Seconded! I used to edit Mostly Harmless, the magazine of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy Appreciation Society. Bop Ad (as we call him for reasons obvious if you've ever seen his signature) has, according to his web page, stopped answering questions about 42 and by all accounts is sick and tired of people coming up with crackpot theories. Moderators! I suggest you don't let yet more tiresome 42 theories through to him. Let's have some interesting questions - like what's happening with the film, and who's going to play The Book now that Peter Jones (who voiced The Book in Radio and TV versions) has sadly passed on.
Knowledge may not be a crime, but mis-use of that knowledge is. If I know how to make a bomb, that is not a crime. If I then make a bomb and blow up your house, that is a crime. So, would you like it if I used knowledge on, say lock picking to enter your house illegally? I wouldn't steal anything, I'd just look around, watch your TV, whatever? That would be a crime too. Mitnick is a criminal. He should not profit from his crimes.
Christ on a bicycle, listen to yourself! How can someone prohibited from working with computers of any kind continue to work at ALL in today's society? Excuse me? What planet are you from? Oh. Yes. Planet of the geeks, that would be it. There are loads of jobs where you'd never go near a computer. Manual jobs, working class labour. That sort of thing. If the choice was between not working with computers for some years OR being in jail for some years, which was better?> The man did wrong, and this is part of his punishment. He's not some kind of hero and should not be idolised, or allowed to profit from his crime.
The obvious reason why the Church (Ha!) of Bad-Science-Fiction-Writer doesn't want e-meters on ebay is so people who aren't clinically gullible don't buy them and take them apart to debunk what a crock of shit the scienbollockolgists are ripping people off with. Admittedly,when people do debunk the scienarseholes they get sued. L.Ron was so bad at SF he decided the real money was in setting up his own fake religion. Don't get screwed by skientologists!
The Natural Law party is in the UK too. They're hilarious - scenes of people bouncing up and down on mattresses in their party broadcasts.
But hey, they could reduce violence and solve the world's ills. People would be too busy laughing to be violent, and laughter is good for you!
I think George Harrison was funding them at one point?
Is there such as thing as long term digital storage? Wasn't it NASA who in the 70s decided to put their information onto computer for storage, and found recently that none of this storage was readable. There are authors who have now lost stuff they wrote in the 80's and stored on computer, because they can't read the disks any more. Magnetic charge decays. CD's only have a limited life. Equipment becomes obsolete, replaced by something new, and it takes time, money and manpower to port it across. Will any digital storage last until it is as old as, say, the British Library's copy of Beowulf in the original Anglo Saxon? Ask me in a thousand years... Just don't expect to see the original article anywhere...
There's nothing like the feel of a book in your hand, and no electronic reader is going to take that away. It would be a sad day for civilisation if all the books were digitised. Paper books are going to be around long after any present digital format is dead. Hey, when I take a book on a long trip, I don't have to worry about the batteries running out. When I have a power cut, I can still read my books. I would not swap my four book-cases for a pocket reader, no way no how. I love books, and no electronic gizmo is going to replace them in the hearts of people who read.
Are you calling Tony Blair a socialist? The current government is often being more right-wing loony than the Tories could ever have gotten away with. Including the pursuit of policies they were against when in opposition, but have gone further with than the Tories once in power. Jack Straw? Terrible guy.
Remember the TNG episode where the ship full of yuppies turns up and Picard gives them a lecture about how they don't have money? Spewosity-up-throw! One thing I liked about B5 was that it wasn't a big happy utopia - Earth hadn't solved any problems, just shipped them out to space. (i.e. the homeless people on downbelow) And another thing... In TOS, they have booze. Kirk likes a spot of Romulan Ale, and there's that episode where Scotty drinks a Klingon under the table, right? But in TNG the bar only serves non-alcoholic drinks and Picard only drinks Tea! What happened?
Oh yes, I love that quote. The second wave of Earthforce ships has come in to take back Babylon 5, which has been battered about and can't face up to another wave. Then a bunch of Mimbari ships appear between B5 and the Earth ships, with Delenn in a whitestar. When the earth ships threaten to open fire, Delenn says "Why not? Only one earth captain has ever beaten the Mimbari. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else." So the Earth ships bugger off. I love that bit. It's like there were two Delenns, the "Oh John, you're wonderful" Delenn, and the arse-kicking vicious bastard Delenn, who I much preferred. Another great arse-kicking vicious bastard Delenn moment was when she took on the Drakh. And of course she did start the Earth-Mimbari war by retaliating with "no mercy" after the misunderstanding with the gun ports...
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...they prepare the world for the Apocalypse at hand They've been at it for a hell of a long time then! Like Duuuh! The Aurora Borealis has been happening for as long as the earth has been here. You, sir, are a moron. Good day.
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Zany cultists committing ritual suicide. What an example of evolution in action....! Surely all those dead Ugandan cultists should win a group Darwin award this year....
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According to this:- A landmark libel case involving an Internet Service Provider's liability for postings has reached an 11th-hour settlement. The trial of the first of two actions brought by physicist Dr Laurence Godfrey against Demon Internet Ltd was due to start in the High Court in London on Monday. It would have been the first major contested Internet libel action to come to trial in this country. But Mr Justice Eady and was told that Demon had now apologised and had agreed to pay Dr Godfrey £15,000 damages plus his legal costs of £230,000. Demon settled out of court! That's right, they didn't stand up for themselves, and all internet users, in the high court but wimped out at the last minute and paid up! Hopefully the next ISP to find itself in this fix will stand up for their rights and the rights of all their users, and not just cave in and roll over with their tails between their legs like Demon have.
I need to find myself a new ISP... What with this and the spam exploit Demon have lost my favour.
Well, I for one am not interested in reading a book off the web. e-books? Forget it. I want a BOOK! A proper book - ink on paper, bound together. I want to put it on the shelves with my other books, read it where I like - in bed, on the train, wherever. I do not want to have to scroll through anything, or have the batteries run out in the middle of a chapter, or ruin my eyesight squinting at a monitor or LCD for hours on end. I do not want to lose my book if I have a hard drive failure Allow me to add my name to the list headed "People who reckon Katz is full of shite"
As for Stephen King, well he's just jumping on a bandwagon - the e-everything bandwagon which will come to a crashing halt when the market crashes and burns as it will when people finally realise that you can't run a business with continual loss indefinitely...
Anyway, didn't Gibson produce a net-book years ago?
One reason why people should care. PC games. Because this console uses a PC processor, and PC hardware, it's going to be pretty damned easy to port PC games to it. Is Quake III on the PSX2? Unreal Tournament? (insert name of hot new PC game here)? Porting games to this baby will be a doddle for any PC game manufacturer, and that's possibly the best thing going for it. THIS is where the game developers will be...
Barf! Puke! Hurl! Spewosity Up-throw! I don't believe it. How crap a name could you possibly have thought of? So crap it could only have been thought of by Mr. Crap, of 43 Crapston Terrace, Crappytown, Crapshire in the land of Crap. What a dumb name...
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I used to edit Mostly Harmless, the magazine of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy Appreciation Society. Bop Ad (as we call him for reasons obvious if you've ever seen his signature) has, according to his web page, stopped answering questions about 42 and by all accounts is sick and tired of people coming up with crackpot theories.
Moderators! I suggest you don't let yet more tiresome 42 theories through to him. Let's have some interesting questions - like what's happening with the film, and who's going to play The Book now that Peter Jones (who voiced The Book in Radio and TV versions) has sadly passed on.
I believe they currently run long, thin needles through packages and let the dogs sniff the needles for drug scents...
So don't send condoms through the post or buy them mail-order...
Mitnick IS a poster-child for the hacking crowd. How much "Free Kevin" crap has there been about? Shitloads!
He'll end up like Darwin, banished and ridiculed ... What the FUCK are you on about?
He could go work for the Amish....
Knowledge may not be a crime, but mis-use of that knowledge is. If I know how to make a bomb, that is not a crime. If I then make a bomb and blow up your house, that is a crime.
So, would you like it if I used knowledge on, say lock picking to enter your house illegally? I wouldn't steal anything, I'd just look around, watch your TV, whatever? That would be a crime too.
Mitnick is a criminal. He should not profit from his crimes.
Christ on a bicycle, listen to yourself!
How can someone prohibited from working with computers of any kind continue to work at ALL in today's society?
Excuse me? What planet are you from? Oh. Yes. Planet of the geeks, that would be it. There are loads of jobs where you'd never go near a computer. Manual jobs, working class labour. That sort of thing.
If the choice was between not working with computers for some years OR being in jail for some years, which was better?>
The man did wrong, and this is part of his punishment. He's not some kind of hero and should not be idolised, or allowed to profit from his crime.
That would be Lancaster - a Spitfire was a fighter, a Lancaster was a big feckoff bomber.
The obvious reason why the Church (Ha!) of Bad-Science-Fiction-Writer doesn't want e-meters on ebay is so people who aren't clinically gullible don't buy them and take them apart to debunk what a crock of shit the scienbollockolgists are ripping people off with. Admittedly,when people do debunk the scienarseholes they get sued. L.Ron was so bad at SF he decided the real money was in setting up his own fake religion. Don't get screwed by skientologists!
The Natural Law party is in the UK too. They're hilarious - scenes of people bouncing up and down on mattresses in their party broadcasts.
But hey, they could reduce violence and solve the world's ills. People would be too busy laughing to be violent, and laughter is good for you!
I think George Harrison was funding them at one point?
Is there such as thing as long term digital storage? Wasn't it NASA who in the 70s decided to put their information onto computer for storage, and found recently that none of this storage was readable. There are authors who have now lost stuff they wrote in the 80's and stored on computer, because they can't read the disks any more.
Magnetic charge decays. CD's only have a limited life. Equipment becomes obsolete, replaced by something new, and it takes time, money and manpower to port it across. Will any digital storage last until it is as old as, say, the British Library's copy of Beowulf in the original Anglo Saxon?
Ask me in a thousand years... Just don't expect to see the original article anywhere...
...and should not be replaced.
Hear Hear
There's nothing like the feel of a book in your hand, and no electronic reader is going to take that away. It would be a sad day for civilisation if all the books were digitised. Paper books are going to be around long after any present digital format is dead.
Hey, when I take a book on a long trip, I don't have to worry about the batteries running out.
When I have a power cut, I can still read my books.
I would not swap my four book-cases for a pocket reader, no way no how. I love books, and no electronic gizmo is going to replace them in the hearts of people who read.
Are you calling Tony Blair a socialist? The current government is often being more right-wing loony than the Tories could ever have gotten away with. Including the pursuit of policies they were against when in opposition, but have gone further with than the Tories once in power. Jack Straw? Terrible guy.
Remember the TNG episode where the ship full of yuppies turns up and Picard gives them a lecture about how they don't have money?
Spewosity-up-throw!
One thing I liked about B5 was that it wasn't a big happy utopia - Earth hadn't solved any problems, just shipped them out to space. (i.e. the homeless people on downbelow)
And another thing...
In TOS, they have booze. Kirk likes a spot of Romulan Ale, and there's that episode where Scotty drinks a Klingon under the table, right? But in TNG the bar only serves non-alcoholic drinks and Picard only drinks Tea!
What happened?
Oh yes, I love that quote. The second wave of Earthforce ships has come in to take back Babylon 5, which has been battered about and can't face up to another wave.
Then a bunch of Mimbari ships appear between B5 and the Earth ships, with Delenn in a whitestar. When the earth ships threaten to open fire, Delenn says "Why not? Only one earth captain has ever beaten the Mimbari. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."
So the Earth ships bugger off.
I love that bit. It's like there were two Delenns, the "Oh John, you're wonderful" Delenn, and the arse-kicking vicious bastard Delenn, who I much preferred.
Another great arse-kicking vicious bastard Delenn moment was when she took on the Drakh. And of course she did start the Earth-Mimbari war by retaliating with "no mercy" after the misunderstanding with the gun ports...
...they prepare the world for the Apocalypse at hand They've been at it for a hell of a long time then! Like Duuuh! The Aurora Borealis has been happening for as long as the earth has been here. You, sir, are a moron. Good day.
Zany cultists committing ritual suicide. What an example of evolution in action....! Surely all those dead Ugandan cultists should win a group Darwin award this year....
Captain Paranoia Strikes Again!
According to this :- A landmark libel case involving an Internet Service Provider's liability for postings has reached an 11th-hour settlement.
The trial of the first of two actions brought by physicist Dr Laurence Godfrey against Demon Internet Ltd was due to start in the High Court in London on Monday. It would have been the first major contested Internet libel action to come to trial in this country. But Mr Justice Eady and was told that Demon had now apologised and had agreed to pay Dr Godfrey £15,000 damages plus his legal costs of £230,000.
Demon settled out of court!
That's right, they didn't stand up for themselves, and all internet users, in the high court but wimped out at the last minute and paid up!
Hopefully the next ISP to find itself in this fix will stand up for their rights and the rights of all their users, and not just cave in and roll over with their tails between their legs like Demon have.
I need to find myself a new ISP... What with this and the spam exploit Demon have lost my favour.
Learn some history - it was Chamberlain who came back from Berlin with his infamous piece of paper signed by Mr. Hitler.
This must be some strange usage of the word cool that I was not previously aware of.
Well, I for one am not interested in reading a book off the web. e-books? Forget it. I want a BOOK! A proper book - ink on paper, bound together. I want to put it on the shelves with my other books, read it where I like - in bed, on the train, wherever.
I do not want to have to scroll through anything, or have the batteries run out in the middle of a chapter, or ruin my eyesight squinting at a monitor or LCD for hours on end.
I do not want to lose my book if I have a hard drive failure
Allow me to add my name to the list headed "People who reckon Katz is full of shite"
As for Stephen King, well he's just jumping on a bandwagon - the e-everything bandwagon which will come to a crashing halt when the market crashes and burns as it will when people finally realise that you can't run a business with continual loss indefinitely...
Anyway, didn't Gibson produce a net-book years ago?
Don't forget to sue Chris Carter for the X-Files while you're at it, you sad sad man.
One reason why people should care.
PC games.
Because this console uses a PC processor, and PC hardware, it's going to be pretty damned easy to port PC games to it.
Is Quake III on the PSX2? Unreal Tournament? (insert name of hot new PC game here)?
Porting games to this baby will be a doddle for any PC game manufacturer, and that's possibly the best thing going for it.
THIS is where the game developers will be...
Barf! Puke! Hurl! Spewosity Up-throw!
I don't believe it. How crap a name could you possibly have thought of? So crap it could only have been thought of by Mr. Crap, of 43 Crapston Terrace, Crappytown, Crapshire in the land of Crap.
What a dumb name...