we're all a bit put off at the realization that the whole deal about going to the moon and exploring space was actually a pissing contest between the USSR and USA. Everything after that has been just "humoring the academics" at the least possible cost.
Or, possibly, that we got too cocky, too soon. We can shoot a few people up into the sky on a big pile of explosives, but do we really have what it takes to go into space? deep into space - where truly interesting things can be done, like colonization, expansion? Hell no - and I think that despite the HUGE wave of ratty antiscientific science fiction propaganda that has been squeezed out of hollywood, we're finally starting to realize that we're probably hundreds of years away from having the technology to do anything really useful with space (unless the global political climate shifts, (ABM) and we're forced into another pissing contest (with PRC)).
Yes, it's sad, and back in the 1970's and 1980's, it really looked like we were rollin'. But look at NASA's advanced propulsion physics page. We're talking hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Naw - If those Somalis dare come over here on American soil:
We'll run their skinny asses over with our SUVs.
We'll shoot them with our concealed-carry handguns.
We'll clog their arteries with McDonald's cheeseburgers.
We'll poison their minds with kiddie pr0n from the internet.
We'll despoil their women with breast implants.
We'll get them hooked on bad pop music and flashy special-effects movies, then control their access with copy-protection schemes and have them paying $8 per viewing per episode of Friends.
We'll darken their eyes with rolling blackouts.
Americans are much more well-adapted to survival in this environment. The average Somali wouldn't last 2 weeks.
You'll be really pissed when the females strip down into studded leather bikinis, and rapid-fire from wrist-mounted fully-automatic crossbows, incendiary bolts, into an oncoming war cart (shaped like a corvette: credit to Lou Reed - This is the age of Video Violence) loaded with foaming-at-the-mouth, mohawked, tatooed, nipple-pierced Orcs.
I don't care what you say - look at the driving force behind computing and the internet:
pr0n.
Once it becomes possible to build a realistic sex droid, (oops - already there, realdoll.com, well, for necrophilliacs that is) it will be THE driving force behind robotic technological development. Unfortunately, the cost of use will probably be so high that they'll be more expensive than human hookers for some time.
heh, I wish LiteStep would replace the barfy Windows Explorer widgets with something a little less. . . barfy. My "punishment time" on NT wouldn't be so very bad if I could use LiteStep.
I too would LOVE to see more NeXT stuff utilized at Apple: the Next Dock instead of the OS X Dock. Tear-off menus. Black cubes. Openstep runtime on NT and Solaris. (my conspiracy theory of the day: Microsoft made Jobs agree not to ship the YellowBox runtime for NT in return for Microsoft agreeing to doing Office98/2001).
For anyone who has dealt with EDS (those of you who know what I'm talking about), the prospect of a Perot-controlled Microsoft is only slightly less frightening than the prospect of a Gates-controlled Microsoft. In fact, it's probably significantly MORE frightening, given Perot's presidential bid.
Then again, back in 79. . . Microsoft might not have made the IBM move without Gates' mommy's contacts at IBM. And therefore, we'd all be using some obscene windowing tool bolted on top of CP/M (instead of some obscene windowing tool bolted on top of DOS).
lets hope Be open sources their OS and stuff when they pass on. . . hopefully some of it is still PPC portable. ..
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fuck that. What the review said was that it wasn't worth $8. Most crap at the theaters isn't worth $8. Was it good enough to wait for video rental or second run ($4)? sure, guess so.
But remember, it's not the audience that started this whole "taking movies too seriously" thing, it was the movie industry, who decided that they were entitled to billions of dollars in profit, regardless of the quality of the product.
Be a wise and responsible consumer - read reviews BEFORE you go see a lame-ass peice of crap. If it's bad, DON'T reward "them" by paying $8. Sneak in, or wait for it to be second-run, or watch a matinee, or wait for it to be on PPV or rentals, (or Scour).
The more you encourage them, the more ticket prices will climb, and the more the quality will drop.
Soon, all music will be distributed this way. You will only be allowed to listen to that Madonna single once, and one time only, for each $5.00 automatically extracted from your bank account:)
Alaska Wildlife refuge; come on, you knew it was going to happen anyway, right? Let's get real here. No Green-controlled congress or Green president can stay in office for ever. Especially in a nation with campaign finance regulation in the state it's in. The oil companies won this election, not Dubbya.
The reason wholesale gas prices have gone up is because of OPEC.
And I don't have any evidence for this, but you can be pretty sure that the US Oil companies are probably behind a lot of the anti-nuke propaganda for the past 30 years. It would kind of suck for them if we broke our dependence on oil by building a lot of nuke plants.
More than anything, I feel that California's power problem is caused by one main thing (and several smaller things).
this one main thing is; oil prices rising.
The #1 factor in America's booming economy for the past decade has been cheap oil. Nothing else regulates our economy faster.
OPEC learned the hard way back in the 70's that when they cut production and raise oil prices, that they dump the whole world into an economic downturn, and consumption drops.
Unfortunately, they have short memories, and it looks like we're headed the same way.
Remember - it wasn't Reagan's economic policies, it wasn't Clinton's economic policies, it wasn't Alan Greenspan's genius, and it wasn't the end of the cold war, and it wasn't the "new economy". It was Cheap Oil.
Now that Cheap Oil seems to be going away, natural gas prices skyrocketed, and we're seeing power companies in an unfavorable legal environment getting raped (better them than us - well, since they're fucking us, we catch the diseases from them anyway). That is the cause of the power problem in California. GW Bush will do the pennywise/pound foolish thing and tap the arctic wildlife preserve for oil (won't his oil-buddies be happy?) - face it, it was going to happen sooner or later anyway. . . and it's not going to happen soon enough to save our economy.
The vegans I knew back in college were vegans because they bought into the whole hindu "we're all one with the universe" thing, and none of them would drink. Smoking hash was another matter entirely.
If ad banners went away (not that I don't filter them:), and were replaced with micropayments, I'm sure I'd get a lot more constructive work done, and a lot - I mean a WHOLE lot less pointless surfing.
This would definately slow the internet's "growth". A lot of people would spend a lot less time surfing - demand for internet connections and bandwidth would plummet (I'm guessing we're at about double the capacity of what would be needed in an all-micropayments internet). Web traffic would be in the minority after email and chat.
I've noticed though that this \hosts file solution causes serious instability in Netscape 4.76 on NT 4.0.
Netscape wasn't all that stable to begin with, but I frequently get Dr. Watsons while Netscape is trying to munch on a site with a lot of ad content that it can't read because hosts directed it to 127.0.0.1. And often, site downloads take LONGER - it's as if Netscape is waiting to timeout the download or something. Totally sucky.
I'm not saying it's a bad solution, I'm say8ing that Netscape seems to have some problems dealing with this solution.
If the ad banners aren't creating revenue, then whose fault is that? The fact that the audience isn't held captive by some kind technology that forcefully, uncircumventably links content with ads? Or the fact that the ads are simply not captivating, not compelling. Or that the products, services, and deals in the ads aren't compelling.
Personally, I once saw an ad banner on Yahoo that was compelling. A Visa card with 9.9% interest. I clicked through, and signed up. Most other banners weren't so lucky.
Side note: I plan on going to see AntiTrust, probably at the video rentals. (until Movie theaters bundle in free quality babysitting - that's the way it's going to be; some movies NEED to be seen on the big screen, others - well, will be just fine on video). But I learned about AntiTrust through TV commercials, not internet banners. (and that's a rare thing, because I usually just skip over commercials with my DishPlayer).
It's totally unfair, just because we straight guys don't like shoe shopping. But the minute they need a big stiffie, they come running back to the straigh guys. ..
I wouldn't envy the director. Being a cub scouts den leader, I assure you that when you get 3 or more six and seven year old boys in a room together, getting anything organized done for longer than 5 minutes requires either a miracle, or heavy sedation.
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we're all a bit put off at the realization that the whole deal about going to the moon and exploring space was actually a pissing contest between the USSR and USA. Everything after that has been just "humoring the academics" at the least possible cost.
Or, possibly, that we got too cocky, too soon. We can shoot a few people up into the sky on a big pile of explosives, but do we really have what it takes to go into space? deep into space - where truly interesting things can be done, like colonization, expansion? Hell no - and I think that despite the HUGE wave of ratty antiscientific science fiction propaganda that has been squeezed out of hollywood, we're finally starting to realize that we're probably hundreds of years away from having the technology to do anything really useful with space (unless the global political climate shifts, (ABM) and we're forced into another pissing contest (with PRC)).
Yes, it's sad, and back in the 1970's and 1980's, it really looked like we were rollin'. But look at NASA's advanced propulsion physics page. We're talking hundreds, if not thousands of years.
And Busta Rhymes as "Mista Rhymes".
You're right, ./ DOES need a science editor. Anybody know if Bill Nye is available?
Naw - If those Somalis dare come over here on American soil:
We'll run their skinny asses over with our SUVs.
We'll shoot them with our concealed-carry handguns.
We'll clog their arteries with McDonald's cheeseburgers.
We'll poison their minds with kiddie pr0n from the internet.
We'll despoil their women with breast implants.
We'll get them hooked on bad pop music and flashy special-effects movies, then control their access with copy-protection schemes and have them paying $8 per viewing per episode of Friends.
We'll darken their eyes with rolling blackouts.
Americans are much more well-adapted to survival in this environment. The average Somali wouldn't last 2 weeks.
You'll be really pissed when the females strip down into studded leather bikinis, and rapid-fire from wrist-mounted fully-automatic crossbows, incendiary bolts, into an oncoming war cart (shaped like a corvette: credit to Lou Reed - This is the age of Video Violence) loaded with foaming-at-the-mouth, mohawked, tatooed, nipple-pierced Orcs.
I don't care what you say - look at the driving force behind computing and the internet:
pr0n.
Once it becomes possible to build a realistic sex droid, (oops - already there, realdoll.com, well, for necrophilliacs that is) it will be THE driving force behind robotic technological development. Unfortunately, the cost of use will probably be so high that they'll be more expensive than human hookers for some time.
heh, I wish LiteStep would replace the barfy Windows Explorer widgets with something a little less. . . barfy. My "punishment time" on NT wouldn't be so very bad if I could use LiteStep.
I too would LOVE to see more NeXT stuff utilized at Apple: the Next Dock instead of the OS X Dock. Tear-off menus. Black cubes. Openstep runtime on NT and Solaris. (my conspiracy theory of the day: Microsoft made Jobs agree not to ship the YellowBox runtime for NT in return for Microsoft agreeing to doing Office98/2001).
For anyone who has dealt with EDS (those of you who know what I'm talking about), the prospect of a Perot-controlled Microsoft is only slightly less frightening than the prospect of a Gates-controlled Microsoft. In fact, it's probably significantly MORE frightening, given Perot's presidential bid.
Then again, back in 79. . . Microsoft might not have made the IBM move without Gates' mommy's contacts at IBM. And therefore, we'd all be using some obscene windowing tool bolted on top of CP/M (instead of some obscene windowing tool bolted on top of DOS).
lets hope Be open sources their OS and stuff when they pass on. . . hopefully some of it is still PPC portable. . .
fuck that. What the review said was that it wasn't worth $8. Most crap at the theaters isn't worth $8. Was it good enough to wait for video rental or second run ($4)? sure, guess so.
But remember, it's not the audience that started this whole "taking movies too seriously" thing, it was the movie industry, who decided that they were entitled to billions of dollars in profit, regardless of the quality of the product.
Be a wise and responsible consumer - read reviews BEFORE you go see a lame-ass peice of crap. If it's bad, DON'T reward "them" by paying $8. Sneak in, or wait for it to be second-run, or watch a matinee, or wait for it to be on PPV or rentals, (or Scour).
The more you encourage them, the more ticket prices will climb, and the more the quality will drop.
um. you just solved the RIAA problem.
:)
Soon, all music will be distributed this way. You will only be allowed to listen to that Madonna single once, and one time only, for each $5.00 automatically extracted from your bank account
not just the arabs, you could avoid sounding like a racist and say "OPEC". South Americans there too.
as for the rest of what you say; no shit sherlock!
Alaska Wildlife refuge; come on, you knew it was going to happen anyway, right? Let's get real here. No Green-controlled congress or Green president can stay in office for ever. Especially in a nation with campaign finance regulation in the state it's in. The oil companies won this election, not Dubbya.
The reason wholesale gas prices have gone up is because of OPEC.
And I don't have any evidence for this, but you can be pretty sure that the US Oil companies are probably behind a lot of the anti-nuke propaganda for the past 30 years. It would kind of suck for them if we broke our dependence on oil by building a lot of nuke plants.
More than anything, I feel that California's power problem is caused by one main thing (and several smaller things).
this one main thing is; oil prices rising.
The #1 factor in America's booming economy for the past decade has been cheap oil. Nothing else regulates our economy faster.
OPEC learned the hard way back in the 70's that when they cut production and raise oil prices, that they dump the whole world into an economic downturn, and consumption drops.
Unfortunately, they have short memories, and it looks like we're headed the same way.
Remember - it wasn't Reagan's economic policies, it wasn't Clinton's economic policies, it wasn't Alan Greenspan's genius, and it wasn't the end of the cold war, and it wasn't the "new economy". It was Cheap Oil.
Now that Cheap Oil seems to be going away, natural gas prices skyrocketed, and we're seeing power companies in an unfavorable legal environment getting raped (better them than us - well, since they're fucking us, we catch the diseases from them anyway). That is the cause of the power problem in California. GW Bush will do the pennywise/pound foolish thing and tap the arctic wildlife preserve for oil (won't his oil-buddies be happy?) - face it, it was going to happen sooner or later anyway. . . and it's not going to happen soon enough to save our economy.
The vegans I knew back in college were vegans because they bought into the whole hindu "we're all one with the universe" thing, and none of them would drink. Smoking hash was another matter entirely.
Are blond jokes illegal in Denmark?
If ad banners went away (not that I don't filter them :), and were replaced with micropayments, I'm sure I'd get a lot more constructive work done, and a lot - I mean a WHOLE lot less pointless surfing.
This would definately slow the internet's "growth". A lot of people would spend a lot less time surfing - demand for internet connections and bandwidth would plummet (I'm guessing we're at about double the capacity of what would be needed in an all-micropayments internet). Web traffic would be in the minority after email and chat.
Yes, I had the same problem with iTunes.
Ironic, how Apple, the supposed inventors of Human/Computer interface and usability guidlines, can't design a functional website.
ironic how your .sig basically states that you are not a target market for either the Republican or the Democratic party campaign advertisements. . .
I've noticed though that this \hosts file solution causes serious instability in Netscape 4.76 on NT 4.0.
Netscape wasn't all that stable to begin with, but I frequently get Dr. Watsons while Netscape is trying to munch on a site with a lot of ad content that it can't read because hosts directed it to 127.0.0.1. And often, site downloads take LONGER - it's as if Netscape is waiting to timeout the download or something. Totally sucky.
I'm not saying it's a bad solution, I'm say8ing that Netscape seems to have some problems dealing with this solution.
I agree.
If the ad banners aren't creating revenue, then whose fault is that? The fact that the audience isn't held captive by some kind technology that forcefully, uncircumventably links content with ads? Or the fact that the ads are simply not captivating, not compelling. Or that the products, services, and deals in the ads aren't compelling.
Personally, I once saw an ad banner on Yahoo that was compelling. A Visa card with 9.9% interest. I clicked through, and signed up. Most other banners weren't so lucky.
Side note: I plan on going to see AntiTrust, probably at the video rentals. (until Movie theaters bundle in free quality babysitting - that's the way it's going to be; some movies NEED to be seen on the big screen, others - well, will be just fine on video). But I learned about AntiTrust through TV commercials, not internet banners. (and that's a rare thing, because I usually just skip over commercials with my DishPlayer).
I don't think Jobs drinks.
If he won't put any meat or meat byproducts into his body (militant vegan) - it's a reasonably safe bet that he doesn't drink either.
Perhaps a lack of critical protiens has set his brain chemistry off-kilter?
camera -> fire-wire out -> Apple G4 with DVD burner -> DVD player
QED
Because chicks seem to dig gay men more.
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It's totally unfair, just because we straight guys don't like shoe shopping. But the minute they need a big stiffie, they come running back to the straigh guys. .
I wouldn't envy the director. Being a cub scouts den leader, I assure you that when you get 3 or more six and seven year old boys in a room together, getting anything organized done for longer than 5 minutes requires either a miracle, or heavy sedation.