The only thing U2 is good for is a politically-correct answer for politicians to use when asked what bands they like.
I find Bono extremely annoying and self-important. Every song of theirs features the same annoying twang guitar chord. Thanks a lot "The Edge". What kind of name is that anyway?
The Brits are extremely pompous and annoying, but at least we can thank them for Led Zep, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Who, The Clash, and others. Ireland? Forget it. Stick a fork in it, it's done.
Did anyone else read that as a Michael Jackson thing at first - Jackito Tactile?
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If you want religion, go to church.
If you want to play a video game, play a video game.
Personally, I would like to see more video games that portray religion as the scourge that it is. POSTAL 2 does a pretty good job of portraying the religious as a bunch of loonies.
Why do these religious freaks insist on putting their hand into everything? They want prayer in schools, they want religion in Rock, now in games. Screw them all. Seriously, screw them!
It seems like all the Mac users I know buy the latest Mac every time they come out with a new one; and not because something's broke, but just to have the latest. Where do they get this cash?
At least with a PC, if something dies, or you want to upgrade, it's easy to buy the new pieces as you go... say for example if you need a new motherboard, cpu, power supply, etc, just go online and have it within a few days without shelling out tons of money. Or, if you're lucky enough to live somewhere with stores that carry it, just drive down and pick it up. Your video card dies on a friday night? Drive 10 minutes to the local Best Buy/Staples/Whatever and get a new one. Pop it in, and there you go.
The Mac world is a strange one. From what I understand they're reliable and etc. But it's a strange, foreign world I'm scared to venture into. And I can't really afford the admission price.
There are hundreds of applications that are built just for IE, across many, many industries. Many geeks out there fail to realize that Internet Exploder and Microsoft Word aren't the only applications that are used by people who work. Every industry has specialized apps. Many vendors have jumped on the ability to use IE technology to interface to their products. It's not as simple as "Just use Firefox, luser!".
Yes... other people have posted the same sentiment, using the exact same wording that I used to use to describe why I took it; to clean out the cobwebs of my mind. It's a shame that our society has demonized something that can be used as a great tool of the human experience.
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I used to take LSD but haven't in many years. I have been Lucid Dreaming quite a bit in the last few years. They're nothing alike.
Lucid Dreaming is just knowing that you're in a dream, and doing whatever you want. You know it's a dream, you know there are no consequences. It's like playing a video game. You can stop playing and go about your life.
LSD completely alters your perceptions and how you think - or how you interpret your thought. You're committed to the experience. You can't just walk out.
Re:Fear of mind altering drugs.
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- How do I ensure I'm getting the real thing?
Short of watching them cook it in the lab, you don't know until you've eaten it. many times you just get strychnine. I believe LSD decays into strychnine too. If you get cramps, that's why.
- What enviroment, music, people etc etc should I be in/with/etc.
Something low-stress, relaxing, or whatever makes you happy. Whatever makes you happy now though won't necessarily make you happy on your trip.
- If things go bad, what can others do to help me through it?
Distract you, take your mind off of whatever's bugging you. The worst trips have nothing to do with scary visions, but more about warped thought-loops.
- Any other pointers?
Get a bottle of red wine, start drinking it right after you take the acid. It'll take the edge off and help you relax. Also, you can drink a lot while on acid. It's like it burns off the alcohol.
Watch something funny. Silly stuff is insanely funny on acid. Weekend At Bernies, which I would normally never watch, totally had me crying when I watched it on acid. Letterman is hilarious on acid.
You can take it alone if you're strong and don't rely on social interaction a lot in your life. Being an anti-social person to begin with, when I used to take it, I would do so alone most of the time. But if you're a little bunny-foo-foo who requires constant social reinforcement/validation, you may need to be with people so you don't freak out.
Indeed. I'm so exciting that I usually find several good articles. What I like most is the variety of stuff in Smithsonian; science, nature, history, art, etc. The variety makes it better than any single specialty magazine I've read.
The thing is, every other story on./ is about how bad and evil Microsoft is, how full of vulnerabilities IE is, etc. And half the comments on those stories are "Uh, tell your mom to use a safer browser, like Firefox." Then, there's a story about Firefox, and it appears that to get it to even work, you have to really dick around a lot! Download extenstions, rename files and directories if it breaks, etc, etc, etc. This is the exact reason my Linux isn't a serious option for the 90+% of users out there who don't have the time or desire to dick around like that to get things working...
I'll probably try it again if/when it reaches version 1. But still, the idea of having to download "features" that I can get pre-installed with Opera is really not very appealing.
Why not... rather than have to go to a website and download extensions, have a preferences dialog where you an enable stuff you want? What is so hard about that? One thing that turned me off in an earlier version of Firefox was that to get simple mouse gestures, I had to go to some webpage and dig through dozens of silly plug-ins to find one that would work.
Why don't you just install a browser that works, like Opera? Really, how can real users ever be expected to work with software that requires you to dick around so much? Christ!
It would be interesting to see what percentage of these "victims" used IE as their browser exclusively. I only use IE for sites written by fanboys which require IE. Otherwise, I use Opera. For kicks, I ran spybot on my pc at work and all it found were about a dozen cookies. The techie who suggested doing this says that the typical pc on our network has anywhere from 20 to 50 bad things. Go figure.
Yeah, that's what all end users do.... high def graphics work, 3d content generation, and complex data mining. Why, just the other day, I called my mom to ask her what she was doing, she said, "Oh, just hanging out doing some high def graphics work, 3d content generation, and complex data mining."
"Heh, that's funny, I'm chatting with sis on AIM, and she's doing the same thing!" I said.
... With an effective range of nearly 9 feet from the operator...
Obviously this is real. If it were a fake story, they wouldn't have included this amazing piece of info. 9 feet? I could probably throw my 70 lb dog that far!
I've tried a number of other distributions and always come back to Slackware, mostly because other distributions feel the need to make goofy proprietary crap - er, I mean apps that might work, if you happen to know the exact name of the executable and know where it resides... and so long as you don't mind any customizations to be over-written willy-nilly. This is especially true of RedHat, which I'll never touch again. Suse was a bit better. Debian crapped out on the install for no good reason on a normal hardware configuration that worked fine with Slackware. Plus, the monstrous list of apps to install was impossible to work with. I'll never bother with Debian again.
Slackware is simple. You boot it up and run "setup". How hard is that? If you want, you can use RPM's, and other package "utilities", but they tend to blow up after a while. pkgtool is simple and works. Swaret is the cat's pajamas - though not actually a part of Slackware (see swaret.sourceforge.net). Best of all, most Slackware knowledge is useful on other unix-like OS's; you don't go into a panic about not finding your distro's goofy-ass-proprietary app for configing something, you just know where to look. It's great.
One nice thing about swaret (swaret.sourceforge.net) is that you can set it to check dependencies, or not. I know it's not part of slackware proper, but is a very, very nifty tool. I run it every week or so to keep my slacks up to "current".
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The only thing U2 is good for is a politically-correct answer for politicians to use when asked what bands they like.
I find Bono extremely annoying and self-important. Every song of theirs features the same annoying twang guitar chord. Thanks a lot "The Edge". What kind of name is that anyway?
The Brits are extremely pompous and annoying, but at least we can thank them for Led Zep, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Who, The Clash, and others. Ireland? Forget it. Stick a fork in it, it's done.
If you want religion, go to church.
If you want to play a video game, play a video game.
Personally, I would like to see more video games that portray religion as the scourge that it is. POSTAL 2 does a pretty good job of portraying the religious as a bunch of loonies.
Why do these religious freaks insist on putting their hand into everything? They want prayer in schools, they want religion in Rock, now in games. Screw them all. Seriously, screw them!
It seems like all the Mac users I know buy the latest Mac every time they come out with a new one; and not because something's broke, but just to have the latest. Where do they get this cash?
At least with a PC, if something dies, or you want to upgrade, it's easy to buy the new pieces as you go... say for example if you need a new motherboard, cpu, power supply, etc, just go online and have it within a few days without shelling out tons of money.
Or, if you're lucky enough to live somewhere with stores that carry it, just drive down and pick it up. Your video card dies on a friday night? Drive 10 minutes to the local Best Buy/Staples/Whatever and get a new one. Pop it in, and there you go.
The Mac world is a strange one. From what I understand they're reliable and etc. But it's a strange, foreign world I'm scared to venture into. And I can't really afford the admission price.
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the New York Time's effect on man.
The Bee Gees were obviously visionaries.
There are hundreds of applications that are built just for IE, across many, many industries. Many geeks out there fail to realize that Internet Exploder and Microsoft Word aren't the only applications that are used by people who work. Every industry has specialized apps. Many vendors have jumped on the ability to use IE technology to interface to their products. It's not as simple as "Just use Firefox, luser!".
Yes... other people have posted the same sentiment, using the exact same wording that I used to use to describe why I took it; to clean out the cobwebs of my mind. It's a shame that our society has demonized something that can be used as a great tool of the human experience.
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http://www.mzla.com/keith/lucid.shtml
Lucid Dreaming is just knowing that you're in a dream, and doing whatever you want. You know it's a dream, you know there are no consequences. It's like playing a video game. You can stop playing and go about your life.
LSD completely alters your perceptions and how you think - or how you interpret your thought. You're committed to the experience. You can't just walk out.
Short of watching them cook it in the lab, you don't know until you've eaten it. many times you just get strychnine. I believe LSD decays into strychnine too. If you get cramps, that's why.
- What enviroment, music, people etc etc should I be in/with/etc.
Something low-stress, relaxing, or whatever makes you happy. Whatever makes you happy now though won't necessarily make you happy on your trip.
- If things go bad, what can others do to help me through it?
Distract you, take your mind off of whatever's bugging you. The worst trips have nothing to do with scary visions, but more about warped thought-loops.
- Any other pointers?
Get a bottle of red wine, start drinking it right after you take the acid. It'll take the edge off and help you relax. Also, you can drink a lot while on acid. It's like it burns off the alcohol.
Watch something funny. Silly stuff is insanely funny on acid. Weekend At Bernies, which I would normally never watch, totally had me crying when I watched it on acid. Letterman is hilarious on acid.
You can take it alone if you're strong and don't rely on social interaction a lot in your life. Being an anti-social person to begin with, when I used to take it, I would do so alone most of the time. But if you're a little bunny-foo-foo who requires constant social reinforcement/validation, you may need to be with people so you don't freak out.
Actually, WE'RE paying the price.
... Alas, nobody's perfect
Is there, somewhere, a good, complete list of recent (say for all of 2004) IE exploits to show the PHB?
Thanks
The thing is, every other story on ./ is about how bad and evil Microsoft is, how full of vulnerabilities IE is, etc. And half the comments on those stories are "Uh, tell your mom to use a safer browser, like Firefox." Then, there's a story about Firefox, and it appears that to get it to even work, you have to really dick around a lot! Download extenstions, rename files and directories if it breaks, etc, etc, etc. This is the exact reason my Linux isn't a serious option for the 90+% of users out there who don't have the time or desire to dick around like that to get things working...
I'll probably try it again if/when it reaches version 1. But still, the idea of having to download "features" that I can get pre-installed with Opera is really not very appealing.
Why not... rather than have to go to a website and download extensions, have a preferences dialog where you an enable stuff you want? What is so hard about that? One thing that turned me off in an earlier version of Firefox was that to get simple mouse gestures, I had to go to some webpage and dig through dozens of silly plug-ins to find one that would work.
Why don't you just install a browser that works, like Opera? Really, how can real users ever be expected to work with software that requires you to dick around so much? Christ!
Last time I checked, cars weren't free.
It would be interesting to see what percentage of these "victims" used IE as their browser exclusively. I only use IE for sites written by fanboys which require IE. Otherwise, I use Opera. For kicks, I ran spybot on my pc at work and all it found were about a dozen cookies. The techie who suggested doing this says that the typical pc on our network has anywhere from 20 to 50 bad things. Go figure.
You can see my dog HERE. Note that these pictures were taken when she was very young. Now she's big and fierce!
Yeah, that's what all end users do.... high def graphics work, 3d content generation, and complex data mining. Why, just the other day, I called my mom to ask her what she was doing, she said, "Oh, just hanging out doing some high def graphics work, 3d content generation, and complex data mining."
"Heh, that's funny, I'm chatting with sis on AIM, and she's doing the same thing!" I said.
Moral of this story: Get a fricking clue.
... With an effective range of nearly 9 feet from the operator ...
Obviously this is real. If it were a fake story, they wouldn't have included this amazing piece of info. 9 feet? I could probably throw my 70 lb dog that far!
I've tried a number of other distributions and always come back to Slackware, mostly because other distributions feel the need to make goofy proprietary crap - er, I mean apps that might work, if you happen to know the exact name of the executable and know where it resides... and so long as you don't mind any customizations to be over-written willy-nilly. This is especially true of RedHat, which I'll never touch again. Suse was a bit better. Debian crapped out on the install for no good reason on a normal hardware configuration that worked fine with Slackware. Plus, the monstrous list of apps to install was impossible to work with. I'll never bother with Debian again.
Slackware is simple. You boot it up and run "setup". How hard is that? If you want, you can use RPM's, and other package "utilities", but they tend to blow up after a while. pkgtool is simple and works. Swaret is the cat's pajamas - though not actually a part of Slackware (see swaret.sourceforge.net). Best of all, most Slackware knowledge is useful on other unix-like OS's; you don't go into a panic about not finding your distro's goofy-ass-proprietary app for configing something, you just know where to look. It's great.
One nice thing about swaret (swaret.sourceforge.net) is that you can set it to check dependencies, or not. I know it's not part of slackware proper, but is a very, very nifty tool. I run it every week or so to keep my slacks up to "current".