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If you are afraid of something, learn about it
I'd love to, but I'm too busy cleaning the sand out of my nostrils.
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Dude! Wow! Cheers! Awesome!
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The guy who inspired the first graffiti writers was Taki 183, back in 69 or 70. He was just a tagger. The first writers were taggers.
It took people like Phase 2 and Dondi to move it to what was indisputably art, and the creation of [master]pieces. But almost all the early wrtiers were taggers as well; I don't know how true that is today.
Check out the "Style Wars" DVD for the full background, if you want to understand how and why it started. It will also clue you a little bit in on why BBoying (which some people call "Breakdancing") is so important to hip hop culture, and why most artists claiming to do hip hop today are really just rapping.
On an interesting and related note (ahem): The Clangers. A BBC tv children's programme in which the characters communicated entirely by whistles.
The whistles were blown by actors, using a script. When they aired the show, they found people writing in saying "my child insists the characters said X, Y and Z" - is he mad?
The thing is, the kids usually got it spot on.
Lucky they took out the swearing in the original script, then. Also of note is the final paragrah in that link, which says: I took an episode of The Clangers to the 1984 E.B.U. conference in Germany and showed it to the participants without my voice- over. Afterwards I asked them whether they had been able to understand what the Clangers were saying. "But of course." they replied. "They are speaking perfect German." "But no." said Gerd, "That is not so. They spoke only Swedish,"
The different pronounciations of aluminium arose because the guy who discovered it gave it a quirky spelling that didn't fit in the the convention of all the other elements at the time.
The Americans weren't having such silliness and made the name conform, as did some other nations. The British, who always have time for splendid stubborn-mindedness from crazy people, kept the unusual spelling.
IIRC the discoverer also changed his mind about the spelling once or twice.
It's all in Bill Bryson's "Brief history of everything", you know.
I was referring to the link you posted to here (first link from your Google link). Just pointing out a minor correction to the name of the well-known September that AOL unleashed its hoardes. This may be petty, but then again, I am fairly anal:-)
September is well known for this kind of problem - precisely because that's when the clueless freshmen all arrive - albeit nowadays with their own PCs, open ports and instaiable desire to open attachments, rather than the old problem of writing "Me Too" and quoting 500+ lines of previous news article...
I think any email program that exsisted before 1995 is venerable... "Bede" that as it may, they are also vulnerable:-) Sorry. Punning on medieval monks is a very bad "habit".
Let me get this straight: a court of law has ruled against the big media companies and for the little hacker guy who wrote a cool C++ program to let us all watch DVDs that we legally own?
Was Rod Sterling seen anywhere near the court, at all?
I think you'll find the privatisation of British Rail exceeded all expectations! A recent poll blamed rail problems firstly on the management, then on the Labour government and lastly on the Tories who privatised it.
As a blame-shifting exercise, John Major's privatisation has performed exceptionally well!
After all, what other motive could there possibly have been...?
But not by me. I'm nowhere near a pro, but even I recognise the huge faws in your arguments.
Wobbly suns mean planets are orbiting around them, even though they cant be seen. Maybe they just wobble once in awhile. I know I do.;)
Nothing moves without a force being applied to it. If there is no force, there is no motion. In your case, the force is alchol and gravity. In the case of a star it must be gravity, unless there's some really bizarre other force as yet undiscovered. However, since our own sun wobbles in accordance with the laws of gravity, as do the planets with moons, it's pretty safe to assume other stars are acting under the same forces.
There are also other methods of detecting extra-solar planets.
The universe keeps getting older, because we know exactly how light behaves over time and space. What happens when we invent yet larger and/or more powerful telescopes? Will galaxies continue to be found which are further and further away?
Up to a point. You never read "A Brief History of Time", did you?:) Better telescopes will only reveal older galaxies, further away up to the point where galaxies were first created. Once you get to that point, you can't see new galaxies, onlythe material from which they were formed.. which probably will be undetectable. And this assumes, of course, that the earliest galaxies gave off light and radiation which has not been blocked by an object between them and the Earth (say a younger galaxy in our own cluster). It also assumes that the radiation is strong enough to be picked up.. it's travelled an awful long way and it may be impossible to detect no matter how sensitive the device.
The moon must only be about 5-10 thousand years old, since it only had a half-inch or so of dust on it, uniformly and consistently.
This article should cover pretty much everything there. Here's a brief quote:
Even though the creationists themselves have refuted this argument, (and refutations from the mainstream community have been around for at least a decade longer than that), the "moon dust" argument continues to be propagated in their "popular" literature, and continues to appear in talk.origins on a regular basis
So you've fallen foul of a popular myth propogated by some Creationists. Took me 2 minutes to find that article using Google and a search for "age of the moon".. please do some basic checking of this kind of thing.. propogation of ignorance is not a good thing.
Absolutely. I ordered 4 DVDs from Amazon.com.. they got stopped at Customs and I had to pay some import duty. But I got them discounted at Amazon, and even with the import duty they were cheaper than here (just). I also got more features for my money.
BTW, Brits should be aware that the Canadian firm:
DVD Box Office don't charge for shipping. So you can order them singly, get 'em quicker and pay less. Nice. ---------------------------
EU: "In that case, we demand that the region system is abandoned."
Depends who is in charge though... Germany: We demand equality and freedom for our citizens. Ban region codes.
French: Dirty Hollywood ruins our lovely film industry. Abolish region codes, and while we're at it, let's ban US films period. That should annoy the Americans and the British at the same time.
Netherlands: Whatever the opposite of what Germany wants.
British: America is our friend. They are very nice people. Let's do what they want. Another missile base, Mr Bush? Why of course! Treaties? Oh I'm sure nobody's really bothered about those old things. Plus, it'll really annoy the French. Let's make imports cheaper and compulsary
Italians: There were rules about this?
Eastern Europe (as one voice): There are non-pirated versions?
Spain: Yeah, whatever.
Switzerland: We're not in the EU.
So it really depends on which contries sit on the comittee, really.
And am I the only person in the world that is worried about the fact that all Switzerland's neighbouring countries would describe them as "shy, quiet.. keep themselves to themselves.. seem like really nice, polite fellows, wouldn't hurt a fly". It's only a matter of time. ---------------------------
To have any HOPE of effectiveness, you'd have to outlaw portscanning utilities. And give that law enough teeth to allow the stormtroopers (police) the ability to "find out who has them".
Exactly right. And to extend your example, Trojans are surely already illegal? If somebody connects to SubSeven or BackOrrifice and downloads your data and uses your PC to launch a DDoS, that's surely illegal.
But how many scans for trojans does every dialup connection get every time it's online? Making it illegal doesn't make that law enforceable. To do so would require either a Big Brother attitude where everybody's ISP monitors all their traffic, or would consume all the resources of all the police everywhere.
Don't try and stop what you can't stop. Stop the big stuff (actual penetrations).. if you can. But we all know that those people who know how to penetrate properly (as opposed to a script kiddies) are unlikely to be caught unless they make a booboo. ---------------------------
This press release (under "Pricing and Availability") points out that Klyx will be available for a free download for anyone developing open-source or free software "mid 2001". But you make no mention of it.. has the situation changed? Or can I still chant "Go Borland" under my breath when I think about the role the Big Boys play in open source? ---------------------------
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I'd love to, but I'm too busy cleaning the sand out of my nostrils.
Dude! Wow! Cheers! Awesome!
The guy who inspired the first graffiti writers was Taki 183, back in 69 or 70. He was just a tagger. The first writers were taggers.
It took people like Phase 2 and Dondi to move it to what was indisputably art, and the creation of [master]pieces. But almost all the early wrtiers were taggers as well; I don't know how true that is today.
Check out the "Style Wars" DVD for the full background, if you want to understand how and why it started. It will also clue you a little bit in on why BBoying (which some people call "Breakdancing") is so important to hip hop culture, and why most artists claiming to do hip hop today are really just rapping.
Rant over.
On an interesting and related note (ahem): The Clangers. A BBC tv children's programme in which the characters communicated entirely by whistles.
The whistles were blown by actors, using a script. When they aired the show, they found people writing in saying "my child insists the characters said X, Y and Z" - is he mad?
The thing is, the kids usually got it spot on.
Lucky they took out the swearing in the original script, then. Also of note is the final paragrah in that link, which says:
I took an episode of The Clangers to the 1984 E.B.U.
conference in Germany and showed it to the participants without my voice-
over. Afterwards I asked them whether they had been able to understand
what the Clangers were saying.
"But of course." they replied. "They are speaking perfect German."
"But no." said Gerd, "That is not so. They spoke only Swedish,"
The different pronounciations of aluminium arose because the guy who discovered it gave it a quirky spelling that didn't fit in the the convention of all the other elements at the time.
:-)
The Americans weren't having such silliness and made the name conform, as did some other nations. The British, who always have time for splendid stubborn-mindedness from crazy people, kept the unusual spelling.
IIRC the discoverer also changed his mind about the spelling once or twice.
It's all in Bill Bryson's "Brief history of everything", you know.
Or it may have been the other way around.
I'm so knowledgable
I was referring to the link you posted to here (first link from your Google link). Just pointing out a minor correction to the name of the well-known September that AOL unleashed its hoardes. This may be petty, but then again, I am fairly anal :-)
September is well known for this kind of problem - precisely because that's when the clueless freshmen all arrive - albeit nowadays with their own PCs, open ports and instaiable desire to open attachments, rather than the old problem of writing "Me Too" and quoting 500+ lines of previous news article...
I think your friend meant The September That Never Ended
I think any email program that exsisted before 1995 is venerable... :-)
"Bede" that as it may, they are also vulnerable
Sorry. Punning on medieval monks is a very bad "habit".
You probably don't want to use the acronym IANAL on this topic.
Just a thought.
To be completely fair, though, people also thought that Gene Ray was mad.
Let me get this straight:
a court of law has ruled against the big media companies and for the little hacker guy who wrote a cool C++ program to let us all watch DVDs that we legally own?
Was Rod Sterling seen anywhere near the court, at all?
Harry Enfield's classic sketch comes true at last!
And now our feature presentation, Good Blokes. You may like to know that this film has been specially ruined for television.
Did you fun my wife? Did you fun my wife?
Nah I didn't fun your wife, she just sucked my cake
Fun you, mother-funster!
You could have an excellent quality of life
in any number of relatively free nations such as
China
Relative to what - Imperial Rome under Nero??
has fucked a lot of whores
It's only a matter of time, surely? I await the first spam advertising www.SenatorsAndSluts.com with interest..
On another note, a UK MP is trying to blame ISPs for porn spam he gets
You know we couldn't pass a law like that. Well, maybe in Texas.
Don't joke about the death penalty in Texas. They send you to the chair for that kind of thing, y'know.
I couldn't check the link to Peacefire.
Smartfilter seems to think it usuitable material for me to look at.
Slashdot next!
I think you'll find the privatisation of British Rail exceeded all expectations! A recent poll blamed rail problems firstly on the management, then on the Labour government and lastly on the Tories who privatised it.
As a blame-shifting exercise, John Major's privatisation has performed exceptionally well!
After all, what other motive could there possibly have been...?
Oh, boy, will you get flamed!
;)
:) Better telescopes will only reveal older galaxies, further away up to the point where galaxies were first created. Once you get to that point, you can't see new galaxies, onlythe material from which they were formed.. which probably will be undetectable. And this assumes, of course, that the earliest galaxies gave off light and radiation which has not been blocked by an object between them and the Earth (say a younger galaxy in our own cluster). It also assumes that the radiation is strong enough to be picked up.. it's travelled an awful long way and it may be impossible to detect no matter how sensitive the device.
But not by me. I'm nowhere near a pro, but even I recognise the huge faws in your arguments.
Wobbly suns mean planets are orbiting around them, even though they cant be seen. Maybe they just wobble once in awhile. I know I do.
Nothing moves without a force being applied to it. If there is no force, there is no motion. In your case, the force is alchol and gravity. In the case of a star it must be gravity, unless there's some really bizarre other force as yet undiscovered. However, since our own sun wobbles in accordance with the laws of gravity, as do the planets with moons, it's pretty safe to assume other stars are acting under the same forces.
There are also other methods of detecting extra-solar planets.
The universe keeps getting older, because we know exactly how light behaves over time and space. What happens when we invent yet larger and/or more powerful telescopes? Will galaxies continue to be found which are further and further away?
Up to a point. You never read "A Brief History of Time", did you?
The moon must only be about 5-10 thousand years old, since it only had a half-inch or so of dust on it, uniformly and consistently.
This article should cover pretty much everything there. Here's a brief quote:
Even though the creationists themselves have refuted this argument, (and refutations from the mainstream community have been around for at least a decade longer than that), the "moon dust" argument continues to be propagated in their "popular" literature, and continues to appear in talk.origins on a regular basis
So you've fallen foul of a popular myth propogated by some Creationists. Took me 2 minutes to find that article using Google and a search for "age of the moon".. please do some basic checking of this kind of thing.. propogation of ignorance is not a good thing.
Bonus! Thanks for the tip!
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Absolutely. I ordered 4 DVDs from Amazon.com.. they got stopped at Customs and I had to pay some import duty. But I got them discounted at Amazon, and even with the import duty they were cheaper than here (just). I also got more features for my money.
BTW, Brits should be aware that the Canadian firm: DVD Box Office don't charge for shipping. So you can order them singly, get 'em quicker and pay less. Nice.
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EU: "In that case, we demand that the region system is abandoned."
Depends who is in charge though...
Germany: We demand equality and freedom for our citizens. Ban region codes.
French: Dirty Hollywood ruins our lovely film industry. Abolish region codes, and while we're at it, let's ban US films period. That should annoy the Americans and the British at the same time.
Netherlands: Whatever the opposite of what Germany wants.
British: America is our friend. They are very nice people. Let's do what they want. Another missile base, Mr Bush? Why of course! Treaties? Oh I'm sure nobody's really bothered about those old things. Plus, it'll really annoy the French. Let's make imports cheaper and compulsary
Italians: There were rules about this?
Eastern Europe (as one voice): There are non-pirated versions?
Spain: Yeah, whatever.
Switzerland: We're not in the EU.
So it really depends on which contries sit on the comittee, really. And am I the only person in the world that is worried about the fact that all Switzerland's neighbouring countries would describe them as "shy, quiet.. keep themselves to themselves.. seem like really nice, polite fellows, wouldn't hurt a fly". It's only a matter of time.
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To have any HOPE of effectiveness, you'd have to outlaw portscanning utilities. And give that law enough teeth to allow the stormtroopers (police) the ability to "find out who has them".
Exactly right. And to extend your example, Trojans are surely already illegal? If somebody connects to SubSeven or BackOrrifice and downloads your data and uses your PC to launch a DDoS, that's surely illegal.
But how many scans for trojans does every dialup connection get every time it's online? Making it illegal doesn't make that law enforceable. To do so would require either a Big Brother attitude where everybody's ISP monitors all their traffic, or would consume all the resources of all the police everywhere.
Don't try and stop what you can't stop. Stop the big stuff (actual penetrations).. if you can. But we all know that those people who know how to penetrate properly (as opposed to a script kiddies) are unlikely to be caught unless they make a booboo.
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This press release (under "Pricing and Availability") points out that Klyx will be available for a free download for anyone developing open-source or free software "mid 2001". But you make no mention of it.. has the situation changed? Or can I still chant "Go Borland" under my breath when I think about the role the Big Boys play in open source?
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I wish somebody would come and extract some of the high-level employees from my company with force.
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