Hmm, I have so much trouble getting any tail here on earth, so why shouldn't I make my best efforts to deny sex to all astronauts (if I were working for NASA)? No one is getting laid on my shift.
Solomon Kevin Chang Database Design and Programming Disney Televentures
>In Greek, they are (approximately): heis, dyo, >treis, tettares, pente, hex, hepta, okto, >ennea, deka
So the "ninth" chip will probably be called the "Ennemum"? I can just see the ad campaigns now.
Project Manager walks into office restroom and sits down in the stall next to Engineer. Being a manager, he starts up a conversation with adjacent engineer in the next stall over. PM: I hear the Anderson account is pretty rough. How's it coming? (presumably talking about some kind of business calculation) Eng: Horrible. First it was slow, and now nothing is coming out at all! Is it just me? PM: It's always a matter of effort. Have you tried to work it out manually? Eng: Yeah. I'm just stuck. PM: You know, our new SysAdmin Beth, she never has these problems. She gets things like this out like clockwork every day, and smoothly at that. Eng: Say, didn't she get an Ennemum(tm)? PM: She gets one every week. She swears by them. Eng: Hmm, I've noticed that she never has to work anything out by hand either. The Ennemum(tm) does all that for her? PM: Yup. You should try an Ennemum(tm) for this problem and see for yourself. Eng: Thanks. [Toilets flush. Stalls open and people return to work. Camera focuses on closed toilet seat with Intel Inside label on top.]
Narrator's voice: Ennemum. When you have to get it out on schedule.
It's all about change. Now, I'm not trying to sound vague here, but always Keeping Things The Same(tm) is one of man's strongest motivating forces. I tend to agree with the mainstream media (for once in my life) that most of the protesters don't fully grasp they concept of what they are protesting against. However, some outside "reliable" source seems to have instilled the idea that the WTO is going to change our working conditions for the worse. We fear change because it violates our sense of security. Most salaried people, if they lost their jobs tomorrow, would not be able to support themselves for even a month. By that token, I have seen far too many coworkers afraid of changing jobs, because it would mean a period of no income, even though the new job might pay three times more. Most older people rather sit at the same desk job for forty years for a measly pittance than take a risk with something better out there. Why? Because no one wants to sacrifice security in the process of trying to find a better foothold in life. Ironically, we continue to teach this mentality to our kids - we teach them how to find a job, but we never seem to teach them to start and run a business. Once we engender those philosophies into the next generation, the next generation becomes slowly conditioned to be complacent with the first stable foothold in life they can find. They learn that taking risks must be reduced to a minimum, a course of action only utilized when the mainstream media promotes a Sure Thing(tm); can we say "Success Stories" of Online Daytrading, Boys and Grrls? I do not deny that an organization like the WTO, at full strength, would usurp the socio-economic structure of the American Workplace as we know it, but as Dr. Rudy Volti, sociologist at Pitzer College, once said, "...Technology [or any change in policy, in my opinion] does not destroy jobs; it merely changes them. The end of the horse-pulled carriage, heralded by the introduction of the automobile in the American market, may have reduced the need for groomers and stablehands, but has also effected a tremendous upsurge in technicians and mechanics, several specializations of which did not exist before." OTOH, Technical Contractors, it seems, are always prepared for change. They always have some knowledge of positions lurking behind their current contract, and are never out of work for more than a few days, if not a few hours. I believe we are simply used to the instability, and we have learned to professionally adapt to it. My point? People who are accustomed to change, like contractors, aren't protesting in Seattle. If anyone disagrees with me, I'd like to hear out your counter-examples.
*Flamebait alert* In short, I believe the protesters in Seattle are a bunch of weak-kneed, spineless, even sometimes Anonymous Cowards who are doing everything in their power to prevent losing some perceived security. Those who believe themselves threatened by the WTO should take a moment and consider, "Can I use the upcoming times of change to improve my financial outcome?" before they protest. Even though Ben Franklin said, "Those that give up their freedom for security deserve neither," in this modern world, it is highly improbable, if not impossible, for any individual to gain both at any point in his life. Oh, and before you start pointing out to me that the WTO will destroy the environment and exacerbate child labor in Third World countries, I believe the opposite to be true: as the policies of a single organization grow to encompass a larger demographic, the number of people affected by that selfsame organization will acquire proportionately greater collective power to alter policy within the aforementioned organization. This gain actually becomes exponential with the introduction of cheap communication between the oppressed constituents, who will often acquire external sympathizers. Slavery was ended this way - our world was growing smaller, and the more the South had to deal with the rest of the world, the more visible the oppressed minority became, until the issue became significant enough to bear the attention of top level politicians. For this same reason, I don't believe the Third Reich would have lasted very long if the Axis won WWII. Alright, I've ranted enough for now. I'm going to put on my heat-resistant abestos body suit now...
Solomon Kevin Chang Database Programming and Design Disney Televentures
> All I wish would be to a get a girl friend. > Imagine, I even haven't been kissed by a girl. > Sniff.
I should set you up with a friend of mine who's really into geeky things-... Oh wait, nevermind, my friend isn't officially female until after the New Year, when he gets the final surgury performed. Get back to me then.
(I'm probably going to be moderated to -1, offtopic/cruel, for this one.)
Hey, hey, hey! I'll have you know that "Hello World" can get pretty complex.:)
sub Hello(cancel as Integer) 'Pass the Prego. I see Spaghetti coming... On Error GoTo e4:
'You're not a real programmer if you don't go through the win32api. Declare Function SayHello& lib "fuckdoj" Alias "BribeJackson" _ (ByVal LScrewNetscape as Long, _ ByVal LDominateSun as Long, _ ByVal LBuryCaldera as Long, _ ByVal LTrial as ReallyLong) as Boolean Declare Function GetActiveWindow& lib "User32" as Long Declare Function CopyMem& lib "Kernel32" as Long dim lHWin as Long lHWin = GetActiveWindow& if SayHello(lHWin, lHWin, lHWin, lHWin) = False then msgbox "Hello world..." Debug.Print "...And goodbye Netherworld-... I mean, Redmond. Muhahahahah!" End If exit sub
e4: msgbox "This program has crashed. Oh yeah, and we are not a monopoly." End Sub
Sorry for the obscure sense of humor. It comes with the MCSD.
Skevin Database Design and Programming The Walt Disney Company
I just keep Emperor Scorpions and let them roam around my apartment, hunting roaches...
Of course, there were a few problems in the past, such as always having to shake out my shoes before I go to work in the morning; being able to track them; and preventing them from uncontrolled reproducing. Controlling breeding is accomplished by keeping only one male in a tank - all the hunters in home are female(you learn to identify the gender pretty quick). Every now and then, you pop a female in the tank and see if they'll go at it (it looks more like a fight than mating). Tracking is still a problem though. I used to glue keychains to their backs, the kind that beep when you whistle, but well, um, those things fall off after the scorpion molts. I'm thinking of switching to a transmitter to relay to position of each scorpion, so when my database tells me it's time for one of them to molt, I can just find her and keep her in a tank until she's done - the transmitter can then be reglued and she can be released back into my kitchen. The database is already set up; it uses the MSDE, which is simply the engine behind MS-SQL Server. If you want to see the front end (written in VB) I'll be happy to send it to you, but I don't yet have routines to account for input from a receiver - but my current plans call for using two or more to accurately gauge the position of any specific scorpion. Source code available on request.
While on the topic of a Roachbot, you should check out this story, where a Japanese company attached electrodes to a roach's brain and take full control of its motor functions. I can just see the implications: you release your robo-roaches armed with extra electronics and assembly instructions into a new slum and within minutes, they have taken new "converts". [Insert evil smirk here]
Skevin MCSE/MCDBA (Slashdot is also read by us Evil Empire people too) malusdei@pacbell.net
Hmm, you have a few good points, but consider that most musicians don't have the kind of funding to back themselves the way a megacorp does. I see it more of a loanshark mentality - "We'll pay for all your promotions, and we'll give you a very small cut of what we make off of you..." Strange, but that's the mentality I grew up with... and I subconciously accept it as being equitable! The actual cost of promoting oneself is surprisingly little... For a little more than $20k you can actually get your own music up on the listening stations at Tower Records (back in 1996). I never went through with it because when I was writing music prolifically, I was still a poor student who never even knew what 20k looked like.
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE MODE ON I don't think you can compare a record company to a trucking company: an artist has indeterminate outcome value - his/her ultimate dollar sum is reliant on the popularity of his/her music (or image, in the case of Artists That Suck). From the record companies' point of view, they are making an investment which they hope will turn out well for them. I'm sure that for every Brittany Spears, a record company has lost money on dozens of no-name people who labels never made it to the record store. In a nutshell, the general outlook on money here is, "I put up most of the capital, so I should reap most of the profits." IMHO, that's a very healthy capitalistic mentality. "If you, the Artist, don't want my funding, find it elsewhere, or do it yourself." DEVIL'S ADVOCATE MODE OFF
Admittedly, most artists don't have money, and along those lines, the Web is a wonderful way to distribute one's own music without much starting capital, provided you have a product that stands up. In my experience, I have noticed that if there is anything bad about putting one's music online, it's trying to get noticed above everyone else who's trying to do exactly the same thing, which is why I'm now going to go into...
PLUG MODE ON What better place to plug my music! I write a lot of symphonic/orchestral stuff, and have full MP3s of some of my works here, all of it for free! (assuming you don't try to use it for commercial stuff, for which I'll want a royalty.:) ) Unlike a lot of artists, I don't expect to make income off of this, since I prefer not to sell my soul (SMS) to record companies, and believe you me, I have some... interesting, contracts on file that I never got around to signing. PLUG MODE OFF
Okay, I'm going to pray I didn't just start a/. effect on my server...
S. Kevin Chang DBA / Programmer / Composer [Insert Large Evil LA-based Entertainment Company here] [Hint #2: it's in Burbank] malusdei@pacMAUSHWITZbell.net [to email, rem all caps from address]
You know that the government doesn't believe that people can decide for themselves. Consider the following things that have gone into debate:
- Demanding that trigger locks have to be sold on all guns. Can't people decide whether or not they want them without a governing body? People want personal safety, but they want other people to be responsible for it, especially if someone else accidentally gets hurt. - The Mars rock. What kind of scam are they trying to pull? While they are debating as to whether formations in the rock are remnants of life on red planet, don't they think that anyone in the American public questions the improbability of rock found in Anarctica having come from Mars? - Airbags. When the first kid was killed by an airbag impact, the big debate was over whether to remake cars with out without them. It took several months before we saw switches, but the initial assumption did not allow for such options. - Smoke-free Bars. California bars now do not allow smoking, due to a waitress' lobby pressuring the law to pass. I'm not a smoker, but I believe that it is the right of an establishment to choose how they want to run the place. As far as the people working there, they're not being forced to work there. - Seatbelt and Helmet laws. People endanger only themselves by not using them. As long as they don't threaten the well being of other people, why does the government bother with enforcing these laws?
Our laws are slowly being retooled to try to protect idiots. If an idiot gets hurt by putting faith in an unreliable source of information, that does not mean that we are required to pass a law saying that all information on the net *must* be validated. I can already see the PIII chip ID getting abused.
What happens? I guess it depends on the mentality. In my case, I end up working in sensitive positions, maybe even get a security clearance, hoping to strike back when the time is right. Throughout high school, I used to plot to steal fissionable material to destroy a major metropolitan center somewhere in the country. Then during college, the plan changed to using a biological agent. Now, in the workplace, where I deal with chemical weapons disposal, I had thought it would be so simple to sneak a small amount out, oh say, enough to take out the entire eastern seaboard... Then recently, I began to realize that destroying a major city may ultimately lower the value of my stock portfolio. I can't win. These days, I content myself with simply visiting the people who used to beat me up in my youth and taunt them. Most of them are in jail so it's hard for them to punch you when there's a glass partition in the way. And the others? Either they have minimum wage jobs or they're dead. There are some graves I still drive hundreds of miles once a year for the immaculate pleasure of urinating on them. (I got kicked out of a cemetary when I was caught for that once) Am I still pissed? Somewhat. The problem is that the cycle rolls over into other aspects of life: during high school years, women are invariably more interested in guys who pick on the weak - if you let it get you down, you get a (un)healthy dose of resent for the fairer sex for the rest of your life. You become the kind of psycho that Dr. Laura Schlesinger warns everyone else about. I think we never find peace unless we find acceptance - never mind what the great philosphers try to claim.
Yeah right. Remember when Intergraph raised all that hooplah over releasing their specs to the Voodoo Rush? Only after Daryll Strauss figured it out? But they still have yet to release the 3D specs? Have fun, boys and girls.
Skevin "You're fired." "What? But I work eight hours and sleep eight hours like anyone else!" "Not when they're they same eight hours."
Good game, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to kill those sandworms! I've got tons of sonic tanks, I'm watching my harvesters like a hawk, and I'm on the 7th mission of House Atreides. Is there a way to-...? Oh wait, did you say Doom 2000? Oops, never mind.
Skevin
"...Be warned that some creatures, like WinMinions, are not only powerful, but also malicious, and will continue to attack dead characters who gave them a hard time to prevent them from coming back. Such creatures are more concerned with forcing you to spend money than with their own personal safety(just like real executives who live in Redmond)." -Players Guide excerpt from Redmond, a computer RPG I'm writing
Oh no, someone else is writing a story that's identical to the book I'm writing too? Damn!
Skevin
"...while Street Samurai armed with a weapon in each hand are capable of swinging and thrusting at once. When both attacks connect, this is known as the slash-dot effect." -Players' Guide excerpt, from the RPG Redmond
Actually, I think you mean, "Don't the makers of Playstation Games see the great advantage of selling more games?" Sony itself only manufactures a small fraction of Playstation games. Everything else is Third Party stuff. Supposedly, that why Saturn got left behind.
Sigh. I've got my old Sega Saturn stashed under my desk at home, languishing for the day that someone writes an emulator for it. After all, the CDs are PC-readable...
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm, I have so much trouble getting any tail here on earth, so why shouldn't I make my best efforts to deny sex to all astronauts (if I were working for NASA)?
No one is getting laid on my shift.
Solomon Kevin Chang
Database Design and Programming
Disney Televentures
>In Greek, they are (approximately): heis, dyo,
>treis, tettares, pente, hex, hepta, okto,
>ennea, deka
So the "ninth" chip will probably be called the "Ennemum"? I can just see the ad campaigns now.
Project Manager walks into office restroom and sits down in the stall next to Engineer. Being a manager, he starts up a conversation with adjacent engineer in the next stall over.
PM: I hear the Anderson account is pretty rough. How's it coming? (presumably talking about some kind of business calculation)
Eng: Horrible. First it was slow, and now nothing is coming out at all! Is it just me?
PM: It's always a matter of effort. Have you tried to work it out manually?
Eng: Yeah. I'm just stuck.
PM: You know, our new SysAdmin Beth, she never has these problems. She gets things like this out like clockwork every day, and smoothly at that.
Eng: Say, didn't she get an Ennemum(tm)?
PM: She gets one every week. She swears by them.
Eng: Hmm, I've noticed that she never has to work anything out by hand either. The Ennemum(tm) does all that for her?
PM: Yup. You should try an Ennemum(tm) for this problem and see for yourself.
Eng: Thanks.
[Toilets flush. Stalls open and people return to work. Camera focuses on closed toilet seat with Intel Inside label on top.]
Narrator's voice: Ennemum. When you have to get it out on schedule.
Hmm, I've already been using a P5 for quite a few years already. I'll hold out a bit longer.
Yeah, and by that logic, I'll also assume that a Macintosh G3 is faster than an IBM G2 mainframe. Heh heh.
It's all about change. Now, I'm not trying to sound vague here, but always Keeping Things The Same(tm) is one of man's strongest motivating forces. I tend to agree with the mainstream media (for once in my life) that most of the protesters don't fully grasp they concept of what they are protesting against. However, some outside "reliable" source seems to have instilled the idea that the WTO is going to change our working conditions for the worse.
We fear change because it violates our sense of security. Most salaried people, if they lost their jobs tomorrow, would not be able to support themselves for even a month. By that token, I have seen far too many coworkers afraid of changing jobs, because it would mean a period of no income, even though the new job might pay three times more. Most older people rather sit at the same desk job for forty years for a measly pittance than take a risk with something better out there. Why? Because no one wants to sacrifice security in the process of trying to find a better foothold in life. Ironically, we continue to teach this mentality to our kids - we teach them how to find a job, but we never seem to teach them to start and run a business. Once we engender those philosophies into the next generation, the next generation becomes slowly conditioned to be complacent with the first stable foothold in life they can find. They learn that taking risks must be reduced to a minimum, a course of action only utilized when the mainstream media promotes a Sure Thing(tm); can we say "Success Stories" of Online Daytrading, Boys and Grrls?
I do not deny that an organization like the WTO, at full strength, would usurp the socio-economic structure of the American Workplace as we know it, but as Dr. Rudy Volti, sociologist at Pitzer College, once said, "...Technology [or any change in policy, in my opinion] does not destroy jobs; it merely changes them. The end of the horse-pulled carriage, heralded by the introduction of the automobile in the American market, may have reduced the need for groomers and stablehands, but has also effected a tremendous upsurge in technicians and mechanics, several specializations of which did not exist before."
OTOH, Technical Contractors, it seems, are always prepared for change. They always have some knowledge of positions lurking behind their current contract, and are never out of work for more than a few days, if not a few hours. I believe we are simply used to the instability, and we have learned to professionally adapt to it. My point? People who are accustomed to change, like contractors, aren't protesting in Seattle. If anyone disagrees with me, I'd like to hear out your counter-examples.
*Flamebait alert*
In short, I believe the protesters in Seattle are a bunch of weak-kneed, spineless, even sometimes Anonymous Cowards who are doing everything in their power to prevent losing some perceived security. Those who believe themselves threatened by the WTO should take a moment and consider, "Can I use the upcoming times of change to improve my financial outcome?" before they protest.
Even though Ben Franklin said, "Those that give up their freedom for security deserve neither," in this modern world, it is highly improbable, if not impossible, for any individual to gain both at any point in his life.
Oh, and before you start pointing out to me that the WTO will destroy the environment and exacerbate child labor in Third World countries, I believe the opposite to be true: as the policies of a single organization grow to encompass a larger demographic, the number of people affected by that selfsame organization will acquire proportionately greater collective power to alter policy within the aforementioned organization. This gain actually becomes exponential with the introduction of cheap communication between the oppressed constituents, who will often acquire external sympathizers. Slavery was ended this way - our world was growing smaller, and the more the South had to deal with the rest of the world, the more visible the oppressed minority became, until the issue became significant enough to bear the attention of top level politicians. For this same reason, I don't believe the Third Reich would have lasted very long if the Axis won WWII.
Alright, I've ranted enough for now. I'm going to put on my heat-resistant abestos body suit now...
Solomon Kevin Chang
Database Programming and Design
Disney Televentures
...Then who would be Fat Bastard?
> All I wish would be to a get a girl friend.
> Imagine, I even haven't been kissed by a girl.
> Sniff.
I should set you up with a friend of mine who's really into geeky things-... Oh wait, nevermind, my friend isn't officially female until after the New Year, when he gets the final surgury performed. Get back to me then.
(I'm probably going to be moderated to -1, offtopic/cruel, for this one.)
Skevin
Disney Televentures
Hey, hey, hey! :)
I'll have you know that "Hello World" can get pretty complex.
sub Hello(cancel as Integer)
'Pass the Prego. I see Spaghetti coming...
On Error GoTo e4:
'You're not a real programmer if you don't go through the win32api.
Declare Function SayHello& lib "fuckdoj" Alias "BribeJackson" _
(ByVal LScrewNetscape as Long, _
ByVal LDominateSun as Long, _
ByVal LBuryCaldera as Long, _
ByVal LTrial as ReallyLong) as Boolean
Declare Function GetActiveWindow& lib "User32" as Long
Declare Function CopyMem& lib "Kernel32" as Long
dim lHWin as Long
lHWin = GetActiveWindow&
if SayHello(lHWin, lHWin, lHWin, lHWin) = False then
msgbox "Hello world..."
Debug.Print "...And goodbye Netherworld-... I mean, Redmond. Muhahahahah!"
End If
exit sub
e4:
msgbox "This program has crashed. Oh yeah, and we are not a monopoly."
End Sub
Sorry for the obscure sense of humor. It comes with the MCSD.
Skevin
Database Design and Programming
The Walt Disney Company
Of course, there were a few problems in the past, such as always having to shake out my shoes before I go to work in the morning; being able to track them; and preventing them from uncontrolled reproducing. Controlling breeding is accomplished by keeping only one male in a tank - all the hunters in home are female(you learn to identify the gender pretty quick). Every now and then, you pop a female in the tank and see if they'll go at it (it looks more like a fight than mating). Tracking is still a problem though. I used to glue keychains to their backs, the kind that beep when you whistle, but well, um, those things fall off after the scorpion molts. I'm thinking of switching to a transmitter to relay to position of each scorpion, so when my database tells me it's time for one of them to molt, I can just find her and keep her in a tank until she's done - the transmitter can then be reglued and she can be released back into my kitchen. The database is already set up; it uses the MSDE, which is simply the engine behind MS-SQL Server. If you want to see the front end (written in VB) I'll be happy to send it to you, but I don't yet have routines to account for input from a receiver - but my current plans call for using two or more to accurately gauge the position of any specific scorpion. Source code available on request.
While on the topic of a Roachbot, you should check out this story, where a Japanese company attached electrodes to a roach's brain and take full control of its motor functions. I can just see the implications: you release your robo-roaches armed with extra electronics and assembly instructions into a new slum and within minutes, they have taken new "converts". [Insert evil smirk here]
Skevin
MCSE/MCDBA (Slashdot is also read by us Evil Empire people too)
malusdei@pacbell.net
The actual cost of promoting oneself is surprisingly little... For a little more than $20k you can actually get your own music up on the listening stations at Tower Records (back in 1996). I never went through with it because when I was writing music prolifically, I was still a poor student who never even knew what 20k looked like.
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE MODE ON
I don't think you can compare a record company to a trucking company: an artist has indeterminate outcome value - his/her ultimate dollar sum is reliant on the popularity of his/her music (or image, in the case of Artists That Suck). From the record companies' point of view, they are making an investment which they hope will turn out well for them. I'm sure that for every Brittany Spears, a record company has lost money on dozens of no-name people who labels never made it to the record store.
In a nutshell, the general outlook on money here is, "I put up most of the capital, so I should reap most of the profits." IMHO, that's a very healthy capitalistic mentality. "If you, the Artist, don't want my funding, find it elsewhere, or do it yourself."
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE MODE OFF
Admittedly, most artists don't have money, and along those lines, the Web is a wonderful way to distribute one's own music without much starting capital, provided you have a product that stands up. In my experience, I have noticed that if there is anything bad about putting one's music online, it's trying to get noticed above everyone else who's trying to do exactly the same thing, which is why I'm now going to go into...
PLUG MODE ON
What better place to plug my music! I write a lot of symphonic/orchestral stuff, and have full MP3s of some of my works here, all of it for free! (assuming you don't try to use it for commercial stuff, for which I'll want a royalty.:) ) Unlike a lot of artists, I don't expect to make income off of this, since I prefer not to sell my soul (SMS) to record companies, and believe you me, I have some... interesting, contracts on file that I never got around to signing.
PLUG MODE OFF
Okay, I'm going to pray I didn't just start a
S. Kevin Chang
DBA / Programmer / Composer
[Insert Large Evil LA-based Entertainment Company here]
[Hint #2: it's in Burbank]
malusdei@pacMAUSHWITZbell.net
[to email, rem all caps from address]
You know that the government doesn't believe that people can decide for themselves. Consider the following things that have gone into debate:
- Demanding that trigger locks have to be sold on all guns. Can't people decide whether or not they want them without a governing body? People want personal safety, but they want other people to be responsible for it, especially if someone else accidentally gets hurt.
- The Mars rock. What kind of scam are they trying to pull? While they are debating as to whether formations in the rock are remnants of life on red planet, don't they think that anyone in the American public questions the improbability of rock found in Anarctica having come from Mars?
- Airbags. When the first kid was killed by an airbag impact, the big debate was over whether to remake cars with out without them. It took several months before we saw switches, but the initial assumption did not allow for such options.
- Smoke-free Bars. California bars now do not allow smoking, due to a waitress' lobby pressuring the law to pass. I'm not a smoker, but I believe that it is the right of an establishment to choose how they want to run the place. As far as the people working there, they're not being forced to work there.
- Seatbelt and Helmet laws. People endanger only themselves by not using them. As long as they don't threaten the well being of other people, why does the government bother with enforcing these laws?
Our laws are slowly being retooled to try to protect idiots. If an idiot gets hurt by putting faith in an unreliable source of information, that does not mean that we are required to pass a law saying that all information on the net *must* be validated.
I can already see the PIII chip ID getting abused.
Skevin
What happens? I guess it depends on the mentality. In my case, I end up working in sensitive positions, maybe even get a security clearance, hoping to strike back when the time is right.
Throughout high school, I used to plot to steal fissionable material to destroy a major metropolitan center somewhere in the country. Then during college, the plan changed to using a biological agent. Now, in the workplace, where I deal with chemical weapons disposal, I had thought it would be so simple to sneak a small amount out, oh say, enough to take out the entire eastern seaboard...
Then recently, I began to realize that destroying a major city may ultimately lower the value of my stock portfolio. I can't win.
These days, I content myself with simply visiting the people who used to beat me up in my youth and taunt them. Most of them are in jail so it's hard for them to punch you when there's a glass partition in the way. And the others? Either they have minimum wage jobs or they're dead. There are some graves I still drive hundreds of miles once a year for the immaculate pleasure of urinating on them. (I got kicked out of a cemetary when I was caught for that once)
Am I still pissed? Somewhat. The problem is that the cycle rolls over into other aspects of life: during high school years, women are invariably more interested in guys who pick on the weak - if you let it get you down, you get a (un)healthy dose of resent for the fairer sex for the rest of your life. You become the kind of psycho that Dr. Laura Schlesinger warns everyone else about.
I think we never find peace unless we find acceptance - never mind what the great philosphers try to claim.
Skevin
Yeah right. Remember when Intergraph raised all that hooplah over releasing their specs to the Voodoo Rush? Only after Daryll Strauss figured it out? But they still have yet to release the 3D specs? Have fun, boys and girls.
Skevin
"You're fired."
"What? But I work eight hours and sleep eight hours like anyone else!"
"Not when they're they same eight hours."
Skevin
"...Be warned that some creatures, like WinMinions, are not only powerful, but also malicious, and will continue to attack dead characters who gave them a hard time to prevent them from coming back. Such creatures are more concerned with forcing you to spend money than with their own personal safety(just like real executives who live in Redmond)."
-Players Guide excerpt from Redmond, a computer RPG I'm writing
Oh no, someone else is writing a story that's identical to the book I'm writing too? Damn!
Skevin
"...while Street Samurai armed with a weapon in each hand are capable of swinging and thrusting at once. When both attacks connect, this is known as the slash-dot effect."
-Players' Guide excerpt, from the RPG Redmond
sub hello()
MsgBox ("Hello world.")
End Sub
Skevin
Actually, I think you mean, "Don't the makers of Playstation Games see the great advantage of selling more games?" Sony itself only manufactures a small fraction of Playstation games. Everything else is Third Party stuff. Supposedly, that why Saturn got left behind.
Sigh. I've got my old Sega Saturn stashed under my desk at home, languishing for the day that someone writes an emulator for it. After all, the CDs are PC-readable...
Skevin