Re:Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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The Coldest March
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Landmark Theatres is (or was last weekend) currently showing this documentary at their Dallas Inwood theatre and another theatre in Seattle. If you're anywhere near these area and have any interest in this at all, make an effort to see it, as it's a very interesting and stunning film. The creators make use of Hurley's original film, which really adds a feeling of authenticacy that's missing in many documentaries.
You don't really need, and probably don't want a lawyer, anyway. From my experience, a good CPA is much more knowlegable about corporate taxation and formation issues than most attorneys who aren't specialists in corporate tax law. A CPA can't legally prepare your Articles for you, but the SoS has forms online now that you can fill out, or type up in a nicer format and file. Most banks will require you to have corporate bylaws, but pre-prepared bylaws are available from many corporate service companies.
I've had several interesting experiences shipping computer items from several years on eBay. All these items were shipped UPS ground.
Several years ago I shipped a small 13" Apple monitor. UPS posted "Item damaged" to their tracking information, but was unable to provide any information on the damage. A week and a half later when they finally returned the package, there was a 4" by 1" hole in the side of the box, and the plastic casing of the monitor was cracked on one side, like it had been hit with a hammer. UPS had stabbed my package with a forklift blade.
Later on, I shipped a SparcStation 20 by UPS ground. If you've ever opened one of these up, you know that they're very sturdy hardware, and would probably survive being run over by a truck, or being hit by a forklift as in the previous example, with only minor cosmetic damage. I received this package back with the machine folded in the middle. UPS didn't find it necessary to find out what happened, and I have no idea how they would cause that sort of damage, short of a hydraulic press, or dropping a forklift onto the package from a significant height.
Recently I had a monitor damaged by UPS after following the specific packaging instructions provided after the previous incident (several inches of foam padding on each side being the primary specification). After it was delivered damaged (with a hole in the box), they returned it to me. They repeatedly denied my insurance claim, so I finally called customer service to get a real reason why. They told me that the package was not packaged correctly, because I had packed a fragile item with no padding, and that I had packed a fragile item directly next to another fragile item in the box. There was only one item in the box! It took several months of calling and threatening legal action before I finally got any insurance money.
The moral of my story (that I probably should have learned earlier), is not to, under any circumstances, ship fragile, valuable items using UPS. I have since discussed UPS's package handling practices with several ex-employees, and they each tell the same horror story, but that's a topic for another post.
And how does this protect the seller from being defrauded by the buyer? I've been selling on eBay for several years, and there's no way I would ship the item to a buyer before I received payment.
Crypto algorithms are well-documented and not difficult to implement. Circumventing backdoors would be as simple as writing your own software, or use an older version of open source software such as GPG that doesn't support government-known backdoors. Sure, it'd be illegal in the U.S., but is that going to stop terrorists? All this will do is make it difficult for law-abiding corporations and individuals to keep data secure.
Explain this one to me...
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"Even if Freenet does not end up in the crowded graveyard of vaporware, Internet service providers can always pull the plug--treating Freenet, in essence, as an unsupported feature, in the way that many providers today do not support telnet, Usenet and other less popular services. "
This statement doesn't seem to make any sense. Unlike Usenet, use of Freenet doesn't require your ISP to run a centralised server for support. I assume the writer of the article means that ISPs don't allow use of telnet to check mail via pine, etc, so the same applies.
The only way an ISP could feasibly block use of Freenet that I see is to drop packets that look like Freenet packets. But that doesn't seem to be what the writer implies. Is there an interpretation of this that I'm missing?
Something I haven't seen anyone suggest: look on eBay and buy an SGI Indigo2 mouse, or HP 9000 mouse. The newer SGI and HP systems use straight PS/2, and work nicely with PCs. Logitech also makes a really nice 3-button, if I remember right HP actually uses these mice. But it's always neat to have a granite mouse connected to your PC, even if it does offend the SGI fans;)
Yes! The word needs to be spread about this dangerous hardware! I will take it upon myself to dispose of this equipment. If your processor is fast enough to be a hazard, you can send it to me for proper disposal. Carefully take it out of your computer (careful, because it might already be infected and blow up if handled roughly, don't drop it!) put it in a special anti-static bag and pack it well in a box (in case it blows up in transport) and send it to me. Similar processes can be used for memory (only PC100 and PC133 memory is dangerous) and hard drives (again, only ultra scsi drives are hazards). I hope the community respects the time I have volunteered to take this dangerous equipment out of the potential victims' homes.
Read the latest edition of Kernel Traffic, there's discussion of the weaknesses of the Linux/proc filesystem. For those of you who don't know, Kernel Traffic is a weekly summary of discussion on the Linux kernel developlement mailing list, and can be accessed at http://kt.linuxcare.com.
We already do that here at TAMU, what do you think the real purpose of the bonfire is? Really, A&M was rated one of the most unfriendly to gay/lesbian schools, I think we're number 2 behind Notre Dame.
Even Redhat's text-based install is screwed up in 6.1. At least on my system, the installer attempted to mount all the partitions on all the drives it could find, not just those in/etc/fstab. Now, they decided not to include NTFS support in their install disk kernel, so it wouldn't mount my w2k partition. And then apparantly it doesn't know what to do when a mount fails, so the entire install process dies with a fatal error. Screw this, I'm doing a net install of debian when I get back to school.
Apple's slogan was "Think Different" instead of "Think Differently" on purpose. I can't remember the reasoning, but they were aware that this was not the conventially correct grammar.
Office has at its core a decent product that has been bloat-matized in the newer versions. MS seems to do a pretty good job of making good software when they're trying to put a competitor out of business, like IE (admit it). As long as KOffice keeps the good features and doesn't implement the bloat (read: Animated Paperclips) it is fine by me. But that doesn't excuse them from not innovating the product themselves, which I don't think will be a problem.
While I agree that the media has a very hard time getting all of the facts and verifying all of their data before publishing in a case like this, it's notexcuse for bad journalism. My roommate lives a block away from the church that was recently shot up in Ft. Worth. The papers the next morning claimed that people were dead that weren't even at the church at the time. At least they'll have a newspaper to keep and show their kids, "Hey, I was dead once."
I'm 16. I'm a CHILD. I can't wait until I turn 18 and have this huge revelation that will turn me into an ADULT. Which is quite strange, since you would think that by taking college biology I would have heard at least a little about this instantaneous intellectual maturation that occurs at the same time in all human beings.
You want an example? Insurance companies treat male drivers under 18 and male drivers 18-25 as being in the same age category. Maybe they know something you don't. Stupid people, no matter what their age, make stupid decisions. And funny, I haven't heard of anyone in their early twenties being refused a ticket to "Eyes Wide Shut."
Of course we're going to support his position to have more freedom. Look back through history. Anyone under unjust restriction has supported the removal of those restrictions. I might point you to a document titled "The Bill of Rights." Particularly note the section entitled "Amendment I." Note that nowhere does it state that this right is dependent upon age.
And regarding Nicole Kidman's butt, I seem to recall seeing that entire scene in the movie trailer, just before Star Wars. I'm sure all of those little kids were deeply scarred by seeing this scene.
Now, I'm not saying that 8-year old kids should be allowed into "Eyes Wide Shut" without a parent or someone responsible for them. But just how many 8 year olds do you see going to the theatre by themselves? I can't say I see many. Most of the CHILDREN I see being denied tickets for "South Park" and "Eyes Wide Shut" are teenagers -- many of which have done things themselves that are more explicit than anything shown in the censored American version of the movie.
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Landmark Theatres is (or was last weekend) currently showing this documentary at their Dallas Inwood theatre and another theatre in Seattle. If you're anywhere near these area and have any interest in this at all, make an effort to see it, as it's a very interesting and stunning film. The creators make use of Hurley's original film, which really adds a feeling of authenticacy that's missing in many documentaries.
Texas rates are:
Regular Corp: 300
LLC: 200
Limited Partnership: 750
You don't really need, and probably don't want a lawyer, anyway. From my experience, a good CPA is much more knowlegable about corporate taxation and formation issues than most attorneys who aren't specialists in corporate tax law. A CPA can't legally prepare your Articles for you, but the SoS has forms online now that you can fill out, or type up in a nicer format and file. Most banks will require you to have corporate bylaws, but pre-prepared bylaws are available from many corporate service companies.
Several years ago I shipped a small 13" Apple monitor. UPS posted "Item damaged" to their tracking information, but was unable to provide any information on the damage. A week and a half later when they finally returned the package, there was a 4" by 1" hole in the side of the box, and the plastic casing of the monitor was cracked on one side, like it had been hit with a hammer. UPS had stabbed my package with a forklift blade.
Later on, I shipped a SparcStation 20 by UPS ground. If you've ever opened one of these up, you know that they're very sturdy hardware, and would probably survive being run over by a truck, or being hit by a forklift as in the previous example, with only minor cosmetic damage. I received this package back with the machine folded in the middle. UPS didn't find it necessary to find out what happened, and I have no idea how they would cause that sort of damage, short of a hydraulic press, or dropping a forklift onto the package from a significant height.
Recently I had a monitor damaged by UPS after following the specific packaging instructions provided after the previous incident (several inches of foam padding on each side being the primary specification). After it was delivered damaged (with a hole in the box), they returned it to me. They repeatedly denied my insurance claim, so I finally called customer service to get a real reason why. They told me that the package was not packaged correctly, because I had packed a fragile item with no padding, and that I had packed a fragile item directly next to another fragile item in the box. There was only one item in the box! It took several months of calling and threatening legal action before I finally got any insurance money.
The moral of my story (that I probably should have learned earlier), is not to, under any circumstances, ship fragile, valuable items using UPS. I have since discussed UPS's package handling practices with several ex-employees, and they each tell the same horror story, but that's a topic for another post.
The actual text of Davies' paper is available in Google's cache here
And how does this protect the seller from being defrauded by the buyer? I've been selling on eBay for several years, and there's no way I would ship the item to a buyer before I received payment.
Crypto algorithms are well-documented and not difficult to implement. Circumventing backdoors would be as simple as writing your own software, or use an older version of open source software such as GPG that doesn't support government-known backdoors. Sure, it'd be illegal in the U.S., but is that going to stop terrorists? All this will do is make it difficult for law-abiding corporations and individuals to keep data secure.
"Even if Freenet does not end up in the crowded graveyard of vaporware, Internet service providers can always pull the plug--treating Freenet, in essence, as an unsupported feature, in the way that many providers today do not support telnet, Usenet and other less popular services. " This statement doesn't seem to make any sense. Unlike Usenet, use of Freenet doesn't require your ISP to run a centralised server for support. I assume the writer of the article means that ISPs don't allow use of telnet to check mail via pine, etc, so the same applies. The only way an ISP could feasibly block use of Freenet that I see is to drop packets that look like Freenet packets. But that doesn't seem to be what the writer implies. Is there an interpretation of this that I'm missing?
Something I haven't seen anyone suggest: look on eBay and buy an SGI Indigo2 mouse, or HP 9000 mouse. The newer SGI and HP systems use straight PS/2, and work nicely with PCs. Logitech also makes a really nice 3-button, if I remember right HP actually uses these mice. But it's always neat to have a granite mouse connected to your PC, even if it does offend the SGI fans ;)
Yes! The word needs to be spread about this dangerous hardware! I will take it upon myself to dispose of this equipment. If your processor is fast enough to be a hazard, you can send it to me for proper disposal. Carefully take it out of your computer (careful, because it might already be infected and blow up if handled roughly, don't drop it!) put it in a special anti-static bag and pack it well in a box (in case it blows up in transport) and send it to me. Similar processes can be used for memory (only PC100 and PC133 memory is dangerous) and hard drives (again, only ultra scsi drives are hazards). I hope the community respects the time I have volunteered to take this dangerous equipment out of the potential victims' homes.
Read the latest edition of Kernel Traffic, there's discussion of the weaknesses of the Linux /proc filesystem. For those of you who don't know, Kernel Traffic is a weekly summary of discussion on the Linux kernel developlement mailing list, and can be accessed at http://kt.linuxcare.com.
We already do that here at TAMU, what do you think the real purpose of the bonfire is? Really, A&M was rated one of the most unfriendly to gay/lesbian schools, I think we're number 2 behind Notre Dame.
Even Redhat's text-based install is screwed up in 6.1. At least on my system, the installer attempted to mount all the partitions on all the drives it could find, not just those in /etc/fstab. Now, they decided not to include NTFS support in their install disk kernel, so it wouldn't mount my w2k partition. And then apparantly it doesn't know what to do when a mount fails, so the entire install process dies with a fatal error. Screw this, I'm doing a net install of debian when I get back to school.
distributed.net does have a NeXTstep client, it's listed under NeXT/OS on the client page.
Apple's slogan was "Think Different" instead of "Think Differently" on purpose. I can't remember the reasoning, but they were aware that this was not the conventially correct grammar.
Office has at its core a decent product that has been bloat-matized in the newer versions. MS seems to do a pretty good job of making good software when they're trying to put a competitor out of business, like IE (admit it). As long as KOffice keeps the good features and doesn't implement the bloat (read: Animated Paperclips) it is fine by me. But that doesn't excuse them from not innovating the product themselves, which I don't think will be a problem.
While I agree that the media has a very hard time getting all of the facts and verifying all of their data before publishing in a case like this, it's notexcuse for bad journalism. My roommate lives a block away from the church that was recently shot up in Ft. Worth. The papers the next morning claimed that people were dead that weren't even at the church at the time. At least they'll have a newspaper to keep and show their kids, "Hey, I was dead once."
AC, you just don't get it, do you?
I'm 16. I'm a CHILD. I can't wait until I turn 18 and have this huge revelation that will turn me into an ADULT. Which is quite strange, since you would think that by taking college biology I would have heard at least a little about this instantaneous intellectual maturation that occurs at the same time in all human beings.
You want an example? Insurance companies treat male drivers under 18 and male drivers 18-25 as being in the same age category. Maybe they know something you don't. Stupid people, no matter what their age, make stupid decisions. And funny, I haven't heard of anyone in their early twenties being refused a ticket to "Eyes Wide Shut."
Of course we're going to support his position to have more freedom. Look back through history. Anyone under unjust restriction has supported the removal of those restrictions. I might point you to a document titled "The Bill of Rights." Particularly note the section entitled "Amendment I." Note that nowhere does it state that this right is dependent upon age.
And regarding Nicole Kidman's butt, I seem to recall seeing that entire scene in the movie trailer, just before Star Wars. I'm sure all of those little kids were deeply scarred by seeing this scene.
Now, I'm not saying that 8-year old kids should be allowed into "Eyes Wide Shut" without a parent or someone responsible for them. But just how many 8 year olds do you see going to the theatre by themselves? I can't say I see many. Most of the CHILDREN I see being denied tickets for "South Park" and "Eyes Wide Shut" are teenagers -- many of which have done things themselves that are more explicit than anything shown in the censored American version of the movie.
Get a "k"lue.
How about Microprose's Original M1 Tank Platoon? :) (No German tanks though) Hey, at least you won't have to worry about a 3d card.