I doubt that too many people believe that it's really happened, so they aren't trying to download it.
Most people are probably off looking for a certain FPS starring Duke Nukem instead... that or they are making a killing sweaters to the residents of Hell.
... if you live in the 1970s perhaps. Most people I know pull off the horrendous flower bathroom (and kitchen) tiles that were the bane of bad 1970s home renovations (in Australia, that is...)
Or were you thinking of tiles that you could plant after they have served their official life spans as tiles?
...I don't understand why people are complaining about the quality of the acting - after all, I thought that there were many complaints about the acting in the official films?
This is, of course, unless the acting in this make Jar Jar Binks look like a classically-trained Shakespearean actor...
Yes, I know that Tivo hacking is popular, but leaving behind a lemon scent after cleaning up the dirt and filth that is recorded on a Tivo hard drive is a little weird...even for Slashdot.
...getting a guy completely trashed on water, because he thought he was drinking vodka. Sure, he'd had a few vodkas already (only a few), but once the bottle ran out, he still wanted more, so I filled up the bottle with water, and he and I sat down and kept drinking the 'vodka'.
I acted as if I were drinking vodka (the flinching at the strength of it, and pretending to be feeling the effect), until he became so drunk on about 350ml of water (and the perhaps 100ml of vodka that he'd drunk earlier) that he couldn't stand and was passed out, and was out of action for almost a day.
After this, with the d*ckh**d out of the way, I finished my good deed for the party, and everybody else had a great time from that point onwards at the party... it only took about 40 minutes for this to work.
So, yes, I can believe that the placebo effect works - and even more effectively on fools like the guy in my anecdote.
... but don't forget the rest of the sentence: "and he certainly had some troubling views on Jews, for instance". Take a look at:
this article for a little more information.
Wagner is an idol of elements of the far right, and he certainly had some troubling views on Jews, for instance. However, regardless of whether this is an issue, the Ring Cycle would provide a good model for how to interpret LOTR for the stage.
... Wagner influence there might be in the staging of it. Regardless of what his politics may or may not have been, the Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen) occurs to me as being a way that it could be done. Aside from the obvious comparisons to draw (the length of the thing comes to mind... imagine sixteen or more hours of LOTR musical), I imagine that opera would be a more suitable format than a musical (as other posters have quipped, after this it goes on ice...).
From the first Act:
There is one sword That he could not shatter Nothung's splinters Would baffle his strength, Could I but forge Those doughty fragments That all my skill Cannot weld anew. Could I but forge the weapon, Shame and toil would win their reward!
Sound like something from which the LOTR musical could take inspiration from?
Must be your setup - on my old Celeron 366 with a Voodoo3 2000 and 128mb RAM running Slackware 10.0, with Blackbox as the Window Manager, at 1024x768 it flies along. That is, flies along in comparison to how quickly the same box ran Win98, Win2000 (when the box had 256mb RAM) and using Opera or IE5.5.
It serves nicely as a backup web browsing machine when my main box is occupied by other things.
Given that glaciers are meltingmorequickly, does this mean that MSFT is going to be a tougher opponent in the future, and that it's picking up momentum, before evaporating away into nothing?
Sort of - the prudish ones stay home, but the prudish Americans with fetishes for naked statues (in the name of artistic characteristics, of course), are the people who travel...
Try telling that to my employer, which had to adapt its business practices because PeopleSoft wouldn't produce an Australian-focussed system. This is despite PeopleSoft being employed widely at universities across the country.
The highlight of this process, IMO, was the need to rename subjects to courses, courses to programs, and programs to careers, so that there would be no confusion...
After several years of using PeopleSoft, the university *still* cannot get completely accurate student statistics. And, no, this isn't a user issue...
...when the Raelians have been saying something like this for years?
Okay, sure, I hear you say, Rael is really a failed French racing driver called Claude Vorilhon, who had the Elohim (read: aliens) meet him on top of a Clermont Ferrand mountain in December 1973, who told him how they created humans through cloning...
Great, just great, now SETI has been linked to the Raelians and Clonaid... That's a sure way to guarantee to be taken seriously *sigh*
Is this like the pied-piper of Hameln - the statue plays its whistle, and everybody's votes disappear... and then if the piper isn't paid, he releases some of the votes back, and George W. Bush is re-elected?
...will do almost anything for a bit of publicity at the moment. As the eighth university of the so-called 'Group of Eight' premier league institutions in the country, the University of Adelaide is a mess at present. There is little leadership, poor strategic planning, a recent Government survey that slammed it in many areas, and so on. The announcement of this new system is meant to show how technologically advanced the place is, and how it leads the way.
This couldn't be further from the truth. Ask the postgraduates, who have Mac LCIIs and 486-DX33s on their desks (I kid you not). Ask the academics, who have been retrenched in recent years (in some facultis, 25% of academic staff lost their jobs because of the university's financial problems), ask the users of its library, which has HUGE funding problems.
Whilst the new machine may be very nice and have some power, the University of Adelaide really sees it only as a PR campaign (hell, it even made it to Slashdot!), rather than anything significant for the sake of scientific advancement - okay, the researchers, who will use it may have a different opinion, but not the University iself.
...that several Australian universities have cooperated in handing over the details of students without having to so do. Given that ISPs fight tool and nail to avoid having to so do, they did this without being forced to. As somebody who works at an Australian university (but not one of the ones targetted by the music industry), this is concerning (and, no, not because I pirate music - I don't), especially under the new privacy laws in this country. The privacy of the arrested students - regardless of whether they broke the law - was breached in the first instance by the universities handing over their details without being legally made to so do.
BTW - another article about this can be found here.
It might seem like a small point, and, no, this is not an attempt at relativisation, but the actual death toll was closer to 25,000 for Dresden. 25,000 too many, certainly, but not 135,000.
Take a look at Richard Evans' evidence from the Irving-Lipstadt trial about the distortion of Irving's writing about the bombing of Dresden.
It's an atrocity regardless, but not as large as those with certain agendas allege (not that I suggest that you have one, I hasten to add...).
...who wishes to do convince the IT powers that be to do the same, I am very happy to hear about other institutions that are doing the same. Whilst there remains a need for Windows-based machines, Macs, and whatever else is used, there are many compelling reasons for switching to Linux - these are just a few I have (whilst on University time...).
1. Control. Whilst I would normally shudder at the thought of restricting IT access, I do appreciate UOW's desire to better manage their machines. We recently had some new machines running Win2k installed in my area, and within a day, one was in poor shape thanks to a particular idiot installing the latest Windows Media Player version on it and somehow stuffing up the OSA installation. He was able to so do thanks to the IT stroke of genius of giving everyone admin access. Whilst this may be an human issue rather than an OS one, every bit helps:)
2. Cost. We are all aware of the studies that compare the cost of Linux to other OSes. In any case, regardless of the outcome, I do know that my insitution will be spending multiple millions per year (as of next year) for desktop software licences for MS products because of the new licence arrangements. In a country that has mounting financial challenges in university funding, alternatives to MS software need to be found.
3. Ethics. Maybe this is too strong, but IMO it is not. Why should tapayer money be spent on making a single corporation (even) richer? A centre of teaching and research ought to have academic independence of multinational corporations.
These are just a few, IMO, valid thoughts about the issue. Regardless, UOW deserves to be applauded for the initiative.
...that the Moon does not even EXIST! In the tradition of 'Holocaust revisionist' theory, the Mad Revisionist sets out - and by 'revisionist' standards - convincingly shows that the Moon is a propaganda hoax. If, indeed, the NASA study can show the Moon exists, the Mad Revisionist is offering a large reward that would cover NASA's costs;)
To quote from the web site, located here (full article not reproduced here, due to the many links contained therein):
In 1995, the American Historical Association, in an attempt to stifle revisionist scholarship, marked the 50th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism with a resolution calling on scholars to "initiate plans now to study the significance of the Holocaust." This, however, was not enough of a blow to free academic discourse for the enemies of truth. The president of the AHA, William Leuchtenburg, was asked why the resolution did not go so far as to explicitly recognize the Holocaust as a fact of history. He answered that for a group of historians to say that there had been a Holocaust was tantamount to "an organization of astronomers saying there is a moon."
While, on the surface, this appears as nothing more than a shameless attempt to trivialize and thereby discredit the work of revisionists, it nonetheless got me to thinking: why did this historian single out the moon? Why would a scholar, so familiar with academic standards of evidence, use such language to imply that the existence of the moon, unlike any other issue, was a given and not subject to proof? What, in other words, was he trying to hide?
It was then that I embarked on my research, which has led me to this day when I can confidently make the following assertion: The Moon does not exist. As I realize this revelation may appear shocking to the average reader, allow me to repeat it:
The Moon does not exist!
This is no lie. Until recently, I, too, believed in the traditional, establishment view of the moon. But any thinking person, untainted by the biases imposed on us by the controlled media, will have no choice but to reach the conclusion I did once faced with the facts described in this account.
[..]
A cash reward of $100,000 has been offered to anyone who can send us, by e-mail, conclusive physical evidence of the existence of the moon. This reward remains unclaimed.
Can you prove that the moon exists? Write to us at: madrev@reptiles.org
I guess we will have to disagree on this one; however, having toured as a roadie with the Hosen on two continents, I feel that I am in a better position to comment on their attitude than you probably are.
IMO, and strictly IMO (but I doubt I am alone here), they have more of the ethos of punk than most other people ever will. Yes, sure, they have songs about drinking; yes, they sing songs about Bayen Munich; however, knowing the guys personally, I believe that they do possess your three criteria (creativity, originality and intellect), but unlike some with an idea, they don't ram it in your face - you have to pay closer attention than I suspect you probably have (not that this is a flame - if you don't like the music, then why should you?)
In any case, I like their music, but above all else, I like the Hosen as people.:)
...well, yes, it is, but, no it's not. Yes, the late 1970s punk scene, from which the Pistols, the Clash, The UK Subs, and so forth come, which most people think about - the leather jackets and safety pins, I mean, is long gone. Sure, walk around London, and you can pay a try-hard punk one pound for a photo, but beyond that...
What people forget is that this is not punk. The whole idea of a punk 'uniform' is in itself against everything that punk ever was - or is. Punk is about rebelling about what one does not like, and doing it how one wants - sticking your middle finger up at the world, in a sense. It's not about mohawks and leather jackets - or about self-destruction, a la Sid Vicious. In that sense, as other/.ers have pointed out, the Sex Pistols were a Spice Girls band in nature, having been created by Malcolm McLaren, who failed in his previous attempt with the New York Dolls; however, having said that, the original motivation for bands such as the Ramones, the Clash and so forth is more about what punk is.
Punk music is just that - a variety of music, nothing more. Like it or love it, whilst it has come to represent, along with the Sex Pistols at the forefront the ideals of a generation of disaffected British youths, it is not punk. Hell, punk rock (to give the music a name) is not even English in origin - it's American...
25 years on, yes, there are still punk bands out there - by this I do not mean punk rock bands such as the Sex Pistols, I mean bands who have the punk attitude. And they don't even have to play punk rock to be punk. Bands such as Die Toten Hosen, to name one, is a good example. Whilst they may have a punk rock background, they are not punk rockers now - but they are still punk in attitude. Blink 182, the Offspring - ha, don't make me laugh. They are not 'punk'.
Therefore, in a sense, Linux users can even be considered punk - sticking their middle fingers up at Microsoft:)
...that has been blocked [williscarto.com], I cannot decide whether to laugh at this or to scream in despair. As anybody who looked at the site would have noticed, the site is not exactly racist; indeed, the site's title is "Resources Against Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism (italics for the benefit of this post only) - pretty damned obvious to most, I would have thought.
Looking at the site's information makes it only more apparent.
Whilst I do understand the Germans' way of dealing with antisemitism, banning such sites is not the way to go. Education is, however.
Banning sites that combat antisemitism is beyond belief...
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I think it will be some time until Crazy J is able of outplaying the likes of Jimmy Damage, the current Australian air guitar champion...
I doubt that too many people believe that it's really happened, so they aren't trying to download it.
Most people are probably off looking for a certain FPS starring Duke Nukem instead... that or they are making a killing sweaters to the residents of Hell.
... if you live in the 1970s perhaps. Most people I know pull off the horrendous flower bathroom (and kitchen) tiles that were the bane of bad 1970s home renovations (in Australia, that is...)
Or were you thinking of tiles that you could plant after they have served their official life spans as tiles?
...I don't understand why people are complaining about the quality of the acting - after all, I thought that there were many complaints about the acting in the official films?
This is, of course, unless the acting in this make Jar Jar Binks look like a classically-trained Shakespearean actor...
Yes, I know that Tivo hacking is popular, but leaving behind a lemon scent after cleaning up the dirt and filth that is recorded on a Tivo hard drive is a little weird...even for Slashdot.
We were eating chili as well, and I did say that he wasn't very bright... outright stupid, more like.
He didn't believe me to start with, but I'm a good actor and he fell for it. I didn't understand it either.
...getting a guy completely trashed on water, because he thought he was drinking vodka. Sure, he'd had a few vodkas already (only a few), but once the bottle ran out, he still wanted more, so I filled up the bottle with water, and he and I sat down and kept drinking the 'vodka'.
I acted as if I were drinking vodka (the flinching at the strength of it, and pretending to be feeling the effect), until he became so drunk on about 350ml of water (and the perhaps 100ml of vodka that he'd drunk earlier) that he couldn't stand and was passed out, and was out of action for almost a day.
After this, with the d*ckh**d out of the way, I finished my good deed for the party, and everybody else had a great time from that point onwards at the party... it only took about 40 minutes for this to work.
So, yes, I can believe that the placebo effect works - and even more effectively on fools like the guy in my anecdote.
... but don't forget the rest of the sentence: "and he certainly had some troubling views on Jews, for instance". Take a look at: this article for a little more information.
Wagner is an idol of elements of the far right, and he certainly had some troubling views on Jews, for instance. However, regardless of whether this is an issue, the Ring Cycle would provide a good model for how to interpret LOTR for the stage.
... Wagner influence there might be in the staging of it. Regardless of what his politics may or may not have been, the Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen) occurs to me as being a way that it could be done. Aside from the obvious comparisons to draw (the length of the thing comes to mind... imagine sixteen or more hours of LOTR musical), I imagine that opera would be a more suitable format than a musical (as other posters have quipped, after this it goes on ice...).
From the first Act:
There is one sword
That he could not shatter
Nothung's splinters
Would baffle his strength,
Could I but forge
Those doughty fragments
That all my skill
Cannot weld anew.
Could I but forge the weapon,
Shame and toil would win their reward!
Sound like something from which the LOTR musical could take inspiration from?
... I suspect that the Denver Post may think that its server is coming under a massive attach at present from thousands of Slashbots...
Must be your setup - on my old Celeron 366 with a Voodoo3 2000 and 128mb RAM running Slackware 10.0, with Blackbox as the Window Manager, at 1024x768 it flies along. That is, flies along in comparison to how quickly the same box ran Win98, Win2000 (when the box had 256mb RAM) and using Opera or IE5.5.
It serves nicely as a backup web browsing machine when my main box is occupied by other things.
Just thought I'd ask.
Sort of - the prudish ones stay home, but the prudish Americans with fetishes for naked statues (in the name of artistic characteristics, of course), are the people who travel...
Try telling that to my employer, which had to adapt its business practices because PeopleSoft wouldn't produce an Australian-focussed system. This is despite PeopleSoft being employed widely at universities across the country.
The highlight of this process, IMO, was the need to rename subjects to courses, courses to programs, and programs to careers, so that there would be no confusion...
After several years of using PeopleSoft, the university *still* cannot get completely accurate student statistics. And, no, this isn't a user issue...
Okay, sure, I hear you say, Rael is really a failed French racing driver called Claude Vorilhon, who had the Elohim (read: aliens) meet him on top of a Clermont Ferrand mountain in December 1973, who told him how they created humans through cloning...
Great, just great, now SETI has been linked to the Raelians and Clonaid... That's a sure way to guarantee to be taken seriously *sigh*
Is this like the pied-piper of Hameln - the statue plays its whistle, and everybody's votes disappear... and then if the piper isn't paid, he releases some of the votes back, and George W. Bush is re-elected?
This couldn't be further from the truth. Ask the postgraduates, who have Mac LCIIs and 486-DX33s on their desks (I kid you not). Ask the academics, who have been retrenched in recent years (in some facultis, 25% of academic staff lost their jobs because of the university's financial problems), ask the users of its library, which has HUGE funding problems.
Whilst the new machine may be very nice and have some power, the University of Adelaide really sees it only as a PR campaign (hell, it even made it to Slashdot!), rather than anything significant for the sake of scientific advancement - okay, the researchers, who will use it may have a different opinion, but not the University iself.
BTW - another article about this can be found here.
Take a look at Richard Evans' evidence from the Irving-Lipstadt trial about the distortion of Irving's writing about the bombing of Dresden.
It's an atrocity regardless, but not as large as those with certain agendas allege (not that I suggest that you have one, I hasten to add...).
1. Control. Whilst I would normally shudder at the thought of restricting IT access, I do appreciate UOW's desire to better manage their machines. We recently had some new machines running Win2k installed in my area, and within a day, one was in poor shape thanks to a particular idiot installing the latest Windows Media Player version on it and somehow stuffing up the OSA installation. He was able to so do thanks to the IT stroke of genius of giving everyone admin access. Whilst this may be an human issue rather than an OS one, every bit helps :)
2. Cost. We are all aware of the studies that compare the cost of Linux to other OSes. In any case, regardless of the outcome, I do know that my insitution will be spending multiple millions per year (as of next year) for desktop software licences for MS products because of the new licence arrangements. In a country that has mounting financial challenges in university funding, alternatives to MS software need to be found.
3. Ethics. Maybe this is too strong, but IMO it is not. Why should tapayer money be spent on making a single corporation (even) richer? A centre of teaching and research ought to have academic independence of multinational corporations.
These are just a few, IMO, valid thoughts about the issue. Regardless, UOW deserves to be applauded for the initiative.
To quote from the web site, located here (full article not reproduced here, due to the many links contained therein):
In 1995, the American Historical Association, in an attempt to stifle revisionist scholarship, marked the 50th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism with a resolution calling on scholars to "initiate plans now to study the significance of the Holocaust." This, however, was not enough of a blow to free academic discourse for the enemies of truth. The president of the AHA, William Leuchtenburg, was asked why the resolution did not go so far as to explicitly recognize the Holocaust as a fact of history. He answered that for a group of historians to say that there had been a Holocaust was tantamount to "an organization of astronomers saying there is a moon."
While, on the surface, this appears as nothing more than a shameless attempt to trivialize and thereby discredit the work of revisionists, it nonetheless got me to thinking: why did this historian single out the moon? Why would a scholar, so familiar with academic standards of evidence, use such language to imply that the existence of the moon, unlike any other issue, was a given and not subject to proof? What, in other words, was he trying to hide?
It was then that I embarked on my research, which has led me to this day when I can confidently make the following assertion: The Moon does not exist. As I realize this revelation may appear shocking to the average reader, allow me to repeat it:
The Moon does not exist!
This is no lie. Until recently, I, too, believed in the traditional, establishment view of the moon. But any thinking person, untainted by the biases imposed on us by the controlled media, will have no choice but to reach the conclusion I did once faced with the facts described in this account.
[..]
A cash reward of $100,000 has been offered to anyone who can send us, by e-mail, conclusive physical evidence of the existence of the moon. This reward remains unclaimed.
Can you prove that the moon exists? Write to us at: madrev@reptiles.org
IMO, and strictly IMO (but I doubt I am alone here), they have more of the ethos of punk than most other people ever will. Yes, sure, they have songs about drinking; yes, they sing songs about Bayen Munich; however, knowing the guys personally, I believe that they do possess your three criteria (creativity, originality and intellect), but unlike some with an idea, they don't ram it in your face - you have to pay closer attention than I suspect you probably have (not that this is a flame - if you don't like the music, then why should you?)
In any case, I like their music, but above all else, I like the Hosen as people. :)
What people forget is that this is not punk. The whole idea of a punk 'uniform' is in itself against everything that punk ever was - or is. Punk is about rebelling about what one does not like, and doing it how one wants - sticking your middle finger up at the world, in a sense. It's not about mohawks and leather jackets - or about self-destruction, a la Sid Vicious. In that sense, as other /.ers have pointed out, the Sex Pistols were a Spice Girls band in nature, having been created by Malcolm McLaren, who failed in his previous attempt with the New York Dolls; however, having said that, the original motivation for bands such as the Ramones, the Clash and so forth is more about what punk is.
Punk music is just that - a variety of music, nothing more. Like it or love it, whilst it has come to represent, along with the Sex Pistols at the forefront the ideals of a generation of disaffected British youths, it is not punk. Hell, punk rock (to give the music a name) is not even English in origin - it's American...
25 years on, yes, there are still punk bands out there - by this I do not mean punk rock bands such as the Sex Pistols, I mean bands who have the punk attitude. And they don't even have to play punk rock to be punk. Bands such as Die Toten Hosen, to name one, is a good example. Whilst they may have a punk rock background, they are not punk rockers now - but they are still punk in attitude. Blink 182, the Offspring - ha, don't make me laugh. They are not 'punk'.
Therefore, in a sense, Linux users can even be considered punk - sticking their middle fingers up at Microsoft :)
Looking at the site's information makes it only more apparent.
Whilst I do understand the Germans' way of dealing with antisemitism, banning such sites is not the way to go. Education is, however.
Banning sites that combat antisemitism is beyond belief...