Those 'ancient fertility cults and Roman religions' are so good, they were assimilated into Christianity, that's where they are.
The holiday we celebrate on Dec. 25 comes from the birth of the sun god Mithras. Christianity assimilated it, and renamed it, much like microsoft did to CP/M er.. DOS..
The holiday we celebrate as the 'ressurection' of Christ comes from the celebration of a fertility goddess, in fact it still bears her name, 'Eastre'..
And Christianity and Judaism hardly have a corner on the idea of keeping it in your pants. All religions purport to deem when it is approriate to engage in sexuality and reproduction.. and all religions also wish to control people and their offspring.. coincidence? Hardly. It's all part of the standard meme, just like how all chain letters urge you to 'pass it on'..
Not sure about the rest of this study, but thought this needs addressing..
Yes, it's hard for a human to hold their arm out with a heavy book.. that's because your arm wasn't made to be held in that position for many hours. Ditto the snake. Now, look at the bones of a long-necked dinosaur, you'll see they're designed exactly like the ribs of a suspension bridge. A thick band of muscle traveled along the apex, like the main suspension spans of the Golden Gate.
As for whether they held it horizontal or vertical most of the time, that's beyond me. But it's clear they did hold it horizontal at least part of the time, and it had evolved to accomodate such a configuration. (I also might add that the majority of the weight was at the base of the neck, not the head)
Just because your anatomy cannot accomodate such a position, doesn't mean theirs couldn't. After all, can you produce enough lift by flapping your arms to fly? A bird can, and that's because it has the hardware to do it with, namely a massive set of pectorals that often make up 40% of its body weight.
Here in Houston, during the last Mayoral election, a surprisingly large group of people (about 3,000 as I recall) voted for "The Outlaw Josey Wales".. it was terrific! It was enough of a protest that "he" was actually listed as coming in 3rd in the race at one point while they were counting the votes.. it was hilarious to see "The Outlaw Josey Wales" clearly listed on the Channel 2 newscast graphics, while the talking heads steadfastly refused to say it out loud.. a smashing bit of culture-jamming..
Yes, I agree.. how dare anyone on slashdot take a moderate position on copyright law? How dare they suggest that copyrights might a good thing in one instance, but not in another? Don't they know that the only proper course is to be fanatically for or against something, in complete disregard for the real world? I for one support this user's previous post. We shouldn't have to consider opposting viewpoints. Extremeism is the only way.
He 'took the initiative in creating', ok, let's look at that:
Main Entry: 2initiative
Function: noun
Date: 1793
1 : an introductory step
That's introductory, as in _first_. Seems I recall the _first_ bits of the internet were created when he was still a young lad, getting Ds and Cs in college..
It is proper to say he "took the initiative in helping grow" the internet, I'll give you that. However, no argument or your part can change the meaning of 'created'. To create something is to bring into being what _did_not_exist_ before your actions.
Main Entry: 1create
Pronunciation: krE-'At, 'krE-"
Function: verb
1 : to bring into existence
My point is, like all politicians, he's munging the truth, and taking credit where credit is not due. And he got burned for it, and will continue to.
>"during my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
>The problem, of course, was that Gore's claim was correct. As the
>Internet's scientific leaders attest, often heatedly, Gore recognized
>the significance of the Internet very early, and took the initiative
>in doing the political work and articulating the public vision that
>made the Internet possible.
Helped != Created.
I helped an old lady cross the street. That does not imply that I created her. Fine, Gore voted positively on bills that supported the internet, and participated in debates about it in congress. I'll accept that. I'm sure lots of senators and representatives did. None of them are claiming to have "created" it.
The fact is, Gore might have helped the internet grow, in fact everyone here has. He may have even been one of the first to see its importance. Fine.
"Created" means that but for you, something would not have existed. And the internet was doing fine, while Gore was still a kid.
It's a flat lie. This is just an attempt to say "well, it's not a lie if you look at it in this really, skewed, bias fashion".
>Go down to your public library and ask for the latest copy of Penthouse. See what happens.
Go down to your public library and ask for a copy of Lady Chatterly's Lover. Or Our Bodies Ourselves. Or Leaves Of Grass. Or The Story Of My Life by Casanova. Or The Story of O. Or the Song of Solomon.
Your arguments are not only astonishingly insulting to any who hold liberty dear, but you are poorly read as well.
You know, our grandkids will look back at all this hysteria the same way we look back on the beginning of the atomic age and the space race..
"The Big Bad Internet That Is Going To Murder Your Children Becuase Before The Internet Everyone Was Happy And There Was Never Any Crime Or Hate" is just this era's version of a giant 300-foot radioactive praying mantis, except not as cool to watch at a drive-in.
Fine, set up apache (or Junkbuster for that matter) in proxy mode on another machine.. anywhere.. tada, PAX circumvented.
Yawn.. not even a challenge, really.. oh, and if you want to assure you still create a fair amount of 'legitimate' traffic, so they don't get suspicious.. well, I've wrote a little something in perl to take care of that too..
All it proves is that kids can be made to hit a plastic clown ten minutes after watching violent cartoons. You have not proven they will turn out to be criminals, nor have you even proven they will hit the clown a week later.
And my grandfather spent lots of time engaging in simulated violence. It was called training. And it kept him alive during 21 months of combat while stationed in North Africa during WWII. I'd call that a benefit.
I've given up on landline carriers.. Here's what happened..
I rarely call long distance.. (after all, there's the internet) I make 3 long distance calls, totaling less than 8 minutes.. I get the bill, with all the umpteen BS service charges, AT&T charges me $12.. $12 for 8 minutes worth of calls! That's nearly porno rates! And my brother didn't even talk dirty to me!
So, in order to keep this from happening again, I call up my phone company (Southwestern Bell) I tell them that I no longer want _any_ long distance service.. she says "ok, is this a modem line or something?" I say no, I just have no use for long distance.. she says "no problem, we'll have that taken off your bill".. "but of course there will be a monthly charge of $1 for not having long distance"
-What-the-@#$%?!-
That's right, I have to _pay_ to _not_have_ something.. figure that one out..
Luckily, at that moment I have a stunning realization.. my cell phone costs me $40 a month. My landline costs me $50 a month. I have 100mb access through my apartment complex. Why do I even need a landline?
So I tell her "actually, forget it.. don't take off long distance, just cancel my service completely".. aaah, the stunned silence she answers with is bliss..
But there's still the matter of $12 I owe to AT&T.. with this I have a little fun, include a letter with my bill, _staple_ the check to it (with a memo that says "for erotic massage from [whoever the CEO of AT&T is, I forget]") the letter basically asks the director of the billing department how he explains to his children that daddy has no soul, as he charges people money to _not_have_ a service.. it is accompanied by a crayon drawing of the director with a hole where his soul should be..
The best part.. I apparently overpaid by $.13.. to date AT&T has sent me 6 letters notifying I have a balance of $-0.13.. I hope they keep sending them, till the postage equals $12..
They didn't say anything as to whether video games themselves helped/caused/created/invented ADD. It wasn't one of those "eggs are good/no they're bad" studies.
They said they've created a treatment that uses a video game as a reward for focused attention. End of story. No comments as to whether video games cause you to kill/lie/steal/buy a digital watch.
Your comments are interesting but have nothing to to with the article.
A nice idea, but let me tell you from experience what really happens..
The company plops down a NDA that is clearly outrageous, and contains clauses that no judge would uphold.. you, and perhaps even quite a few other programmers refuse to sign it, as a matter of principle... Outcome? You and all the others who refuse are summarily fired for "not being a team player" and being a "discipline problem", and the company hires a whole crop of newly graduated Chinese and Indian CS majors to replace you.
Music doesn't belong to the person who wrote it, it belongs to the record companies. When was the last time you saw a used-up, flat-broke record company executive on Behind the Music?
This guy's ten times the journalist Fred Moody is, I just wish someone could have persuaded him to end the article with "..and the horse you rode in on!"
Man, don't worry if you're a vegetarian; it's been a long time since Mcdonalds sold anything resembling meat.. In fact, it's been a long time since they sold anything even approximating bread..
Once about a year ago I went to McDonald's for old time's sake, since I hadn't been since I was about 9 years old.. holy cow, what worthless horseshit! The "bread" is this yellow, hollow foam stuff, that completely dissolves as soon as you put pressure on it.. very disconcerting.. and the "meat"? I don't even want to go there..
Also, anyone remember the last time they've seen a white person on a McDonald's commercial?
Nice to hear folx bragging about how you'd tell your supervisor about some titty pics the poor dean had on his machine! May we now have a look at your hard drive? Oh, but that was a _work_ computer, right? Well I daresay that reading slashdot probably isn't work related, is it? And I'd be willing to bet most of you are at work right now. As hodeleri puts it:
>1.He had a university computer >2.He was using it for personal use (and quite a bit no less, thousands of pictures!) >End of story. It does not matter if it was a laptop he was hauling around with him or if he was in his office. He was using company property for personal use. Violation of policy and grounds for termination.
Enjoy your pink slip, hodeleri!
I've often been put in the position of being ordered to rifle through a former employee's _work_ computer to look for incriminating emails/resumes/etc., by an asshole PHB. And you know what? Every time the hard drive of said machine was _mysteriously_ wiped clean! "Don't know what happened, boss, the froonium must have overloaded" aah, ignorance is a quality I love in a PHB..
The NEXT cube was a lot cooler, and had balls. Milled aluminum, cooling fins, matte black. One look and you could tell that this was a machine that took no shit. And it really was stackable.
And where do they get off calling this thing a supercomputer? How many users can it handle at once? Oh, wait, that's right.. they're still running a worthless single-user OS..
Yeah folks, c'mon! Don't you remember that you're allowed to stomp all over people's rights when you're sick? It says so right in the Constitution, that no one can restrict your right to free speach, _unless_ they have a 102 degree fever!
Plus, he wasn't allowed to stop the deposition, he was a prisoner! Sure, Mr. Garbus asks him a number of times in the deposition if he would like to stop, but that was all just a clever trick!
This may be slightly off topic, but here's my impression of Bill Gates on his many propaganda commercials, or whenever you see him on TV for that matter:
Pretty good, eh? Just throw in some cute little black kids and you've got just about every microsoft commercial.
Wasn't this called neuro-linquistic programming in the 70s? The constant and mindless repetition of a word or concept in conjunction with another (the grim visage of Bill) in order to connect the two in the subject's mind? Don't know if it works, but Microsoft and political ad designers sure seem to think it does.
So, the next time you see a Microsoft commercial, slip into your straightjacket, peel your eyelids back with metal clamps, and viddy well little brother, viddy well!!
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Those 'ancient fertility cults and Roman religions' are so good, they were assimilated into Christianity, that's where they are.
The holiday we celebrate on Dec. 25 comes from the birth of the sun god Mithras. Christianity assimilated it, and renamed it, much like microsoft did to CP/M er.. DOS..
The holiday we celebrate as the 'ressurection' of Christ comes from the celebration of a fertility goddess, in fact it still bears her name, 'Eastre'..
And Christianity and Judaism hardly have a corner on the idea of keeping it in your pants. All religions purport to deem when it is approriate to engage in sexuality and reproduction.. and all religions also wish to control people and their offspring.. coincidence? Hardly. It's all part of the standard meme, just like how all chain letters urge you to 'pass it on'..
Not sure about the rest of this study, but thought this needs addressing..
Yes, it's hard for a human to hold their arm out with a heavy book.. that's because your arm wasn't made to be held in that position for many hours. Ditto the snake. Now, look at the bones of a long-necked dinosaur, you'll see they're designed exactly like the ribs of a suspension bridge. A thick band of muscle traveled along the apex, like the main suspension spans of the Golden Gate.
As for whether they held it horizontal or vertical most of the time, that's beyond me. But it's clear they did hold it horizontal at least part of the time, and it had evolved to accomodate such a configuration. (I also might add that the majority of the weight was at the base of the neck, not the head)
Just because your anatomy cannot accomodate such a position, doesn't mean theirs couldn't. After all, can you produce enough lift by flapping your arms to fly? A bird can, and that's because it has the hardware to do it with, namely a massive set of pectorals that often make up 40% of its body weight.
Here, here!
Here in Houston, during the last Mayoral election, a surprisingly large group of people (about 3,000 as I recall) voted for "The Outlaw Josey Wales".. it was terrific! It was enough of a protest that "he" was actually listed as coming in 3rd in the race at one point while they were counting the votes.. it was hilarious to see "The Outlaw Josey Wales" clearly listed on the Channel 2 newscast graphics, while the talking heads steadfastly refused to say it out loud.. a smashing bit of culture-jamming..
Yes, I agree.. how dare anyone on slashdot take a moderate position on copyright law? How dare they suggest that copyrights might a good thing in one instance, but not in another? Don't they know that the only proper course is to be fanatically for or against something, in complete disregard for the real world? I for one support this user's previous post. We shouldn't have to consider opposting viewpoints. Extremeism is the only way.
\sarcasm
No, you've missed the point.
He 'took the initiative in creating', ok, let's look at that:
Main Entry: 2initiative
Function: noun
Date: 1793
1 : an introductory step
That's introductory, as in _first_. Seems I recall the _first_ bits of the internet were created when he was still a young lad, getting Ds and Cs in college..
It is proper to say he "took the initiative in helping grow" the internet, I'll give you that. However, no argument or your part can change the meaning of 'created'. To create something is to bring into being what _did_not_exist_ before your actions.
Main Entry: 1create
Pronunciation: krE-'At, 'krE-"
Function: verb
1 : to bring into existence
My point is, like all politicians, he's munging the truth, and taking credit where credit is not due. And he got burned for it, and will continue to.
Oh, and looks like now he's gonna lose.
>"during my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
>The problem, of course, was that Gore's claim was correct. As the
>Internet's scientific leaders attest, often heatedly, Gore recognized
>the significance of the Internet very early, and took the initiative
>in doing the political work and articulating the public vision that
>made the Internet possible.
Helped != Created.
I helped an old lady cross the street. That does not imply that I created her. Fine, Gore voted positively on bills that supported the internet, and participated in debates about it in congress. I'll accept that. I'm sure lots of senators and representatives did. None of them are claiming to have "created" it.
The fact is, Gore might have helped the internet grow, in fact everyone here has. He may have even been one of the first to see its importance. Fine.
"Created" means that but for you, something would not have existed. And the internet was doing fine, while Gore was still a kid.
It's a flat lie. This is just an attempt to say "well, it's not a lie if you look at it in this really, skewed, bias fashion".
>Go down to your public library and ask for the latest copy of Penthouse. See what happens.
Go down to your public library and ask for a copy of Lady Chatterly's Lover. Or Our Bodies Ourselves. Or Leaves Of Grass. Or The Story Of My Life by Casanova. Or The Story of O. Or the Song of Solomon.
Your arguments are not only astonishingly insulting to any who hold liberty dear, but you are poorly read as well.
The Internet is going to kill your children!!
You know, our grandkids will look back at all this hysteria the same way we look back on the beginning of the atomic age and the space race..
"The Big Bad Internet That Is Going To Murder Your Children Becuase Before The Internet Everyone Was Happy And There Was Never Any Crime Or Hate" is just this era's version of a giant 300-foot radioactive praying mantis, except not as cool to watch at a drive-in.
Fine, set up apache (or Junkbuster for that matter) in proxy mode on another machine.. anywhere.. tada, PAX circumvented.
Yawn.. not even a challenge, really.. oh, and if you want to assure you still create a fair amount of 'legitimate' traffic, so they don't get suspicious.. well, I've wrote a little something in perl to take care of that too..
Nickbot - doesn't like to be spied on..
This oft-cited study is a load of horseshit.
All it proves is that kids can be made to hit a plastic clown ten minutes after watching violent cartoons. You have not proven they will turn out to be criminals, nor have you even proven they will hit the clown a week later.
And my grandfather spent lots of time engaging in simulated violence. It was called training. And it kept him alive during 21 months of combat while stationed in North Africa during WWII. I'd call that a benefit.
I've given up on landline carriers.. Here's what happened..
I rarely call long distance.. (after all, there's the internet) I make 3 long distance calls, totaling less than 8 minutes.. I get the bill, with all the umpteen BS service charges, AT&T charges me $12.. $12 for 8 minutes worth of calls! That's nearly porno rates! And my brother didn't even talk dirty to me!
So, in order to keep this from happening again, I call up my phone company (Southwestern Bell) I tell them that I no longer want _any_ long distance service.. she says "ok, is this a modem line or something?" I say no, I just have no use for long distance.. she says "no problem, we'll have that taken off your bill".. "but of course there will be a monthly charge of $1 for not having long distance"
-What-the-@#$%?!-
That's right, I have to _pay_ to _not_have_ something.. figure that one out..
Luckily, at that moment I have a stunning realization.. my cell phone costs me $40 a month. My landline costs me $50 a month. I have 100mb access through my apartment complex. Why do I even need a landline?
So I tell her "actually, forget it.. don't take off long distance, just cancel my service completely".. aaah, the stunned silence she answers with is bliss..
But there's still the matter of $12 I owe to AT&T.. with this I have a little fun, include a letter with my bill, _staple_ the check to it (with a memo that says "for erotic massage from [whoever the CEO of AT&T is, I forget]") the letter basically asks the director of the billing department how he explains to his children that daddy has no soul, as he charges people money to _not_have_ a service.. it is accompanied by a crayon drawing of the director with a hole where his soul should be..
The best part.. I apparently overpaid by $.13.. to date AT&T has sent me 6 letters notifying I have a balance of $-0.13.. I hope they keep sending them, till the postage equals $12..
So basically you don't want to comment on the story, but just want to piss and moan?
If slashdot sucks so bad, why don't you start your own magazine and spare us your bitching?
er.. next time read the article.
They didn't say anything as to whether video games themselves helped/caused/created/invented ADD. It wasn't one of those "eggs are good/no they're bad" studies.
They said they've created a treatment that uses a video game as a reward for focused attention. End of story. No comments as to whether video games cause you to kill/lie/steal/buy a digital watch.
Your comments are interesting but have nothing to to with the article.
A nice idea, but let me tell you from experience what really happens..
The company plops down a NDA that is clearly outrageous, and contains clauses that no judge would uphold.. you, and perhaps even quite a few other programmers refuse to sign it, as a matter of principle... Outcome? You and all the others who refuse are summarily fired for "not being a team player" and being a "discipline problem", and the company hires a whole crop of newly graduated Chinese and Indian CS majors to replace you.
Just another reason why we need a union..
Music doesn't belong to the person who wrote it, it belongs to the record companies. When was the last time you saw a used-up, flat-broke record company executive on Behind the Music?
Gay, totally gay.
Liberace gay.
Hmm. Seems to me that the trademark you listed belongs to the folks that registered it. And if they don't want to enforce it, they don't have to.
And somehow I doubt you speak for them.
It's called regular expressions.
/[Ww].*[Oo].*[Rr].*[Dd]/d
very handy.
This guy's ten times the journalist Fred Moody is, I just wish someone could have persuaded him to end the article with "..and the horse you rode in on!"
Man, don't worry if you're a vegetarian; it's been a long time since Mcdonalds sold anything resembling meat.. In fact, it's been a long time since they sold anything even approximating bread..
Once about a year ago I went to McDonald's for old time's sake, since I hadn't been since I was about 9 years old.. holy cow, what worthless horseshit! The "bread" is this yellow, hollow foam stuff, that completely dissolves as soon as you put pressure on it.. very disconcerting.. and the "meat"? I don't even want to go there..
Also, anyone remember the last time they've seen a white person on a McDonald's commercial?
Add these to your Junkbuster .block file..
images2.slashdot.org/Slashdot/pc.gif
images.slashdot.org/cgi-bin/adlog.pl
images.slashdot.org/pagecount.gif
anybody want to ante up entries to block this coremetrics bull?
Nice to hear folx bragging about how you'd tell your supervisor about some titty pics the poor dean had on his machine! May we now have a look at your hard drive? Oh, but that was a _work_ computer, right? Well I daresay that reading slashdot probably isn't work related, is it? And I'd be willing to bet most of you are at work right now. As hodeleri puts it:
>1.He had a university computer
>2.He was using it for personal use (and quite a bit no less, thousands of pictures!)
>End of story. It does not matter if it was a laptop he was hauling around with him or if he was in his office. He was using company property for personal use. Violation of policy and grounds for termination.
Enjoy your pink slip, hodeleri!
I've often been put in the position of being ordered to rifle through a former employee's _work_ computer to look for incriminating emails/resumes/etc., by an asshole PHB. And you know what? Every time the hard drive of said machine was _mysteriously_ wiped clean! "Don't know what happened, boss, the froonium must have overloaded" aah, ignorance is a quality I love in a PHB..
The NEXT cube was a lot cooler, and had balls. Milled aluminum, cooling fins, matte black. One look and you could tell that this was a machine that took no shit. And it really was stackable.
And where do they get off calling this thing a supercomputer? How many users can it handle at once? Oh, wait, that's right.. they're still running a worthless single-user OS..
Yeah folks, c'mon! Don't you remember that you're allowed to stomp all over people's rights when you're sick? It says so right in the Constitution, that no one can restrict your right to free speach, _unless_ they have a 102 degree fever!
Plus, he wasn't allowed to stop the deposition, he was a prisoner! Sure, Mr. Garbus asks him a number of times in the deposition if he would like to stop, but that was all just a clever trick!
This may be slightly off topic, but here's my impression of Bill Gates on his many propaganda commercials, or whenever you see him on TV for that matter:
"Innovation competition innovation. Competition competition innovation competition innovation. Innovation innovation, competition innovation. Innovation? Competition competition. Innovation competition, competition competition. Innovation innovation; competition innovation."
And here's my impression of Steve Ballmer on his commercials:
"Innovation competition, competition competition. Innovation innovation; competition innovation. Innovation, innovation, competition."
Pretty good, eh? Just throw in some cute little black kids and you've got just about every microsoft commercial.
Wasn't this called neuro-linquistic programming in the 70s? The constant and mindless repetition of a word or concept in conjunction with another (the grim visage of Bill) in order to connect the two in the subject's mind? Don't know if it works, but Microsoft and political ad designers sure seem to think it does.
So, the next time you see a Microsoft commercial, slip into your straightjacket, peel your eyelids back with metal clamps, and viddy well little brother, viddy well!!