Well there was that show about the Galactic Devourer or whatever, the giant worm-like thing that swallowed whole planets, indestructible, yadda-yadda-yadda.
Besides, every good ST:TOS episode had at least a couple of people dying in any possible way (exploding consoles being the number one cause, of course). Bu then they were mostly red shirts, so they don't really count.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
p.s. blow horn when you are there. For great justice!
For anyone else who's wondering about the 3-breasted chick, it's NOT the one on "Total Recall", it's none other but Erotica Gallumbits, author of the great book "Everything you didn't want to know about sex, but were forced to learn anyway". Check your local "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" for more information.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Guess the joke's on me.. slashdots idea of a funny aprils fools joke is to post inane stories all day. Oh well..
And that's different from the rest of the year in what way?
(just kidding! just kidding!)
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
...and my date didn't show up last night so I am feeling quite misanthropist at the moment so forgive me.
You mean you actually had a date? (Sorry, cheap shot, I know)
Evry time I post I am bullied and suffer from personal attacks, also via email, which sometimes I cannot bring myself to read Well, trying to be helpful, I'd have to say that the way you express your thoughts seems, at least IMHO, a bit aggressive. To quote one of them, "I pity you and your hollow existance". From personal experience I can tell you, that kind of remarks only cause more attacks from normal people. (Sadly, but true)
Personally, I rather like your posts. Most of them are insightful and thought-provoking. Unfortunately, some people don't see the content for the form, and therefore they don't pay as much attention to your ideas as they should. That, again, is only my opinion, of course.
Although I'd have to say, I had never seen anyone else being harrassd by 17 copycat accounts. Not since JonKatz, at least. Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Ahh. But "I FEEL endangered, therefore you're a criminal for making me FEEL that way" isn't a real great legal concept either. Anyone can choose to feel any way they want. Free speech is certainly more important that feelings. What about threats? We're talking about a country where you can't even make a joke about killing the President without the FBI knocking on your door and taking you downtown for a not-quite-friendly chat.
It's not about FEELING endangered. If that were the case, mostly everything not nailed to the ground would be removed because it caused some paranoid types to feel threatened.
Instead, it's about BEING threatened. If you tell some guy on the street "I'm gonna take my gun and pop you one right on your left eye, you sumabitch!", he'd be quite scared, as would anyone else (except perhaps people with left eyes made out of glass, but I disgress). You don't need to actually take out a gun and wave it around to make that guy feel scared.
There has to be a line drawn somewhere, preferrably before the actual act is commited. And there's this huge gray area between the limits of saying anything and everything you want, and limits on not endangering or helping to endanger the lives of people. Justice cases like his, while not perfect or actually to everyone's liking, help define this area a bit better every time. Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
I didn't really get the point of the rest of your arguments, but common sense is really a BS concept. You're right, I apologize for my reasoning. It was a bit late and I wasn't thinking rationally at the time.
My point is: i don't believe in Free Speech being more important than the freedom to live without feeling endangered by other people. Maybe they're equally important, but I value life a bit more that speech.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Free speech is real simple. Either you have it or you don't.So is common sense.
Let's face it. There's a fine line between being impassionate (sp?) about some cause, and being a mindless fanatic about said cause. One's commendable, the other is not (in my opinion). Of course, it all depends on the point of view you take. Someone's killer is someone else's martir. Take suicide bombers in Palestine, for example.
Of course, there's a big difference between the problems in Israel and the ones in the US, but it all comes down to the same thing: people thinking they're doing the right thing. Hiding behind the "Free Speech" law is a cowardly thing to do. If they have the cojones to put those doctor's information on the Web, they should stand for "the right thing". Let's see how much support they get from the people. And I intend no sarcasm in that last sentence, too.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Here in Mexico, we're paying a yearly property tax, which (strangely enough) depends on the exact size of the property. However, until recently those measurements have been made by taking pictures from an airplane. There have been several complaints of mistakes done while measuring.
Hopefully, using satellite photographs of this resolution could help reduce the chance of such mistakes happening again. Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Invisible to viewers, the rating code triggers the chip, which turns the television screen to black if the rating is too high. Not unlike Microsoft's Windows code, which turns the computer screen blue if the performance is too high. Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Alexander is famous for solving the mathematical problem of the Gordian Knot. He used a sword. Which, IMHo, is how the whole Florida-ballots conundrum should've been solved. Bush vs. Gore, and may the best man win.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
One of the major problems we have with controlling crime on the Internet is the fact that what may be illegal in one country is not illegal in another. Bingo!
That's the main problem I see with this law. Who should decide what is illegal all over the world? The country with the most guns? The one with the smartest people? The one with the most Internet users? The global mayority? The world ain't exactly a democracy, now.
Unless you're a peddler of fraudulent goods or services, or a pornographer, this could only be helpful to most people. Well, for starters, pornography is still legal on the U.S., as it is on many other countries. In other countries, it's not. I agree that frauds should be investigated, but then each nation has it's own set of laws, and it would be messing with other people's business if the American Dept. of Justice just started telling them how to run their legal systems.
Well, that's my opinion on the subject.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
I know it's a worst case scenerio, but imagine a future where normal, unmodified humans are considered to be an inferior waste product of the technological revolution.
I thought we already had those... we call them lawyers. Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Schroedinger's Shaggy Song?
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Quantum Poetry
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· Score: 2
Maybe quantum physics explains the popularity of Shagy's "It wasn't me" song. So when your girl catches you bumping uglies with the girl next door, you can always claim that by her observation, it didn't really happen.
(There go my karma points. Good riddance!)
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Cause damn, to go from producing technical efforts envied by all the world to begging for hand outs with a gig as the ultimate chauffeur on the side, that's gotta sting a little. I mean, to be one of the people in their program you'd probably have to be fairly adept at choking back the bile.
Now there's a hint for NASA. Either the U.S. Congress stops cutting back on space programs, or else they'll be forced to sit on the sidelines in 30 years or so. Not to sound trollish or anything, but everyone can see how China's on its way up, and I predict that in 20 years or so, they're gonna surpass the U.S. on the space race.
Heck, they might even pull a stunt like the one described on Arthur C. Clark's "2010", building a so-called space station for years only to have it blast off to cruise around the Solar System.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
This post for me wondering... what scenario of the following is more likely to happen:
- A giant comet / asteroid / mini-black hole / whatever crashing into the Earth - A new disease caused by new virii / prions that's almost 100% transmissible and always deathly - The sudden flipping of the magnetic poles (north becomes south and viceversa - Microsoft Corporation admitting that, indeed, Bill Gates IS the Antichrist
- CowboyNeal
Hmmm... Slashdot poll material, maybe? Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Fractint. I used it back in college during my Computer Graphics classes, and eventually my teacher just gave everyone else a copy so they would all see what a fractal was, and which fractals were the most popular.
Strap several live cats to your body then jump off a building. Or better yet, try the cat-jam anti-gravitational device.
As anyone knows, whenever you drop a slice of bread with jam and/or jelly spread on one side, that side will always fall face-down to the floor. If you take a cat and drop it, it'll always fall feet down.
So just strap a slice of bread with jam over the back of a cat, and then drop the cat. What side'll land on the floor? Well none! The cat'll float in midair, since Nature's undecided on which side to drop first.
Naturally, that's how UFOs work. And that also explains the buzzing heard around them, which is obviously just several hundred cats purring at the same time.
My apologies to the original version of this story, which appeared somewhere in the mid-90's on the Oracularities.
Freedom is the freedom to say 2 and 2 is 4, everything else follows from there.
Depends on your definition of "2" and "4". For instance, 2 cups of sugar added to 2 cups of water don't produce 4 cups of sugared water.
Besides, as George Orwell said, "there are 5 fingers". Mostly offtopic, but then I don't have anything to do on a Sunday afternoon.
Oddly enough, that kind of thing is also happening at my University.
The students of CompSys Engineering have seen several of their classes changed into easier ones. F'rinstance, they no longer take Computing Algorythms (sp?), or Differential Equations. Instead, they take such courses as Culture in Northern Mexico (OK, so that's where we live) and Web Design (final proyect: do your own web page).
Also, they stopped taking Assembler and started taking Windows NT. Oh, and they replaced Lineal Algebra with Ethics in the Workplace. I took that class, and it was basically "don't do bad things to your employers or else you could get caught and get fired and GO TO HELL AND MEET SATAN!!!". Or close enough.
The result? They breeze through school, graduate, and get their a$$e$ kicked HARD when they join the real world.
"I now own a patent for "encoding english language characters for transmission over a network". Muhawhaw, everyone on the Internet is an infringer!"
Oh yeah? Try telling that to all the Chinese, Japanese and Russian internet surfers out there!
And now, to be half-infringing on that patent...
The article talks about web sites dumbing down their content to the lowest common denominator, lest they break some obscure decency law in some tiny village somewhere. I havent read the article yet (and I'm not planning on registering to the NY Times, thank you), but...
I recall something I read once on Mad Magazine: the schools are lowering their education standards in order to help the underachievers, and thus turning whole generations into underachievers.
Give a troll a comment, and he'll flame and bitch for a day. Give a troll a dumbed-down Internet, and he'll flame and bitch for life.
Slashdot Mirror
What will you do?
That's easy! Shoot the hostage!
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Well there was that show about the Galactic Devourer or whatever, the giant worm-like thing that swallowed whole planets, indestructible, yadda-yadda-yadda.
Besides, every good ST:TOS episode had at least a couple of people dying in any possible way (exploding consoles being the number one cause, of course). Bu then they were mostly red shirts, so they don't really count.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
p.s. blow horn when you are there. For great justice!
For anyone else who's wondering about the 3-breasted chick, it's NOT the one on "Total Recall", it's none other but Erotica Gallumbits, author of the great book "Everything you didn't want to know about sex, but were forced to learn anyway". Check your local "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" for more information.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Guess the joke's on me.. slashdots idea of a funny aprils fools joke is to post inane stories all day. Oh well..
And that's different from the rest of the year in what way?
(just kidding! just kidding!)
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
...and my date didn't show up last night so I am feeling quite misanthropist at the moment so forgive me.
You mean you actually had a date? (Sorry, cheap shot, I know)
Evry time I post I am bullied and suffer from personal attacks, also via email, which sometimes I cannot bring myself to read
Well, trying to be helpful, I'd have to say that the way you express your thoughts seems, at least IMHO, a bit aggressive. To quote one of them, "I pity you and your hollow existance". From personal experience I can tell you, that kind of remarks only cause more attacks from normal people. (Sadly, but true)
Personally, I rather like your posts. Most of them are insightful and thought-provoking. Unfortunately, some people don't see the content for the form, and therefore they don't pay as much attention to your ideas as they should. That, again, is only my opinion, of course.
Although I'd have to say, I had never seen anyone else being harrassd by 17 copycat accounts. Not since JonKatz, at least.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Ahh. But "I FEEL endangered, therefore you're a criminal for making me FEEL that way" isn't a real great legal concept either. Anyone can choose to feel any way they want. Free speech is certainly more important that feelings. What about threats? We're talking about a country where you can't even make a joke about killing the President without the FBI knocking on your door and taking you downtown for a not-quite-friendly chat.
It's not about FEELING endangered. If that were the case, mostly everything not nailed to the ground would be removed because it caused some paranoid types to feel threatened.
Instead, it's about BEING threatened. If you tell some guy on the street "I'm gonna take my gun and pop you one right on your left eye, you sumabitch!", he'd be quite scared, as would anyone else (except perhaps people with left eyes made out of glass, but I disgress). You don't need to actually take out a gun and wave it around to make that guy feel scared.
There has to be a line drawn somewhere, preferrably before the actual act is commited. And there's this huge gray area between the limits of saying anything and everything you want, and limits on not endangering or helping to endanger the lives of people. Justice cases like his, while not perfect or actually to everyone's liking, help define this area a bit better every time.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Well, the first link I found about that subject was in Everything2, here.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
I didn't really get the point of the rest of your arguments, but common sense is really a BS concept.
You're right, I apologize for my reasoning. It was a bit late and I wasn't thinking rationally at the time.
My point is: i don't believe in Free Speech being more important than the freedom to live without feeling endangered by other people. Maybe they're equally important, but I value life a bit more that speech.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Free speech is real simple. Either you have it or you don't. So is common sense.
Let's face it. There's a fine line between being impassionate (sp?) about some cause, and being a mindless fanatic about said cause. One's commendable, the other is not (in my opinion). Of course, it all depends on the point of view you take. Someone's killer is someone else's martir. Take suicide bombers in Palestine, for example.
Of course, there's a big difference between the problems in Israel and the ones in the US, but it all comes down to the same thing: people thinking they're doing the right thing. Hiding behind the "Free Speech" law is a cowardly thing to do. If they have the cojones to put those doctor's information on the Web, they should stand for "the right thing". Let's see how much support they get from the people. And I intend no sarcasm in that last sentence, too.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Here in Mexico, we're paying a yearly property tax, which (strangely enough) depends on the exact size of the property. However, until recently those measurements have been made by taking pictures from an airplane. There have been several complaints of mistakes done while measuring.
Hopefully, using satellite photographs of this resolution could help reduce the chance of such mistakes happening again.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Can you really call that nasty dirt water you get at work coffee?
Dude, if it's black, hot and has tons of caffeine on it, I'll call it coffee.
Unless it's Denzel Washington shooting a movie, in which case I think I'll just settle for a Coke.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Invisible to viewers, the rating code triggers the chip, which turns the television screen to black if the rating is too high.
Not unlike Microsoft's Windows code, which turns the computer screen blue if the performance is too high.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Alexander is famous for solving the mathematical problem of the Gordian Knot. He used a sword.
Which, IMHo, is how the whole Florida-ballots conundrum should've been solved. Bush vs. Gore, and may the best man win.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
One of the major problems we have with controlling crime on the Internet is the fact that what may be illegal in one country is not illegal in another. Bingo!
That's the main problem I see with this law. Who should decide what is illegal all over the world? The country with the most guns? The one with the smartest people? The one with the most Internet users? The global mayority? The world ain't exactly a democracy, now.
Unless you're a peddler of fraudulent goods or services, or a pornographer, this could only be helpful to most people. Well, for starters, pornography is still legal on the U.S., as it is on many other countries. In other countries, it's not. I agree that frauds should be investigated, but then each nation has it's own set of laws, and it would be messing with other people's business if the American Dept. of Justice just started telling them how to run their legal systems.
Well, that's my opinion on the subject.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
I know it's a worst case scenerio, but imagine a future where normal, unmodified humans are considered to be an inferior waste product of the technological revolution.
I thought we already had those... we call them lawyers.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Maybe quantum physics explains the popularity of Shagy's "It wasn't me" song. So when your girl catches you bumping uglies with the girl next door, you can always claim that by her observation, it didn't really happen.
(There go my karma points. Good riddance!)
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Cause damn, to go from producing technical efforts envied by all the world to begging for hand outs with a gig as the ultimate chauffeur on the side, that's gotta sting a little. I mean, to be one of the people in their program you'd probably have to be fairly adept at choking back the bile.
Now there's a hint for NASA. Either the U.S. Congress stops cutting back on space programs, or else they'll be forced to sit on the sidelines in 30 years or so. Not to sound trollish or anything, but everyone can see how China's on its way up, and I predict that in 20 years or so, they're gonna surpass the U.S. on the space race.
Heck, they might even pull a stunt like the one described on Arthur C. Clark's "2010", building a so-called space station for years only to have it blast off to cruise around the Solar System.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
This post for me wondering... what scenario of the following is more likely to happen:
- A giant comet / asteroid / mini-black hole / whatever crashing into the Earth
- A new disease caused by new virii / prions that's almost 100% transmissible and always deathly
- The sudden flipping of the magnetic poles (north becomes south and viceversa
- Microsoft Corporation admitting that, indeed, Bill Gates IS the Antichrist
- CowboyNeal
Hmmm... Slashdot poll material, maybe?
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Fractint. I used it back in college during my Computer Graphics classes, and eventually my teacher just gave everyone else a copy so they would all see what a fractal was, and which fractals were the most popular.
You can get it at the Fractint WWW pages.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Strap several live cats to your body then jump off a building. Or better yet, try the cat-jam anti-gravitational device.
As anyone knows, whenever you drop a slice of bread with jam and/or jelly spread on one side, that side will always fall face-down to the floor. If you take a cat and drop it, it'll always fall feet down.
So just strap a slice of bread with jam over the back of a cat, and then drop the cat. What side'll land on the floor? Well none! The cat'll float in midair, since Nature's undecided on which side to drop first.
Naturally, that's how UFOs work. And that also explains the buzzing heard around them, which is obviously just several hundred cats purring at the same time.
My apologies to the original version of this story, which appeared somewhere in the mid-90's on the Oracularities.
Freedom is the freedom to say 2 and 2 is 4, everything else follows from there.
Depends on your definition of "2" and "4". For instance, 2 cups of sugar added to 2 cups of water don't produce 4 cups of sugared water.
Besides, as George Orwell said, "there are 5 fingers". Mostly offtopic, but then I don't have anything to do on a Sunday afternoon.
Stay tuned for the next study, "The effect of thinking about thinking about work". I'm stressed already.
I wonder... if thinking about work causes stress, does thinking about stress causes work?
Oddly enough, that kind of thing is also happening at my University.
The students of CompSys Engineering have seen several of their classes changed into easier ones. F'rinstance, they no longer take Computing Algorythms (sp?), or Differential Equations. Instead, they take such courses as Culture in Northern Mexico (OK, so that's where we live) and Web Design (final proyect: do your own web page).
Also, they stopped taking Assembler and started taking Windows NT. Oh, and they replaced Lineal Algebra with Ethics in the Workplace. I took that class, and it was basically "don't do bad things to your employers or else you could get caught and get fired and GO TO HELL AND MEET SATAN!!!". Or close enough.
The result? They breeze through school, graduate, and get their a$$e$ kicked HARD when they join the real world.
"I now own a patent for "encoding english language characters for transmission over a network". Muhawhaw, everyone on the Internet is an infringer!"
Oh yeah? Try telling that to all the Chinese, Japanese and Russian internet surfers out there! And now, to be half-infringing on that patent...
"Ña ña, ña ña!"
The article talks about web sites dumbing down their content to the lowest common denominator, lest they break some obscure decency law in some tiny village somewhere. I havent read the article yet (and I'm not planning on registering to the NY Times, thank you), but...
I recall something I read once on Mad Magazine: the schools are lowering their education standards in order to help the underachievers, and thus turning whole generations into underachievers.
Give a troll a comment, and he'll flame and bitch for a day. Give a troll a dumbed-down Internet, and he'll flame and bitch for life.