Terrorists aren't stupid. The moment we start focusing on one group or excluding another is the moment they start exploiting that.
It's pretty obvious the TSA is already on to that. Obviously, AlQueda has decided to start recruiting democratic senators. Fortunately our brave TSA squads are preventing that nefarious plan.
Hey, notice they're all democrats? ----- Anyway, I agree with the parent poster, though the humor was just too tempting. I'm a Republican with heavy Libertarian leanings, but I'll probably be voting for Kerry.
I'll vote for Kerry because evil bastards presidents aren't as bad as religous nutcases presidents.
After Price had checked her luggage, she alleged that she was stopped by an Air France agent who told her that "a head, one bottom and a torso cannot possibly fly on its own."
Well, in one sense, it is quite true, since if she could fly on her own, she wouldn't need Air France in the first place. However, since she was denied transportation only after her luggage was checked, it would appear that she could manage other forms of transport on her own.
I would hazard a guess that Air France is currently contemplating dropping off that particular employee mid-flight to allow him to demonstrate his particular ability to fly on his own using his arms and legs.
I'm certain that this would more than satisfy the poor woman who was so shabbily treated by Air France.
I suppose that it's remotely possible that the good senator actually thinks he's doing good, if he's had his head in the sand, but his son's actioins are flatly inexcusable. If Brent Hatch doesn't know enough of the law to realize he's the point man for an extortion ring of copyright thieves, well...
So to summarize: Daddy senator wants to blow up computers of copyright thieves. Son is working for copyright thieves who IBM says have stolen 750,000 plus lines of code.
It depresses me how much I agree with your opinions.
I think the most important point, however, is to vote the experienced clowns out and new incompetents in. That way we at least have a respite while the new guy learns the ropes.
If Spamhaus eliminated Spam, Steve Linford would be the first one dancing. He'd probably get a knighthood, but I think he'd prefer a good night's sleep.
MS claims that Hotmail receives 2 Billion spams a day. (That's 2x10^9 to you friends across the puddle). I don't see that going away, more's the pity.
--Finish your beer. There are sober people in China.
Just be aware that you're now responsible for Chineese people going without Diet Coke, as my last mouthfull (well, nosefull) hit my monitor, shirt and keyboard.
Optimal situation... All of one side dies, half of the other side dies, and we can throw the rest away for murder. 36 problems vanish in a half-hour "controlled burn", of sorts.
We can't just "throw the rest away for murder". They require food, housing, medical treatment, trial, lawyers, appeals, ad nauseum.
I became anti-capital punishment simply because an average life sentance without parole is 14 years of hopelessness ending in death or suicide, with a total cost of around $600,000. The average death-penalty recipient lives 16 years, most of that time with the hope of beating the system on appeal, at a total cost of $1.8 million.
No, in my humble opinion, the "Optimal Situation" is all of the participants mortally wounding each other in an exciting enough fashion that it becomes a popular sport for idiots.
Hey, it's been done before, we can certainly hope.
For those who consider this viewpoint repugnant: All participants were informed and consenting. I believe that self-destructive behavior shouldn't be outlawed. I also believe that acts between consenting adults are nobody else's business. I also believe that everyone should have a right to end their own life in any way they please.
Oh, if they're old enough to get into something like this, they're old enough to consent. I had a pretty good idea of right and wrong at twelve. The age of responsibility for actions not hitting until 18 is a bad idea.
Your logic is flawed. They all passed Darwinian selection, because they all survived.
At least if they had fought it out, some would be removed.
The result of what actually happened is that they'll ALL be back very soon, and possibly a little more versed in how to slide through the legal system, and with a little less respect for it.
Just in case Yahoo news gets slashdotted, I've typed a plaintext mirror:
Newsflash! In movie 3 of the Starwars Hexology, Darth Vader will be seen wearing something different! Fashion Moguls can get an avanced look at cutting edge fashion for "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." by buying the DVD set.
George Lucas says:
"Our fans have been eagerly awaiting every morsel of `Episode III' as we divulge it. We're giving it to them piece by piece."
Talk about stringing it out for money. Lucas is the master.
Another highlight:
Also, experience how Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor have prepared for the epic lightsaber battle that has been anticipated for more than two decades: the climactic showdown between Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
SPOILER ALERT:
Of course, since Vader and Obi-Wan duke it out again in IV, the 'climactic showdown' will probably not end in the death of either character in III, unless Lucas has begun hiring script-writers from Star Trek TNG.
I agree with your main point. However, I disagree with your logic.
It's not 'competition', it's fighting for the freedom to use your computer in the way you want and need to, rather than the way MS wants.
And it isn't 'giving away something for free' because "giving away" means to deprive yourself of something in order to provide it to someone else.
It's not "giving away" your work, because you already worked to modify something for your own use. You're letting others copy your efforts, pretty much like you didn't have to invent arithmetic and calculus on your own to use it. Were Pythagorus and Newton depriving themsleves of something by sharing their insights on math?
OS isn't about being a slave to everyone else, it's about cooperating and not reinventing the wheel daily.
Thank God that nobody has yet figured out how to patent "the wheel" and immediately become the biggist "IP theft" victim in the world with rights to sue.
In '98 I predicted that the general purpose computer would be illegal in the US within 5 years. I'm extemely glad that it hasn't happened yet, but I see no reason to revise anything but the time limit.
Funnily enough, this thread is on topic. Like MS software fans, there are adherents of "american cars" who are unaware that their favorite attributes exist in other cars. I think that the Toyota Supra is rear wheel drive. In fact, I'm pretty sure of it. The MR2 is definetly rear wheel drive - it's rear engined.
In a like vein, a friend of mine actually works for MS, and he is totally unable to see beyond the "shareware junk slapped together by a thousand idiots" line. He even runs an extremely successful website for a subset of car nuts, and has no interest in making his websites accessible to that 'tiny minority of nuts who don't run IE'.
He's an OK guy, but he just can't see outside of the box he's in.
Interesting note: there's another parallel between cars and computers. Toyota has been working on the "Toyota production system" for 40 years now. It is a completely different way of building cars (and everything else) and it has some amazing parallels to open source software.
The system, also called "Shingo" after the man who started it, has saved Porche from bankruptcy. Toyota makes no secret about their system, and even sends out instructors to anybody who wants them.
In a nutshell, it's continuous improvement with totally flexible production systems and just in time manufacturing.
No long production runs, because you're buried in useless parts if you make an engineering improvement. Kind of sounds like "release early, release often" doesn't it?
Software is easy to change and update, because the incremental production cost is close to zero. Physical car parts cost money, but if they're only made in runs of 1/100th the normal size, it only costs 1/100th as much in obsolete parts to change something.
Those actually in production are able to make changes in the manufacturing process to suit their own needs (required to, actually). Kind of like free software lets you make changes too.
Toyota's Shingo system and Free Software's open system do have many things in common, and it's no suprize that they're both taking huge bites out of their competition.
Toyota has an advantage, however, in that it makes oodles of money, and is competing in a still-fragmented market. MS is a behemoth, and has the power to write it's own laws in the US.
P.S. I see the above in action every day where I work (Not Toyota, just a company consiously emulating them)
I am being reasonable. The VW beetle was dripping molten aluminum at the end of the drag, but he did run an eleven. I saw it and was amazed. Apparently, the guy would bolt on his turbos and nitrus to engines from wrecked bugs and thrash them down the strip. That much is hersay from guys who claimed to know him. I did see the run, and I did see the aluminum dripping onto the asphalt.
I understand about drag losses in the exhaust. Mufflers on our sidepipes take about 100 HP off the top end from our 427's -- depending upon lots of other factors, of course.
Drop a line to my username in the commercial domain of asguard, and I'll send you a link to pics of what we build.
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Yes, we tuned an aluminum Ford 427 side oiler with multi-port fuel injection. It has 623 horsepower at sea level, but we're in the mountains. Since the ECU maps are all for sea level, it took several days of driving fast on mountain roads to get the map sorted out for high altitude.
I really like my job.
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You can also get a VW beetle to run an 11 second quarter mile on a stock engine, but it won't last much longer than that 1/4 mile.
Your point about the WRX (essentially a factory rally car) is that Subaru engineers decided to add two extra cats for the fun of it. I find that doubtful. Subaru won't be adding platinum plated mufflers just for ballast.
As to 35 HP in the Evo, aren't they turbo'd? That's a matter of trading engine life for power. An extreme example of this is in the more expensive classes of racing, where the life of the 1500 hp. engines is less than one mile.
Meanwhile, to argue that the Evo doesn't have all the power the engineers could reasonably get out is flawed. The Evo even has lightweight body panels for extra speed. If you're getting extra power, your greatly shortening your engine's useful life. That car was built for speed and little else.
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It's pretty obvious the TSA is already on to that. Obviously, AlQueda has decided to start recruiting democratic senators. Fortunately our brave TSA squads are preventing that nefarious plan.
Hey, notice they're all democrats?
-----
Anyway, I agree with the parent poster, though the humor was just too tempting. I'm a Republican with heavy Libertarian leanings, but I'll probably be voting for Kerry.
I'll vote for Kerry because evil bastards presidents aren't as bad as religous nutcases presidents.
Well, in one sense, it is quite true, since if she could fly on her own, she wouldn't need Air France in the first place. However, since she was denied transportation only after her luggage was checked, it would appear that she could manage other forms of transport on her own.
I would hazard a guess that Air France is currently contemplating dropping off that particular employee mid-flight to allow him to demonstrate his particular ability to fly on his own using his arms and legs.
I'm certain that this would more than satisfy the poor woman who was so shabbily treated by Air France.
The honorable Senator Orrin Hatch's son, Brent O. Hatch, is a lawyer for SCO. Read the service list at the bottom of this motion for preliminary summary judgment.
I suppose that it's remotely possible that the good senator actually thinks he's doing good, if he's had his head in the sand, but his son's actioins are flatly inexcusable. If Brent Hatch doesn't know enough of the law to realize he's the point man for an extortion ring of copyright thieves, well...
So to summarize: Daddy senator wants to blow up computers of copyright thieves. Son is working for copyright thieves who IBM says have stolen 750,000 plus lines of code.
Makes me sick.
Oh yeah, I'm from Utah.
hanzie.
Mmmmm. That word 'luser'. I don't think it means what you think it means....
You're a public librarian. Thank god for you and your kind.
hanzie.We can. Anybody can sue anybody for darn near anything. Many have sued Microsoft for various things, and won.
On the other hand, Microsoft is also allowed to:
1. Defend itself from our lawsuits.
2. Sue us back.
+1 hilarious.
By the way, last time I booted into safe mode on XP the top of the screen said "Build 2600"
You really have to wonder...
hanzie.
Potassium Chloride, actually.
We used it as a radioactive tracer in a Hazardous Materials Incident Response Supervisor class I once took.
Apparently, scatter some on a chemical spill and it becomes "mixed radioactive waste" and an extremely expensive remediation (clean up).
It depresses me how much I agree with your opinions.
I think the most important point, however, is to vote the experienced clowns out and new incompetents in. That way we at least have a respite while the new guy learns the ropes.
Mod parent post to oblivion, it is abuse.
If Spamhaus eliminated Spam, Steve Linford would be the first one dancing. He'd probably get a knighthood, but I think he'd prefer a good night's sleep.
MS claims that Hotmail receives 2 Billion spams a day. (That's 2x10^9 to you friends across the puddle). I don't see that going away, more's the pity.
We can't just "throw the rest away for murder". They require food, housing, medical treatment, trial, lawyers, appeals, ad nauseum.
I became anti-capital punishment simply because an average life sentance without parole is 14 years of hopelessness ending in death or suicide, with a total cost of around $600,000. The average death-penalty recipient lives 16 years, most of that time with the hope of beating the system on appeal, at a total cost of $1.8 million.
No, in my humble opinion, the "Optimal Situation" is all of the participants mortally wounding each other in an exciting enough fashion that it becomes a popular sport for idiots.
Hey, it's been done before, we can certainly hope.
For those who consider this viewpoint repugnant: All participants were informed and consenting. I believe that self-destructive behavior shouldn't be outlawed. I also believe that acts between consenting adults are nobody else's business. I also believe that everyone should have a right to end their own life in any way they please.
Oh, if they're old enough to get into something like this, they're old enough to consent. I had a pretty good idea of right and wrong at twelve. The age of responsibility for actions not hitting until 18 is a bad idea.
Hanzie.
Your logic is flawed. They all passed Darwinian selection, because they all survived.
At least if they had fought it out, some would be removed.
The result of what actually happened is that they'll ALL be back very soon, and possibly a little more versed in how to slide through the legal system, and with a little less respect for it.
I really don't care that I burned my mod points an hour ago.
You were already at 5, and I couldn't bounce your comment higher.
It definetly deserves the +10 funny, though.
And my wife thinks so too.
hanzie.
If I handn't already posted, I'd mod you up as +1 informative.
My sincere thanks for the excellent advice.
Don't bother reading the articles.
Just in case Yahoo news gets slashdotted, I've typed a plaintext mirror:
Newsflash! In movie 3 of the Starwars Hexology, Darth Vader will be seen wearing something different! Fashion Moguls can get an avanced look at cutting edge fashion for "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." by buying the DVD set.
George Lucas says:
Talk about stringing it out for money. Lucas is the master.
Another highlight:
SPOILER ALERT:
Of course, since Vader and Obi-Wan duke it out again in IV, the 'climactic showdown' will probably not end in the death of either character in III, unless Lucas has begun hiring script-writers from Star Trek TNG.
I agree with your main point. However, I disagree with your logic.
It's not 'competition', it's fighting for the freedom to use your computer in the way you want and need to, rather than the way MS wants.
And it isn't 'giving away something for free' because "giving away" means to deprive yourself of something in order to provide it to someone else.
It's not "giving away" your work, because you already worked to modify something for your own use. You're letting others copy your efforts, pretty much like you didn't have to invent arithmetic and calculus on your own to use it. Were Pythagorus and Newton depriving themsleves of something by sharing their insights on math?
OS isn't about being a slave to everyone else, it's about cooperating and not reinventing the wheel daily.
Thank God that nobody has yet figured out how to patent "the wheel" and immediately become the biggist "IP theft" victim in the world with rights to sue.
In '98 I predicted that the general purpose computer would be illegal in the US within 5 years. I'm extemely glad that it hasn't happened yet, but I see no reason to revise anything but the time limit.
Should MS share prices dive, MS will use some of that $60B to repurchase stock when it bottoms, then sell it when they run the price back up.
That will be just an added bonus when the time comes.
You can do a lot with 60 billion dollars. Really.
Funnily enough, this thread is on topic. Like MS software fans, there are adherents of "american cars" who are unaware that their favorite attributes exist in other cars. I think that the Toyota Supra is rear wheel drive. In fact, I'm pretty sure of it. The MR2 is definetly rear wheel drive - it's rear engined.
In a like vein, a friend of mine actually works for MS, and he is totally unable to see beyond the "shareware junk slapped together by a thousand idiots" line. He even runs an extremely successful website for a subset of car nuts, and has no interest in making his websites accessible to that 'tiny minority of nuts who don't run IE'.
He's an OK guy, but he just can't see outside of the box he's in.
Interesting note: there's another parallel between cars and computers. Toyota has been working on the "Toyota production system" for 40 years now. It is a completely different way of building cars (and everything else) and it has some amazing parallels to open source software.
The system, also called "Shingo" after the man who started it, has saved Porche from bankruptcy. Toyota makes no secret about their system, and even sends out instructors to anybody who wants them.
In a nutshell, it's continuous improvement with totally flexible production systems and just in time manufacturing.
No long production runs, because you're buried in useless parts if you make an engineering improvement. Kind of sounds like "release early, release often" doesn't it?
Software is easy to change and update, because the incremental production cost is close to zero. Physical car parts cost money, but if they're only made in runs of 1/100th the normal size, it only costs 1/100th as much in obsolete parts to change something.
Those actually in production are able to make changes in the manufacturing process to suit their own needs (required to, actually). Kind of like free software lets you make changes too.
Toyota's Shingo system and Free Software's open system do have many things in common, and it's no suprize that they're both taking huge bites out of their competition.
Toyota has an advantage, however, in that it makes oodles of money, and is competing in a still-fragmented market. MS is a behemoth, and has the power to write it's own laws in the US.
P.S. I see the above in action every day where I work (Not Toyota, just a company consiously emulating them)
Please mod parent up, +1 insightful.
You have very succinctly explained why there is so much viagra spam. It's because a huge company (Pfizer) profits from it.
Thank you very much.
Buy your own domain with e-mail forwarding. At 8 bucks a year it's a good deal. www.godaddy.com
Have all your domain e-mail forwarded to another clearing account. When you give out e-mail addresses it's
yourfriendsname@mydomain.com
then, you run a whitelist, and when a friend does something stupid, they're off the whitelist.
If you feel like forgiving them, they're new address is:
yourfriendsname2@mydomain.com
The "2" will be a continual reminder of their stupidity. Such reminders can be helpful to the intellectually impaired.
Fortunately for the truly clueless, there are many other numbers larger than 2 available.
good luck.
Excuse me, but is that yahoo address yours or the spammers?
I am being reasonable. The VW beetle was dripping molten aluminum at the end of the drag, but he did run an eleven. I saw it and was amazed. Apparently, the guy would bolt on his turbos and nitrus to engines from wrecked bugs and thrash them down the strip. That much is hersay from guys who claimed to know him. I did see the run, and I did see the aluminum dripping onto the asphalt.
I understand about drag losses in the exhaust. Mufflers on our sidepipes take about 100 HP off the top end from our 427's -- depending upon lots of other factors, of course.
Drop a line to my username in the commercial domain of asguard, and I'll send you a link to pics of what we build.
Yes, we tuned an aluminum Ford 427 side oiler with multi-port fuel injection. It has 623 horsepower at sea level, but we're in the mountains. Since the ECU maps are all for sea level, it took several days of driving fast on mountain roads to get the map sorted out for high altitude.
I really like my job.
You can also get a VW beetle to run an 11 second quarter mile on a stock engine, but it won't last much longer than that 1/4 mile.
Your point about the WRX (essentially a factory rally car) is that Subaru engineers decided to add two extra cats for the fun of it. I find that doubtful. Subaru won't be adding platinum plated mufflers just for ballast.
As to 35 HP in the Evo, aren't they turbo'd? That's a matter of trading engine life for power. An extreme example of this is in the more expensive classes of racing, where the life of the 1500 hp. engines is less than one mile.
Meanwhile, to argue that the Evo doesn't have all the power the engineers could reasonably get out is flawed. The Evo even has lightweight body panels for extra speed. If you're getting extra power, your greatly shortening your engine's useful life. That car was built for speed and little else.