Captain America is this totally arrogan, pompus windbag Nationalist. He runs around proclaiming the total good of America and condems every other society he comes across. The can't even get along with Captain Britain for God's Sake! He gets bounced around from book to book simply because he shows up, gets involved, pisses off the other heroes who then quietly ask him to leave before they have to Biach Slap him into unconciousness!
They must have had a great filter. Only a 1:29 ratio of spam? Amazing. And only 1 pornography spam? I think they must be making up the numbers as they go along - this seems important. I am usually at 1:1 or 2:1 ratio for spam.
It should be pointed out that the Ukranian President (Kuchma) said the outrage in his parliment was rediculous and that if it were the other way around the Ukranians would do the same thing. He sided with the U.S. and said his own congress had not a leg to stand on. The U.S. isn't evil.
If the sanctions are as bad as you say, then why would a rational country not do something about the problem?
Russia has made is much harder to be a pirate in recent years. The Ukranians speak with fear about the situation there. (I was just in Kiev a few days ago so I know of what I speak.) The problem is, like it or not, you can't have free trade with piracy. Criminal activity is something that cannot be tolerated.
The things the Ukranians need to do are not burdensom. The problem is the government is run by corrupt leaders (some who may be involved in murder, for example). This is another reason not to give them handout money. It is time the U.S. stopped supporting the bad guys - it only encourages more international lawlessness. The Ukranian government can stop this piracy easily. Sure they will not get it all and some of it will go underground. The US has underground piracy rings too.
What the corporations need to do to combat this is control their prices. For example if a package costs $3000US they must expect to sell it for $300US in poorer countries like Ukraine. In fact it should be part of the trade agreement. Otherwise you put the software out of the reach of the Ukranians and they are then forced to resort to piracy.
I was just in Kiev for the past two weeks. Intellectual Property as a concept is non-existant in Ukraine. The bazars are filled with every imaginable piece of software on CD-ROM at the stunningly low price of 10 grivnas (about $1.80US) for everything. A CD my have Lightwave, 3D-Studio Max and other software or it might just have one piece. Either way it costs the same.
I bought "The Lord of the Rings" on VHS for my brother as a gag gift. It is in PAL and also in Russian so he can't play it and if he did he couldn't understand it. I did watch it while I was there and the translation was horrible. The title was translated as "Owner of the Ring"! and the translator not only translated the dialog, he gave commentary!!!
Ukraine was receiving $82 million a year in aid. Because of their very backward stance on Intellectual Property (sorry Stallman fans, IP is an important cornerstone to any advanced socieity) and also because of terrible corruption in the government (they suppress the free press by threatening the printing pressesses and by assasinating some journalists among other evils) it has been lowered to just $52 million a year. A big jump. However there is no reason why, as a US citizen, my tax dollars should go to Ukranians. I think if their government was more responsible I would be very glad to see some of my money flow into it.
The situation in Ukraine is a good one. They are getting their economy back on track -- they just need to come into the 21st century with respect for IP and the government needs to be more responsible. I loved the people there and I liked Kiev a lot. The worst thing I can say about it is that the water is totally tainted with giardia (I witnessed this first hand unfortunately).
P.S. : Don't try and smuggle back CD's or VHS tapes like I did. I found out you risk imprisonment and fines that are outrageous.
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There is a triumvarate of good Power Armor books.
Starship Troopers,
The Forever War and
Armor
Starship Troopers is the facist, macho view point. The enemy consists of skinnies and nasty bugs. The army way is the right way and cowards are not well recieved.
The Forever War is the idealistic, peacnik view. The situation is always fubar, authority figures suck and the book explores many interesting socialogical situations such as men and women in the army together, gay life, and a world where only nice people are cloned.
Armor - this book avoids the whole good and bad issue because the main character is essencially insane. The situation is always FUBAR. Authority figures run the range of good to incompetent but it doesn't matter because the "Ants" manage to screw up every plan Earth has for them. There is a very cool and interesting and totally out of place middle story that doesn't involve the main character.
I don't just recommend all three books. I think anyone who reads one has to read the other two. I liked them all for their merits but opinions vary and you are bound to hate at least one of these books.
I think we should also remember and see the amazing coincidence that on 12/12/1991 the first web page was served by TBL. The web has now become more important than radio or tv for delivering information and communicating - as witnessed by the very existance of slashdot.org.
I love the way history has such interesting coincidences!
"Is the slight reduction in risk of theft of your vehicle, worth that much loss of freedom of choice and control?"
Duh, you didn't lose any freedom you total blathering nut. You lost convienience. You gained lower insurance rates in the bargain. Someone please call Dogbert(tm) to cast out the demons of stupidity!
I moved from Boston, MA to Nashville, TN a few months ago and work about 2 miles from the Gibson HQ. I know some of the people that work in their custom shop and this company is way ahead in customer service. Imagine calling Dell or Compaq and asking for a custom made computer with a really custom and artistically rendered case... they'd hang up on you. Gibson however knows no bounds when making that custom fit guitar for your Country-Metal-Christian sound.
MIDI needed to be updated - this new standard is way ahead of MIDI as it should be. MIDI is so old there is hair growing on it. In the vein of the "yo momma" jokes: Yo MIDI is so old it farts dust!
Anyway, back to your regularily scheduled slashdot postings.
Perhaps UPS was using some space on Flight 587 to transport that thing from NYC to the DR then over to FL? The damage I am seeing I would not expect from anything that could normally happen in a cargo bay. If it wasn't on a flight that went nose down then the only thing I can think of is Fork Lift damage, or perhaps your boxes were used to support the cargo container for say a FREIGHT TRAIN or Bill Gates' equivilent of wealth in gold bulion.
I suppose next time you could pack the thing with some more of those styrofoam peanuts. I know they are a damn nuisance, especially with static electricity and all, but they could have saved your computer... or not.
I lived in Boston in the 80's (college years) and 90's (working years) when you were there at New England Comics. I don't think I ever met you but I always thought it was cool that you were from the same area. I've enjoyed The Tick immensely. Another favorite of mine was Megaton Man. The humor in both books had many differences and some similarities. Both Characters were principly big and blue and idiot/savants. Both made outrageous speaches. Megaton Man made more hay out of Political Humor while The Tick seemed to be more pointed at mocking comic books in general. However on many occations even Megaton Man was clearly focused on mocking superheros. For example Mellow Yellow was clearly a mockery of The Green Lantern.
My question is this: what was it about the timeperiod when you conceived and developed The Tick that made for the similarities between Megaton Man and The Tick in both their look and the humor? What was it about the comic book industry at the time that both you and Don Simpson picked up on?
Are these the best arguments the enemies of globalization can come up with?
Very sad.
The problem isn't globalization -- you give all the reasons why it is obvious the problem is bad local government (e.x. Taliban) and why these people must be put out of power. I don't have much hope that once the Taliban is out of power that the next government will be able to do any good for the people of Afganistan but I do have some hope. Perhaps the next government will take the millions of dollars in aid that the U.S. gives Afganistan and actually uses it to improve the lives of the common Afgan.
My hope is that someday Afganistan can stand on it's own without the need for aid and can participate in the world in a positive manner.
why not just echo text >/dev/theirterminal?:) no tell tale keyboard swap. And no command line prompt either. Further you could send ascii art of demonic ascii cows... Run with THAT!
Well you can only find out through good empirical research. In order to be sure, give me your number. I'll call you an pretend to be a telemarketer. You then attempt to get me to hang up by using phone sex. Just remember to keep trying until I eventually get off (the phone that is!)
You start off down the road, heading for the intersection. There is no bus there. However when you get to the intersection a big bus comes and runs you over. It was't there when your trip started but it appeared just in time to intercept you.
I mean, sure AC's can be annoying at times given their propensity to flame but please. Packing them in boxes and shipping them somewhere just isn't the answer.
Actually I worry that people like Saddam Hussein might get ahold of enough parts and knowlege to build a system specifically for modeling atomic weapons design. He's tried it before when he attempted to get hundreds of PS2's when they first came out.
Your patent infringes on my Loop-Until-Condition Patent. You are trying to be overly competitive and your patent is cancled by my Do-Until patent. I Triple Dare your lawyers to fight it out with mine!
I hate patents - they are such obvious bullshit when applied to software and non-mechanical systems.
I think I will patent the toilet flush lever and chain and target the offices of these buggers. Oh they can still use the toilet but it's gonna cost them to flush it.
Between advising the public of a vulnerablity and aiding and abetting criminal crackers? Is securityfocus.com going to have to shut down because they discuss vulnerabilities?
--Peter
$1000 US / Month is NOT exploitation in RUS/UA
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Figure it this way. The average monthly salary is around $200 US / Month in Russia and Ukraine. $1000 per month means that at least 4 family memebers don't also have to work OR the whole family is driving in pimped out stretch Ladas. (hmm, side note, I wonder if there is a web site that features pimped out stretch ladas!?! Holy Shyt there is! http://www.caranddriver.com/xp/Caranddriver/autosh ows/Geneva/autoshows_geneva_2001_day1_page2.xml)
Anyway, my point is, this kind of money where they live is phenomenal. When their economy gets back on track and starts to chug along I am sure they will demand more but for now this is a great boon for everyone involved.
I think my ex-boss has the record for distance. As far as I could tell he was on either the Moon, Space Station Alpha or Mars and was using an android as his interface with us "mundanes." I suppose he could have been a small creature inside of the android, but he definitely wasn't either here on Earth or from Earth - if you catch my drift.
Why did this article get mod'd to FUNNY? (this refering to the parent article, #47 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/08/01/01823 5&cid=47)
This is one of the most lucid responses in here. It is so good I forwarded it around in my company. This guy is dead on IMHO. And to think, I was earlier today thinking about suggesting a new message filtering system so I can filter out the funny moderated responses - I won't be doing that now seeing what I would have missed had that been in force.
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Captain America is this totally arrogan, pompus windbag Nationalist. He runs around proclaiming the total good of America and condems every other society he comes across. The can't even get along with Captain Britain for God's Sake! He gets bounced around from book to book simply because he shows up, gets involved, pisses off the other heroes who then quietly ask him to leave before they have to Biach Slap him into unconciousness!
They must have had a great filter. Only a 1:29 ratio of spam? Amazing. And only 1 pornography spam? I think they must be making up the numbers as they go along - this seems important. I am usually at 1:1 or 2:1 ratio for spam.
All mass warps space, so it doesn't matter if the book was one page or one million pages -- it would still bend light.
:)
Of course the detectability of it spacial warp is dependent on total mass, perhaps that is what was meant by the author of the book?
--Pete
It should be pointed out that the Ukranian President (Kuchma) said the outrage in his parliment was rediculous and that if it were the other way around the Ukranians would do the same thing. He sided with the U.S. and said his own congress had not a leg to stand on. The U.S. isn't evil.
If the sanctions are as bad as you say, then why would a rational country not do something about the problem?
Russia has made is much harder to be a pirate in recent years. The Ukranians speak with fear about the situation there. (I was just in Kiev a few days ago so I know of what I speak.) The problem is, like it or not, you can't have free trade with piracy. Criminal activity is something that cannot be tolerated.
The things the Ukranians need to do are not burdensom. The problem is the government is run by corrupt leaders (some who may be involved in murder, for example). This is another reason not to give them handout money. It is time the U.S. stopped supporting the bad guys - it only encourages more international lawlessness. The Ukranian government can stop this piracy easily. Sure they will not get it all and some of it will go underground. The US has underground piracy rings too.
What the corporations need to do to combat this is control their prices. For example if a package costs $3000US they must expect to sell it for $300US in poorer countries like Ukraine. In fact it should be part of the trade agreement. Otherwise you put the software out of the reach of the Ukranians and they are then forced to resort to piracy.
I was just in Kiev for the past two weeks. Intellectual Property as a concept is non-existant in Ukraine. The bazars are filled with every imaginable piece of software on CD-ROM at the stunningly low price of 10 grivnas (about $1.80US) for everything. A CD my have Lightwave, 3D-Studio Max and other software or it might just have one piece. Either way it costs the same.
I bought "The Lord of the Rings" on VHS for my brother as a gag gift. It is in PAL and also in Russian so he can't play it and if he did he couldn't understand it. I did watch it while I was there and the translation was horrible. The title was translated as "Owner of the Ring"! and the translator not only translated the dialog, he gave commentary!!!
Ukraine was receiving $82 million a year in aid. Because of their very backward stance on Intellectual Property (sorry Stallman fans, IP is an important cornerstone to any advanced socieity) and also because of terrible corruption in the government (they suppress the free press by threatening the printing pressesses and by assasinating some journalists among other evils) it has been lowered to just $52 million a year. A big jump. However there is no reason why, as a US citizen, my tax dollars should go to Ukranians. I think if their government was more responsible I would be very glad to see some of my money flow into it.
The situation in Ukraine is a good one. They are getting their economy back on track -- they just need to come into the 21st century with respect for IP and the government needs to be more responsible. I loved the people there and I liked Kiev a lot. The worst thing I can say about it is that the water is totally tainted with giardia (I witnessed this first hand unfortunately).
P.S. : Don't try and smuggle back CD's or VHS tapes like I did. I found out you risk imprisonment and fines that are outrageous.
There is a triumvarate of good Power Armor books.
Starship Troopers,
The Forever War and
Armor
Starship Troopers is the facist, macho view point. The enemy consists of skinnies and nasty bugs. The army way is the right way and cowards are not well recieved.
The Forever War is the idealistic, peacnik view. The situation is always fubar, authority figures suck and the book explores many interesting socialogical situations such as men and women in the army together, gay life, and a world where only nice people are cloned.
Armor - this book avoids the whole good and bad issue because the main character is essencially insane. The situation is always FUBAR. Authority figures run the range of good to incompetent but it doesn't matter because the "Ants" manage to screw up every plan Earth has for them. There is a very cool and interesting and totally out of place middle story that doesn't involve the main character.
I don't just recommend all three books. I think anyone who reads one has to read the other two. I liked them all for their merits but opinions vary and you are bound to hate at least one of these books.
--Peter
I think we should also remember and see the amazing coincidence that on 12/12/1991 the first web page was served by TBL. The web has now become more important than radio or tv for delivering information and communicating - as witnessed by the very existance of slashdot.org.
I love the way history has such interesting coincidences!
"Is the slight reduction in risk of theft of your vehicle, worth that much loss of freedom of choice and control?"
Duh, you didn't lose any freedom you total blathering nut. You lost convienience. You gained lower insurance rates in the bargain. Someone please call Dogbert(tm) to cast out the demons of stupidity!
--Peter
Look it up. Artillery shells from 105mm and up can cost more than $3000, sometimes a LOT more.
>-"Hi, looks like your trying to play Johnny B. Goode. Would you like me to help you with that?"
The sad part is this is both funny and so believable. Imagine the interference self-appointed "Guitar Ghods" could wreak... Frightening!
Even worse you are playing and then out comes "Hi Room, M 21 lookin' to hook up!"
I moved from Boston, MA to Nashville, TN a few months ago and work about 2 miles from the Gibson HQ. I know some of the people that work in their custom shop and this company is way ahead in customer service. Imagine calling Dell or Compaq and asking for a custom made computer with a really custom and artistically rendered case... they'd hang up on you. Gibson however knows no bounds when making that custom fit guitar for your Country-Metal-Christian sound.
MIDI needed to be updated - this new standard is way ahead of MIDI as it should be. MIDI is so old there is hair growing on it. In the vein of the "yo momma" jokes: Yo MIDI is so old it farts dust!
Anyway, back to your regularily scheduled slashdot postings.
Perhaps UPS was using some space on Flight 587 to transport that thing from NYC to the DR then over to FL? The damage I am seeing I would not expect from anything that could normally happen in a cargo bay. If it wasn't on a flight that went nose down then the only thing I can think of is Fork Lift damage, or perhaps your boxes were used to support the cargo container for say a FREIGHT TRAIN or Bill Gates' equivilent of wealth in gold bulion.
I suppose next time you could pack the thing with some more of those styrofoam peanuts. I know they are a damn nuisance, especially with static electricity and all, but they could have saved your computer... or not.
I lived in Boston in the 80's (college years) and 90's (working years) when you were there at New England Comics. I don't think I ever met you but I always thought it was cool that you were from the same area. I've enjoyed The Tick immensely. Another favorite of mine was Megaton Man. The humor in both books had many differences and some similarities. Both Characters were principly big and blue and idiot/savants. Both made outrageous speaches. Megaton Man made more hay out of Political Humor while The Tick seemed to be more pointed at mocking comic books in general. However on many occations even Megaton Man was clearly focused on mocking superheros. For example Mellow Yellow was clearly a mockery of The Green Lantern.
My question is this: what was it about the timeperiod when you conceived and developed The Tick that made for the similarities between Megaton Man and The Tick in both their look and the humor? What was it about the comic book industry at the time that both you and Don Simpson picked up on?
Your Fan,
--Peter
Are these the best arguments the enemies of globalization can come up with?
Very sad.
The problem isn't globalization -- you give all the reasons why it is obvious the problem is bad local government (e.x. Taliban) and why these people must be put out of power. I don't have much hope that once the Taliban is out of power that the next government will be able to do any good for the people of Afganistan but I do have some hope. Perhaps the next government will take the millions of dollars in aid that the U.S. gives Afganistan and actually uses it to improve the lives of the common Afgan.
My hope is that someday Afganistan can stand on it's own without the need for aid and can participate in the world in a positive manner.
why not just echo text > /dev/theirterminal? :) no tell tale keyboard swap. And no command line prompt either. Further you could send ascii art of demonic ascii cows... Run with THAT!
Well you can only find out through good empirical research. In order to be sure, give me your number. I'll call you an pretend to be a telemarketer. You then attempt to get me to hang up by using phone sex. Just remember to keep trying until I eventually get off (the phone that is!)
The same way a bus bends your bike...
You start off down the road, heading for the intersection. There is no bus there. However when you get to the intersection a big bus comes and runs you over. It was't there when your trip started but it appeared just in time to intercept you.
I mean, sure AC's can be annoying at times given their propensity to flame but please. Packing them in boxes and shipping them somewhere just isn't the answer.
Actually I worry that people like Saddam Hussein might get ahold of enough parts and knowlege to build a system specifically for modeling atomic weapons design. He's tried it before when he attempted to get hundreds of PS2's when they first came out.
Your patent infringes on my Loop-Until-Condition Patent. You are trying to be overly competitive and your patent is cancled by my Do-Until patent. I Triple Dare your lawyers to fight it out with mine!
I hate patents - they are such obvious bullshit when applied to software and non-mechanical systems.
I think I will patent the toilet flush lever and chain and target the offices of these buggers. Oh they can still use the toilet but it's gonna cost them to flush it.
Between advising the public of a vulnerablity and aiding and abetting criminal crackers? Is securityfocus.com going to have to shut down because they discuss vulnerabilities?
--Peter
Figure it this way. The average monthly salary is around $200 US / Month in Russia and Ukraine. $1000 per month means that at least 4 family memebers don't also have to work OR the whole family is driving in pimped out stretch Ladas. (hmm, side note, I wonder if there is a web site that features pimped out stretch ladas!?! Holy Shyt there is! http://www.caranddriver.com/xp/Caranddriver/autosh ows/Geneva/autoshows_geneva_2001_day1_page2.xml)
Anyway, my point is, this kind of money where they live is phenomenal. When their economy gets back on track and starts to chug along I am sure they will demand more but for now this is a great boon for everyone involved.
--Peter
I think my ex-boss has the record for distance. As far as I could tell he was on either the Moon, Space Station Alpha or Mars and was using an android as his interface with us "mundanes." I suppose he could have been a small creature inside of the android, but he definitely wasn't either here on Earth or from Earth - if you catch my drift.
Why did this article get mod'd to FUNNY? (this refering to the parent article, #47 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/08/01/01823 5&cid=47)
This is one of the most lucid responses in here. It is so good I forwarded it around in my company. This guy is dead on IMHO. And to think, I was earlier today thinking about suggesting a new message filtering system so I can filter out the funny moderated responses - I won't be doing that now seeing what I would have missed had that been in force.