Life outside earth?
I hope so...
I don't see any hope of finding intelegent life on earth....
If theres no life anyplace but earth we are pritty much screwed for intelegence...
The same roads that take the crooks to my home carry the police...
The same search engens that help a pirate find pirate Matalica MP3s help Lars find same...
The same search that helps people steal Microsoft Windows helps Microsoft hunt down illegal copys of same...
The same...
But linking is illegal....
So now the criminals can safely post whatever they like free in the knowladage that it's illegal for the police to find them...
Yeah I know it won't matter but the whole point here is the link works for everyone...
If you want to get rid of all the copys of a program floating around the Internet... links are your allies.. not your enemys...
This rulling has given this code immortality...
Barring a person for having an "unaceptable name" is discrimination...
Sence this is pure censorship by name the website is pritty much dead in the water legally...
However I think media exposure is better... It puts the website in the darkest light.... while she gets to live her own life in peace
Not an easy thing to do on-line
But if you can talk them into faxing the policy and details in writing to you then do it.
I'd probably go for media fuss becouse lawsutes are painful media fuss is painless and cheap.
Plus you don't get accused of being greedy with media fuss becouse your not gona make any money off this..
and once in the media it's the "peoples" cause not yours... you walk away and live your life...
And millions of Slashdoters e-mail the site pushing for more details...
eventually they'll cave....
Don't harrss or insult... just ask for details... be nice... just ask questions.. non pointed polite questions....
And a few years later Sony found a way to make good on this threat... As they did the Internet changed shape...
And thats why we have a free radio feed Internet today....
ISPs replaced with BBSes...
phone lines replaced with radio relays...
and thus the effort was crushed....
Now pull out your MP3 players while I Napster the speach...
Cable modems exempt sence they are monopolys regulated by the PUC...
and some phone companys only allow you to select them as your DSL ISP.. thus also under PUC regs...
Most small ISPs won't go for it.. they can't afford the loss of busness they'd get
That leaves... AoL and a few larg ISPs...
They'd be worryed about the bad press that any larg ISP gets when they pull something like this...
That leaves.... nobody...
You have become bad for busness...
Therefor we will kill you...
Nothing personal...
Yes it is about MP3s and digital music....
Yes it's also about piracy...
But the logic is... you lissen to MP3s.. therefor you are a pirate..
The same logic apply to cars.. you drive... therefor you run over cats....
One dose not lead to the other...
Just as owning a Sony dual tape recorder dosn't make you a pirate.. but you gota wonder.....
Project Gutenburg would help for one reason....
The same kind of people want to reserect copyrights that have expired.... On text Project Gutenburg has allready published...
On the other hand... GPL violations is nothing... I mean all your doing is selling someone elses gift to the world.... What could be wrong with that? Hmmm?
Do you lissen to music on the Radio? If so.. your as much a pirate as any Napster user....
All music..all the time.. radio 31337 FM.. NAPSTER
Keepping in mind that firewalling my PC means putting software on my box.. I'd say thats pritty much illegal...
The PUC would have something to say about a firewall on cable and doing anything like a firewall on a phone line is allready illegal (as well as imposable).
He could convence some ISPs to firewall Napster... but thats all...
You are right however... put enough effort Sony COULD come up with something legal and posable and throw money at it....
They can't do this... but what they can do is still worth being fearful of...
Napster is not a major conspericy to steal music and just give it away... Napster isn't some assult on the music industry...
Napster is legally vage... not armagedon...
It's a tool for trading music files. Was the idea to trade files illegally? Prove it... no really PROVE IT... don't go ranting about it.
Thies are straw man arguments and only weaken the case...
Develuping the technology makes the guilty?
Ok cool... sue Yamaha for making sound chips...
Sue Memorex for selling blank CDs...
and.. sue.. Sony... for selling a wide range of profesional quality audio equipment that could press out larg qualitys of pirated CDs.. as well as reel to reel audio tape and casset tapes.. for YEARS.
Unless I am mistaken Sony makes dual casset tape recorders that copy from one tape to annother quickly...
Ohh but thats not for piracy....
Bullshit.... Sony knows exactly what they are for... so dose every audio phile...
Napster isn't the dual recorder but the single recorder... it's just as useful for free music as it is for pireted music...
The question isn't even dose Napster hurt the music industry.. quite simply it dosn't. Napster has proven it's benifit as a premotional tool. Just like radio...
The problem is.. Was Napster made for an illegal perpous?
You know... not even Sony seems to answer that question... It seems to me they dodge it...
Can they prove it? In corts they are trying...
They can't firewall at my PC and Sony knows better....
But then Sony is the original Napster.....
This is what happends nearly every time I buy something at Radio Shack...
"Can I help you?" Says the sales person shortly after I walk into the store "No" is my reply...
"Can I help you" meaning "Do you need any help finding what you need? You have walked right past the products section and walked directly into the electronics section".
"No" as in "No I'm looking for a T95A for my flux capacitor.. I know where to find it.. I know what it looks like... I probably even know how much it costs... but chances are you don't even know what a T95A is..."
Occasionally Radio Shack employees are basicly Collage techs but usually I'm dealing with someone who knows more about sales than anything.
At one time I liked finding the collage kid in the croud... the sales clerk who knows hardware...
At one time they were all techs...
But there came a point when I couldn't find the knowladgeable sales clerk... they were all sales and no tech... I got tired of explainning simple cables....
Thankfully I do most of my shopping at a local electronics shop... I only buy mass market junk at Radio Shack... sence the small local electronics shop dosn't sell that stuff...
And I really should go to the music electronics shop for my audio needs but they aren't very close by.......
The reason we have mice today instead of touchscreens... the touchscreen is to expensive...
Keyboards are good, cheap and reliable devices...
But when looking for "the interface of the future" people first look to toss the keyboard... they see it as the first roadblock...
Byond applications wanting the curser keys there isn't much reason to not use them in place of the mouse.... There were a few mouse drivers for dos that did just that...
3D interfaces... thats sensors.. probes... Touch screens were expensive in the 1980s.... this things gona make the 1980s price tag for touch screens look like nothin....
In my view the 2010 interface is more down to earth... a Unix GUI with a touch screen in place of a mouse... the devices still exist and the prices are comming down... they work in Linux and on Mac.... I want one myself...
Before then however.... touch pads... also working in Linux etc.. pricy now but they are comming down.. more and more people are using them and they are MUCH more useful than a mouse...
But that keyboard thing is here to stay....
Try getting rid of text.... same problem.... Icons are neat but text is here for life.... so are keyboard... thats how the text gets in there....
IR and RF interfaces will replace cables... voice keyboards for portability are no good for some of us..
Computer of 3001... the FIRST computer to not need a keyboard.....
Yes... there is even a keyboard for the palm... the happy hacker no less:)
I myself have two sound cards so I can run SpeakFreely most of the time... and not have it interfear with my Quake time.. or my Mp3s or anyting else I use my main sound card for..
BTW use PCI soundcards... mixing PCI and ISA is a pain and ISA cards don't like each other...
Or use some of Robs old servers....
Then connect them so they stream into the PC recording the MP3 and a secound box for live streaming...
Music can be mixed ahead of time and streammed in live....
Live streaming or not allow call-ins vea speak freely...
One more....
With this you can have more of the slashdot editors on regularly....
Give Emmit a radio modem (Thats what I use and I'm doing SpeakFreely in the background...) and a lap top and let him do interviews etc....
If Slashdot ever dose get a regular reporter type person he could do his reports vea live streaming audio and then write up a text report for Slashdot posting.....
Matrix Cam... no not a webcam into a vertal reality.... but a webcam on Tacos cat...
Becouse "The cat is so cute"
Or just turn it into the Krull invasion report and have the "away" mebers of the cast doing reports "in the field".... as Hemos works his way to the Krull homeworld to blow up the Krull moon....
Well I guess I better unload all my conspericy theries...
Slashdot is out to take over the earth using Debian Gnu/Linux. There is a back door hidden in the Trasmedia chips and AMD chips and VA hardware that will alow CmdrTaco to transmit subliminal messages....
Geeks In Space is a test run of this idea.. Thow GiS dosn't accually use the back door sence you volentarly download the MP3 and lissen to them instead of having it flashed on your screen.
This is why Linux gets such poor graphics preformence. No Linux itself has no graphic defect but the hardware is triggered by Linux.
It won't work with Windows becouse any interfearence causes the system to crash.. this is why the BSoD... the screen is blue becouse that is where the subliminal message WOULD have been if the operating system hadn't crashed...
There is work in progress to make this work on BSD and Solarus as well...
Sun however refused to join in this conspericy as they are allready attempting to take over the world.
The Windows defect is due to the fact that Bill Gates recognised the branwashing and is attempting to stop it becouse it interfears with his own efforts to take over the world.
IBM is working with Linux knowing the efforts of Bill Gates will be discovered and in part allready has been uncovered. The Slashdot/VA/Transmeta/Linus/Debian consepricy has yet to be uncovered...
The Krull is a ruse... They are still busy inslaving The Torvela... They attack the Slashdot/VA/etc conspericy as target practace only...
Ok enough with that one....
Next
CmdrTaco is a Torvelian... He is part of the Krull resitence force.. A rebelion out to free the Cosmose from the tirany of the Krull...
RMS, ESR, even Linus are all a part of the rebelion and of vareous races...
Linus is from a race that evolved from flightless artic birds...
The Torvelian keep monkey like creatures as pets and often train them to do complex tasks like review Slashdot submitions...
ID is created by the trainning devision of the rebelion...The first person shooters are trainning us to be able to handle high powered wepons and shoot strange creates...
John Carmak is a Volak.. The Volak are a race of intelectual warlords... They often win battles with small things like sprikling aliminum dust around a secter of space before a battle... this dust messes with krull wepons and ship systems... and shorts out krull shields... The Krull have learned of this trick and have addepted accordingly.. so have the Volak.... Now they use Sand....
PS. Yes the Volak want the Krull to know... every time they discover this the Krull waist resorces refitting ships... while the Volak are allready prepaired....
IBM was founded by the Krull... in the late 1980s however the Krull needed to sell IBM to afford to refit ships (The Volak again) the rebelion bought IBM in the late 1990s and now use it to premote Linux etc...
VA, Andover etc were founded by the rebelion...
Bill Gates is human and mearly a pon of the Krull however Bill Gates outsmarted the Krull and have sence addapted the Krull plan for his own gains. He is therefor a threat to both the Krull empire and the rebelion... But no one knows exactly how to deal with him as he has Krull defence technology built into his home... no wepons so he modifyed the class 47 shilds... The normal class 47 allowed Krull wepons to shot out but lacking any such wepons the MS Shield has no shuch openning preventing any wepons fire eather way... This shield is impenitrable... unless Bill Gates house BSoDs....
Ok enough of that...
Next conspericy...
Someone is putting something in our water. There are no Krull.. no evil overlords or anything...
To make matters worse.. what they put in our water isn't making us delusional but PREVENTING us from going delusional... Humans as a race are natrally insain and need Tetracell white to keep us sain...
Some aliens are dumpping this into our water so we'll stay sain...
Now for the catch...
Caffine counter acts...... and beer increases the madness.. the side effect of the drug is it also reduces our intelect... You can see the dumbing down effect in some people....
The subspecies Geek are becomming more and more immunine to the drug every day...
It seems the dumbing down is more pronounced than the insaity...
Bill Gates hasn't had any tetracell in his life...
Nither has Linus... CmdrTaco... and I am compleatly immune to it....
Also air is the narcotic causing the madness...
A few more quicky conspericys
We are all batterys.......
The real number of the beast is 3137
CmdrTaco, Myself, Bill Gates, etc etc. Bush, Al Gore and Dominos pizza are all part of a conspericy to prevent you from realising you are your own worst enemy and no one is accually out to get you exlcuding yourself so you don't have to accept the fact that in the end you alone are responsable for all your pains and all your successes.... We can't let you know that....
People who use spelling as a standard for intelegence should stick to reading marketting matereal, propoganda and other matereal that is carefully checked for spelling errors and stay away from the Internet where people spend time thinking about what they say NEXT instead of what they allready said...
How about suing every government that allows freedom of speech, movment etc.. for making all this progress posable so that all thies IP violations could exist...
I mean come on.. eliminate free speach and you have no IP violations right?
The above is a joke... just in case anyone dosn't get it...
PS: Just becouse it's a joke dosn't mean it's funny... just means I think it's funny... so if you don't think it's funny... thht....
>This puts 3, the company that made the lock, at least partly in the wrong, although it's probably still your fault for choosing that lock company in the first place.
Now a days with as many known unfixed issues with Windows... No matter how poor a job Microsoft dose it's the fault of whom ever picked the software to start with...
I mean.. you can't blame the maker if the consummers buy faulty products knowing they are faulty...
My first instict is to say this is an ideal way to eliminate potental employees for a compleating company from the market....
But my second thought on the matter is it's more likely someone uptop has some really hairbrained ideas about how things should be done.
But my third thought is that if your going for an interview for a sinster dark corpration that no one yet knows what they do then they need you to sign an NDA against anything you may learn.
If you are really valuable then that NDA is so they can sell you on the job.
Linus did explain that he signed an NDA with Transmedia before the interview... They were selling him on working there... they knew he had other offers to consider... The other offers probably asked for NDAs as well...
I've never been asked to sign an NDA before an interview. I was asked to take a blood test once. But I'm not valuable. I'm not specal. If anyone trys to sell ME on working for them thats when I go looking elsewhere becouse thats the first sign they are going under.. when they say they need MY skills..
Oh yeah I refused the blood test... they showed me the door..
Considering the alternitives Macs not that bad...
and rember that Linux dosn't serve the idiot market yet....
Of course Linux IS working it's way down to the idiot user.. it's allready to the point where the avarage user can use it...
Disclamer: Macs are not idiot boxes but it and Windows are all idiots have...
Picture for a moment... the 100th layer of managment...
Your manager orders you to "Look busy" but never asigns you any work becouse his manager above him is some how missing from the chain so everyone under him is getting paid to do nothing and they like it that way.
Fast Food is not a byproduct of "Car lifestyle" but of the daily rush....
Eliminate cars... for me this isn't even a hypatheical sence I've done it... I walk everywhere... but thats not so easy for most people...
I carry everything in an oversized backpack (Nicknamed The backpack of doom) so I don't lose the carrying capacity of a car..
And.. I eat at a fast food place on my way to work.. Accially I just buy food at a fast food place stuff it in the back pack and eat once I get to work. Still it's a matter of convence. It's not an automotive convence but a general convence...
I must add.. that for most people automobils are not a convence but a nessisty.. People don't usually live walking distence from work (as I do).
Also part of what makes it posable for me to walk everywhere is I can walk a long distence with out getting tired. To find a decent book store I need to walk halfway accrost town (this wasn't the case in the past but the closer B&N closed in favor of being online).
Anyway unless your a health nut with a close job or are in olypic trainning and you have a $100 to $500 backpack (Mine is $100 the $500 is a really nice hiking pack) I don't recomend giving up your car.
PS. I'm nither heath nut nore in Olympic trainning... just one of those nutjobs who go walking to think things out.. in my case coding problems... and I end up 3 citys away... having to walk back....
Slashdot Mirror
Life outside earth?
I hope so...
I don't see any hope of finding intelegent life on earth....
If theres no life anyplace but earth we are pritty much screwed for intelegence...
The same roads that take the crooks to my home carry the police...
The same search engens that help a pirate find pirate Matalica MP3s help Lars find same...
The same search that helps people steal Microsoft Windows helps Microsoft hunt down illegal copys of same...
The same...
But linking is illegal....
So now the criminals can safely post whatever they like free in the knowladage that it's illegal for the police to find them...
Yeah I know it won't matter but the whole point here is the link works for everyone...
If you want to get rid of all the copys of a program floating around the Internet... links are your allies.. not your enemys...
This rulling has given this code immortality...
Barring a person for having an "unaceptable name" is discrimination...
Sence this is pure censorship by name the website is pritty much dead in the water legally...
However I think media exposure is better... It puts the website in the darkest light.... while she gets to live her own life in peace
Not an easy thing to do on-line
....
But if you can talk them into faxing the policy and details in writing to you then do it.
I'd probably go for media fuss becouse lawsutes are painful media fuss is painless and cheap.
Plus you don't get accused of being greedy with media fuss becouse your not gona make any money off this..
and once in the media it's the "peoples" cause not yours... you walk away and live your life...
And millions of Slashdoters e-mail the site pushing for more details...
eventually they'll cave
Don't harrss or insult... just ask for details... be nice... just ask questions.. non pointed polite questions....
Historians in the year 2050 will say...
And a few years later Sony found a way to make good on this threat... As they did the Internet changed shape...
And thats why we have a free radio feed Internet today....
ISPs replaced with BBSes...
phone lines replaced with radio relays...
and thus the effort was crushed....
Now pull out your MP3 players while I Napster the speach...
Cable modems exempt sence they are monopolys regulated by the PUC...
and some phone companys only allow you to select them as your DSL ISP.. thus also under PUC regs...
Most small ISPs won't go for it.. they can't afford the loss of busness they'd get
That leaves... AoL and a few larg ISPs...
They'd be worryed about the bad press that any larg ISP gets when they pull something like this...
That leaves.... nobody...
You have become bad for busness...
Therefor we will kill you...
Nothing personal...
Yes it is about MP3s and digital music....
Yes it's also about piracy...
But the logic is... you lissen to MP3s.. therefor you are a pirate..
The same logic apply to cars.. you drive... therefor you run over cats....
One dose not lead to the other...
Just as owning a Sony dual tape recorder dosn't make you a pirate.. but you gota wonder.....
Project Gutenburg would help for one reason....
The same kind of people want to reserect copyrights that have expired.... On text Project Gutenburg has allready published...
On the other hand... GPL violations is nothing... I mean all your doing is selling someone elses gift to the world.... What could be wrong with that? Hmmm?
Do you lissen to music on the Radio? If so.. your as much a pirate as any Napster user....
All music..all the time.. radio 31337 FM.. NAPSTER
I'll do it.... Closed source... sure no problem..
Once I get my check cashed... I'll post the back door on Slashdot...
Keepping in mind that firewalling my PC means putting software on my box.. I'd say thats pritty much illegal...
The PUC would have something to say about a firewall on cable and doing anything like a firewall on a phone line is allready illegal (as well as imposable).
He could convence some ISPs to firewall Napster... but thats all...
You are right however... put enough effort Sony COULD come up with something legal and posable and throw money at it....
They can't do this... but what they can do is still worth being fearful of...
Ask for an Aibo...
Let them talk you DOWN to a VAIO...
But ask for an Aibo....
Me.... I'd ask for a fully functional android..
C3P0 fully functional. not Data fully functional..
All the functions a 5 year old could consider...
So when ya gona sue radio stations hmm?
Napster is not a major conspericy to steal music and just give it away... Napster isn't some assult on the music industry...
Napster is legally vage... not armagedon...
It's a tool for trading music files. Was the idea to trade files illegally? Prove it... no really PROVE IT... don't go ranting about it.
Thies are straw man arguments and only weaken the case...
Develuping the technology makes the guilty?
Ok cool... sue Yamaha for making sound chips...
Sue Memorex for selling blank CDs...
and.. sue.. Sony... for selling a wide range of profesional quality audio equipment that could press out larg qualitys of pirated CDs.. as well as reel to reel audio tape and casset tapes.. for YEARS.
Unless I am mistaken Sony makes dual casset tape recorders that copy from one tape to annother quickly...
Ohh but thats not for piracy....
Bullshit.... Sony knows exactly what they are for... so dose every audio phile...
Napster isn't the dual recorder but the single recorder... it's just as useful for free music as it is for pireted music...
The question isn't even dose Napster hurt the music industry.. quite simply it dosn't. Napster has proven it's benifit as a premotional tool. Just like radio...
The problem is.. Was Napster made for an illegal perpous?
You know... not even Sony seems to answer that question... It seems to me they dodge it...
Can they prove it? In corts they are trying...
They can't firewall at my PC and Sony knows better....
But then Sony is the original Napster.....
This is what happends nearly every time I buy something at Radio Shack...
"Can I help you?" Says the sales person shortly after I walk into the store "No" is my reply...
"Can I help you" meaning "Do you need any help finding what you need? You have walked right past the products section and walked directly into the electronics section".
"No" as in "No I'm looking for a T95A for my flux capacitor.. I know where to find it.. I know what it looks like... I probably even know how much it costs... but chances are you don't even know what a T95A is..."
Occasionally Radio Shack employees are basicly Collage techs but usually I'm dealing with someone who knows more about sales than anything.
At one time I liked finding the collage kid in the croud... the sales clerk who knows hardware...
At one time they were all techs...
But there came a point when I couldn't find the knowladgeable sales clerk... they were all sales and no tech... I got tired of explainning simple cables....
Thankfully I do most of my shopping at a local electronics shop... I only buy mass market junk at Radio Shack... sence the small local electronics shop dosn't sell that stuff...
And I really should go to the music electronics shop for my audio needs but they aren't very close by.......
The reason we have mice today instead of touchscreens... the touchscreen is to expensive...
:)
Keyboards are good, cheap and reliable devices...
But when looking for "the interface of the future" people first look to toss the keyboard... they see it as the first roadblock...
Byond applications wanting the curser keys there isn't much reason to not use them in place of the mouse.... There were a few mouse drivers for dos that did just that...
3D interfaces... thats sensors.. probes... Touch screens were expensive in the 1980s.... this things gona make the 1980s price tag for touch screens look like nothin....
In my view the 2010 interface is more down to earth... a Unix GUI with a touch screen in place of a mouse... the devices still exist and the prices are comming down... they work in Linux and on Mac.... I want one myself...
Before then however.... touch pads... also working in Linux etc.. pricy now but they are comming down.. more and more people are using them and they are MUCH more useful than a mouse...
But that keyboard thing is here to stay....
Try getting rid of text.... same problem.... Icons are neat but text is here for life.... so are keyboard... thats how the text gets in there....
IR and RF interfaces will replace cables... voice keyboards for portability are no good for some of us..
Computer of 3001... the FIRST computer to not need a keyboard.....
Yes... there is even a keyboard for the palm... the happy hacker no less
I myself have two sound cards so I can run SpeakFreely most of the time... and not have it interfear with my Quake time.. or my Mp3s or anyting else I use my main sound card for..
BTW use PCI soundcards... mixing PCI and ISA is a pain and ISA cards don't like each other...
Or use some of Robs old servers....
Then connect them so they stream into the PC recording the MP3 and a secound box for live streaming...
Music can be mixed ahead of time and streammed in live....
Live streaming or not allow call-ins vea speak freely...
One more....
With this you can have more of the slashdot editors on regularly....
Give Emmit a radio modem (Thats what I use and I'm doing SpeakFreely in the background...) and a lap top and let him do interviews etc....
If Slashdot ever dose get a regular reporter type person he could do his reports vea live streaming audio and then write up a text report for Slashdot posting.....
Matrix Cam... no not a webcam into a vertal reality.... but a webcam on Tacos cat...
Becouse "The cat is so cute"
Or just turn it into the Krull invasion report and have the "away" mebers of the cast doing reports "in the field".... as Hemos works his way to the Krull homeworld to blow up the Krull moon....
Well I guess I better unload all my conspericy theries...
Slashdot is out to take over the earth using Debian Gnu/Linux. There is a back door hidden in the Trasmedia chips and AMD chips and VA hardware that will alow CmdrTaco to transmit subliminal messages....
Geeks In Space is a test run of this idea.. Thow GiS dosn't accually use the back door sence you volentarly download the MP3 and lissen to them instead of having it flashed on your screen.
This is why Linux gets such poor graphics preformence. No Linux itself has no graphic defect but the hardware is triggered by Linux.
It won't work with Windows becouse any interfearence causes the system to crash.. this is why the BSoD... the screen is blue becouse that is where the subliminal message WOULD have been if the operating system hadn't crashed...
There is work in progress to make this work on BSD and Solarus as well...
Sun however refused to join in this conspericy as they are allready attempting to take over the world.
The Windows defect is due to the fact that Bill Gates recognised the branwashing and is attempting to stop it becouse it interfears with his own efforts to take over the world.
IBM is working with Linux knowing the efforts of Bill Gates will be discovered and in part allready has been uncovered. The Slashdot/VA/Transmeta/Linus/Debian consepricy has yet to be uncovered...
The Krull is a ruse... They are still busy inslaving The Torvela... They attack the Slashdot/VA/etc conspericy as target practace only...
Ok enough with that one....
Next
CmdrTaco is a Torvelian... He is part of the Krull resitence force.. A rebelion out to free the Cosmose from the tirany of the Krull...
RMS, ESR, even Linus are all a part of the rebelion and of vareous races...
Linus is from a race that evolved from flightless artic birds...
The Torvelian keep monkey like creatures as pets and often train them to do complex tasks like review Slashdot submitions...
ID is created by the trainning devision of the rebelion...The first person shooters are trainning us to be able to handle high powered wepons and shoot strange creates...
John Carmak is a Volak.. The Volak are a race of intelectual warlords... They often win battles with small things like sprikling aliminum dust around a secter of space before a battle... this dust messes with krull wepons and ship systems... and shorts out krull shields... The Krull have learned of this trick and have addepted accordingly.. so have the Volak.... Now they use Sand....
PS. Yes the Volak want the Krull to know... every time they discover this the Krull waist resorces refitting ships... while the Volak are allready prepaired....
IBM was founded by the Krull... in the late 1980s however the Krull needed to sell IBM to afford to refit ships (The Volak again) the rebelion bought IBM in the late 1990s and now use it to premote Linux etc...
VA, Andover etc were founded by the rebelion...
Bill Gates is human and mearly a pon of the Krull however Bill Gates outsmarted the Krull and have sence addapted the Krull plan for his own gains. He is therefor a threat to both the Krull empire and the rebelion... But no one knows exactly how to deal with him as he has Krull defence technology built into his home... no wepons so he modifyed the class 47 shilds... The normal class 47 allowed Krull wepons to shot out but lacking any such wepons the MS Shield has no shuch openning preventing any wepons fire eather way... This shield is impenitrable... unless Bill Gates house BSoDs....
Ok enough of that...
Next conspericy...
Someone is putting something in our water. There are no Krull.. no evil overlords or anything...
To make matters worse.. what they put in our water isn't making us delusional but PREVENTING us from going delusional... Humans as a race are natrally insain and need Tetracell white to keep us sain...
Some aliens are dumpping this into our water so we'll stay sain...
Now for the catch...
Caffine counter acts...... and beer increases the madness.. the side effect of the drug is it also reduces our intelect... You can see the dumbing down effect in some people....
The subspecies Geek are becomming more and more immunine to the drug every day...
It seems the dumbing down is more pronounced than the insaity...
Bill Gates hasn't had any tetracell in his life...
Nither has Linus... CmdrTaco... and I am compleatly immune to it....
Also air is the narcotic causing the madness...
A few more quicky conspericys
We are all batterys.......
The real number of the beast is 3137
CmdrTaco, Myself, Bill Gates, etc etc. Bush, Al Gore and Dominos pizza are all part of a conspericy to prevent you from realising you are your own worst enemy and no one is accually out to get you exlcuding yourself so you don't have to accept the fact that in the end you alone are responsable for all your pains and all your successes.... We can't let you know that....
People who use spelling as a standard for intelegence should stick to reading marketting matereal, propoganda and other matereal that is carefully checked for spelling errors and stay away from the Internet where people spend time thinking about what they say NEXT instead of what they allready said...
How about suing every government that allows freedom of speech, movment etc.. for making all this progress posable so that all thies IP violations could exist...
I mean come on.. eliminate free speach and you have no IP violations right?
The above is a joke... just in case anyone dosn't get it...
PS: Just becouse it's a joke dosn't mean it's funny... just means I think it's funny... so if you don't think it's funny... thht....
>This puts 3, the company that made the lock, at least partly in the wrong, although it's probably still your fault for choosing that lock company in the first place.
Now a days with as many known unfixed issues with Windows... No matter how poor a job Microsoft dose it's the fault of whom ever picked the software to start with...
I mean.. you can't blame the maker if the consummers buy faulty products knowing they are faulty...
My first instict is to say this is an ideal way to eliminate potental employees for a compleating company from the market....
But my second thought on the matter is it's more likely someone uptop has some really hairbrained ideas about how things should be done.
But my third thought is that if your going for an interview for a sinster dark corpration that no one yet knows what they do then they need you to sign an NDA against anything you may learn.
If you are really valuable then that NDA is so they can sell you on the job.
Linus did explain that he signed an NDA with Transmedia before the interview... They were selling him on working there... they knew he had other offers to consider... The other offers probably asked for NDAs as well...
I've never been asked to sign an NDA before an interview. I was asked to take a blood test once. But I'm not valuable. I'm not specal. If anyone trys to sell ME on working for them thats when I go looking elsewhere becouse thats the first sign they are going under.. when they say they need MY skills..
Oh yeah I refused the blood test... they showed me the door..
Considering the alternitives Macs not that bad...
and rember that Linux dosn't serve the idiot market yet....
Of course Linux IS working it's way down to the idiot user.. it's allready to the point where the avarage user can use it...
Disclamer: Macs are not idiot boxes but it and Windows are all idiots have...
Bitching about Apple really isn't going anyplace.
Picture for a moment... the 100th layer of managment...
Your manager orders you to "Look busy" but never asigns you any work becouse his manager above him is some how missing from the chain so everyone under him is getting paid to do nothing and they like it that way.
>People like me eat people like you.
:)
Thats how darwinism works
On a side note... I like cats... they eat the weak...
Fast Food is not a byproduct of "Car lifestyle" but of the daily rush....
Eliminate cars... for me this isn't even a hypatheical sence I've done it... I walk everywhere... but thats not so easy for most people...
I carry everything in an oversized backpack (Nicknamed The backpack of doom) so I don't lose the carrying capacity of a car..
And.. I eat at a fast food place on my way to work.. Accially I just buy food at a fast food place stuff it in the back pack and eat once I get to work. Still it's a matter of convence. It's not an automotive convence but a general convence...
I must add.. that for most people automobils are not a convence but a nessisty.. People don't usually live walking distence from work (as I do).
Also part of what makes it posable for me to walk everywhere is I can walk a long distence with out getting tired. To find a decent book store I need to walk halfway accrost town (this wasn't the case in the past but the closer B&N closed in favor of being online).
Anyway unless your a health nut with a close job or are in olypic trainning and you have a $100 to $500 backpack (Mine is $100 the $500 is a really nice hiking pack) I don't recomend giving up your car.
PS. I'm nither heath nut nore in Olympic trainning... just one of those nutjobs who go walking to think things out.. in my case coding problems... and I end up 3 citys away... having to walk back....
Upgrade the lens to a multispectral scanner. Give it some advanced analisis capabilitys. Port Linux.
Put it in a nice hansom leather carrying case with a strap... put the sensor in a portable RF probe so you can wave it around as it scanns..
Make software for medical analisis and scientific analisis...
Just so people won't be confused.. call them tricorders instead of camras....
Star Wars Ep 3: Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck teams up with Jar Jar binks...
Paramount is rummored to have liccensed the rights of the carricer Wessly Crusher to this movie...
In an interview Lucas said "Well I did say 3 would be a major disapointment"....