Hmm, I was going to jump in and say just about what you did here, only with a lot less detail... But then I thought, well, the kid's probably right, in a sense. That is: could a bunch of civilian couch potatoes (or gym rats, what difference does it make?) defeat the US military, in a military conflict? Of course not.
But- if it were not a military conflict, but a sustained occupation/police action, could those civilians wreak nearly as much havok as (non-military) Iraqis have? Why not? Doesn't require a whole lot training/sophistication/technology to foment disorder and fuck shit up.
Of course, it will never come to that in the US (sorry, would-be Wolverines!) because it would be Bad for Business. So really, there's no point wanking about it at all.
I just wanted to say, I think going along with your government right or wrong isn't patriotism. It's treason.
is an outstanding turn of phrase. I just took it for my email.sig, and I look forward to having to explain it to people. Thanks.
Yeah, but just hit refresh 15 or 20 times, and you're in. While you're at it, try downloading their marketing info- it's not that big of a pdf, but I'm sure every little bit helps.
I live in Minnesota now, but grew up in various parts of Arizona, and as long as you're not in Phoenix, you can get by just fine with swamp coolers, which I like a lot better, 'cos it keeps some moisture in the air. That doesn't work in Phoenix, which is way more humid than you'd think, so there you *need* airconditioning.
And so, by following a regimen that involves never being outside in the summer for more than a couple of minutes, driving from your airconditioned house with its irrigated lawn, to your airconditioned office park over by the golfcourse, or to the restaurant in the mall, you can move straight to Phoenix from Kansas and never realize you're in the desert at all. Whether that's a good or bad thing I'll leave up to someone less cranky than I feel at the moment.
Au contraire, my anonymous friend, your post is still at zero because if one of the teenage libertarians around here wants a piece of drooling, contentless, propaganda to moderate up, there's undoubtedly one that says exactly the same thing, posted by someone who logged in.
Honestly, do you ever read Slashdot?
Oh, wait, you're kidding... ha ha... sorry, I'm not used to 'wingers trying to be funny. Good job.
(mod me down, the thread's offtopic, whatever, I just can't help it sometimes.)
Hi! You're the victimized right-wing-whiner of the day! Nothing personsl, god knows you're not the best or only one to use a +2 bonus to bitch about how oppressed you are by the hippies around here, but you're a good enough example.
Lessee... your sig? Flamebait, and you know it. The post you got modded down as flamebait for? Yep, flamebait. You know, if you're really too high to realize that " Boo-hoo! Instead of beating Microsoft in the marketplace, it appears now that Ralph and his band of merry socialists want to use the heavy hand of Government to manipulate the OS market" is flamebait, and that getting modded for it doesn't mean that there's a socialist cabal on/., then I feel sorry for you.
Actually, I do anyway, you seem like a very bitter and unhappy person. It's been very strange to me, the way that right-wingers in the last 10 years have managed to convince themselves that despite being constant apologists for the status-quo, they're somehow victims of society too, because people disagree with them. Certainly it's easier to believe that everyone else is stupid and deluded, than to believe that you might be wrong, or that your own lack of social skills could accont for the fact that people don't like you. It's just not very logical. But don't let that stop you.
Obviously, it would be pointless to argue that your free-market-fundamentalism has no relevance in a monopolized market, that argument is made every day on slashdot, and ignored assiduously by people like you. On the other hand, the fact that you apparently think that snide remarks about "environmentalist scientists like Sting and Bono", and a link to junkscience.com in your profile, adds up to a political position, deserves some attention.
What makes a corporate lobbyist more credible than Nader? Why should the agenda of an apologist for whichever company's paying his bills, be worth any consideration at all? (I realize the links I've provided could be seen as partisan, I'm not claiming otherwise, although the skeptic's dictionary seems pretty levelheaded. That's the difference though, I'm not trying to claim that I'm a lone voice bravely defending rationality.)
But obviously, it's all about money, and I must be a crazy socialist to ask who's paying for the propaganda. If they have money, they must be right, right? Of course they are. Might makes right, right? Too bad for you it isn't the other way around, or else maybe you wouldn't be so upset about being modded down for posting recycled Limbaughisms, 'cos you'd have better things to do with all that power.
Well, if you're not in favor of lining the oil industry's pockets, then how come you're linking to a website for a group that's pretty much a bunch of industry-shills? Not that that necessarily means they're lying or anything. I mean, as far as I can tell the premise of the editorial you linked to was based on reality, but this:
Temporary price spikes by OPEC have not proved sustainable because they brought forth new supplies, encouraged substitution of oil for coal or gas, and stimulated conservation by consumers and businesses.
In short, even if the new scientific evidence about oil is wrong, one can still say that the world will never run out of it. Higher prices will always bring new supplies to market.
What the hell does that even mean? We can't ever run out of oil because if we start to, we'll either use less, or find more, somehow?
Yeah, ok, IANA Geochemist. But any time Big Oil tells me I shouldn't be worrying, I start to think I might not be worried enough.
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Well, I was going to mention a couple of other examples, but just check this out: http://www.sgi.net/zeppelin/faq/faql_1.html#18
Holy crap! There's 20 or 30 songs listed there. True, folk/blues/rock are all about borrowing, and extending traditions, which worked just fine before the record industry existed. After that, it worked just fine if you took from dead people... the times that Zeppelin didn't, account for Willie Dixon successfully suing them.
If you've got an interest in Zep, and the blues, that FAQ could be a real good source of 'new' old stuff to check out... and since a lot of it's public domain, from people who died 60 years ago, you don't even have to feel guilty about downloading it...
Yeah, it's a chain reaction, because every time you make fun of them on a website, they have to stop fighting terrorism for long enough to get a Carnivore warrant to investigate you, right? Fortunately, they'll probably lose the evidence anyway.
You know, I actually like a lot of hip-hop (more the underground side of it, usually) but I started disliking Eminem way before I ever heard his music, just based on reading reviews about it, seeing quotes from his stuff that seemed really stupid, etc.
But once I actually ever heard any of him, I was instantly convinced: he's incredibly talented, and fucking hilarious. It's probably difficult to appreciate for a lot of people, 'cos rappers writing/rhyming/mc-ing skills can't easily be separated from their subject matter.
But on the other hand, for all the abuse that he heaps on pretty much everyone in the world, he's pretty clear on how much he despises himself as well. He doesn't come across, to me, as a would-be badass, or street-wise thug, so much as a guy who's just intelligent and self-conscious to realize how fucked up he is, but who's talented and funny enough to make it fun for other people to listen to, as long as they don't take him seriously
Not my argument here, but who else is even around at the moment? Anyways, it doesn't seem like you read the parent very closely- he didn't say he was afraid to fly, he said it's faster to drive 350 miles than to take a 'one-hour' plane flight. So possibly the terrorists have already won there. But if dealing with airports is going to be that much of a hassle, then more people flying isn't going to make it any better.
Personally, I'd rather die a quick and appalling death than have to wait in a bunch of damned lines, so I guess I'm not that terrorized.
truly feel sorry for those alive today that never have seen humans walking on other worlds for real, not in the movies, and have NO IDEA of the uplift to the heart and soul it brings...
Amen. I'm quite a bit younger, wasn't a teenager 'til the 80's, but my whole childhood, it seems, was infused with the idea that exciting things were happening in space, and that one day, inevitably, we could all go somewhere else, even if only for a visit. I don't know if it's exactly on-topic, but the last few lines of your post really reminded me of this Billy Bragg song, which came out in '98, and which a lot of/.-ers probably haven't heard, 'cos they don't listen to English socialist folk singers. It sort of chokes me up every time I hear it.
The Space Race Is Over
When I was young I told my mum I'm going to walk on the Moon someday Armstrong and Aldrin spoke to me From Houston and Cape Kennedy And I watched the Eagle landing On a night when the Moon was full And as it tugged at the tides, I knew deep inside I too could feel its pull
I lay in my bed and dreamed I walked On the Sea of Tranquillity I knew that someday soon we'd all sail to the moon On the high tide of technology But the dreams have all been taken And the window seats taken too And 2001 has almost come and gone What am I supposed to do?
Now that the space race is over It's been and it's gone and I'll never get to the moon Because the space race is over And I can't help but feel we've all grown up too soon
Now my dreams have all been shattered And my wings are tattered too And I can still fly but not half as high As once I wanted to
Now that the space race is over It's been and it's gone and I'll never get to the moon Because the space race is over And I can't help but feel we've all grown up too soon
My son and I stand beneath the great night sky And gaze up in wonder I tell him the tale of Apollo And he says "Why did they ever go?" It may look like some empty gesture To go all that way just to come back But don't offer me a place out in cyberspace Cos where in the hell's that at?
Now that the space race is over It's been and it's gone and I'll never get out of my room Because the space race is over And I can't help but feel we're all just going nowhere
I could be way off base about this, but I kinda doubt that providing friendless brainiac characters, for hyperintelligent geeks to empathise with, is Hollywood's main priority.
Especially since the MPAA knows they're being boycotted by nerds, right?
But on the other hand, Big Hollywood seems to be pretty good at providing characters that nerds wish they could have sex with, so perhaps it won't be a total loss.
You know, I was going to just agree with you here, and maybe point to The Watchmen, Allan Moore's classic take on the damage that superheroes can do. I also liked Marvels, the non-canonical take on the Marvel universe, photorealistically illustrated by Alex Ross, that focuses in a very consistent way on the human impact of having all those superlative beings around.
But then I started thinking... how do we know that, say, Larry Ellison isn't using some of his unimaginably huge fortune to build monstrous evil superweapons? The man flies fighter planes for a hobby... you think he can't write off, say, the odd space-based laser? Yeah, that's what he wants us to think. We'll all be sorry when he finally takes over the world.
I could give you plenty of other real-world examples, but I've just realized that not only am I posting stuff about comics, on slashdot, at 4 am on a Saturday, but that it's barely even on-topic, so maybe I'll just kill myself instead.
Man, that is so messed up, he was one of my favorites, ever since reading his early novels like Wolves of Memory when I was a kid. (We apparently had a really hip librarian in my small town, now that I think about it.)
When Gravity Fails, and the other two from that series were some of my favorite s-f books, and I'd been looking forward to there eventually being more of them. Anyone here who's looking for literate, intelligent, often mordantly funny science fiction books to read would do well to look for his.
I don't guess I have anything to say about it except thanks for mentioning it here, I wouldn't have known otherwise, and now... now I can feel appropriately sad about it. Damn.
From the first article you linked, I thought this was pretty funny:
"It's almost crazy enough to be correct," says Michael Turner, a longtime University of Chicago cosmologist who is familiar with the theory. He added that "when you're trying to crack a really hard problem, you need a crazy idea."
Turner said astronomers have reacted with great excitement to the new theory, in part because the idea of alternate dimensions is largely new to most of them.
Well, this is what you would've seen if you were one of the first 10 people to click the link... poor lil' webserver...
Real-time streaming audio from the C64
This C64 server is not only running a web server, but is also running a very simplistic RTSP/RTP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol/Real-Time Protocol) server that is compatible with RealPlayer version 8. This makes it possible to send real-time streaming audio over the Internet directly from the Commodore 64.
The cassette port on the C64 is capable of sampling 1-bit samples at a maximum rate of approximately 8000 Hz. We are sampling 1-bit audio from the cassette player and sending it out over the Internet using the TFE Ethernet cartridge. To reduce the load on the C64, we only allow one listener to listen at a time and only for about 20 seconds.
Listen
In order to listen, you'll need to have the free RealPlayer 8 Basic (click on the "RealPlayer 8 Basic" link at the bottom left of the page). While the streaming audio server might work with other players, we haven't tested it with anything but RealPlayer 8 Basic.
When RealPlayer is installed, click here. If RealPlayer says that it is experiencing network problems, this is because someone else is already listening. Beware! It sounds terrible.
Playlist
We are playing remixes of famous C64 SID music taken from the faboulous C64 mp3 remix site remix.kwed.org. Because of the bad sound quality of the real-time audio stream, it is impossible to tell which tunes we are playing.
jbennetto, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, jbennetto, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Whatever, I thought it was funny.
hmmm... it's not necessarily OK to beat up in anybody, but assuming you're going to anyways: being prejudiced against people for something they choose to be- be it cop, politician, troll, or anyone who figures 'I can still be a prejudiced asshole as long as say I'm being anti-pc'- is obviously pretty different from hating them because of the color of skin they're born in.
Ok, I first read this book when I was like 13, & thought it was utopian and groovy. Then I read the unabridged version ten years later, and it really creeped me out. FOr all the nattering on about love that the characters do, their position in their society is based on Valentine's ability to 'wish' their enemies into another dimension.
WHere's the 'love' in that? Love's for anybody who doesn't annoy the all-powerful leader? I don't have any references handy, but I've got the definite impression that this book was one of Manson's props. (I won't say influences, because he was pretty much pre-twisted by the time he got to the Haight, in '67)
That's what Manson was telling his 'family', though- we're smarter than those squares, and we can keep our groovy free-loving personality cult, but a few wrong-thinking losers will have to die first.
I'm not trying to blame this book for Manson- it's just a book, it never killed anyone- I'm just saying, it surprises me that nobody comments on the wish-them-bad-mens-into-another-dimension plot device, 'cos I feel like it totally undercuts the whole peace-love-grooviness vibe everybody talks about.
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Hmm, I was going to jump in and say just about what you did here, only with a lot less detail...
But then I thought, well, the kid's probably right, in a sense. That is: could a bunch of civilian couch potatoes (or gym rats, what difference does it make?) defeat the US military, in a military conflict? Of course not.
But- if it were not a military conflict, but a sustained occupation/police action, could those civilians wreak nearly as much havok as (non-military) Iraqis have? Why not? Doesn't require a whole lot training/sophistication/technology to foment disorder and fuck shit up.
Of course, it will never come to that in the US (sorry, would-be Wolverines!) because it would be Bad for Business. So really, there's no point wanking about it at all.
I just wanted to say, I think .sig, and I look forward to having to explain it to people. Thanks.
going along with your government right or wrong isn't patriotism. It's treason.
is an outstanding turn of phrase. I just took it for my email
Yeah, but just hit refresh 15 or 20 times, and you're in. While you're at it, try downloading their marketing info- it's not that big of a pdf, but I'm sure every little bit helps.
I live in Minnesota now, but grew up in various parts of Arizona, and as long as you're not in Phoenix, you can get by just fine with swamp coolers, which I like a lot better, 'cos it keeps some moisture in the air. That doesn't work in Phoenix, which is way more humid than you'd think, so there you *need* airconditioning.
And so, by following a regimen that involves never being outside in the summer for more than a couple of minutes, driving from your airconditioned house with its irrigated lawn, to your airconditioned office park over by the golfcourse, or to the restaurant in the mall, you can move straight to Phoenix from Kansas and never realize you're in the desert at all. Whether that's a good or bad thing I'll leave up to someone less cranky than I feel at the moment.
Au contraire, my anonymous friend, your post is still at zero because if one of the teenage libertarians around here wants a piece of drooling, contentless, propaganda to moderate up, there's undoubtedly one that says exactly the same thing, posted by someone who logged in.
Honestly, do you ever read Slashdot?
Oh, wait, you're kidding... ha ha... sorry, I'm not used to 'wingers trying to be funny. Good job.
(mod me down, the thread's offtopic, whatever, I just can't help it sometimes.)
/., then I feel sorry for you.
Hi! You're the victimized right-wing-whiner of the day! Nothing personsl, god knows you're not the best or only one to use a +2 bonus to bitch about how oppressed you are by the hippies around here, but you're a good enough example.
Lessee... your sig? Flamebait, and you know it. The post you got modded down as flamebait for? Yep, flamebait. You know, if you're really too high to realize that " Boo-hoo! Instead of beating Microsoft in the marketplace, it appears now that Ralph and his band of merry socialists want to use the heavy hand of Government to manipulate the OS market" is flamebait, and that getting modded for it doesn't mean that there's a socialist cabal on
Actually, I do anyway, you seem like a very bitter and unhappy person. It's been very strange to me, the way that right-wingers in the last 10 years have managed to convince themselves that despite being constant apologists for the status-quo, they're somehow victims of society too, because people disagree with them. Certainly it's easier to believe that everyone else is stupid and deluded, than to believe that you might be wrong, or that your own lack of social skills could accont for the fact that people don't like you. It's just not very logical. But don't let that stop you.
Obviously, it would be pointless to argue that your free-market-fundamentalism has no relevance in a monopolized market, that argument is made every day on slashdot, and ignored assiduously by people like you. On the other hand, the fact that you apparently think that snide remarks about "environmentalist scientists like Sting and Bono", and a link to junkscience.com in your profile, adds up to a political position, deserves some attention.
What makes a corporate lobbyist more credible than Nader? Why should the agenda of an apologist for whichever company's paying his bills, be worth any consideration at all? (I realize the links I've provided could be seen as partisan, I'm not claiming otherwise, although the skeptic's dictionary seems pretty levelheaded. That's the difference though, I'm not trying to claim that I'm a lone voice bravely defending rationality.)
But obviously, it's all about money, and I must be a crazy socialist to ask who's paying for the propaganda. If they have money, they must be right, right? Of course they are. Might makes right, right? Too bad for you it isn't the other way around, or else maybe you wouldn't be so upset about being modded down for posting recycled Limbaughisms, 'cos you'd have better things to do with all that power.
Well, if you're not in favor of lining the oil industry's pockets, then how come you're linking to a website for a group that's pretty much a bunch of industry-shills? Not that that necessarily means they're lying or anything. I mean, as far as I can tell the premise of the editorial you linked to was based on reality, but this:
Temporary price spikes by OPEC have not proved sustainable because they brought forth new supplies, encouraged substitution of oil for coal or gas, and stimulated conservation by consumers and businesses.
In short, even if the new scientific evidence about oil is wrong, one can still say that the world will never run out of it. Higher prices will always bring new supplies to market.
What the hell does that even mean? We can't ever run out of oil because if we start to, we'll either use less, or find more, somehow?
Yeah, ok, IANA Geochemist. But any time Big Oil tells me I shouldn't be worrying, I start to think I might not be worried enough.
Well, I was going to mention a couple of other examples, but just check this out: http://www.sgi.net/zeppelin/faq/faql_1.html#18
Holy crap! There's 20 or 30 songs listed there. True, folk/blues/rock are all about borrowing, and extending traditions, which worked just fine before the record industry existed. After that, it worked just fine if you took from dead people... the times that Zeppelin didn't, account for Willie Dixon successfully suing them.
If you've got an interest in Zep, and the blues, that FAQ could be a real good source of 'new' old stuff to check out... and since a lot of it's public domain, from people who died 60 years ago, you don't even have to feel guilty about downloading it...
Yeah, it's a chain reaction, because every time you make fun of them on a website, they have to stop fighting terrorism for long enough to get a Carnivore warrant to investigate you, right? Fortunately, they'll probably lose the evidence anyway.
At least, I hope so, now...
You know, I actually like a lot of hip-hop (more the underground side of it, usually) but I started disliking Eminem way before I ever heard his music, just based on reading reviews about it, seeing quotes from his stuff that seemed really stupid, etc.
But once I actually ever heard any of him, I was instantly convinced: he's incredibly talented, and fucking hilarious. It's probably difficult to appreciate for a lot of people, 'cos rappers writing/rhyming/mc-ing skills can't easily be separated from their subject matter.
But on the other hand, for all the abuse that he heaps on pretty much everyone in the world, he's pretty clear on how much he despises himself as well. He doesn't come across, to me, as a would-be badass, or street-wise thug, so much as a guy who's just intelligent and self-conscious to realize how fucked up he is, but who's talented and funny enough to make it fun for other people to listen to, as long as they don't take him seriously
Not my argument here, but who else is even around at the moment? Anyways, it doesn't seem like you read the parent very closely- he didn't say he was afraid to fly, he said it's faster to drive 350 miles than to take a 'one-hour' plane flight. So possibly the terrorists have already won there. But if dealing with airports is going to be that much of a hassle, then more people flying isn't going to make it any better.
Personally, I'd rather die a quick and appalling death than have to wait in a bunch of damned lines, so I guess I'm not that terrorized.
truly feel sorry for those alive today that never have seen humans walking on other worlds for real, not in the movies, and have NO IDEA of the uplift to the heart and soul it brings...
/.-ers probably haven't heard, 'cos they don't listen to English socialist folk singers. It sort of chokes me up every time I hear it.
Amen. I'm quite a bit younger, wasn't a teenager 'til the 80's, but my whole childhood, it seems, was infused with the idea that exciting things were happening in space, and that one day, inevitably, we could all go somewhere else, even if only for a visit. I don't know if it's exactly on-topic, but the last few lines of your post really reminded me of this Billy Bragg song, which came out in '98, and which a lot of
The Space Race Is Over
When I was young I told my mum
I'm going to walk on the Moon someday
Armstrong and Aldrin spoke to me
From Houston and Cape Kennedy
And I watched the Eagle landing
On a night when the Moon was full
And as it tugged at the tides, I knew deep inside
I too could feel its pull
I lay in my bed and dreamed I walked
On the Sea of Tranquillity
I knew that someday soon we'd all sail to the moon
On the high tide of technology
But the dreams have all been taken
And the window seats taken too
And 2001 has almost come and gone
What am I supposed to do?
Now that the space race is over
It's been and it's gone and I'll never get to the moon
Because the space race is over
And I can't help but feel we've all grown up too soon
Now my dreams have all been shattered
And my wings are tattered too
And I can still fly but not half as high
As once I wanted to
Now that the space race is over
It's been and it's gone and I'll never get to the moon
Because the space race is over
And I can't help but feel we've all grown up too soon
My son and I stand beneath the great night sky
And gaze up in wonder
I tell him the tale of Apollo And he says
"Why did they ever go?"
It may look like some empty gesture
To go all that way just to come back
But don't offer me a place out in cyberspace
Cos where in the hell's that at?
Now that the space race is over
It's been and it's gone and I'll never get out of my room
Because the space race is over
And I can't help but feel we're all just going nowhere
I could be way off base about this, but I kinda doubt that providing friendless brainiac characters, for hyperintelligent geeks to empathise with, is Hollywood's main priority.
Especially since the MPAA knows they're being boycotted by nerds, right?
But on the other hand, Big Hollywood seems to be pretty good at providing characters that nerds wish they could have sex with, so perhaps it won't be a total loss.
How about "Royal Orleans", which is about John Paul Jones accidentally picking up a transvestite hooker in New Orleans.
I must've missed that part of the Simarillion.
this would be the perfect use for that mountain of unsold Jar-Jar merchandise?
You know, I was going to just agree with you here, and maybe point to The Watchmen, Allan Moore's classic take on the damage that superheroes can do. I also liked Marvels, the non-canonical take on the Marvel universe, photorealistically illustrated by Alex Ross, that focuses in a very consistent way on the human impact of having all those superlative beings around.
But then I started thinking... how do we know that, say, Larry Ellison isn't using some of his unimaginably huge fortune to build monstrous evil superweapons? The man flies fighter planes for a hobby... you think he can't write off, say, the odd space-based laser? Yeah, that's what he wants us to think. We'll all be sorry when he finally takes over the world.
I could give you plenty of other real-world examples, but I've just realized that not only am I posting stuff about comics, on slashdot, at 4 am on a Saturday, but that it's barely even on-topic, so maybe I'll just kill myself instead.
marked anything with something that looked like a skull with bones we'd know to avoid it
Exactly, plus it'll attract Goths, so it'll be a two-birds-with-one-stone type of thing.
Man, that is so messed up, he was one of my favorites, ever since reading his early novels like Wolves of Memory when I was a kid. (We apparently had a really hip librarian in my small town, now that I think about it.)
When Gravity Fails, and the other two from that series were some of my favorite s-f books, and I'd been looking forward to there eventually being more of them. Anyone here who's looking for literate, intelligent, often mordantly funny science fiction books to read would do well to look for his.
I don't guess I have anything to say about it except thanks for mentioning it here, I wouldn't have known otherwise, and now... now I can feel appropriately sad about it. Damn.
From the first article you linked, I thought this was pretty funny:
"It's almost crazy enough to be correct," says Michael Turner, a longtime University of Chicago cosmologist who is familiar with the theory. He added that "when you're trying to crack a really hard problem, you need a crazy idea."
Turner said astronomers have reacted with great excitement to the new theory, in part because the idea of alternate dimensions is largely new to most of them.
Several people have more than one credit card
[...]
A lot of my privacy comes from my neighbors' unpredictability.
Well, if he's using his neighbors' credit cards, it would mess up the data-mining, wouldn't it?
Well, this is what you would've seen if you were one of the first 10 people to click the link... poor lil' webserver...
Real-time streaming audio from the C64
This C64 server is not only running a web server, but is also running
a very simplistic RTSP/RTP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol/Real-Time
Protocol) server that is compatible with RealPlayer
version 8. This makes it possible to send real-time streaming audio
over the Internet directly from the Commodore 64.
The cassette port on the C64 is capable of sampling 1-bit samples at a
maximum rate of approximately 8000 Hz. We are sampling 1-bit audio
from the cassette player and sending it out over the Internet using
the TFE Ethernet cartridge. To reduce the load on the C64, we only
allow one listener to listen at a time and only for about 20 seconds.
Listen
In order to listen, you'll need to have the free RealPlayer 8 Basic (click on the "RealPlayer 8
Basic" link at the bottom left of the page). While the streaming audio
server might work with other players, we haven't tested it with
anything but RealPlayer 8 Basic.
When RealPlayer is installed, click here. If
RealPlayer says that it is experiencing network problems, this is
because someone else is already listening. Beware! It sounds
terrible.
Playlist
We are playing remixes of famous C64 SID music taken from the
faboulous C64 mp3 remix site remix.kwed.org. Because of the bad sound quality of
the real-time audio stream, it is impossible to tell which tunes we are
playing.
jbennetto, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, jbennetto, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Whatever, I thought it was funny.
hmmm... it's not necessarily OK to beat up in anybody, but assuming you're going to anyways: being prejudiced against people for something they choose to be- be it cop, politician, troll, or anyone who figures 'I can still be a prejudiced asshole as long as say I'm being anti-pc'- is obviously pretty different from hating them because of the color of skin they're born in.
It smells like fish.
Undoubtedly tastes like chicken, though.
WHere's the 'love' in that? Love's for anybody who doesn't annoy the all-powerful leader? I don't have any references handy, but I've got the definite impression that this book was one of Manson's props. (I won't say influences, because he was pretty much pre-twisted by the time he got to the Haight, in '67)
That's what Manson was telling his 'family', though- we're smarter than those squares, and we can keep our groovy free-loving personality cult, but a few wrong-thinking losers will have to die first.
I'm not trying to blame this book for Manson- it's just a book, it never killed anyone- I'm just saying, it surprises me that nobody comments on the wish-them-bad-mens-into-another-dimension plot device, 'cos I feel like it totally undercuts the whole peace-love-grooviness vibe everybody talks about.