich successful benefactor.
It shows that the system can work to benefit the down and out, even under terrible conditions. The philanthropy of the rich is critical, when there is no societal regulation. But a human should still feel compelled to look at a situation like those copper mines, and be disgusted by it.
The later ones do not. Some of the later ones didn't have a fan, but due to a screw-up at Apple, they had a OEM Hard Disk Drive that was just plain noisy.
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As an American who has been to Britain, I have to say that in comparison, riding on a British train is a divine experience of pleasure.
When you're on AmTrack, you want to put your head on the rails in front of an oncoming train, rather than be forced to actually ride on board.
You whiney Brits don't know how good you have it.
The US used to be the greatest rail network in the world. Now, there is only one passenger line, and it's federally funded. Last time I rode, what would have been a 3 hour drive was an 8 hour hellish ordeal via rail. American passenger trains are loud, slow, bumpy, and have crappy seats, and poor service. British trains are smooth, luxurious and quick by comparison. And they actually name the individual engines all these strange names like "The Duke of Wolverton" etc. Just like in Thomas the Tank Engine.
okay - anyone know how to do this in Classic Mac OS?
Why was it worth anybody's time to write a review of this horrible piece of crap? I *SO* wish this show would just go away, and everybody could just forget it ever existed, so we could all reflect fondly on the era of the 80's and 90's where Science Fiction nearly gained mainstream acceptance on television.
hence the vast market for Ghosting and Imaging software.
I wonder if it would spot a vibrator in-situ.
How about voluntarily giving up your Fourth Amendment right against search as a condition of owning a home on US Soil?
This could be easily perverted any one of a zillion different ways - and none of them are as elegant as an executive order declaring a state of emergency in the "drug war".
This is not over yet. Not by a long shot.
eh? then why are radar guns (for detecting the speed of a vehicle) not "illegal search and seizure"?
BECAUSE THEY ARE!
I dont' really know about all this targeted advertising bullshit.
As soon as I bought a house, I was innundated with ads for credit cards, ads for storm windows, ads for aluminium siding, the fucking works.
Just because it's targeted does not mean it's targeted INTELLIGENTLY.
"As for the spam argument, that's ridiculous. All a user sees is a dotted underline on a piece of text which allows the user to get more information."
Yes, but consider the source of that information - it can be slanted any way Microsoft wishes. No other power on earth has ever had that kind of editorial control. Anybody with half a brain ought to be terrified at the prospect.
and the maddening thing is;
they planned, speced, and developed this feature, all without one single person standing up and mentioning this one fact; it's opt-out rather than opt-in. You change your site for us, not we change our browser for you.
the audacity.
This quote stolen from a recent slashdot discussion regarding criticism of JRR Tolkein's work by a literary critic with a chip on his shoulder about Lord Of The Rings being rated as one of the most important works of the 20th century. (it's not. Dianetics is ;)
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
-- G. K. Chesterton
Warchawski brothers are cool.
Steven Speilberg is not.
Stanley Kubrick is cool.
. . . hey, this is fun!
dehumanizing?
Define: "human"
Jamie is saying that it's ingrained into us to desire "cool". Wanting "cool" is human.
You're saying that we're coerced into it, and that being human is wanting to overcome this coersion.
In fact, this whole argument is the argument of whether humans even have "free will". Isn't it?
oh yes, get a well-funded, brainwashed, organized, and committed voting block up there, and suddenly, L.Ron Hubbard will be the epitome of cool.
.
on the other hand, get a bunch of skript kiddeez going, and maybe Kevin Mitnick will be coolest. .
ya see, that's why I keep Jon Katz enabled. So I can find these poor lost souls and say; you can go into your profile and disable Jon Katz!!! And ANY MS bashing article.
It may not be fair that a cheetah can run faster than a rabbit, who's sole purpose in life is to run fast (and breed).
Poor rabbit.
luckily, rabbit can breed quickly to offset this problem.
Netscape can't breed. It can only become extinct.
yes, big brother takes good care of his little brother. . .
seems to me that "goblins" were what denizens of the Shire called them, and "Orcs" was the more common Human/elf term.
I'm currently at the end of Fellowship, and I've noticed Goblin and Orc being used interchangably, but mostly, Goblin is used when a Hobbit is speaking. Or when someone is speaking to a Hobbit. But when they're speaking to the group containing some Hobbits, it's been "Orc".
I know this is going to sound cowardly to this crowd, but the MOST important thing to you right now, is your future.
I say, JETTISON the IP. Do ANYTHING it takes to not get expelled, cooperate in any way possible. Get your degree, and get out.
Bad experience, lesson learned. Don't fuck with fascists.
The time (and money) you've spent on your degree has got to be WAY more important than any of this other bullshit. Don't risk that because of some free-speech bullshit, you will not win this battle, and frankly, it's not worth winning in this case. Suffer the indignity, and get on with life.
There are better ways to beat this fascism, you don't have to be the martyr. Let somebody who's better positioned, better funded, and especially more idealistic, take it on the chin for this one.
He sure did do a good job when he slapped that old Tower of Babel bitch down.
Scuds were designed and built in Russia. Not a domestic product of Iraq - though they were later given plans and learned to copy them. The home-built variety of Iraqi Scuds had a much higher failure rate, and tended to break up on reentry.
well, that's because in reality, there is only ONE law. The law of the jungle. Survival of the fittest.
This is how society works today. We have our structures of law and order, presumably to benefit society as a whole, but in fact, this structure of law and order serves to benefit mainly those already in power, and to preserve their status. The battlefield has been altered from tooth and claw to money and power. The victor becomes stronger, and the loser becomes homeless, economically destroyed, and as good as physically dead. The threat is neutralized.
But when it comes down to it, all of those laws and regulations can be brushed aside, and when survival becomes a question, the answer is at the business-end of a gun. Step out of line, and it becomes a physical struggle for life-and-death. The whole thing is based on the law of the jungle folks.
Isn't murder illegal? A crime? It's one of the most basic laws of human civilization. Pretty much all human civilizations share a prohibition against wanton killing of other humans.
What if a cop thinks you were going for a gun when you were getting your ID? What if a very rich and powerful person is threatened by you and can afford a discreet hit? What if your nation will not give access to a critical resource to a much more powerful nation. In all cases, the fact that murder is a crime falls by the wayside, and the stronger animal kills the weaker animal.
My ancestors were white, came to the US in the 1860's from Northern Europe.
They came in a deal with a mining company in Northern Michigan, who paid their passage in return for their availability to work off the debt in the copper mines.
Unfortunately, once they got there, they found out that the copper mines were in a town where everything else was also owned by the mining company. The stores, the housing. Everything. And there were no other towns for hundreds of miles.
They were free, but virtually slaves. The longer they lived there, the deeper they got in debt, because wages did not cover the living expenses, let alone begin to pay back the debt.
Plus, the local law enforcement and judiciary were also "owned" by the mining company.
I've heard all the arguments FOR unrestrained capitalism, and none of them override the fact that people can and will be exploited as slaves, by those in power, as long as those in power can get away with it. In the latter part of the 19th century, and the early part of th 20th, the US began to recognize this problem, and act to prevent it, passing numerous laws restricting business from unfairly exploiting people.
The problem with that is, you're on a slippery slope to communism. But if you do nothing, you're on a slippery slope to slavery.
My ancestors were lucky; they were "rescued" by a rich relative, who had come to America, and got rich as a farmer in Iowa (not actually related, but from the same part of Norway). They eventually paid their debts, bought land of their own, and became wealthy successful farmers themselves. But not everyone is lucky enough to have a rich successful benefactor.
It shows that the system can work to benefit the down and out, even under terrible conditions. The philanthropy of the rich is critical, when there is no societal regulation. But a human should still feel compelled to look at a situation like those copper mines, and be disgusted by it.
My DishPlayer's HD makes a lot of noise. But when I close it in in my VCR cabinet, it gets very hot and tends to crash.
The early iMacs have a fan.
The later ones do not. Some of the later ones didn't have a fan, but due to a screw-up at Apple, they had a OEM Hard Disk Drive that was just plain noisy.