Leave the senile old man out of this.I hate his guts too,but no one,not even Reagan,deserves to die of Altzhimers Disease.It's a horrible was to die. This.sig brought to you in living ASCII!
Terra 1.1.03 is now available for downloading from all the usual locations:The UPGR website,Freshmeat,etc.Terra v1.1.03 is a service patch designed to correct bugs discovered in the previous version,such as:
*Severe overheating caused by massive increases in CO2 *Circumvents "conservation of energy" problem by dumping excess heat generated by a stop in rotation out/dev/null.The code's rather messy,but were currently working on it.Use at your own risk *The rather annoying segfault that would start a major earthquake when four or more plates collided has been fixed.This is most applicable to/regions/Japan/plates *Fixed bug that would cause/events/climate/oceanic/ElNino-LaNina widget to lock up system and go into an infinite loop *Bug in/life/sentient/adv/HomoSapiensSapiens fixed to remove limits on common_sense value.
New features: *Improved LunaBuild app,including various terrains and an option for atmospheres *BRAND NEW!-Ringbuild app,allows root superuser to create rings of various matterials and designs,allowing for up to 4 ring systems on one world *Allows for more than one form of intelligent lifeform on a planet...a highly requested feature.
For more information about Terra,please contact Penguinitic Software at this address.Thank you. ------------------------
Beloved Comrade OOG_THE_CAVEMAN,you have entertained and through your humor showed your...ah...intresting oppinions to our comrades on Slashdot,and for doing such,I,as Benevolent Dictator,award you the Medal of Penguinitic Honor for Unselfish Humor.May you be held up as an example of true ROTFLMAO humor,insightful caveman arguing,and may your best rants never be moderated down.Long live Comrade OOG!
Comrades,please stand for our National HymnThank you.
Instructions for Comrade Penguin's ChillPills(nonTM) 1)Remove pill from package 2)Insert into mouth. 3)Repeat as nessacary
According to Scott Adam's guide:You Are An Idiot Because...Reason 28-Taking things to absurd conclusions(or something like that)If AOL did control the Net,do you really think they could ever reign it ALL in?No!...It's huge!No matter how many bots they use,how many people monitor what gets posted,someone's gonna break the security or decive the monitors or something...there are more people with a fricking clue than you may think...whatever filter Big Evil Company develops,someone's gonna crack it.There is no conspiracy(other than my GNUist penguins...but that's a secret:P )buddy,so don't try to create one where none exists.AOL can't control all media,because someone,somewhere,will create a media not controlled by AOL and circulate it in the underground.They will find a way.That's human nature.That's nature period.Life finds a way.No matter what.
As for the gun thing...Counterpoint:do you really think the guys nuking gun control care about the Colombine kids either?NO!All most politicans(left or right...get off your high horse man) really give a damn about is getting reelected.
One more thing-Socialism=!CCCP.The best model of socialism as theorized were some of the communes created by people in the 19th century...I remember a few from American history.The reason for my above point is that Lenin tried to bend Socailism to Russia,where it didn't fit,and Stalin accelerated a process that should of happened gradually.And don't get me started about Khrushchev.I am not trying to skirt around their atrocities,but your defination of is socialism is the one given to you by your nation.Try reading an encyclopedia or dictionaly article.Then take that and browse through all of history...you will find socialism in the oddest places.
Ok,I'm done.I'm sorry about being off topic.I appologize for ranting.Goodbye.
PS:My nickname is not an endorsement for the US Communist Party.So don't even try it. ---------------------------------
The real problem here on/. is not selling out to anyone,or Jon Katz,or who gets posts up,the real problem here are people who don't care about the things that are discussed here:They don't care about Linux or Free software,the don't care about science,sci-fi,world issues,they don't give credit where it is due to everybody who makes Slashdot intresting.These aren't nessearily all new users,because some of us(I am one of them...started reading about 7 months ago) really do care about the topics on/. and post intresting and/or funny comments.
What people need to realize is that while Slashdot is essentialy a democracy(anybody can voice their aggenda or belifes here),but what some people don't realize is that:
*You don't need to read articles you don't want to read *You shouldn't post something if it contributes nothing to the disscussions or creates a new disscussion.If your gonna flame the author,then email them.Most of us don't care to see your latest reason to blow Jon Katz to pieces.
So help us fight the decay of Slashdot.Ignore ALL script kiddies,31337 h4x0rs,trolls.Deny them attention and they will just wither in the darkness.
Sorry about the rant everyone.I hope someone,somewhere,got something out of my rambling.Till I post again, Comrade Penguin -----------------------
Yes,it is true,I have all 25 eppisodes(including this one!)on Napster,just do a search for Geeks in Space!Your all welcome.Feel free to complete your collection today! ----------------
I've heard a few suggestions here that the/. community should begin a page that can be used to show people what Pinkerton is doing with the whole WAVE thing is wrong.I'm not sure if anyone has done this,but I'm going to volunteer my server space to do this.
That's right...If enough people email me about this and send me some information to start me off with,I will assemble a simple site for the purpose of informing the public.Who knows if someone out there reading/. is a reporter for a newspaper,or a reporter for a news network,etc.
So help me out.Flood my mail box with thoughts and information.I'm ready to help.
Matt "ComradePenguin" Adair --------------------------------------
Speaking of multi-platform drivers,is it possible to create a Linux/Be/etc. driver that lets you use a winmodem?Is there a project out there trying to accomplish this?You can't immagine how many newbies are stuck with these pieces of crap until they can get around to getting a real modem.And then there are the laptops,if you have a winmodem in there then you're basicly screwed as it's a royal pain to replace.
remove the food that Monty Python loves to email me.
Ok,ok,I surrender.You have rendered all the theories I could develop based on my knowledge impractical by either the laws of orbital mechanics or by the laws of economics(one is immutable and nessacary,the other is immutable,nessacary,and sometimes is a royal pain.)Thank you Tau for the intresting discussion.
I will now go out and find out about some of what you mentioned.I need to improve my knowledge of orbital mechanics anyway.
Damn...I should have studdied my model of Mir as I wrote that.While the 2nd and 3rd problems are not unsolvable(2nd:I realized this after you mentioned the Van Allen Belts...you don't put people up there for long amounts of time.So i changed my idea:Mir could be mostly unmanned except for ocassional maintnence crews who would only stay for a week or so,and the station's critical electronics could be shielded...I never said we had to do this tomorrow....as for the 3rd:Ok,push it up to the Earth-Moon liberation point."Buzz" Aldren had suggested this method in his book "Men from Earth".As for fuel,this project would be delayed until a light,fairly effecient fuel to be created or discovered...again,as I stated before,this whole project would take time to come to fruitition...,then you could stick it on any boster and send it to Mir.)and one could plot an orbit that was arc like,similar to what Voyager 1&2 did.from there,take the most fuel efficient path to Luna.Future moon missions would need to be timed as accurately as Apollo missions.
It's the first statement that screws everything.To my knowledge Mir's solar panels are not retractable.Any tying togeter of modules would create a hideously tangeled mess of solar arrays.The struts supporting the arrays would be,as you said with the modules and such,over-torqued and snap,rendering Mir useless.I could be wrong,but otherwise my plan doesn't work.
I have taught myself some rudimentary orbital mechanics.I most of forgoten from being so happy for the project to save Mir.Next time I will wait until I am calm enough to write clearly.
The neatest idea of what to do with Mir is to send up one of Russia's freaking-big Energya heavy-lift boosters to give Mir a push out to about 20,000 miles up.Strap fuel tanks to it,and replace the damaged Spektr module or the ancient Mir Core Module with a new crew facility/dockink port.Tada!From here Mir can serve as a refuling/resuply station for travelers to the Moon.
Yes,I am fully aware of Russia's financial situation.This is why private companies(Energya NPO,MirCorp,et al.) have taken an intrest in Mir.My sugestion is that American corperations ask to partcipate in expanding and reparing Mir and then establishing it as a Lunar "Train" Depot.Believe me,investing the ressources nessecary to fix up Mir,an existing space station,is a much better than building a brand new station from the ground up,(which,more and more,doesn't look like the ISS-Alpha ever be built)
So quit yapping about how Mir "is unsafe and a danger to space flight"...the thing is built on experience the Soviets had when they built the military/civilian station Salyut.It's designed to automaticly set itself in a neutral position with Mir Core Module pointing to Earth should cosmonauts lose control of the station.The Russian Cosmonauts have proven themselves capable of handeling most problems on board.The Soyuz-TM is always docked to the station,providing a means of escape if something were to go catastrophicly wrong(which,without refits to older modules,could happen).Mir has outlived Skylab,which by the way was a Saturn V third stage.Americans hadn't really given a damn about space stations until Salyut had already proven the ability to live and work in space.While Space Station Freedom was being bounced around in Congress (between 1984-1991) Mir had already been launched and Kvant-1 and Kvant-2 had been docked.Only very recently(1995)had the ISS been born.
Darn I got sidetracked.Well to sum everything up,The Earth-Mir-Moon idea should be considered.We've explored the Moon,it's now time to go there and start moving people and industries out there.Earth is crowded.It's dirty.How can you pollute the air and water of a world with none of these?That's right:you can't.You could suck the resources dry,so we'd need rules against that.But we needn't worry about that now...that comes later in the effort,so we needn't worry about it right away.The most important thing is we go.Mir provides us a useful refuling/resupply station for Lunar travel,but we've gotta fix it first.So lets down to business folks.
I'm reffering to the cracks made in the papers which dub him "King George".Plus,He's running virtually unopposed as the Republican candidate (alan keys has very little chance against W) and many don't like Gore as they would hate a continuation of the Clinton-Gore line.And while W may not "give a rat's ass" about MS,BillyBorg cares a bunch if W gets elected(which is why Billy sent this faux letter)...W stands for smaller government that leaves business alone...something Gates is quite concerned with.
To:George W. Bush Coronation Headquarters From:William Gates III
I'm beginning to come under serious pressure you idiot!These rediculous anti-trust laws are breaking my back.I've wired along a few billion dollars to help speed up your upcomming coronation.I don't care what it takes...kill Gore if need be,everyone hates him as much as those Linux-commies hate you.Buy congress.I don't care!Stop those commies in the Dept. of Justice and make it snappy...my stock options are depending on you!
-Secret BillyBorg(tm) Bank Info snipped so comradePenguin doesn't go to jail-
To:Ziff-Davis Publishing From:United States Dept. of Justice
We have examined your website www.zdtv.com and have found that it is a special case.Our rulling on hyperlinking on a page doesn't apply to your extensively and seemingly arbitrarily hyperlinked pages.As a result we have consulted the geek community at large and have determined that your sentence is one(1) bombardment aka 'Slashdot Effect'This sentence is effective immediately.
How could I have forgotten C.S. Lewis?I spent a month studying him in A.H. English I!You are correct...Out of the Silent Planet makes a very good point about humans and extraterrestrials.It's been about 9 months since I read them last...they weren't formost in my mind when I wrote this.
Also,what about those who are not Christians?The followers of Jesus Christ account for only about 1 billion people (or so...can't rememmber the exact number)...what about a Muslim?A Hindu?What do they think?This is an Open Source(tm...I think)forum!I want everyone's oppinion!
And what would you be if the aliens asked YOU?Think long and hard...don't worry,no one will condem you to hell or something based on your answer.I don't have anywhere near that much power.
And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
But didnt MATRIX tell us not to believe in fate:-) ?
The Matrix is a movieYes the film raises some questions....but it's just a movie!Movies aren't guides to the universe,they are a means to tell a story.
And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
Of course,if you believe in some kind of God(god/goddess),then you are faced with a big question...What happens if life is discovered elsewhere in the universe?Are they part of God's Creation?Do they share in Love?Are they just as special to God as we are?
I,personaly,believe all life is of the same value.However,with so many opinions on the topic,not everyone may agree with me.Just read Carl Sagan's Contact...in the novel,some people feared the extraterrestrials even though they had never met them!
Just remove "spam_" and "spam." to email me.
And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
Christ!I just had my PC work out the digits in PI in base 11 notation and after it did a few million digits over the course of 4 days everything stopped and there was only 0's and 1's!Like so: 0000000000000000000000000 0000000000011000000000000 0000000001100110000000000 0000000110000001100000000 0000011000000000011000000 0000000110000001100000000 0000000001100110000000000 0000000000011000000000000 0000000000000000000000000
---Asbestos Suit ON--- Absolutely correct.Post-1977 version,when they took out all the refernces to Stalin.It's called "The Hymn to the Soviet Socialist Republics" or something.I hope nobody flames me about the connection between the two. And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
We could also bring along Linus and ESR and Alan Cox and all our geeky leaders!And we will march on the capitol and not leave until our demands are met....hehehe....we could hold Capitol Mall hostage!...oops...echelon may of heard that...delete...delete!
The Hymn of the Penguin's Republic of Linux
Unbreakable Source Code created by Linus, Great Internet has brought us together to code Created in strugle against the "cathedral" United and mighty, long may GNU stand!
Sing to Mighty Linux, home of the free! Bulwark of hackers by the GPL made strong! O Party of Linus, the strength of the penguins, To GNUism's triumph lead us on!
Through tempests the sunrays of IPO's have cheered us Along the new path where great Linus did lead. To a righteous cause against Closed Source he drove us, Inspired us to stay up nights and patch the code again!
Sing to Mighty Linux, home of the free! Bulwark of hackers by the GPL made strong! O Party of Linus, the strength of the penguins, To GNUism's triumph lead us on!
In the vict'ry of GNUism's deathless ideals, We rally round Slashdot,our beacon so clear! And to Linus's penguin banner we cheer: Long live free software,free speach,and free beer!
And if the politicrats don't give in at first,we could sing the Hymn to the Penguin's Rep. of Linux over and over and over...off key mind you...until they go mad. Count me in. And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
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Leave the senile old man out of this.I hate his guts too,but no one,not even Reagan,deserves to die of Altzhimers Disease.It's a horrible was to die. .sig brought to you in living ASCII!
This
Penguinitic Software presents
/dev/null.The code's rather messy,but were currently working on it.Use at your own risk /regions/Japan/plates /events/climate/oceanic/ElNino-LaNina widget to lock up system and go into an infinite loop /life/sentient/adv/HomoSapiensSapiens fixed to remove limits on common_sense value.
Terra Version 1.1!
Terra 1.1.03 is now available for downloading from all the usual locations:The UPGR website,Freshmeat,etc.Terra v1.1.03 is a service patch designed to correct bugs discovered in the previous version,such as:
*Severe overheating caused by massive increases in CO2
*Circumvents "conservation of energy" problem by dumping excess heat generated by a stop in rotation out
*The rather annoying segfault that would start a major earthquake when four or more plates collided has been fixed.This is most applicable to
*Fixed bug that would cause
*Bug in
New features:
*Improved LunaBuild app,including various terrains and an option for atmospheres
*BRAND NEW!-Ringbuild app,allows root superuser to create rings of various matterials and designs,allowing for up to 4 ring systems on one world
*Allows for more than one form of intelligent lifeform on a planet...a highly requested feature.
For more information about Terra,please contact Penguinitic Software at this address.Thank you.
------------------------
At the UPGR awards cerimony...
Beloved Comrade OOG_THE_CAVEMAN,you have entertained and through your humor showed your...ah...intresting oppinions to our comrades on Slashdot,and for doing such,I,as Benevolent Dictator,award you the Medal of Penguinitic Honor for Unselfish Humor.May you be held up as an example of true ROTFLMAO humor,insightful caveman arguing,and may your best rants never be moderated down.Long live Comrade OOG!
Comrades,please stand for our National HymnThank you.
Instructions for Comrade Penguin's
:P )buddy,so don't try to create one where none exists.AOL can't control all media,because someone,somewhere,will create a media not controlled by AOL and circulate it in the underground.They will find a way.That's human nature.That's nature period.Life finds a way.No matter what.
ChillPills(nonTM)
1)Remove pill from package
2)Insert into mouth.
3)Repeat as nessacary
According to Scott Adam's guide:You Are An Idiot Because...Reason 28-Taking things to absurd conclusions(or something like that)If AOL did control the Net,do you really think they could ever reign it ALL in?No!...It's huge!No matter how many bots they use,how many people monitor what gets posted,someone's gonna break the security or decive the monitors or something...there are more people with a fricking clue than you may think...whatever filter Big Evil Company develops,someone's gonna crack it.There is no conspiracy(other than my GNUist penguins...but that's a secret
As for the gun thing...Counterpoint:do you really think the guys nuking gun control care about the Colombine kids either?NO!All most politicans(left or right...get off your high horse man) really give a damn about is getting reelected.
One more thing-Socialism=!CCCP.The best model of socialism as theorized were some of the communes created by people in the 19th century...I remember a few from American history.The reason for my above point is that Lenin tried to bend Socailism to Russia,where it didn't fit,and Stalin accelerated a process that should of happened gradually.And don't get me started about Khrushchev.I am not trying to skirt around their atrocities,but your defination of is socialism is the one given to you by your nation.Try reading an encyclopedia or dictionaly article.Then take that and browse through all of history...you will find socialism in the oddest places.
Ok,I'm done.I'm sorry about being off topic.I appologize for ranting.Goodbye.
PS:My nickname is not an endorsement for the US Communist Party.So don't even try it.
---------------------------------
The real problem here on /. is not selling out to anyone,or Jon Katz,or who gets posts up,the real problem here are people who don't care about the things that are discussed here:They don't care about Linux or Free software,the don't care about science,sci-fi,world issues,they don't give credit where it is due to everybody who makes Slashdot intresting.These aren't nessearily all new users,because some of us(I am one of them...started reading about 7 months ago) really do care about the topics on /. and post intresting and/or funny comments.
What people need to realize is that while Slashdot is essentialy a democracy(anybody can voice their aggenda or belifes here),but what some people don't realize is that:
*You don't need to read articles you don't want to read
*You shouldn't post something if it contributes nothing to the disscussions or creates a new disscussion.If your gonna flame the author,then email them.Most of us don't care to see your latest reason to blow Jon Katz to pieces.
So help us fight the decay of Slashdot.Ignore ALL script kiddies,31337 h4x0rs,trolls.Deny them attention and they will just wither in the darkness.
Sorry about the rant everyone.I hope someone,somewhere,got something out of my rambling.Till I post again,
Comrade Penguin
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Yes,it is true,I have all 25 eppisodes(including this one!)on Napster,just do a search for Geeks in Space!Your all welcome.Feel free to complete your collection today!
----------------
Mr. Stallman,do you think it is it possible to expand the ideas of Free Software to other industries?Is it worth trying?
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I've heard a few suggestions here that the /. community should begin a page that can be used to show people what Pinkerton is doing with the whole WAVE thing is wrong.I'm not sure if anyone has done this,but I'm going to volunteer my server space to do this.
/. is a reporter for a newspaper,or a reporter for a news network,etc.
That's right...If enough people email me about this and send me some information to start me off with,I will assemble a simple site for the purpose of informing the public.Who knows if someone out there reading
So help me out.Flood my mail box with thoughts and information.I'm ready to help.
Matt "ComradePenguin" Adair
--------------------------------------
Speaking of multi-platform drivers,is it possible to create a Linux/Be/etc. driver that lets you use a winmodem?Is there a project out there trying to accomplish this?You can't immagine how many newbies are stuck with these pieces of crap until they can get around to getting a real modem.And then there are the laptops,if you have a winmodem in there then you're basicly screwed as it's a royal pain to replace.
remove the food that Monty Python loves to email me.
flushidea(%x,"Toilet Bowl")
execute
Ok,ok,I surrender.You have rendered all the theories I could develop based on my knowledge impractical by either the laws of orbital mechanics or by the laws of economics(one is immutable and nessacary,the other is immutable,nessacary,and sometimes is a royal pain.)Thank you Tau for the intresting discussion.
I will now go out and find out about some of what you mentioned.I need to improve my knowledge of orbital mechanics anyway.
Sincerly,
Comrade Penguin
Damn...I should have studdied my model of Mir as I wrote that.While the 2nd and 3rd problems are not unsolvable(2nd:I realized this after you mentioned the Van Allen Belts...you don't put people up there for long amounts of time.So i changed my idea:Mir could be mostly unmanned except for ocassional maintnence crews who would only stay for a week or so,and the station's critical electronics could be shielded...I never said we had to do this tomorrow....as for the 3rd:Ok,push it up to the Earth-Moon liberation point."Buzz" Aldren had suggested this method in his book "Men from Earth".As for fuel,this project would be delayed until a light,fairly effecient fuel to be created or discovered...again,as I stated before,this whole project would take time to come to fruitition...,then you could stick it on any boster and send it to Mir.)and one could plot an orbit that was arc like,similar to what Voyager 1&2 did.from there,take the most fuel efficient path to Luna.Future moon missions would need to be timed as accurately as Apollo missions.
It's the first statement that screws everything.To my knowledge Mir's solar panels are not retractable.Any tying togeter of modules would create a hideously tangeled mess of solar arrays.The struts supporting the arrays would be,as you said with the modules and such,over-torqued and snap,rendering Mir useless.I could be wrong,but otherwise my plan doesn't work.
I have taught myself some rudimentary orbital mechanics.I most of forgoten from being so happy for the project to save Mir.Next time I will wait until I am calm enough to write clearly.
The neatest idea of what to do with Mir is to send up one of Russia's freaking-big Energya heavy-lift boosters to give Mir a push out to about 20,000 miles up.Strap fuel tanks to it,and replace the damaged Spektr module or the ancient Mir Core Module with a new crew facility/dockink port.Tada!From here Mir can serve as a refuling/resuply station for travelers to the Moon.
Yes,I am fully aware of Russia's financial situation.This is why private companies(Energya NPO,MirCorp,et al.) have taken an intrest in Mir.My sugestion is that American corperations ask to partcipate in expanding and reparing Mir and then establishing it as a Lunar "Train" Depot.Believe me,investing the ressources nessecary to fix up Mir,an existing space station,is a much better than building a brand new station from the ground up,(which,more and more,doesn't look like the ISS-Alpha ever be built)
So quit yapping about how Mir "is unsafe and a danger to space flight"...the thing is built on experience the Soviets had when they built the military/civilian station Salyut.It's designed to automaticly set itself in a neutral position with Mir Core Module pointing to Earth should cosmonauts lose control of the station.The Russian Cosmonauts have proven themselves capable of handeling most problems on board.The Soyuz-TM is always docked to the station,providing a means of escape if something were to go catastrophicly wrong(which,without refits to older modules,could happen).Mir has outlived Skylab,which by the way was a Saturn V third stage.Americans hadn't really given a damn about space stations until Salyut had already proven the ability to live and work in space.While Space Station Freedom was being bounced around in Congress (between 1984-1991) Mir had already been launched and Kvant-1 and Kvant-2 had been docked.Only very recently(1995)had the ISS been born.
Darn I got sidetracked.Well to sum everything up,The Earth-Mir-Moon idea should be considered.We've explored the Moon,it's now time to go there and start moving people and industries out there.Earth is crowded.It's dirty.How can you pollute the air and water of a world with none of these?That's right:you can't.You could suck the resources dry,so we'd need rules against that.But we needn't worry about that now...that comes later in the effort,so we needn't worry about it right away.The most important thing is we go.Mir provides us a useful refuling/resupply station for Lunar travel,but we've gotta fix it first.So lets down to business folks.
Ack!I must preserve our newest presidential candidate,THOR. by unpluging it and keeping him at least 2 feet from all ethernet ports!
all we need to know is wheather or not Jesse Berst is really an advanced VBScript (yes I KNOW that's an oxymoron...) running on ZDNet's NT4 server.
The penguins have revolted...Visit The UPGR
But does it run apache?A linux server is really good if it runs Apache.
The penguins have revolted...Visit The UPGR
I'm reffering to the cracks made in the papers which dub him "King George".Plus,He's running virtually unopposed as the Republican candidate (alan keys has very little chance against W) and many don't like Gore as they would hate a continuation of the Clinton-Gore line.And while W may not "give a rat's ass" about MS,BillyBorg cares a bunch if W gets elected(which is why Billy sent this faux letter)...W stands for smaller government that leaves business alone...something Gates is quite concerned with.
The penguins have revolted...Visit The UPGR
To:George W. Bush Coronation Headquarters
From:William Gates III
I'm beginning to come under serious pressure you idiot!These rediculous anti-trust laws are breaking my back.I've wired along a few billion dollars to help speed up your upcomming coronation.I don't care what it takes...kill Gore if need be,everyone hates him as much as those Linux-commies hate you.Buy congress.I don't care!Stop those commies in the Dept. of Justice and make it snappy...my stock options are depending on you!
-Secret BillyBorg(tm) Bank Info snipped so comradePenguin doesn't go to jail-
The penguins have revolted...Visit The UPGR
To:Ziff-Davis Publishing
From:United States Dept. of Justice
We have examined your website www.zdtv.com and have found that it is a special case.Our rulling on hyperlinking on a page doesn't apply to your extensively and seemingly arbitrarily hyperlinked pages.As a result we have consulted the geek community at large and have determined that your sentence is one(1) bombardment aka 'Slashdot Effect'This sentence is effective immediately.
Have a nice day.
The penguins have revolted...Visit The UPGR
How could I have forgotten C.S. Lewis?I spent a month studying him in A.H. English I!You are correct...Out of the Silent Planet makes a very good point about humans and extraterrestrials.It's been about 9 months since I read them last...they weren't formost in my mind when I wrote this.
Also,what about those who are not Christians?The followers of Jesus Christ account for only about 1 billion people (or so...can't rememmber the exact number)...what about a Muslim?A Hindu?What do they think?This is an Open Source(tm...I think)forum!I want everyone's oppinion!
And what would you be if the aliens asked YOU?Think long and hard...don't worry,no one will condem you to hell or something based on your answer.I don't have anywhere near that much power.
And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
Figure it out.
But didnt MATRIX tell us not to believe in fate :-) ?
The Matrix is a movieYes the film raises some questions....but it's just a movie!Movies aren't guides to the universe,they are a means to tell a story.
And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
Figure it out.
Of course,if you believe in some kind of God(god/goddess),then you are faced with a big question...What happens if life is discovered elsewhere in the universe?Are they part of God's Creation?Do they share in Love?Are they just as special to God as we are?
I,personaly,believe all life is of the same value.However,with so many opinions on the topic,not everyone may agree with me.Just read Carl Sagan's Contact...in the novel,some people feared the extraterrestrials even though they had never met them!
Just remove "spam_" and "spam." to email me.
And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
Figure it out.
Christ!I just had my PC work out the digits in PI in base 11 notation and after it did a few million digits over the course of 4 days everything stopped and there was only 0's and 1's!Like so:
0000000000000000000000000
0000000000011000000000000
0000000001100110000000000
0000000110000001100000000
0000011000000000011000000
0000000110000001100000000
0000000001100110000000000
0000000000011000000000000
0000000000000000000000000
Screw SETI@home I'm building my own fricking antenna!
The source of the data
---Asbestos Suit ON--- Absolutely correct.Post-1977 version,when they took out all the refernces to Stalin.It's called "The Hymn to the Soviet Socialist Republics" or something.I hope nobody flames me about the connection between the two.
And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
Figure it out.
We could also bring along Linus and ESR and Alan Cox and all our geeky leaders!And we will march on the capitol and not leave until our demands are met....hehehe....we could hold Capitol Mall hostage!...oops...echelon may of heard that...delete...delete!
The Hymn of the Penguin's Republic of Linux
Unbreakable Source Code created by Linus,
Great Internet has brought us together to code
Created in strugle against the "cathedral"
United and mighty, long may GNU stand!
Sing to Mighty Linux, home of the free!
Bulwark of hackers by the GPL made strong!
O Party of Linus, the strength of the penguins,
To GNUism's triumph lead us on!
Through tempests the sunrays of IPO's have cheered us
Along the new path where great Linus did lead.
To a righteous cause against Closed Source he drove us,
Inspired us to stay up nights and patch the code again!
Sing to Mighty Linux, home of the free!
Bulwark of hackers by the GPL made strong!
O Party of Linus, the strength of the penguins,
To GNUism's triumph lead us on!
In the vict'ry of GNUism's deathless ideals,
We rally round Slashdot,our beacon so clear!
And to Linus's penguin banner we cheer:
Long live free software,free speach,and free beer!
And if the politicrats don't give in at first,we could sing the Hymn to the Penguin's Rep. of Linux over and over and over...off key mind you...until they go mad.
Count me in.
And the Comrade asks you:Why do YOU think it's called Windows CE???
Figure it out.