Yes, he is. It is possible that the things government spending *buys* are good things, and that they are things sufficiently good to be worth the spending. But government spending, in and of itself, is always a bad thing.
Can you give a link to the comments on the Costik list? They've got them hidden behind a damn Javascript link that I can't get Mozilla *or* IE to recognize.
An ordinary HTML link would've done fine. Why do people *do* that?
He cheated. "Google News". This thread will not be showing up in Google News. Neither do any of the many other articles about Domino security flaws I found when I did a Google web search on those terms: "Results 1 - 10 of about 7,790. Search took 0.29 seconds."
> Skiba acknowledges that his call on SCO may be taken as heresy in the Linux community, but said > it's important to separate the stock from the company.
Because, y'know, the actual company is completely irrelevant when you're evaluating the stock.
What is even more amazing is that the guy is *bragging* that their ambition is to make users "knuckle under". SCO: where good customer relations is defined as "fear and loathing". At this point I am convinced that nobody in SCO has any connection to reality anymore.
> If you are into anime or manga at all, I suggest you check out Hikaru no Go.
*And* it's getting released in the US! They're going to serialize it in the US edition of Shonen Jump. Haven't heard anything about a graphic novel edition yet, but they're putting just about everything else in Jump into GNs, so it looks good.
No, Looking Glass died because its parent company Eidos sunk a mint into Ion Storm and lost it all when Daikatana died like the dog it was. Eidos was then forced to dissolve Looking Glass for lack of capital to keep it going. Eidos, in what's left of Ion Storm (now under former Looking Glass head Warren Spector) is now working on Thief III. Failed games don't get Gold Editions and two sequels.
> Here a few things that do not create wealth: > > casinos
Arguable; they can create entertainment. But it is a position for which one can make a credible defense, yes.
> school teachers
Say WHAT? If you think an education does not increase the wealth of those who possess it, you are *sadly* mistaken, as can be readily and empirically shown.
> stock brokering
This one kinda falls between casinos and teachers. All too often they only shuffle money to put it in the "right" pockets, yes. Stock manias happen. But when things work right, they can insure that capital flows to those who can make best use of it. An imperfect system, but there's none better (all efforts to allocate capital on the basis of "expert opinion" have invariably been miserable failures). Thus they create wealth by making more effecient allocation of what wealth there is.
>> Total Annihilation, for example, features mostly robots and vehicles, so there is no blood, yet >> there is still massive destruction. The T rating is firmly in place because of the lack of blood, >> yet still fairly violent content. On the other hand, many other RTS games often receive M ratings >> because they depict human units, and bloodshed when they are killed.
I am not aware of any RTS games that have M ratings. Name one, please. Warcraft/Starcraft have human units and blood in great profusion (remember Starcraft Terran Mission 3? If you do your job right in preparing for the Zerg assault, the ground in front of your base will be literally carpeted in Zerg guts in the last three minutes) and they were all rated T.
> Pollack,Van Gogh > Seurat,Ummm... not sure but google for "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" and I could get it >Shakespeare > Faulkner > most likely Somebody funded by the NEA in the past 20 years Actually, he's some british guy whose name I can't remember, but he's cut from the same cloth, yeah. > Ummm... Madonna?:) *This* is probably the one with the NEA grant. > Andy Warhol > ??? Wagner > Tolkein > Salmon Rushdie (rather apt name eh?) > I know and it's on the tip of my tongue... he did the Reichstag and some carribean islands... > oh got it: Christo. Can't remember the first name, if any. > Spielburg > ??? Leni Riefenstahl (probably spelled her name wrong) Did the Nuremburg documentaries and other Nazi propaganda films. > Jimi Hendrix > ??? Tom Wolfe, I *think*... > Buster Keaton? Yep. The scene where he hangs from the hands of a clock tower is probably better known, though. > Janis Joplin
> You can deny ALL aplications, but not one specific group of people.
Sure you can. It's called "right of association"; you have the right to do business and *not* to do business with people as you choose. Over the course of the second half of the 20th century, this right has been abridged by nondiscrimination laws. You no longer have the right to refuse to hire someone because of their race, sex, or handicap. But no law prevents you from discriminating on the basis of previous employment by SCO.
> And remember, the "old-timers" listed, and several of their contemporaries NOT mentioned on > that list, like David Gerrold -- and ME -- are turning out some of their best work ever today--NOT > coasting on their laurels.
Never meant to imply that you are. I was thinking more about the future. If there aren't up and coming twenty-year olds, what happens when the old guard passes away? From that point of view, it's disturbing when someone naming the new kids on the block comes up with a bunch of people in their forties and fifties. I'll make a point of checking out the names you gave.
I'm sorry, but your list mostly proves Spider's point.
Vernor Vinge -- born in 1944 John Varley -- born in 1947 John Wright -- unable to Google birthdate, but is a *retired* attorney and newspaper editor Cory Doctorow -- born in 1971 John Barnes -- born in 1957 Bruce Sterling -- born in 1954 Ken MacLeod -- born in 1954 Dan Simmons -- born in 1948
With the exception of the 32-year-old Doctorow, it appears that all these people will never see forty five again. This is the new wave? Is no one in their twenties writing real SF any more? Note that I don't object to the presence of older people--I'm past forty myself. But the total lack of *younger* people is disturbing...
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You mean it's not "the Fischer-Price desktop"?
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Yes, he is. It is possible that the things government spending *buys* are good things, and that they are things sufficiently good to be worth the spending. But government spending, in and of itself, is always a bad thing.
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Properly set backfires can also deprive the uncontrolled fire of oxygen, as well.
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When a program doesn't meet your standards, there's only one thing to do--lower your standards!
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Can you give a link to the comments on the Costik list? They've got them hidden behind a damn Javascript link that I can't get Mozilla *or* IE to recognize.
An ordinary HTML link would've done fine. Why do people *do* that?
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> where's chess?
Um, right between "Rock-Paper-Scissors" and "Go" in the "Folk Games" catagory.
Don't rightly know what he means by "The King's Game" or "Kriegspieler" myself.
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> So, am I the only one planning on buying one and raping it for parts?
Haven't you heard? The Phantom features "Epoxy Encapsulation" technology! That's right, it's all going to be covered in glue!
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I think it's "Killer Cars". It *is* GTA...
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He cheated. "Google News". This thread will not be showing up in Google News. Neither do any of the many other articles about Domino security flaws I found when I did a Google web search on those terms: "Results 1 - 10 of about 7,790. Search took 0.29 seconds."
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From the article:
> Skiba acknowledges that his call on SCO may be taken as heresy in the Linux community, but said
> it's important to separate the stock from the company.
Because, y'know, the actual company is completely irrelevant when you're evaluating the stock.
Chris Mattern
What is even more amazing is that the guy is *bragging* that their ambition is to make users "knuckle under". SCO: where good customer relations is defined as "fear and loathing". At this point I am convinced that nobody in SCO has any connection to reality anymore.
Chris Mattern
> If you are into anime or manga at all, I suggest you check out Hikaru no Go.
*And* it's getting released in the US! They're going to serialize it in the US edition of Shonen Jump. Haven't heard anything about a graphic novel edition yet, but they're putting just about everything else in Jump into GNs, so it looks good.
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...don't start giving them ideas!
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Defeating the stupid idiot lameness filter
No, Looking Glass died because its parent company Eidos sunk a mint into Ion Storm and lost it all when Daikatana died like the dog it was. Eidos was then forced to dissolve Looking Glass for lack of capital to keep it going. Eidos, in what's left of Ion Storm (now under former Looking Glass head Warren Spector) is now working on Thief III. Failed games don't get Gold Editions and two sequels.
Chris Mattern
> Here a few things that do not create wealth:
>
> casinos
Arguable; they can create entertainment. But it is a position for which one can make a credible defense, yes.
> school teachers
Say WHAT? If you think an education does not increase the wealth of those who possess it, you are *sadly* mistaken, as can be readily and empirically shown.
> stock brokering
This one kinda falls between casinos and teachers. All too often they only shuffle money to put it in the "right" pockets, yes. Stock manias happen. But when things work right, they can insure that capital flows to those who can make best use of it. An imperfect system, but there's none better (all efforts to allocate capital on the basis of "expert opinion" have invariably been miserable failures). Thus they create wealth by making more effecient allocation of what wealth there is.
Chris Mattern
> Uh, which "corporate identity" does Marilyn Manson "conform" to?
The prepackaged "I'm such a rebel" identity. It's done very well for them.
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>> Total Annihilation, for example, features mostly robots and vehicles, so there is no blood, yet
>> there is still massive destruction. The T rating is firmly in place because of the lack of blood,
>> yet still fairly violent content. On the other hand, many other RTS games often receive M ratings
>> because they depict human units, and bloodshed when they are killed.
I am not aware of any RTS games that have M ratings. Name one, please. Warcraft/Starcraft have human units and blood in great profusion (remember Starcraft Terran Mission 3? If you do your job right in preparing for the Zerg assault, the ground in front of your base will be literally carpeted in Zerg guts in the last three minutes) and they were all rated T.
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> I'm not a troll...I'm an _OGRE_! :)
Mark III or Mark V?
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Gives a whole new meaning to "Go for the eyes, Boo!", don't it?
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> Pollack,Van Gogh :)
> Seurat,Ummm... not sure but google for "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" and I could get it
>Shakespeare
> Faulkner
> most likely Somebody funded by the NEA in the past 20 years
Actually, he's some british guy whose name I can't remember, but he's cut from the same cloth, yeah.
> Ummm... Madonna?
*This* is probably the one with the NEA grant.
> Andy Warhol
> ???
Wagner
> Tolkein
> Salmon Rushdie (rather apt name eh?)
> I know and it's on the tip of my tongue... he did the Reichstag and some carribean islands...
> oh got it: Christo. Can't remember the first name, if any.
> Spielburg
> ???
Leni Riefenstahl (probably spelled her name wrong) Did the Nuremburg documentaries and other Nazi propaganda films.
> Jimi Hendrix
> ???
Tom Wolfe, I *think*...
> Buster Keaton?
Yep. The scene where he hangs from the hands of a clock tower is probably better known, though.
> Janis Joplin
Chris Mattern
> You can deny ALL aplications, but not one specific group of people.
Sure you can. It's called "right of association"; you have the right to do business and *not* to do business with people as you choose. Over the course of the second half of the 20th century, this right has been abridged by nondiscrimination laws. You no longer have the right to refuse to hire someone because of their race, sex, or handicap. But no law prevents you from discriminating on the basis of previous employment by SCO.
Chris Mattern
> The difference between an A-Bomb and systematic firebombing is that panicked civilians can outrun fires
I'm sorry, but if you think people can outrun fires then you have no idea what you're talking about.
Chris Mattern
> And remember, the "old-timers" listed, and several of their contemporaries NOT mentioned on
> that list, like David Gerrold -- and ME -- are turning out some of their best work ever today--NOT
> coasting on their laurels.
Never meant to imply that you are. I was thinking more about the future. If there aren't up and coming twenty-year olds, what happens when the old guard passes away? From that point of view, it's disturbing when someone naming the new kids on the block comes up with a bunch of people in their forties and fifties. I'll make a point of checking out the names you gave.
Chris Mattern
I'm sorry, but your list mostly proves Spider's point.
Vernor Vinge -- born in 1944
John Varley -- born in 1947
John Wright -- unable to Google birthdate, but is a *retired* attorney and newspaper editor
Cory Doctorow -- born in 1971
John Barnes -- born in 1957
Bruce Sterling -- born in 1954
Ken MacLeod -- born in 1954
Dan Simmons -- born in 1948
With the exception of the 32-year-old Doctorow, it appears that all these people will never see forty five again. This is the new wave? Is no one in their twenties writing real SF any more? Note that I don't object to the presence of older people--I'm past forty myself. But the total lack of *younger* people is disturbing...
Chris Mattern
They've never made Pokemon games compatible with the previous generation. Gold/Silver/Crystal was incompatible with Red/Blue/Yellow.
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