Ahem...
1st society is based SOLELY on the social contract
I.e. rules of civilized behaviour. Such as I don't steal your stuff because I don't wish to have my stuff stolen.
As for me, I am middle class. I am there because I WORKED for it. As for corporations, I take a strict interpretation as to what powers they should have. Many of the founding fathers did not like the idea of corporations, calling them eternal citizens, which over time would gather power unto themselves.
I would support reform in the IP laws to protect corporations "property" for a VERY short time at which time it should become public domain.
As for believing that educated and tech literate are the norm, no I do not believe in such impossible goals. I simply believe that we are born with the inherent rights to life, liberty and
the PURSUIT of happiness, NOT the guarantee of happiness.
In my world it would be up to you to support the downtrodden if you so chose, but only those causes
you believed in, not those force fed to you by washington.....
No it's not new. It was forseen in both
1984 and brave new world. They understood that
a tyranny works best when people are led to
it, bit by bit and force fed the idea that it
is good.
I.E. "Guns are unsafe, so for your safety we'll
take them away." or "Drugs are bad, and you the
average citizen cannot understand the dangers of
putting them into your body so we'll take them away."
The operative principle is to use safety and security to take away freedoms thus making society
"safe" from itself. In addition this is then backed up with the threat of force against those who do not or will not accept the new rules.
Look at Waco. Were those people idiots? YES. Did they hurt anyone? No. But in the interest of "safety" they had to assault the compound and
now they are "safely" in the ground.......
Everyone here in the US seems to have this mentality of "I am OWED such and such, and if
I can't get it on my own the the government should give it to me......"
Not to mention the congress being in big corporations pockets.
Until people wake up and realize government should
only be there to ensure rights, and allow citizens to fail,
or suffer the consequences of their own choices (good or bad) the country will not improve.
Turn about is fair play.....
Look to the middle ages when French was the language of the aristocracy of ALL european countries. Now the world uses English.
Is America a 24 hour bloated corporate call-center of greed? Yes, but we do get shit done!
Like it or Lump it.
Just eat your cheese, drink your wine, and
dream of the good old days when Napoleon was
the ruler of most of europe.....
Meanwhile the rest of the world will ignore your
pretentious crap!
Frankly I don't think most americans CARE whether or not the world likes them. Some of us may be clueless enough to believe that fiction, but by no means all.
As for the rest, Turn about is fair play.....
Look to the middle ages when French was the language of the aristocracy of ALL european countries. Now the world uses English.
Is America a 24 hour bloated corporate call-center of greed? Yes.......
But we do get shit done!
Like it or Lump it.
As for the French being a world power, sure, maybe when Hitler ran the country......
P.S. welcome to PAX Americana!!!!!
(And if you don't like that, we've got a few cruise missiles with your name on them)
the 1800's were NOT a time when people thought about potential environmental effects PERIOD.
This was killed because there was no viable business model to control it.
Do some reading on him, while a genius, a genius in the financial realm he was not. A shame too because he could have changed the world even more.
You mean dense wave division multiplexing? Or something else?
DWMP means shooting different "colors" of laser light down the glass. You then have a filter at the other end which separates the colors back out.
Just like a prism does for sunlight....
Pretty cool tech, when dwmp stuff gets reasonable we will see an explosion in bandwidth!
That and fully optical routers.....
Normally windoze will reorder every 18th frame,
and drop every 16th one.
Unless there is a new version (i.e. windoze 2000)
in which case it reorders every 5th and drops
every 3rd.......
All this so that wonderful "windows x.x is more fun AND reliable" blurb when you upgrade is true......
come on bill needs to make another billion somehow!
And give them autonomous control over the missles.
You see, Terminator WAS in fact a real story from the future, but what you dont know is skynet
was just a Beowolf cluster of networked monkey brains.......
The only reason they want to take over is the chiquita plantations!
Question :
"The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president? "
Mr Bush:
As your President, the very first thing I would
do is to become committed to the War on drugs.
I will launch a "strategagoric" strike against them.
We know who these drug companies are,
so I will have Mr cheney put together a list of
their company headquarters (after checking with
the IRS database of course)
I hereby commit to the American people that within 48 hours
after I am elected we will drop a large number of
REALLY REALLY REALLY big bombs that make REALLY
REALLY REALLY big craters on each
of these factories of death, and win,
once and for all, this War......
OR perhaps this :
I am committed to winning the war on drugs.
As your president, I will redouble my efforts
to destroying these substances, by snorting
twice as much cocaine as I used to.
I will have Presidential Cocaine party bowls
at all governmental functions, and will commision the franklin mint to create a set of commemorative
Dubya Prez cocaine party spoons, straws and scales.
I will also appoint my opponent Mr Gore to be in charge of smoking the demon weed marijuana out of existence. If we all work together as one nation I am sure we can snort this problem away in no time......
check tesla. The man who single-handedly invented
the world we know today. His inital model WAS
for wireless electricity. Problem was, no financial backing for power that ANYONE could pull from the sky.
yep, the souix and the black hills treaty in particular.......
It just kills me that the government RATIFIED a treaty giving the souix the black hills "forever" in the 1800's
fast forward to the 1980's the souix take the US to the supreme court. Court says "YEP that sure is a valid treaty all right!!!"
And then they have the GAUL to say "BUT instead of forcing the governement to honor it, they just have to pay you money!!!!"
How can a treaty be valid, clearly stating this is your land, and not be upheld??????? This says to me we are not a land of law at all, but a land of money and influence veiled with a veneer of democracy.......
and that is EXACTLY what they are, THEORIES!!! I am not saying they are wrong, but you must admit that as a THEORY, it has some chance of being incorrect yes????
That is in essence what a THEORY is, an idea of what can best describe what we see or will see as a result.
As for them not creating black holes, I think you are mistaken. The physicists WILL say "hey, if we run up to X GeV we might get a black hole's signature" now THEY may not expect to create a STABLE long lasting black hole, but consider this: for a very long time scientists thought there was no way for elements much higher than the "normal" end of the periodic chart to exist beyond a few milliseconds, if that.
Well surprise surprise they have now found an "island of stability" much higher in the periodic chart.... While these elements do not last as long as normal elements they last MUCH longer than science thought they could...
Suppose for just a SECOND that PREVAILING theory is wrong. As a scientist looking at a theory, is not one SUPPOSED to have that element of doubt?
They are in essence playing poker with the fate of the human race.
Would you advocate above ground nuclear tests in this day and age? I think not, because we now KNOW about the radiation dangers...
What about work on diseases like the ebola virus? would you want researchers working on this in a open air environment, or a level 4 containment facility?
All I am saying is perhaps we may want to QUESTION the idea before some idiot uncorks the DJINNI eh?
I am still kinda ticked about the gee maybe we can make a black hole idea.
But....
If the article is right, and there are multiple universii??? Then would not a black hole be located in both of them? I would think so since it collapses ALL the dimensions into a point....
Now if I can only get my twinkie-transporter to harness the power of a black hole, we can trade glorious golden sponge cakes filled with creme to our neighbors "next" door, and make a MINT!!!!
The article was interesting and the idea may hold promise. BUT.........
Did anyone notice the little BLURB in the real article?
http://unisci.com/stories/20003/0718001.htm
"Moreover, if the force of gravity increases dramatically at short distances, it may be possible for the next generation of accelerators -- such as Europe's Large Hadron Collider scheduled to begin operation in 2005 -- to create BLACK HOLES, regions smaller than the radius of the extra dimensions where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape.
Since small black holes quickly evaporate by Hawking radiation (orphaned members of pairsm of virtual particles whose partners are swallowed by the hole, and which carry off some of the hole's mass), this low-energy radiation from a high-energy collision would be an unmistakable signal that a black hole had been created."
So whaddya wanna bet these guys are gonna try and make a black hole or two????
And yes they MAY be safe, but what if they are wrong hmmmmm??? Anyone else feel kinda sketchy about a man made black hole fuck-up?????
I respect your opinion but cannot agree with it. Taking a substance is NOT in and of ITSELF wrong.....
It may be unhealthy for you, but not wrong. What is WRONG is directly endangering others while ON those substances
I.E. dont drink and drive, fly a plane, operate power tools etc while under the influence
We are FREE beings and INHERENTLY have the RIGHT to do whatever we wish to with oursleves! Where that right stops however is you!!! I have the right to hurt me, but NOT you...
I think many people who have a problem with the drug war would not have a problem with things like DUI drug laws as long as home use was legal.
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Ahem... 1st society is based SOLELY on the social contract I.e. rules of civilized behaviour. Such as I don't steal your stuff because I don't wish to have my stuff stolen. As for me, I am middle class. I am there because I WORKED for it. As for corporations, I take a strict interpretation as to what powers they should have. Many of the founding fathers did not like the idea of corporations, calling them eternal citizens, which over time would gather power unto themselves. I would support reform in the IP laws to protect corporations "property" for a VERY short time at which time it should become public domain. As for believing that educated and tech literate are the norm, no I do not believe in such impossible goals. I simply believe that we are born with the inherent rights to life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness, NOT the guarantee of happiness. In my world it would be up to you to support the downtrodden if you so chose, but only those causes you believed in, not those force fed to you by washington.....
No it's not new. It was forseen in both 1984 and brave new world. They understood that a tyranny works best when people are led to it, bit by bit and force fed the idea that it is good. I.E. "Guns are unsafe, so for your safety we'll take them away." or "Drugs are bad, and you the average citizen cannot understand the dangers of putting them into your body so we'll take them away." The operative principle is to use safety and security to take away freedoms thus making society "safe" from itself. In addition this is then backed up with the threat of force against those who do not or will not accept the new rules. Look at Waco. Were those people idiots? YES. Did they hurt anyone? No. But in the interest of "safety" they had to assault the compound and now they are "safely" in the ground.......
Everyone here in the US seems to have this mentality of "I am OWED such and such, and if I can't get it on my own the the government should give it to me......" Not to mention the congress being in big corporations pockets. Until people wake up and realize government should only be there to ensure rights, and allow citizens to fail, or suffer the consequences of their own choices (good or bad) the country will not improve.
That's what the "back door" is for....
And E-trade is definately out of the question...
In response, all the hookers in every big city across america have added a TOS to their services
1. AID's test first
2. Full-Body condoms required
3. You must pull-out
4. no kinky sex acts
5. you pre-pay using a smart card or pay pal
And you thought Sprint was bad? LOL
You'll get good sound, even virtual 3d sound. So please buy one so my spatializer stock will go up! LOL
Turn about is fair play.....
Look to the middle ages when French was the language of the aristocracy of ALL european countries. Now the world uses English.
Is America a 24 hour bloated corporate call-center of greed? Yes, but we do get shit done!
Like it or Lump it.
Just eat your cheese, drink your wine, and
dream of the good old days when Napoleon was
the ruler of most of europe.....
Meanwhile the rest of the world will ignore your
pretentious crap!
P.S. welcome to PAX Americana!
Frankly I don't think most americans CARE whether or not the world likes them. Some of us may be clueless enough to believe that fiction, but by no means all.
As for the rest, Turn about is fair play.....
Look to the middle ages when French was the language of the aristocracy of ALL european countries. Now the world uses English.
Is America a 24 hour bloated corporate call-center of greed? Yes.......
But we do get shit done!
Like it or Lump it.
As for the French being a world power, sure, maybe when Hitler ran the country......
P.S. welcome to PAX Americana!!!!!
(And if you don't like that, we've got a few cruise missiles with your name on them)
the 1800's were NOT a time when people thought about potential environmental effects PERIOD. This was killed because there was no viable business model to control it. Do some reading on him, while a genius, a genius in the financial realm he was not. A shame too because he could have changed the world even more.
You know of any plans to expand into the Phoenix metro area here in Arizona?
You mean dense wave division multiplexing? Or something else? DWMP means shooting different "colors" of laser light down the glass. You then have a filter at the other end which separates the colors back out. Just like a prism does for sunlight.... Pretty cool tech, when dwmp stuff gets reasonable we will see an explosion in bandwidth! That and fully optical routers.....
Normally windoze will reorder every 18th frame, and drop every 16th one. Unless there is a new version (i.e. windoze 2000) in which case it reorders every 5th and drops every 3rd....... All this so that wonderful "windows x.x is more fun AND reliable" blurb when you upgrade is true...... come on bill needs to make another billion somehow!
problem is the FL legislature is republican and by splitting the vote, al gore would have a majority and would become president. So that wont happen
Take the monkies, hook them into these :
6 201&mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/13/203
And give them autonomous control over the missles.
You see, Terminator WAS in fact a real story from the future, but what you dont know is skynet
was just a Beowolf cluster of networked monkey brains.......
The only reason they want to take over is the chiquita plantations!
Question :
"The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president? "
Mr Bush:
As your President, the very first thing I would
do is to become committed to the War on drugs.
I will launch a "strategagoric" strike against them.
We know who these drug companies are,
so I will have Mr cheney put together a list of
their company headquarters (after checking with
the IRS database of course)
I hereby commit to the American people that within 48 hours
after I am elected we will drop a large number of
REALLY REALLY REALLY big bombs that make REALLY
REALLY REALLY big craters on each
of these factories of death, and win,
once and for all, this War......
OR perhaps this :
I am committed to winning the war on drugs.
As your president, I will redouble my efforts
to destroying these substances, by snorting
twice as much cocaine as I used to.
I will have Presidential Cocaine party bowls
at all governmental functions, and will commision the franklin mint to create a set of commemorative
Dubya Prez cocaine party spoons, straws and scales.
I will also appoint my opponent Mr Gore to be in charge of smoking the demon weed marijuana out of existence. If we all work together as one nation I am sure we can snort this problem away in no time......
God I HATE nader for this!!!!
Taxing stock investment is already overburdensome.
If we follow his thinking, I should be able to get
MAJOR money back if i take losses then!
I love how this is coming from a guy who has
250k invested in the "evil" market himself!!!
Basically he wants to shut us all off from becoming
rich.
I know, lets make it a progressive tax based
on your NET worth. The more your total net worth,
the higher the tax rate on your gains......
so joe blow with no net worth can make stock gains
tax free. this would allow the small investor the
chance to have a nest egg.
check tesla. The man who single-handedly invented
the world we know today. His inital model WAS
for wireless electricity. Problem was, no financial backing for power that ANYONE could pull from the sky.
Hence the powergrid and electric meters.
yep, the souix and the black hills treaty
in particular.......
It just kills me that the government RATIFIED a treaty giving the souix the black hills "forever"
in the 1800's
fast forward to the 1980's the souix take the US
to the supreme court. Court says "YEP that sure is a valid treaty all right!!!"
And then they have the GAUL to say "BUT instead of forcing the governement to honor it, they just have to pay you money!!!!"
How can a treaty be valid, clearly stating this is your land, and not be upheld??????? This says to me we are not a land of law at all, but a land
of money and influence veiled with a veneer of democracy.......
Yes, I have read the THEORIES....
and that is EXACTLY what they are, THEORIES!!!
I am not saying they are wrong, but you must admit
that as a THEORY, it has some chance of being
incorrect yes????
That is in essence what a THEORY is, an idea of what can best describe what we see or will see as a result.
As for them not creating black holes, I think you are mistaken. The physicists WILL say "hey, if we run up to X GeV we might get a black hole's signature" now THEY may not expect to create a STABLE long lasting black hole, but consider this: for a very long time scientists thought there was no way for elements much higher than the "normal" end of the periodic chart to exist beyond a few milliseconds, if that.
Well surprise surprise they have now found an "island of stability" much higher in the
periodic chart.... While these elements do not last as long as normal elements they last MUCH longer than science thought they could...
Suppose for just a SECOND that PREVAILING theory
is wrong. As a scientist looking at a theory, is not one SUPPOSED to have that element of doubt?
They are in essence playing poker with the fate
of the human race.
Would you advocate above ground nuclear tests in this day and age? I think not, because we now KNOW about the radiation dangers...
What about work on diseases like the ebola virus?
would you want researchers working on this in a
open air environment, or a level 4 containment
facility?
All I am saying is perhaps we may want to QUESTION
the idea before some idiot uncorks the DJINNI eh?
I am still kinda ticked about the
gee maybe we can make a black hole idea.
But....
If the article is right, and there are multiple universii??? Then would not a black hole be located in both of them? I would think so since it collapses ALL the dimensions into a point....
Now if I can only get my twinkie-transporter to harness the power of a black hole, we can trade glorious golden sponge cakes filled with creme to our neighbors "next" door, and make a MINT!!!!
(Or an inter-universal war) HEH HEH HEH......
The article was interesting and the idea
may hold promise. BUT.........
Did anyone notice the little BLURB in the real
article?
http://unisci.com/stories/20003/0718001.htm
"Moreover, if the force of gravity increases dramatically at short distances, it may be possible for the next generation of accelerators -- such as Europe's Large Hadron Collider scheduled to begin operation in 2005 -- to create BLACK HOLES, regions smaller than the radius of the extra dimensions where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape.
Since small black holes quickly evaporate by Hawking radiation (orphaned members of pairsm of virtual particles whose partners are swallowed by the hole, and which carry off some of the hole's mass), this low-energy radiation from a high-energy collision would be an unmistakable signal that a black hole had been created."
So whaddya wanna bet these guys are gonna try and make a black hole or two????
And yes they MAY be safe, but what if they are wrong hmmmmm??? Anyone else feel kinda sketchy about a man made black hole fuck-up?????
Winvnc has my vote too!!!
Kicks but both as an X term, and as
a pc anywhere application. Also, you can set it
up to run through your browser window
I.e. you don't need the client installed on your local machine, just a java browser. Thus you
can connect from anywhere....
And it's FREE!!!
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/winvnc.html
I respect your opinion but cannot agree with it.
Taking a substance is NOT in and of ITSELF wrong.....
It may be unhealthy for you, but not wrong.
What is WRONG is directly endangering others while
ON those substances
I.E. dont drink and drive, fly a plane, operate
power tools etc while under the influence
We are FREE beings and INHERENTLY have the RIGHT
to do whatever we wish to with oursleves!
Where that right stops however is you!!!
I have the right to hurt me, but NOT you...
I think many people who have a problem with the drug war would not have a problem with things like DUI drug laws as long as home use was legal.
Very simple and straightforward
After emailing and calling "your" representatives
go to
http://www.libertarian.org/
then after READING it,
SEND A COPY of the url to every damn
person you know........
You may not agree with all their positions,
but IMO it is better to have too much freedom
than too little!
Either that, or get ready to be imprisoned for
"thought crimes"