Wow. Way to quote the Bush campaign's media materials as concisely as possible.
The funny thing is, the one thing you seem to have made up, the clever clever football game analogy is idiotic.
An ELECTION is NOT a GAME. We need someone to act as leader of the most powerful (we think) country on the planet. The planet may hang in the balance.
Wake the f*ck up, please.
(I know the president is just a puppet, but please, don't use dumb analogies that cheapen our world even further.)
Who had the balls to label this as a troll? He's right - alot of the answers seem to be cut-n-pasted, and the answers don't necessarily flow very well. The poster makes a valid point, and Nader is a bit of a sarcastic bastard.
I would almost consider the above abuse of moderation power as a Troll. Wake the fuck up, please.
It looks like www.homedepot.com is just the victim of bad redirects. The main index page is an.htm which redirects to a translation (EN) page which in turn redirects to a dynamically generated JSP page with a query passed to it. This stuff could be accomplished in one root dynamic page, but it looks like their web dev people just kind of hacked it out. Don't think there's a conspiracy here, just bad design.
I believe the original codename for the MSN project was Blackbird, when they were developing a proprietary network w/ client browser, it was all referred to as Blackbird I think. I think, therefore I'm not sure. -- octo
...the way he got his ass kicked in prison makes me think he's might be obnoxious and disrespectful...
Having known a few people who have gone through the California and Washington prison system and hearing the stories, this is kind of a naive statement.
True, from what I've heard, Mitnick's social skills are a bit retarded, but that just takes some maturity - perhaps being on the lecture circuit would've actually made him a better communicator in the long run, and we may not find out now.
But in prison Kevin could've been a submissive, respectful lamb and still gotten his ass reamed from here to Bangkok. There is no justice inside those bars, man, regular social rules DO NOT apply. Don't make those kind of assumptions.
Go to e-ThePeople.com and start a petition to allow Kevin to at least make a living legally consulting/lecturing on computer security issues. I'm not sure who the petition should be addressed to, though, and someone with more knowledge of his case should set it up.
My little 8-yr-old cousin and his friend saw two fireballs going back and forth, chasing each other in his backyard, the same day that the reports below were taken - it was midafternoon, not night. They were hovering above the treetops, and then they shot off in opposite directions. No joke. This is supposedly what "St Elmo's Fire"s are - but I have no idea what Ally Sheedy has to do with this...
http://www.nwlink.com/~ufocntr/CB980422.html
Here's an index of Fireball reports to the National UFO Reporting Center.
I was under the impression that the rash of "fireballs" (green, orange, blue, shifting colors) that have been sighted around the globe lately were actually the manifest souls of Others or of Shamen in this world working out-of-body.
Sorry, Jon, but BM was a five-minute Hallmark card stretched out into 2+ hours. I have a lot of patience for cheese and heartstring-plucking movies, but this was the most deliberate yet boring movie I've seen in a while.
The portrayal of the human characters was so boring and non-challenging that I honestly wondered in the middle of the movie why Robin Williams wanted to be human at all. Existence as a robot seemed much more exciting than these people's lives. The little Pepsi girl was more annoying than the female robot with the personality chip, who bugged the hell out of me.
Sure, the computer-generated backgrounds of San Francisco and other cities were quite purty. But I didn't come to this movie for the special effects - we're all becoming more immune to effects-driven movies now - I came to see a study of technology and humanity, the pervasive theme behind most of Asimov's work.
Instead I left covered in cheese - and I checked, it wasn't spillage from my nachos.
The "sequel" to Ishmael which actually happens at the same time the first book does.
Telepathic gorilla tells a 12-year-old girl why human beings are so screwed up.
Brilliant, delves hard into the modern educational system. Daniel Quinn was actually an editor for school textbooks and finally left because he was so digusted with the system.
For further reading, check out Terence McKenna's Food of the Gods, in which he theorizes that humans are apes that had to adapt to grasslands as the Sahara receded, and they began introducing psychedelic mushrooms into their diets that were growing on cow sh*t in those grasslands. Monkeys that had better cognitive abilities, robust egos, and imaginations could deal with it, others could not. Natural selection for more finely tuned brains. Also, I highly suggest reading Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. Telepathic gorilla tells man why he's so f*cked up. And The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, gives a great understanding of how human language evolved. -- octo
While the local schools do not HAVE to teach creationism and they CAN teach evolution if they choose to do so, the statewide assessment test questions that each student will have to take are compiled by the SCHOOL BOARD.
I saw AP2 last night, and when it cut to the Space Needle the entire audience lost it for about a minute and a half. Very cathartic. I wish it was M$, but they NEVER would've gone for that.
As far as "huge, monolithic companies" go, most high-tech people here consider M$ a "Hahvahd" company. Adobe ain't native either. Amazon is local, but horror stories from contract workers around here keep Amazon pride low in this region. Boeing is being hated more and more. And Starbucks is just a big fat joke. Other cities eat their franchises up like crazy because they don't know better, but NW people tend to support small coffeehouses and independent roasters, etc. (Except for uppity Eastsiders who crave "consistency" and Oprah books.)
I've also heard an interesting rumor the other way - that the reason the DOJ is after M$ so doggedly is not because of monopolistic practices, but because Gates won't incorporate the US Gov's encryption scheme into their software. From what I've heard, M$ is one of the only major companies refusing.
This is hearsay - I have no facts to point to. I'm also just throwing it in for conversation's sake, BTW. I love watching M$ squirm.
My gf and I just got back from seeing it - we practically peed our pants. However, I agree with Jon's conclusion - it's not really that strong of a script, and I just as easily could've waited to rent it.
But goddamn that was funny.
The most brilliant character in the movie was Milton, played by Steven Root, who's not only the weird owner of the radio staton on News Radio, but also does the voices of Bill Dautrive and Mr Strickland on KOTH. We did NOT recognize him in this movie. He's SCARY in Office Space.
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Wow. Way to quote the Bush campaign's media materials as concisely as possible. The funny thing is, the one thing you seem to have made up, the clever clever football game analogy is idiotic. An ELECTION is NOT a GAME. We need someone to act as leader of the most powerful (we think) country on the planet. The planet may hang in the balance. Wake the f*ck up, please. (I know the president is just a puppet, but please, don't use dumb analogies that cheapen our world even further.)
Who had the balls to label this as a troll? He's right - alot of the answers seem to be cut-n-pasted, and the answers don't necessarily flow very well. The poster makes a valid point, and Nader is a bit of a sarcastic bastard.
I would almost consider the above abuse of moderation power as a Troll. Wake the fuck up, please.
Rock on, my brother! "Gore and Bush make me wanna RALPH!"
Well, Hatch has his own distribution system set up, he's got his stubby Mormon finger in the proverbial pie... http://www.hatchmusic.com/
It looks like www.homedepot.com is just the victim of bad redirects. The main index page is an .htm which redirects to a translation (EN) page which in turn redirects to a dynamically generated JSP page with a query passed to it. This stuff could be accomplished in one root dynamic page, but it looks like their web dev people just kind of hacked it out. Don't think there's a conspiracy here, just bad design.
I believe the original codename for the MSN project was Blackbird, when they were developing a proprietary network w/ client browser, it was all referred to as Blackbird I think. I think, therefore I'm not sure. -- octo
His Hyperion series was bloody gorgeous, and he wrote about a (much more physical) "Web" back in the late 80's before the WWW was a mote in Tim's eye.
Having known a few people who have gone through the California and Washington prison system and hearing the stories, this is kind of a naive statement.
True, from what I've heard, Mitnick's social skills are a bit retarded, but that just takes some maturity - perhaps being on the lecture circuit would've actually made him a better communicator in the long run, and we may not find out now.
But in prison Kevin could've been a submissive, respectful lamb and still gotten his ass reamed from here to Bangkok. There is no justice inside those bars, man, regular social rules DO NOT apply. Don't make those kind of assumptions.
Just a suggestion.
Blue-green fireball sightings over Washington
Here's an index of Fireball reports at the National UFO Reporting Center.
My little 8-yr-old cousin and his friend saw two fireballs going back and forth, chasing each other in his backyard, the same day that the reports below were taken - it was midafternoon, not night. They were hovering above the treetops, and then they shot off in opposite directions. No joke. This is supposedly what "St Elmo's Fire"s are - but I have no idea what Ally Sheedy has to do with this...
http://www.nwlink.com/~ufocntr/CB980422.html
Here's an index of Fireball reports to the National UFO Reporting Center.
http://www.ufocenter.com/ndxsFireball.html
I was under the impression that the rash of "fireballs" (green, orange, blue, shifting colors) that have been sighted around the globe lately were actually the manifest souls of Others or of Shamen in this world working out-of-body.
Well, I don't know, but that's what they tell me.
And don't ask who They is.
Sorry, Jon, but BM was a five-minute Hallmark card stretched out into 2+ hours. I have a lot of patience for cheese and heartstring-plucking movies, but this was the most deliberate yet boring movie I've seen in a while.
The portrayal of the human characters was so boring and non-challenging that I honestly wondered in the middle of the movie why Robin Williams wanted to be human at all. Existence as a robot seemed much more exciting than these people's lives. The little Pepsi girl was more annoying than the female robot with the personality chip, who bugged the hell out of me.
Sure, the computer-generated backgrounds of San Francisco and other cities were quite purty. But I didn't come to this movie for the special effects - we're all becoming more immune to effects-driven movies now - I came to see a study of technology and humanity, the pervasive theme behind most of Asimov's work.
Instead I left covered in cheese - and I checked, it wasn't spillage from my nachos.
It's more advanced than NotePad and just this side of an IDE. I've been using it for 2.5 years and haven't stopped.
The "sequel" to Ishmael which actually happens at the same time the first book does.
Telepathic gorilla tells a 12-year-old girl why human beings are so screwed up.
Brilliant, delves hard into the modern educational system. Daniel Quinn was actually an editor for school textbooks and finally left because he was so digusted with the system.
(nt)
For further reading, check out Terence McKenna's Food of the Gods, in which he theorizes that humans are apes that had to adapt to grasslands as the Sahara receded, and they began introducing psychedelic mushrooms into their diets that were growing on cow sh*t in those grasslands. Monkeys that had better cognitive abilities, robust egos, and imaginations could deal with it, others could not. Natural selection for more finely tuned brains. Also, I highly suggest reading Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. Telepathic gorilla tells man why he's so f*cked up. And The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, gives a great understanding of how human language evolved. -- octo
While the local schools do not HAVE to teach creationism and they CAN teach evolution if they choose to do so, the statewide assessment test questions that each student will have to take are compiled by the SCHOOL BOARD.
Kansas discovers Fire and the Wheel! More at 11!
-- octo
LOL!
I saw AP2 last night, and when it cut to the Space Needle the entire audience lost it for about a minute and a half. Very cathartic. I wish it was M$, but they NEVER would've gone for that.
As far as "huge, monolithic companies" go, most high-tech people here consider M$ a "Hahvahd" company. Adobe ain't native either. Amazon is local, but horror stories from contract workers around here keep Amazon pride low in this region. Boeing is being hated more and more. And Starbucks is just a big fat joke. Other cities eat their franchises up like crazy because they don't know better, but NW people tend to support small coffeehouses and independent roasters, etc. (Except for uppity Eastsiders who crave "consistency" and Oprah books.)
-- octopus
I've also heard an interesting rumor the other way - that the reason the DOJ is after M$ so doggedly is not because of monopolistic practices, but because Gates won't incorporate the US Gov's encryption scheme into their software. From what I've heard, M$ is one of the only major companies refusing.
This is hearsay - I have no facts to point to. I'm also just throwing it in for conversation's sake, BTW. I love watching M$ squirm.
My gf and I just got back from seeing it - we practically peed our pants. However, I agree with Jon's conclusion - it's not really that strong of a script, and I just as easily could've waited to rent it.
But goddamn that was funny.
The most brilliant character in the movie was Milton, played by Steven Root, who's not only the weird owner of the radio staton on News Radio, but also does the voices of Bill Dautrive and Mr Strickland on KOTH. We did NOT recognize him in this movie. He's SCARY in Office Space.
Brilliant.