Yes, I share your sin. Mea culpa. Whip me massa! Punish me too, Microsoft! I offer myself on the altar of culpability. Perhaps Microsoft should be interested in punishing me as well. And Al Gore, he got the info and didn't turn me in. Does that make him an accessory? How about Sharon Stone? Does Microsoft have to chastise all of us who have shared your sin. My mind boggles at the implications, but then again, my mind terminally boggled some time ago. Good Grief, the comedian's a bear! No he's a not, he's a wearing a neck-a-tie.
Some of us were trained to be polyglots. We speak some Imperial, but mainly think and seriously communicate in cgs. It is not our fault if some people only speak an obscure, off world dialect. Scientists and engineers need to get a babblefish if they want to communicate in Imperial, Sanskrit or Klingon. "Good grief the comedians a bear!"
The second amendment was intended with a dual purpose. Not a duel purpose as some think. The first purpose was to have a ready force of citizens familiar with the means of national defense. Keeping an Abrams tank is not practical right now, but Israel and the Swiss Confederation still understand the utility of having a citizenry versed in small arms use. The second purpose was to prevent the tyranny of the state from being too easily enforced. The early leaders of our nation were a bunch of social and economic REVOLUTIONARIES. They included Tom Paine who advocated "bloody revolution" about every 50 years to assure the freshness of the American Revolutionary spirit. The Founders didn't really think they needed guns to keep out Goody Parsons from the cow shed, but rather to allow early militias to have individuals experienced enough to be called quickly to arms, and citizens who would be able to defend against the improper impositions of an overbearing central authority. We have lost site of these goals by regarding them as antique. We have abrogated our individual responsibilities by deferring to an authority the interests of which are not always allied with individual freedoms. Individual freedom is something that we should appreciate since we are working now in a medium which gives more freedom to the individual since the constitution was devised and I for one like it that way. Protect those freedoms or lose them as they have in such countries as the PRC and Cuba where citizens aren't allowed guns and the crimes are committed by the government.
Yeah, but standards evolve through a combination of luck, fitness and practicality. See Stephen Jay Gould for the biological equivalent. It is the sort of quasi-biological chaos that is appealing to many of us: what works is adapted and adopted. You may imagine it could be better, but we have to have some concordance to function. If something better than an old standard comes along, we will drift toward that one.
Rome fell, Germany lost World War II, and this battle was fought and decided long ago. First, define parameters: What is permitted?...ordering new undies from Victoria's Secret, playing blackjack on line at a site in Mauritia?, or maybe nothing; second what is prohibited: no non-work related use, no links outside the intranet, no transmission of sensitive materials? Try co-operating instead of puking your lunch if da boss has a reasonable request. Next, if you don't like it, quit and become a consultant or an activist and buy your own computer and pay for your own access on your own time. You have a right to privacy but not to use another's resources for your personal use. That doesn't fly even in a worker's paradise.
No way. Took a Mavica to China. Bought 50 floppies for $5. Took up to 300 stills or 60 1 minute movies each and every day. Downloaded onto a lap top hard drive every night. Fair pictures. Fair movies with sound. Good enough for a cheap camera and a pleasure trip.
Internet Cafes are fair. At times you may have to tolerate some surveillance (not all governments are free). By using a variety of means including Internet Cafes, multiple ISP's, occasional long distance calls to friendly second countries, wireless calls, etc you can usually establish some kind of connection. Security, cost and rate of transmission are additional issues. It also helps if you are a bit of a Phreak.
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Yes, I share your sin. Mea culpa. Whip me massa! Punish me too, Microsoft! I offer myself on the altar of culpability. Perhaps Microsoft should be interested in punishing me as well. And Al Gore, he got the info and didn't turn me in. Does that make him an accessory? How about Sharon Stone? Does Microsoft have to chastise all of us who have shared your sin. My mind boggles at the implications, but then again, my mind terminally boggled some time ago. Good Grief, the comedian's a bear! No he's a not, he's a wearing a neck-a-tie.
Some of us were trained to be polyglots. We speak some Imperial, but mainly think and seriously communicate in cgs. It is not our fault if some people only speak an obscure, off world dialect. Scientists and engineers need to get a babblefish if they want to communicate in Imperial, Sanskrit or Klingon. "Good grief the comedians a bear!"
The second amendment was intended with a dual purpose. Not a duel purpose as some think. The first purpose was to have a ready force of citizens familiar with the means of national defense. Keeping an Abrams tank is not practical right now, but Israel and the Swiss Confederation still understand the utility of having a citizenry versed in small arms use. The second purpose was to prevent the tyranny of the state from being too easily enforced. The early leaders of our nation were a bunch of social and economic REVOLUTIONARIES. They included Tom Paine who advocated "bloody revolution" about every 50 years to assure the freshness of the American Revolutionary spirit. The Founders didn't really think they needed guns to keep out Goody Parsons from the cow shed, but rather to allow early militias to have individuals experienced enough to be called quickly to arms, and citizens who would be able to defend against the improper impositions of an overbearing central authority. We have lost site of these goals by regarding them as antique. We have abrogated our individual responsibilities by deferring to an authority the interests of which are not always allied with individual freedoms. Individual freedom is something that we should appreciate since we are working now in a medium which gives more freedom to the individual since the constitution was devised and I for one like it that way. Protect those freedoms or lose them as they have in such countries as the PRC and Cuba where citizens aren't allowed guns and the crimes are committed by the government.
You can get multi-modality Play Stations in Beijing. Watch out for knock-offs and rip-offs.
This is the kind of thing that gives George Orwell a bad name.
Yeah, but standards evolve through a combination of luck, fitness and practicality. See Stephen Jay Gould for the biological equivalent. It is the sort of quasi-biological chaos that is appealing to many of us: what works is adapted and adopted. You may imagine it could be better, but we have to have some concordance to function. If something better than an old standard comes along, we will drift toward that one.
Rome fell, Germany lost World War II, and this battle was fought and decided long ago. First, define parameters: What is permitted?...ordering new undies from Victoria's Secret, playing blackjack on line at a site in Mauritia?, or maybe nothing; second what is prohibited: no non-work related use, no links outside the intranet, no transmission of sensitive materials? Try co-operating instead of puking your lunch if da boss has a reasonable request. Next, if you don't like it, quit and become a consultant or an activist and buy your own computer and pay for your own access on your own time. You have a right to privacy but not to use another's resources for your personal use. That doesn't fly even in a worker's paradise.
No way. Took a Mavica to China. Bought 50 floppies for $5. Took up to 300 stills or 60 1 minute movies each and every day. Downloaded onto a lap top hard drive every night. Fair pictures. Fair movies with sound. Good enough for a cheap camera and a pleasure trip.
Internet Cafes are fair. At times you may have to tolerate some surveillance (not all governments are free). By using a variety of means including Internet Cafes, multiple ISP's, occasional long distance calls to friendly second countries, wireless calls, etc you can usually establish some kind of connection. Security, cost and rate of transmission are additional issues. It also helps if you are a bit of a Phreak.