At the time of our Revolution, nine of our thirteen colonies had state-established churches, Congregational in the North and Anglican in the South. They overlapped, with no apparent understanding of the contradiction, with the eight new states who adopted Jefferson's clause, which he had proposed for his home Virginia, that granted freedom of religion, "according to the dictates of conscience." Jefferson's own Virginia did not embrace this language until ten years later. Freedom of religion was an emerging idea and even where the language of secularism took hold, the reality was more difficult.
All states had some religious restrictions. Even Pennsylvania, the state most Americans think of as the leader in religious liberty, required those in public office to swear that the Old and New Testaments were divinely inspired.
On reflection, none of this should surprise us. Many of our settlers had been religious fanatics England had sent away. Their descendants not only lacked modern travel and communication advances, about half lacked basic literacy. The Deists, prominent among our founding fathers, were a tiny minority among the populace or even the leaders at the state level. Catholics wisely stayed in Maryland, which had been established for them.
The admendment to the constitution says "Congress shall make no law" - The state churches sort of disappeared when the 14th(?) admendment passed with it's clause of equal protoection under the law.
Which is the knotty point. Can there be equal protection under the law if you allow for relgious statements? My take is that you can havc equal protection under the law, such as in criminal matters without kowtowing to every nit who gets his noise into a twist because I whisper the word "god".
Being worried about every possible cause of personal insult and offence is not equal protection, not for me.
In fact, the atheist is making arguments to enfarce atheism as the religion of the USA. Which is just as bad as the other choices.
Could you please give me some more advice so that I can know what I have to do to get a life?
Sorry, but the source code for your life is no longer available in its original form. A re-compile with appropriate patches (such as the MoreMoney and MoreBrains) and updates (such as FashionSense and MusicTaste) will not be possible.
You may consider hacking a patch, or even a new life from the code fragments that are available on the web. Be warned: most known source code fragments are corrupt in some way.
In the US, the first contact that most citizens have had with multi colored money are the toy bills used in the game Monopoly. Thus the term "Monopoly Money" (ie, not the real thing)
When I was in the service and overseas, this was a common attitude to the local currencies among many service members, indentifying the local bills with monopoly money.
The irony is, that if the economy continues to be go downhill for regular folks (vs getting better for the bigwigs), then GWB will go down in history as the president who introduced "monopoly money" as the standard US Currency.
there was aan almost 0% chance of recovery as dust had got onto the plates.
obviously the newer discs are much more sensitive. I recall stories involving older drives when a tech would show off by running an open hard drive. Times have changed.
is a desription of the process when you have a "mechanical failure".
If you pull apart a fried drive, you'll see that the platters are tied down pretty tight, but that if you pull the platters off then it is basically impossible to re-synch them.
I would love to know about the tools they use there.
There are some nice software recovery tools out there, and some decent ones for about 100 bucks (check out www.z-a-recovery.com)
but the equipment for when you can't talk to the drive... that's something else
The Compaq Portable was the first 100% compatible IBM computer clone. Why make an IBM clone? Because the IBM PC was extremely popular, and taken very seriously by businesses looking for a computer system.
Problem: Compaq couldn't just copy IBM's BIOS to make their new machine guaranteed IBM compatible, this would be illegal, and easily proven by IBM.
Solution: Reverse-engineer IBM's BIOS. Compaq used two sets of programmers, one group who had access to IBM's source code and another who knew nothing about it. The first group closely looked at the original code, and made notes of exactly what it did. The second group took these notes, and wrote their own BIOS that performed exactly the same. After one year and a million dollars, they were successfull. They had a legal BIOS identical in operation to that of the IBM computer.
is in fact the true number of downloaders out there. The rest are spoof accounts. These 838 will of course go to jail due to the billions they have cost the record companies. and will be responsible for all damages.
This will go down as the world's biggest practical joke, faking out the RIAA.
let's face it. the site just got vaporized, with the little electrons running around in stark terror. What's left of the site can be found in a pile of smoke trembling in the bottom of the server cage. and screaming: "You can't make me go back in there!")
Re:article text in case of /.ing
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Imagine the poor guys running or hosting www.dvddebate.com - probably out enjoying the sunshine. What could possible go wrong, especially on the weekend? Suddenly the pager rings...
"Did you notice the smoke pouring out of the server?"
"What smoke pouring out of the server?"
[insert blood curdling scream here]
Actually their content seems half decent
Let's see the last bit of that tracer route:
16 213.206.159.146 148.576 ms sle-rack-1-0.sprintlink.net
17 212.100.227.18 148.589 ms vl130.aggr1.lon.rackspace.net (DNS error) [AS15395] Rackspace UK
18 212.100.226.100 148.547 ms server2.architec.co.uk [AS15395] Rackspace UK
Welcome to Spam University, the world's top-rated educational institution for the growing spam industry.
Are you tired of your dead-end job? Want to make some big-time cash without actually working? Earn the money you deserve in the exciting and fast-growing spam industry.
Actually, as seen in one of the secondary links, the tigers seem to have grown to like it.
We next moved towards the tiger enclosure. The big cats were sprawled lazily on the grass verge as Mr.Binatang approached. "Sayang, sayang," said Mr. Binatang in a somewhat half-hearted manner as he put on a fresh set of gloves and entered the enclosure. "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty..." [...] "Isn't it dangerous?" we asked. Mr. Binatang was silent for a while. "They know I'm not there as an enemy," he finally said, a glazed, faraway look in his eyes. We fought the urge to say, "Give that man a tiger."
"England's Student Magazine [Note: site is dead] has a article each week telling students about different jobs, so that readers can get an idea about what different jobs are like. The most recently has to be in the running for the Worst Job Ever award. [Article #213] Zoo worker Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang of Singagore certainly wins the "Worst Job in Singapore", for his job as a Zoo Sperm Bank worker. The Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which runs the Singapore Zoo, has set up a bank of sperm and animal tissue in order to help preserve endangered species. And someone has to collect the samples. Daily."
But thanks to the magic of the internet we have these reprints
A secret panel! To come up with Vision! NASA needs vision! An INTERAGENCY GROUP will provide it!
Where are the adults?
I suppose we can generate a vision statement here in this forum. But in fact there needs to be something of a plan, and I am weary: I have written space plans for decades, they get adopted by someone, and ignored as NASA works to make thing happen the old ways with the old gang in charge.
A "National Goals in Space" statement by the President might be a good thing; but what is needed is specific projects.
I will give you a space plan now:
"Be it enacted by the Congress of the United States:
the Treasurer of the United States is directed to pay to the first American owned company to build and fly a space ship that carries at least 10,000 pounds payload to orbit and returns to Earth eight times in a period of six consecutive months the sum of $2 billion dollars, tax free.
To the first American owned company that constructs an American owned space station that is continually occupied by at least five Americans over a period of three years, the sum of $4 billion dollars, tax free.
To the first American owned company that shall keep 31 Americans alive and well on the Moon for a period of three years and a day, the sum of $10 billion dollars, tax free.
No payments shall be made until the above conditions are fulfilled."
Note that one company could win all those prizes, or many could, or a consortium of American companies could win. Nothing is paid until the feats are accomplished.
Of course we won't do that.
Of course, his view is that the purpose of NASA is not to explore space, but to expand and maintain the bureaucracy first.
and this would be a more efficient use of government funds. can't have that, now, can we?
Who the hell are these Eolas guys and are they intentionally trying to send the Web's progress back about six years?
while some flash sites are cool, there are plenty which are annoying just because of the inability to deep link into them. At which point I never really visit them again.
You put a smiley in for humor, but there is nothing funny about the Scientologist software in Windows.
Frightened of a disk defragger, heh?
I think that this is one case where the Germans freaked out just a bit too much. The forbidding of the software had nothing to do with the technical merits of the code.
Of course, this is all MS closed source stuff. so you can't verify it as safe. But still, if it is a good piece of code, who cares?
Imagine if it was found out that one of the coders contributing to the linux kernal was a scientologist. Imagine the reaction of the german government based on this example.
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At the time of our Revolution, nine of our thirteen colonies had state-established churches, Congregational in the North and Anglican in the South. They overlapped, with no apparent understanding of the contradiction, with the eight new states who adopted Jefferson's clause, which he had proposed for his home Virginia, that granted freedom of religion, "according to the dictates of conscience." Jefferson's own Virginia did not embrace this language until ten years later. Freedom of religion was an emerging idea and even where the language of secularism took hold, the reality was more difficult.
All states had some religious restrictions. Even Pennsylvania, the state most Americans think of as the leader in religious liberty, required those in public office to swear that the Old and New Testaments were divinely inspired.
On reflection, none of this should surprise us. Many of our settlers had been religious fanatics England had sent away. Their descendants not only lacked modern travel and communication advances, about half lacked basic literacy. The Deists, prominent among our founding fathers, were a tiny minority among the populace or even the leaders at the state level. Catholics wisely stayed in Maryland, which had been established for them.
The admendment to the constitution says "Congress shall make no law" - The state churches sort of disappeared when the 14th(?) admendment passed with it's clause of equal protoection under the law.
Which is the knotty point. Can there be equal protection under the law if you allow for relgious statements? My take is that you can havc equal protection under the law, such as in criminal matters without kowtowing to every nit who gets his noise into a twist because I whisper the word "god".
Being worried about every possible cause of personal insult and offence is not equal protection, not for me.
In fact, the atheist is making arguments to enfarce atheism as the religion of the USA. Which is just as bad as the other choices.
photo here
using Linux detergent box for Boxen
Another boxen photo
Trademark S/N 75735641
Status page for MS-Linux trademark, [hint, someone pick it up quick!]
Sorry, but the source code for your life is no longer available in its original form. A re-compile with appropriate patches (such as the MoreMoney and MoreBrains) and updates (such as FashionSense and MusicTaste) will not be possible.
You may consider hacking a patch, or even a new life from the code fragments that are available on the web. Be warned: most known source code fragments are corrupt in some way.
That and the old foot with tag graphic they used to have around here
Artful, actually. But strange to someone with a usa viewpoint.
When I was in the service and overseas, this was a common attitude to the local currencies among many service members, indentifying the local bills with monopoly money.
The irony is, that if the economy continues to be go downhill for regular folks (vs getting better for the bigwigs), then GWB will go down in history as the president who introduced "monopoly money" as the standard US Currency.
Your milage may vary
obviously the newer discs are much more sensitive. I recall stories involving older drives when a tech would show off by running an open hard drive. Times have changed.
If you pull apart a fried drive, you'll see that the platters are tied down pretty tight, but that if you pull the platters off then it is basically impossible to re-synch them. I would love to know about the tools they use there.
There are some nice software recovery tools out there, and some decent ones for about 100 bucks (check out www.z-a-recovery.com)
but the equipment for when you can't talk to the drive ... that's something else
But private networks, like grand parents calling kids on the other side of the country. that will be harder to track.
what are the odds they forget to renew?
or that someone snaps up the domain for satire purposes, mostly the same, but subtly altered?
In fact, it was Compaq Ahh ... here's the story
- The Compaq Portable was the first 100% compatible IBM computer clone. Why make an IBM clone? Because the IBM PC was extremely popular, and taken very seriously by businesses looking for a computer system.
In any case, you would think Bill would remember this. He was around. Unless he's getting daft.Problem: Compaq couldn't just copy IBM's BIOS to make their new machine guaranteed IBM compatible, this would be illegal, and easily proven by IBM.
Solution: Reverse-engineer IBM's BIOS. Compaq used two sets of programmers, one group who had access to IBM's source code and another who knew nothing about it. The first group closely looked at the original code, and made notes of exactly what it did. The second group took these notes, and wrote their own BIOS that performed exactly the same. After one year and a million dollars, they were successfull. They had a legal BIOS identical in operation to that of the IBM computer.
gahd - not enough sleep
is in fact the true number of downloaders out there. The rest are spoof accounts. These 838 will of course go to jail due to the billions they have cost the record companies. and will be responsible for all damages.
This will go down as the world's biggest practical joke, faking out the RIAA.
Did the RIAA at least send them a t-shirt with a nice target design on it? (your choice of in the back, or on the front)
[on the other hand, maybe the signees are lawyers setting up some sort of a legal honey pot.]
of course. He's the one that implements F.U.D. as a primary marketing tool and human resources management technique. Also in charge of ethic-ectomies
let's face it. the site just got vaporized, with the little electrons running around in stark terror. What's left of the site can be found in a pile of smoke trembling in the bottom of the server cage. and screaming: "You can't make me go back in there!")
"Did you notice the smoke pouring out of the server?"
"What smoke pouring out of the server?"
[insert blood curdling scream here]
Actually their content seems half decent
Let's see the last bit of that tracer route:
16 213.206.159.146 148.576 ms sle-rack-1-0.sprintlink.net
17 212.100.227.18 148.589 ms vl130.aggr1.lon.rackspace.net (DNS error) [AS15395] Rackspace UK
18 212.100.226.100 148.547 ms server2.architec.co.uk [AS15395] Rackspace UK
Well, the server page claims they are doing fine ... ;-)
Welcome to Spam University, the world's top-rated educational institution for the growing spam industry.
Are you tired of your dead-end job? Want to make some big-time cash without actually working? Earn the money you deserve in the exciting and fast-growing spam industry.
We next moved towards the tiger enclosure. The big cats were sprawled lazily on the grass verge as Mr.Binatang approached. "Sayang, sayang," said Mr. Binatang in a somewhat half-hearted manner as he put on a fresh set of gloves and entered the enclosure. "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty..." [...] "Isn't it dangerous?" we asked. Mr. Binatang was silent for a while. "They know I'm not there as an enemy," he finally said, a glazed, faraway look in his eyes. We fought the urge to say, "Give that man a tiger."
I recall it as a logo that sites could put on their front page as a promotion of their status as victims of the /. effect
"England's Student Magazine [Note: site is dead] has a article each week telling students about different jobs, so that readers can get an idea about what different jobs are like. The most recently has to be in the running for the Worst Job Ever award. [Article #213] Zoo worker Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang of Singagore certainly wins the "Worst Job in Singapore", for his job as a Zoo Sperm Bank worker. The Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which runs the Singapore Zoo, has set up a bank of sperm and animal tissue in order to help preserve endangered species. And someone has to collect the samples. Daily."
But thanks to the magic of the internet we have these reprints
One, Two
;-)
Where are the adults?
I suppose we can generate a vision statement here in this forum. But in fact there needs to be something of a plan, and I am weary: I have written space plans for decades, they get adopted by someone, and ignored as NASA works to make thing happen the old ways with the old gang in charge.
A "National Goals in Space" statement by the President might be a good thing; but what is needed is specific projects.
I will give you a space plan now:
the Treasurer of the United States is directed to pay to the first American owned company to build and fly a space ship that carries at least 10,000 pounds payload to orbit and returns to Earth eight times in a period of six consecutive months the sum of $2 billion dollars, tax free.
To the first American owned company that constructs an American owned space station that is continually occupied by at least five Americans over a period of three years, the sum of $4 billion dollars, tax free.
To the first American owned company that shall keep 31 Americans alive and well on the Moon for a period of three years and a day, the sum of $10 billion dollars, tax free.
No payments shall be made until the above conditions are fulfilled."
Note that one company could win all those prizes, or many could, or a consortium of American companies could win. Nothing is paid until the feats are accomplished.
Of course we won't do that.
Of course, his view is that the purpose of NASA is not to explore space, but to expand and maintain the bureaucracy first.
and this would be a more efficient use of government funds. can't have that, now, can we?
while some flash sites are cool, there are plenty which are annoying just because of the inability to deep link into them. At which point I never really visit them again.
Frightened of a disk defragger, heh?
I think that this is one case where the Germans freaked out just a bit too much. The forbidding of the software had nothing to do with the technical merits of the code.
Of course, this is all MS closed source stuff. so you can't verify it as safe. But still, if it is a good piece of code, who cares?
Imagine if it was found out that one of the coders contributing to the linux kernal was a scientologist. Imagine the reaction of the german government based on this example.
hey, it could happen.
reminds me of a description I saw once:
- It makes the cutest little "poof" sound when it goes up in smoke
another one bites the dust