Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb, I think, although that was sampled from something else of which I do not know. The girl sounds amazingly stoned though.
You missed something else: you've been paying to see trailers all your life. $30 is a little steep, but the MPAA will have us paying that to see Scary Movie XVIII anyway, so get used to it.
A little late I am sure, but Apple generally doesn't install the fastest disks out there. You might try getting a newer disk that spins at some much higher RPM. IIRC, most mac disks are 7200RPM disks. If you have IDE in the B&W G3 (not sure, I know the G4's are IDE, but I can't recall G3 specs at the moment), get a 15k drive and use FWB's Harddisk Toolkit to set it up. Then it should be smoking fast.
I don't find this surprising in the least. The few times I have "worked" on windows, it seemed to me that the constant, irritating changes to what file extension means what got very old very quickly. Linking the file extension to the program that uses the file is simply stupid unless you want to limit yourself to 46656 total apps
in the world. And someone gets.ass and.fck of course. Extensions can get longer than three chars, but it's been that way for so long in windows that few know how else to do it.
The better way to go is to link the file itself to a program via some sort of metadata (someone will remember the/. article on that, I am sure). Then you don't even need extensions. None of my MP3s have extensions. It certainly confuses LimeWire, but strangely not Hotline.
You might want to read this article to better understand what MSNBC considers to be fair reporting practices. In the face of the facts concerning where the pilots in question were trained, no less.
Sorry, but yellow journalism does not get me to believe anything. Perhaps if some real security news forum reported this, I'd believe it. MSNBC belongs on the Tabloid rack at the Pic'n'Save.
It also happens to produce Taxol, so has huge commercial possibilities medicinally as well as horticulturally.
Extremely interesting, and of course we will be allowed to tamper with these endangered trees, possibly endangering them further, so that we can make some money.
Humans have always been at odds with nature, and at this point in time have the ability to greatly impact the course of evolution, by both driving some life forms to extinction, and preserving other out-of-time life, mostly depending on cuteness or how much money might be gained in marketing panda liver pate.
I am intrigued by the pursuit of knowledge, but attaching artificial significance to something because it either makes you feel good or could make you some money has nothing to do with that pursuit. It is a by-product, and should not be the drive. If we choose to preserve this tree, that decision should not be influenced by the commercial possibilities.
How willing would we be to preserve this tree if it produced a noxious gas as a waste product, instead of oxygen as most plants do? What of the plight of the small pox virus? Shall we let small pox die out merely because it suits us?
If I'm not mistaken, in the games, her 9mm's never run out of ammo either. In fact, it's the only weapon she has that never runs out of ammo. I find the fact that the producers translated that fact to the movie (intentional or otherwise) rather funny.
Anyway, lousy or not, I intend to see this movie. It's fluff, but then, fluff has it's place in society. 95% of American TV is fluff. The other 5% is imported. Well, except Star Trek and B5 . . . .
Anyway, I have both Gone In 60 Seconds and Lawrence of Arabia in my DVD collection, along with some Jackie Chan, Disney/Pixar films, and masterpieces like Jaws and BladeRunner. There is a range, there will always be a range, if there wasn't, life would be pretty boring.
In closing, I just want to point out that Tomb Raider is a classic Summer Movie. Expecting more than that is like expecting Star Wars Episode One to be the end all-be all of movies. It's celluloid, people. Where would MST3K be without some people putting crap on it?
Actually, it's not as hard as all that: Office:Mac 2002 (or whatever number it is) interoperates with the Windows version extremely well, and even has PowerPoint now (though I think Access is still MIA).
If you are dealing with an NT environment at work, convince the man in charge that Citrix MetaFrame is the way to go. I have a Mac at home and connect to work over the internet using SecurID and so forth to ensure security (or at least the illusion of security). I have access to all my work files, plus I can mount folders on my Mac as drives on the ICA client. True, I do have a cable modem for access, which means no bandwidth worries. Here's the kicker: I can also login to the NT (terminal server) network from my Ultra 5 at work. We have, as official, supported machines, NCD ThinSTARS, and both my Mac at home
and my Ultra 5 on my desktop connect to the terminal server faster.
So, before any more uninformed people say you cannot work on a Mac, let's remember that it's mostly how supportive your employer is, not the flexibility of the Mac, that keeps people chained to their NT boxen.
Clearly, these kids were cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. I always knew that bird woud incite violence one day.
Boy, I do love Diablo II though. Maybe I'll hack my schoolmates into small bits with a Sabre.
Would someone please e-mail me at the (reversed) address above when Carmack's.plan changes to reflect this latest abuse of the American justice system?
I'm getting a lot of mixed signals in this post series. First, you seem to be arguing for the mandatory preservation of genetic material, and then you invoke evolution as a support towards your position in the debate, a theory which clearly does not support mandatory preservation.
Unless of course your.sig is merely debunking one of the arguments for the pro-choice camp, but you youself are not necessarily anti-choice.
If I read you correctly (by no means a certainty), you point out that, if it has a purpose at all, the purpose of sex is reproduction. The argument launched against that is that sex also serves the purpose of pleasure, if indeed that is a purpose. You say it is a side-effect. I do not disagree, but I am in favor of the side-effects without the purpose.
It would seem, however, taking your.sig without any mitigating factors, that you think that any sex undertaken consentually should result in procreation, and that that procreation should not be interrupted by any means available to man. Does that also mean that it should not be assisted by any means available to man? If the use of technology for one result should be outlawed, why not the other? Certainly, moderm medicine has decreased the pregnancy failure rate dramatcially. If it can effect evolution in one direction (increasing the birth rate), why not the other? Because it is immoral? Fine, then let us examine the differences in morality that exist in the same country that has enabled so many marginal pregnancies to come to term. Let us also examine a 200 year history resplendent with the freedom to choose, to speak, to write what we will (with caveats, yes murder being one of them - if you want to talk murder in the name of choice or life, you're welcome to open that can of worms).
There is a grey area here, of course. But look at it this way: if all the pro-choicers abort and all the pro-lifers carry to term, evolution will take care of bringing everyone into line with the pro-life ideology. Then, of course, some horrendous potato virus (perhaps athelete's foot) will scythe the earth clean of such a homogenous population.
After having a very long discussion on the subject of censorware with my significant other, I have only this to say:
If the rules state that this action is forbidden, and then the action is performed, then the priveledge that allowed the action to be performed should be revoked via due process.
Examples: A person murders another person. This is forbidden under the laws of our government, so, via due process, the murderer's priveledge (or right, if you like - I'm not here to debate the ideology of freedom) of freedom is revoked so that murder is less likely to happen (at least by said murderer).
A drunk driver is pulled over. Drunk driving is forbidden, so the driver's driving priveledges are revoked (true, and sadly, not always the first time) via the process of law.
Now, with the issue of censorware, what we are doing is essentially removing all the guns, knives, alchohol, etc. from the picture. Now it is no longer possible to break the laws, to do things that are forbidden. I don't think the NRA would appreciate this. And I don't appreciate it, since I happen to enjoy a good beer once in a while, and a good wine more often.
You tell the children, educate them, and inform them that the law, the rules, here in the school are: no porn sites. If you are caught, no more internet access. Same with the libraries. You break the rules, you get fined or library access is revoked or some such thing. Putting in some sort of library card reader which would allow library card holders to use the internet would not be so very hard. More expensive than censorware? Yes.
How do you police that? Well, logs can be kept and examined. I don't really like being watched all the time, but then, I'm watched on the roads. If I speed, I'm busted (okay, not every time, but you get the point). If I don't want to be watched, then I pay for the priveledge via internet access in my home (not that that is always so un-watched [Carnivore]).
Sure, there are ways around getting caught. There are ways around getting convicted of drunk driving or murder as well. But censorware delivers to the students the clear message that they cannot be trusted (I know, no alcohol before 21, no driving before 16, no gun ownership . . . er, dunno the limit on that one - but that does not mean the tools are not there), and that creates children who cannot be trusted with anything else, be it guns, cars, or dangerously sharpened paper-clips.
If you want our students to grow up to be able to follow the rules, then they have to be able to break them. Otherwise, what's the point of the rule? Even more, what's the point of educating the children?
Censorware is a slippery slope. At any rate, protected, sheltered children are the ones who go nuts when presented with the realities of life. Anyone who says their political agenda is designed to "protect the children" is far too screwed up to make any decisions for me.
Oh yeah, Apple makes their product free to everyone, too.
Well, everyone using OS 9 or better anyway. Though there are sites that will get iTunes to install on 8.6. I find that to be a disturbing trend, though. Especially since iTunes works just fine on 8.6.
I agree, iTunes is great, but I think that MS money that got invested a while back may have tweaked some higher brain function down One Infinite Loop. Still, I need that TiBook.
Well, this is likely to start something I don't really want to start, but http://macplus.schoolvision.com is running a webserver off a Mac Plus (that's 1989 tech and a big 4 megs of memory max), and it's been up for quite a while.
Note that it's definetly old, and quite slow, and easily slashdotted. In fact, I can't seem to connect to it at the moment.
Sure, it takes some work to keep a Mac running stable. But, unlike some other memory-leaking OSes, it's not impossible.
Isn't PGP Security (the enterprise version anyway) a division of NAI Labs (not the other way around as stated above)? AFAIK, NAI Labs does all sorts of other things, not the least of which is virus detection and analysis. OTOH, PGP itself is it's own business identity outside of NAI in general, so maybe I'm just wrong. It happens.
Something I find quite interesting (but I can't recall where I read it), is that the majority of the school shootings (which are essentially public suicide attempts) take place in suburban settings. They aren't occuring in the inner city schools, places traditionally held to be full of crime.
Is it that the majority are happening in suburban areas? Or that society has become so numb to crime in inner cities that it is no longer news when it does happen? History is written by the winners.
If you're having a heart attack in a theater or a restaurant, or some other public place with certain rules of etiquette, there will most likely be a phone in the theater or restaurant for someone to dial 911 on. Even on a public bus there are ways to contact emergency services, via CB radio. This is, after all, how we all dealt with emergencies before the advent of cellular phones.
Now, if you're having a heart attack in the middle of the wilderness, because you are so hung up on being in contact that that thought of being so far from civilization gives you a coronary, fine, use your cell phone.
Cell phones are great for staying in touch when a phone is not readily available. But there are limits, one of them being, "Shut the hell up, I'm trying to enjoy a film." They say you can't shout fire in a crowded theater. I say you shouldn't be saying anything anyone else can hear in any event. Besides, cell phones are a priveledge, not a right. Many people would do well to remember that. Anyway, I'm not offended by talking on the phone, I am offended by the sheer arrogance that says that you talking with your friends about what bar to meet at is more important than my enjoyment of a film or a meal.
In answer to your query, I suppose I'd better explain the histrionics America has to endure on a regular basis.
Scientific Creationism is merely a name given to right-wing bible-thumping zealots who wish schools in our country to not educate our children. See, most reasonable people, even those who believe in some sort of creation story, feel that evolution does actually happen. In fact, there is a popular, middle-of-the-road school of thought that would claim that the whole ball of wax, as it were, came into being via the hand of God, creating blue-green algae all those millenia ago, and then He (or She or It) took a hands off approach and let things get on with things. Frankly, I find this to be the scientific equivalent of being an agnostic. I find it easy to reconcile the two accounts: one is a religious story, meant to provide a direction to moral development, and the other is a scientific investigation, which has no moral to it's story, and is not meant to be believed blindly (emphasis on blind). In practice, the two should have no effect on one another. They don't for me.
Now back to the bible-belt zealots: unsatisfied with miseducating their own children to the nature of science, they want our schools to not teach evolution. But that's stupid. And dangerous. That way, you end up with presidents like Ronald Reagan who go on national television and say, "Well, it's just a theory," when asked about teaching evolution in the schools. So, most schools, at least those outside of Dixie (the South, to those of you in other countries that don't have to deal with this crap), say, "Sorry, no, we're teaching evolution and that's that." So, to muddy the waters (which is what zealots do, be they green or white-sheeted), the thumpers introduce this counter-intuitive bullshit called Scientific Creationism. The word scientific is used in this case to confuse and cajole the unwashed masses who can't tell the difference, kind of like calling Buzz Lightyear the ultimate in playtime fun. But really, it's just religion in a lab coat, so that the government won't notice they're violating the separation of church and state by forcing this steaming load of non-scientific lies down the throat of children, be they christian, muslim, jew or whatever. So, yes, it's just another abuse of the word scientific. A dangerous one at that. If I wanted my children (not that I have any yet, and this kind of thing is not making me want to have any) to learn about creationism, I'd send them to Sunday School to be indoctrinated.
Anyway, even the Pope says that evolution is more than a hypothesis (the link here is the only one I could find where the pontiff's statement was not followed by still more irrational, counter-intuitive, rabid drivelling by the religious right).
So, let's see: you're dissatisfied with the status quo, so you say something about it. But no one listens. So you write something about it. And they tell you to shut up and play ball or else.
So you go out and get a gun and kill the popular people. And we have all the boo-hoo-ing and the wringing of hands and national press about this quiet young outcast lad who inexplicably went nuts.
It's not inexplicable, people. I was involved with an underground newspaper myself, for the same reasons some other repliers here have mentioned. The "outcasts" will be heard somehow, either by smoking across the street from the school, or writing editorials about the bullshit in the school newspaper or whatever. If you keep the lid on the pressure cooker too long, it will explode. So, don't make the kids conform. You have to let the pressure off somehow. And since we can't have our music or our video games without censorship . . . .
Hey, our first amendment has been cut off, let's move on to the second.
Weren't the early Macs like this as well? Sure, there was an OS of sorts, but it was just on one diskette long with a single program. MacWrite, MacDraw and MacOS 4 or something, all on 1.4MB.
It wasn't even until MacOS 6 (someone catch this if it's wrong, my Mac Experience starts with 7.5.2 (which makes one wonder why I like them as much as I do (but I digress))) that the OS would even run more than one program via the MultiFinder.
Perhaps, then, this explains the context of the argument: one of the framers of the original MacOS has seen his pure, one user, one task system turn into multi-user and multi-tasking (though not yet pre-emptive), along with all the clutter and complexity that comes with it.
I would be more than happy to vote for patent reform, as I would be happy to vote for campaign finanace reform. The reason neither of these two measures will show up on any ballot in my lifetime is the same: the government of the United States is owned by corporate interests.
The actions of BountyQuest and Alan Emtage will, perhaps, interrupt the revenue flow from these spurious patents enough to get the government to realize just what kind of prostitutes they all are, and start working for the people again.
There are far too many factors to be addressed here. The issue with children and violence is over-rated at best. I'll start listening to the right-wing moral majority and their tirade against Hollywood at exactly the same moment I can go in to a R-rated film and not have a 4 year old kicking my seat for the entire flick.
Also, let's take in to account that this sort of imagery originated in Japan, a sublimely repressed society. While there is little crime, and women and children can ride the subways at midnight, or walk dark alleys without fear of muggings, rape or other violence, neither can they stray from the accepted norms of society. Manga comics depict rape and other sexual violence towards schoolgirls, and yet, the schoolgirls are safe in Japan from sexual predators. All this violent imagery seems to be an outlet for desires that the Japanese as human beings have, but cannot act upon in their restrictive society. If anything, it keeps the people in line, not makes them shoot their classmates.
It comes down to a case of personal responsibility. I happen to like Batman Beyond. This does not mean that I am going to don a balck cape and armor and become a vigilante in my spare time. While I do own a black cape, I just don't have that kind of disposable cash. It is an outlet, however. When Joe Cellphone cuts me off in his Ford Extinction for the billionth time, it helps me to know I can go home and watch the black-coweled avenger exact some measure of justice in an unjust world.
If more people took some personal responsibility for their actions, instead of blaming Union Carbide, or Philip Morris, or Hollywood, then the world would be a far better place.
How does the NYT feel about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Masterpiece (which it is, by the way), or violent tripe that must be repressed "to save the children?"
The media should stop kidding itself. It's all "Rural Farm Wife Gives Birth To Elvis' Three-Headed Dog-child."
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It's easy to see through Microsoft "innovation".
Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb, I think, although that was sampled from something else of which I do not know. The girl sounds amazingly stoned though.
You missed something else: you've been paying to see trailers all your life. $30 is a little steep, but the MPAA will have us paying that to see Scary Movie XVIII anyway, so get used to it.
A little late I am sure, but Apple generally doesn't install the fastest disks out there. You might try getting a newer disk that spins at some much higher RPM. IIRC, most mac disks are 7200RPM disks. If you have IDE in the B&W G3 (not sure, I know the G4's are IDE, but I can't recall G3 specs at the moment), get a 15k drive and use FWB's Harddisk Toolkit to set it up. Then it should be smoking fast.
I don't find this surprising in the least. The few times I have "worked" on windows, it seemed to me that the constant, irritating changes to what file extension means what got very old very quickly. Linking the file extension to the program that uses the file is simply stupid unless you want to limit yourself to 46656 total apps .ass and .fck of course. Extensions can get longer than three chars, but it's been that way for so long in windows that few know how else to do it.
/. article on that, I am sure). Then you don't even need extensions. None of my MP3s have extensions. It certainly confuses LimeWire, but strangely not Hotline.
in the world. And someone gets
The better way to go is to link the file itself to a program via some sort of metadata (someone will remember the
Too bad Apple is abandoning this metadata.
Sorry, but yellow journalism does not get me to believe anything. Perhaps if some real security news forum reported this, I'd believe it. MSNBC belongs on the Tabloid rack at the Pic'n'Save.
Extremely interesting, and of course we will be allowed to tamper with these endangered trees, possibly endangering them further, so that we can make some money.
Humans have always been at odds with nature, and at this point in time have the ability to greatly impact the course of evolution, by both driving some life forms to extinction, and preserving other out-of-time life, mostly depending on cuteness or how much money might be gained in marketing panda liver pate.
I am intrigued by the pursuit of knowledge, but attaching artificial significance to something because it either makes you feel good or could make you some money has nothing to do with that pursuit. It is a by-product, and should not be the drive. If we choose to preserve this tree, that decision should not be influenced by the commercial possibilities.
How willing would we be to preserve this tree if it produced a noxious gas as a waste product, instead of oxygen as most plants do? What of the plight of the small pox virus? Shall we let small pox die out merely because it suits us?
Dinsdale . . . .
If I'm not mistaken, in the games, her 9mm's never run out of ammo either. In fact, it's the only weapon she has that never runs out of ammo. I find the fact that the producers translated that fact to the movie (intentional or otherwise) rather funny.
Anyway, lousy or not, I intend to see this movie. It's fluff, but then, fluff has it's place in society. 95% of American TV is fluff. The other 5% is imported. Well, except Star Trek and B5 . . . .
Anyway, I have both Gone In 60 Seconds and Lawrence of Arabia in my DVD collection, along with some Jackie Chan, Disney/Pixar films, and masterpieces like Jaws and BladeRunner. There is a range, there will always be a range, if there wasn't, life would be pretty boring.
In closing, I just want to point out that Tomb Raider is a classic Summer Movie. Expecting more than that is like expecting Star Wars Episode One to be the end all-be all of movies. It's celluloid, people. Where would MST3K be without some people putting crap on it?
AOL/Time-Warner has competition? Oh, yes, right, from Microsoft. At last, some place I can go to be free of Microsoft advertisments!
If you are dealing with an NT environment at work, convince the man in charge that Citrix MetaFrame is the way to go. I have a Mac at home and connect to work over the internet using SecurID and so forth to ensure security (or at least the illusion of security). I have access to all my work files, plus I can mount folders on my Mac as drives on the ICA client. True, I do have a cable modem for access, which means no bandwidth worries. Here's the kicker: I can also login to the NT (terminal server) network from my Ultra 5 at work. We have, as official, supported machines, NCD ThinSTARS, and both my Mac at home and my Ultra 5 on my desktop connect to the terminal server faster.
So, before any more uninformed people say you cannot work on a Mac, let's remember that it's mostly how supportive your employer is, not the flexibility of the Mac, that keeps people chained to their NT boxen.
Boy, I do love Diablo II though. Maybe I'll hack my schoolmates into small bits with a Sabre.
Would someone please e-mail me at the (reversed) address above when Carmack's .plan changes to reflect this latest abuse of the American justice system?
Unless of course your .sig is merely debunking one of the arguments for the pro-choice camp, but you youself are not necessarily anti-choice.
If I read you correctly (by no means a certainty), you point out that, if it has a purpose at all, the purpose of sex is reproduction. The argument launched against that is that sex also serves the purpose of pleasure, if indeed that is a purpose. You say it is a side-effect. I do not disagree, but I am in favor of the side-effects without the purpose.
It would seem, however, taking your .sig without any mitigating factors, that you think that any sex undertaken consentually should result in procreation, and that that procreation should not be interrupted by any means available to man. Does that also mean that it should not be assisted by any means available to man? If the use of technology for one result should be outlawed, why not the other? Certainly, moderm medicine has decreased the pregnancy failure rate dramatcially. If it can effect evolution in one direction (increasing the birth rate), why not the other? Because it is immoral? Fine, then let us examine the differences in morality that exist in the same country that has enabled so many marginal pregnancies to come to term. Let us also examine a 200 year history resplendent with the freedom to choose, to speak, to write what we will (with caveats, yes murder being one of them - if you want to talk murder in the name of choice or life, you're welcome to open that can of worms).
There is a grey area here, of course. But look at it this way: if all the pro-choicers abort and all the pro-lifers carry to term, evolution will take care of bringing everyone into line with the pro-life ideology. Then, of course, some horrendous potato virus (perhaps athelete's foot) will scythe the earth clean of such a homogenous population.
If the rules state that this action is forbidden, and then the action is performed, then the priveledge that allowed the action to be performed should be revoked via due process.
Examples: A person murders another person. This is forbidden under the laws of our government, so, via due process, the murderer's priveledge (or right, if you like - I'm not here to debate the ideology of freedom) of freedom is revoked so that murder is less likely to happen (at least by said murderer).
A drunk driver is pulled over. Drunk driving is forbidden, so the driver's driving priveledges are revoked (true, and sadly, not always the first time) via the process of law.
Now, with the issue of censorware, what we are doing is essentially removing all the guns, knives, alchohol, etc. from the picture. Now it is no longer possible to break the laws, to do things that are forbidden. I don't think the NRA would appreciate this. And I don't appreciate it, since I happen to enjoy a good beer once in a while, and a good wine more often.
You tell the children, educate them, and inform them that the law, the rules, here in the school are: no porn sites. If you are caught, no more internet access. Same with the libraries. You break the rules, you get fined or library access is revoked or some such thing. Putting in some sort of library card reader which would allow library card holders to use the internet would not be so very hard. More expensive than censorware? Yes.
How do you police that? Well, logs can be kept and examined. I don't really like being watched all the time, but then, I'm watched on the roads. If I speed, I'm busted (okay, not every time, but you get the point). If I don't want to be watched, then I pay for the priveledge via internet access in my home (not that that is always so un-watched [Carnivore]).
Sure, there are ways around getting caught. There are ways around getting convicted of drunk driving or murder as well. But censorware delivers to the students the clear message that they cannot be trusted (I know, no alcohol before 21, no driving before 16, no gun ownership . . . er, dunno the limit on that one - but that does not mean the tools are not there), and that creates children who cannot be trusted with anything else, be it guns, cars, or dangerously sharpened paper-clips.
If you want our students to grow up to be able to follow the rules, then they have to be able to break them. Otherwise, what's the point of the rule? Even more, what's the point of educating the children?
Censorware is a slippery slope. At any rate, protected, sheltered children are the ones who go nuts when presented with the realities of life. Anyone who says their political agenda is designed to "protect the children" is far too screwed up to make any decisions for me.
Well, everyone using OS 9 or better anyway. Though there are sites that will get iTunes to install on 8.6. I find that to be a disturbing trend, though. Especially since iTunes works just fine on 8.6.
I agree, iTunes is great, but I think that MS money that got invested a while back may have tweaked some higher brain function down One Infinite Loop. Still, I need that TiBook.
Need, I tell you!
Note that it's definetly old, and quite slow, and easily slashdotted. In fact, I can't seem to connect to it at the moment.
Sure, it takes some work to keep a Mac running stable. But, unlike some other memory-leaking OSes, it's not impossible.
Isn't PGP Security (the enterprise version anyway) a division of NAI Labs (not the other way around as stated above)? AFAIK, NAI Labs does all sorts of other things, not the least of which is virus detection and analysis. OTOH, PGP itself is it's own business identity outside of NAI in general, so maybe I'm just wrong. It happens.
When I am teaching <insert subject here>, I have to make them learn by example. If only because lectures are duller than a day old dead dog.
Is it that the majority are happening in suburban areas? Or that society has become so numb to crime in inner cities that it is no longer news when it does happen? History is written by the winners.
Now, if you're having a heart attack in the middle of the wilderness, because you are so hung up on being in contact that that thought of being so far from civilization gives you a coronary, fine, use your cell phone.
Cell phones are great for staying in touch when a phone is not readily available. But there are limits, one of them being, "Shut the hell up, I'm trying to enjoy a film." They say you can't shout fire in a crowded theater. I say you shouldn't be saying anything anyone else can hear in any event. Besides, cell phones are a priveledge, not a right. Many people would do well to remember that. Anyway, I'm not offended by talking on the phone, I am offended by the sheer arrogance that says that you talking with your friends about what bar to meet at is more important than my enjoyment of a film or a meal.
Scientific Creationism is merely a name given to right-wing bible-thumping zealots who wish schools in our country to not educate our children. See, most reasonable people, even those who believe in some sort of creation story, feel that evolution does actually happen. In fact, there is a popular, middle-of-the-road school of thought that would claim that the whole ball of wax, as it were, came into being via the hand of God, creating blue-green algae all those millenia ago, and then He (or She or It) took a hands off approach and let things get on with things. Frankly, I find this to be the scientific equivalent of being an agnostic. I find it easy to reconcile the two accounts: one is a religious story, meant to provide a direction to moral development, and the other is a scientific investigation, which has no moral to it's story, and is not meant to be believed blindly (emphasis on blind). In practice, the two should have no effect on one another. They don't for me.
Now back to the bible-belt zealots: unsatisfied with miseducating their own children to the nature of science, they want our schools to not teach evolution. But that's stupid. And dangerous. That way, you end up with presidents like Ronald Reagan who go on national television and say, "Well, it's just a theory," when asked about teaching evolution in the schools. So, most schools, at least those outside of Dixie (the South, to those of you in other countries that don't have to deal with this crap), say, "Sorry, no, we're teaching evolution and that's that." So, to muddy the waters (which is what zealots do, be they green or white-sheeted), the thumpers introduce this counter-intuitive bullshit called Scientific Creationism. The word scientific is used in this case to confuse and cajole the unwashed masses who can't tell the difference, kind of like calling Buzz Lightyear the ultimate in playtime fun. But really, it's just religion in a lab coat, so that the government won't notice they're violating the separation of church and state by forcing this steaming load of non-scientific lies down the throat of children, be they christian, muslim, jew or whatever. So, yes, it's just another abuse of the word scientific. A dangerous one at that. If I wanted my children (not that I have any yet, and this kind of thing is not making me want to have any) to learn about creationism, I'd send them to Sunday School to be indoctrinated.
Anyway, even the Pope says that evolution is more than a hypothesis (the link here is the only one I could find where the pontiff's statement was not followed by still more irrational, counter-intuitive, rabid drivelling by the religious right).
In short, my friend, be glad you live in Denmark.
So you go out and get a gun and kill the popular people. And we have all the boo-hoo-ing and the wringing of hands and national press about this quiet young outcast lad who inexplicably went nuts.
It's not inexplicable, people. I was involved with an underground newspaper myself, for the same reasons some other repliers here have mentioned. The "outcasts" will be heard somehow, either by smoking across the street from the school, or writing editorials about the bullshit in the school newspaper or whatever. If you keep the lid on the pressure cooker too long, it will explode. So, don't make the kids conform. You have to let the pressure off somehow. And since we can't have our music or our video games without censorship . . . .
Hey, our first amendment has been cut off, let's move on to the second.
It wasn't even until MacOS 6 (someone catch this if it's wrong, my Mac Experience starts with 7.5.2 (which makes one wonder why I like them as much as I do (but I digress))) that the OS would even run more than one program via the MultiFinder.
Perhaps, then, this explains the context of the argument: one of the framers of the original MacOS has seen his pure, one user, one task system turn into multi-user and multi-tasking (though not yet pre-emptive), along with all the clutter and complexity that comes with it.
I love the Ho! Still play it when I've got a few minutes to kill. It even still beats me with the Diabolical computer players.
The actions of BountyQuest and Alan Emtage will, perhaps, interrupt the revenue flow from these spurious patents enough to get the government to realize just what kind of prostitutes they all are, and start working for the people again.
Also, let's take in to account that this sort of imagery originated in Japan, a sublimely repressed society. While there is little crime, and women and children can ride the subways at midnight, or walk dark alleys without fear of muggings, rape or other violence, neither can they stray from the accepted norms of society. Manga comics depict rape and other sexual violence towards schoolgirls, and yet, the schoolgirls are safe in Japan from sexual predators. All this violent imagery seems to be an outlet for desires that the Japanese as human beings have, but cannot act upon in their restrictive society. If anything, it keeps the people in line, not makes them shoot their classmates.
It comes down to a case of personal responsibility. I happen to like Batman Beyond. This does not mean that I am going to don a balck cape and armor and become a vigilante in my spare time. While I do own a black cape, I just don't have that kind of disposable cash. It is an outlet, however. When Joe Cellphone cuts me off in his Ford Extinction for the billionth time, it helps me to know I can go home and watch the black-coweled avenger exact some measure of justice in an unjust world.
If more people took some personal responsibility for their actions, instead of blaming Union Carbide, or Philip Morris, or Hollywood, then the world would be a far better place.
How does the NYT feel about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Masterpiece (which it is, by the way), or violent tripe that must be repressed "to save the children?"
The media should stop kidding itself. It's all "Rural Farm Wife Gives Birth To Elvis' Three-Headed Dog-child."