OK. ECertainly warfare has had technology derived from it, but, for the most part, this technology has not been essential to maintain lifeways on our little planet. Most technology is the product of material culture developed through folk tradtions. Surprisingly, especially to Americans, a great number of people on this earth do not use the latest whiz-bang, ostensibly militarily derived technology to cook, clean or to perform any myriad of everyday functions. The three stone oven in Africa has little to do with defense or offense and has a lot to do with an culturally understood way of making an inefficient tool -- open fire -- more efficient. Most likely, the first forges for weapons were modifications of designs for everyday, non-military use, not the other way 'round.
The seminal, in many eyes, moment in American technological development had absolutely nothing to do with the military. It was when a chap named Cyrus McCormick took an ancient tool, the reaper, and mechanized it. Was this American ingenuity at its best? Surely, but it is the fact that most technological development comes through a desire to save effort that binds it to history. Coming up with a better killing machine follows exactly this paradigm. Efficient, safe killing mechanisms make sense under this model. So the model isn't necessarily bad, the use is.
I remember a Simpson's episode where Homer uses his beloved pistol to open beers, etc. It was funny on several levels, but I got a kick out of it, as a geographer who studies material culture, in that they were making fun of the old adage, "a bell is a cup until struck." (Also, the title of a Wire album!) A device conceived as a killing machine (yes, guns despite the pop bottle enthusiasts of the world for the most part exist to kill) is used as an everyday tool.
Second, here is the non-vaporware tool that allows large groups of American minorities to protect multinational corporation's profits, err, I mean American's fundamentaly liberties: the XM29.
It'll be on Adnan Khasoggi's wishlist for the year 2008, when the Spiders Invade a la "Starship Troopers!"
How on earth can the application of the BSD license indicate that Sun doesn't think the product will take off? Personally, I think BSD is a more flexible license than the GPL. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Actually it violates state law for use of a state resource (resource being the wires, routers, etc) for private profit. The issue isn't bandwidth, it is access. The taxpayers, who heavily subsidize student tuitions, don't want to pay for some kid to update websites on their time, or so the theory goes. He or she can go a private service provider to do this work. Again, we don't write the laws, just merely blah, blah, blah.
No offense, but if you now rejoice at this news, then you are trully living in mobile communications stone age. Anywhere in Europe, this is expected/demanded by the customers.
No please, offend. Non-USians have no idea how friggin nefarious the FCC and telecoms are in the states.
I know people who think cells in the States are awesome, then they see my useless-in-the-States handy sitting on the counter and ask me about. They can't believe how much cheaper and featureful it is than shitty old Verizon service is.
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Our number one complaint from kids: "Why is Kazaa so slow?" Number two: "Look, I am a professional gamer and I am getting lag to the game server in Fiji that we use. And it is your fault." I had a kid claim that he made $60000 one year. Is this possible?
Most of the NeoNazi stuff I have seen in Germany has been in the former East. And, it is important to state this, that American NeoNazis have been expelled from Germany for recruiting, etc. As for the Swastika, give Germany credit. They went from 0 to decently tolerant in about 50 years (the Turks are one real problem they still haven't gotten around, but I bet they will, without violence. We've been half-assing it for 200+ years. I never felt strange walking with a African friend while in Germany, but, growing up in Southern Virginia, just being seen play with a black kid would get your ass kicked.
I caught this recently. I can't stand Ted Hughes as a writer or a person (man, did he do a number on old Sylvia), but I found this to be a powerful movie with a great message for kids and redeeming of old Ted even if it is a bit of an adaptation of the book. It has everything. Buddy flick. A FUCKING BIG ROBOT. 50s paranoia about everything. And the animation is masterful. Not a big animation fan at all but this one sticks out in my mind.
And New Order also had a reprise of "Blue Monday" (of sorts) on Power, Corruption and Lies called "The Beach." Trainspotting featured the creepiest riff on "Temptation" as well.
Still, I can't agree on this one. "The Beach" is a rotten movie. If you want an unappreciated Boyle flick pop on over and see "Shallow Grave". "I don' 'ave da time."
One of the great things that Chomsky points out is that top secret actions of the US government are not so top secret to the subjects of that action. A classic example is the very under-the-table sale of arms and munitions to Indonesia during its brutal suppression of East Timor. Of course, those Indonesian troops were using shiny M-16s and getting air spotting from US-made Broncos. Something quite apparent to their victims. But this wasn't known to the US public, because, other than East Timor being fairly off-the-radar for Americans in general, every bit of information about American involvement in the actions of Indonesia was top secret, "didn't happen" type stuff. Why would the US care about half an island way off in the middle of nowhere? Lots of natural gas and oil just offshore....
the first thing that came to mind was to write a tiny app to pass around that would start DOSing their site.
Well, you'd better not do it now, cuz if you do, and even if you don't run the app, it is conspiracy to commit a crime. Why? You brought of all/. in on the gig. Thanks for resisting the urge.:-)
Please spare me your ill-based theory that if people don't speak 100% correct English 100% of the time that we'll all end up communicating via a series of grunts and moans.
Well, sometimes grunts and moans are just as effective. Given that the best way to troll on/. is to gas on using Standard English about shit which one has no idea about, most of the good stuff happens when we resort to a series of hoots and tongue clicks... That reminds me. I need to install the language pack for Bushman.
OK. I am fan of beautiful movies. I especially like beautiful Japanese movies, and, especially, ones done by Kurosawa. Nothing beats the way Kurosawa could paint the whole world with a few horses, a rainy day and a long focal length shot. As geographer, I personally think Derzu Uzala (yes, technically a Russian film) is the best landscape cinemaphotography ever. John Ford's stuff is a hard second -- very hard.
That being said, I just don't understand anime. Admittedly, I haven't watched much. Mononoke is the one that always stuck out in my mind. But still it wasn't just BOOM like all of my anime fans talk about. They say Spirited will change my mind. So I am will ing to give it a shot.
I still can't get past a little prejudice I have about anime fans; that being they are all a little too enamored with Japanese culture. As someone who speaks Japanese -- not because I wanted to -- I learned quickly that nothing brings the Japanese into hysterics quicker than an American man who ends sentences in ne or uses slang picked up from anime.
So riddle me this, what turns everybody on about anime? What is so great about it as a genre? And why should a non-anime fan pay attention?
Between employers, stalkers, and jealous spouses, there ought be plenty of room for unhappiness.
And governmental abuse. I think it would be a matter of one rotation of good ole Cesium-133 before somebody put out a jamming device. Maybe it would screw with the reception on the handy but a missed phone call or two is worth a shot at MaryJane's pink bits.
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OK. ECertainly warfare has had technology derived from it, but, for the most part, this technology has not been essential to maintain lifeways on our little planet. Most technology is the product of material culture developed through folk tradtions. Surprisingly, especially to Americans, a great number of people on this earth do not use the latest whiz-bang, ostensibly militarily derived technology to cook, clean or to perform any myriad of everyday functions. The three stone oven in Africa has little to do with defense or offense and has a lot to do with an culturally understood way of making an inefficient tool -- open fire -- more efficient. Most likely, the first forges for weapons were modifications of designs for everyday, non-military use, not the other way 'round.
The seminal, in many eyes, moment in American technological development had absolutely nothing to do with the military. It was when a chap named Cyrus McCormick took an ancient tool, the reaper, and mechanized it. Was this American ingenuity at its best? Surely, but it is the fact that most technological development comes through a desire to save effort that binds it to history. Coming up with a better killing machine follows exactly this paradigm. Efficient, safe killing mechanisms make sense under this model. So the model isn't necessarily bad, the use is.
I remember a Simpson's episode where Homer uses his beloved pistol to open beers, etc. It was funny on several levels, but I got a kick out of it, as a geographer who studies material culture, in that they were making fun of the old adage, "a bell is a cup until struck." (Also, the title of a Wire album!) A device conceived as a killing machine (yes, guns despite the pop bottle enthusiasts of the world for the most part exist to kill) is used as an everyday tool.
the beginning of time
BTW, when exactly was that?
First, that's arc, or more correctly, trajectory.
Second, here is the non-vaporware tool that allows large groups of American minorities to protect multinational corporation's profits, err, I mean American's fundamentaly liberties: the XM29.
It'll be on Adnan Khasoggi's wishlist for the year 2008, when the Spiders Invade a la "Starship Troopers!"
Damn it. It is: IN SOVIET UNION, review watches you (plug in humourous nouns for 'review' and 'you.' Yakov Smirnoff is from The Ukraine, not Russia.
We are all pikers in his wake. The Abyssinian gag. The Dreadnought Hoax. The Venice Horse Mystery. And, possibly, The Piltdown Man.
My life's goal is to write a book about WHdVC. I know. I'm a loser.
FreeBSD: Think "Benevolent Politburo" without the chronic dyspepsia.
NetBSD: Think "Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune" without the impractical decision making process.
OpenBSD: Think "Titoist Market Socialism" without the clear break with Stalin.
OR
FreeBSD: Let's play with our ball as much as we want but the game has to be played our way.
NetBSD: Let's play with our ball on as many different playgrounds as we can.
OpenBSD: I'm taking my ball and playing in my yard. It's safer than the playground.
Now this is a great troll. A classic. I'll bite!
How on earth can the application of the BSD license indicate that Sun doesn't think the product will take off? Personally, I think BSD is a more flexible license than the GPL. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Hmm.. a freebsd weenie in Knoxville, Tn.
Plenty of SNMP weenies too. We apologize most of the time.
Actually it violates state law for use of a state resource (resource being the wires, routers, etc) for private profit. The issue isn't bandwidth, it is access. The taxpayers, who heavily subsidize student tuitions, don't want to pay for some kid to update websites on their time, or so the theory goes. He or she can go a private service provider to do this work. Again, we don't write the laws, just merely blah, blah, blah.
Yup, it violates ours. He had his hand slapped.
That's OK. Someone has to be vigilant on slippery slopes as they are an artform here in the friendly confines of /.
No offense, but if you now rejoice at this news, then you are trully living in mobile communications stone age.
Anywhere in Europe, this is expected/demanded by the customers.
No please, offend. Non-USians have no idea how friggin nefarious the FCC and telecoms are in the states.
I know people who think cells in the States are awesome, then they see my useless-in-the-States handy sitting on the counter and ask me about. They can't believe how much cheaper and featureful it is than shitty old Verizon service is.
I hope this is a nifty troll. sigh....
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Our number one complaint from kids: "Why is Kazaa so slow?" Number two: "Look, I am a professional gamer and I am getting lag to the game server in Fiji that we use. And it is your fault." I had a kid claim that he made $60000 one year. Is this possible?
Most of the NeoNazi stuff I have seen in Germany has been in the former East. And, it is important to state this, that American NeoNazis have been expelled from Germany for recruiting, etc. As for the Swastika, give Germany credit. They went from 0 to decently tolerant in about 50 years (the Turks are one real problem they still haven't gotten around, but I bet they will, without violence. We've been half-assing it for 200+ years. I never felt strange walking with a African friend while in Germany, but, growing up in Southern Virginia, just being seen play with a black kid would get your ass kicked.
I caught this recently. I can't stand Ted Hughes as a writer or a person (man, did he do a number on old Sylvia), but I found this to be a powerful movie with a great message for kids and redeeming of old Ted even if it is a bit of an adaptation of the book. It has everything. Buddy flick. A FUCKING BIG ROBOT. 50s paranoia about everything. And the animation is masterful. Not a big animation fan at all but this one sticks out in my mind.
And New Order also had a reprise of "Blue Monday" (of sorts) on Power, Corruption and Lies called "The Beach." Trainspotting featured the creepiest riff on "Temptation" as well.
Still, I can't agree on this one. "The Beach" is a rotten movie. If you want an unappreciated Boyle flick pop on over and see "Shallow Grave". "I don' 'ave da time."
One of the great things that Chomsky points out is that top secret actions of the US government are not so top secret to the subjects of that action. A classic example is the very under-the-table sale of arms and munitions to Indonesia during its brutal suppression of East Timor. Of course, those Indonesian troops were using shiny M-16s and getting air spotting from US-made Broncos. Something quite apparent to their victims. But this wasn't known to the US public, because, other than East Timor being fairly off-the-radar for Americans in general, every bit of information about American involvement in the actions of Indonesia was top secret, "didn't happen" type stuff. Why would the US care about half an island way off in the middle of nowhere? Lots of natural gas and oil just offshore....
the first thing that came to mind was to write a tiny app to pass around that would start DOSing their site.
/. in on the gig. Thanks for resisting the urge. :-)
Well, you'd better not do it now, cuz if you do, and even if you don't run the app, it is conspiracy to commit a crime. Why? You brought of all
That's different from Manhattan, how?
Please spare me your ill-based theory that if people don't speak 100% correct English 100% of the time that we'll all end up communicating via a series of grunts and moans.
/. is to gas on using Standard English about shit which one has no idea about, most of the good stuff happens when we resort to a series of hoots and tongue clicks... That reminds me. I need to install the language pack for Bushman.
Well, sometimes grunts and moans are just as effective. Given that the best way to troll on
OK. I am fan of beautiful movies. I especially like beautiful Japanese movies, and, especially, ones done by Kurosawa. Nothing beats the way Kurosawa could paint the whole world with a few horses, a rainy day and a long focal length shot. As geographer, I personally think Derzu Uzala (yes, technically a Russian film) is the best landscape cinemaphotography ever. John Ford's stuff is a hard second -- very hard.
That being said, I just don't understand anime. Admittedly, I haven't watched much. Mononoke is the one that always stuck out in my mind. But still it wasn't just BOOM like all of my anime fans talk about. They say Spirited will change my mind. So I am will ing to give it a shot.
I still can't get past a little prejudice I have about anime fans; that being they are all a little too enamored with Japanese culture. As someone who speaks Japanese -- not because I wanted to -- I learned quickly that nothing brings the Japanese into hysterics quicker than an American man who ends sentences in ne or uses slang picked up from anime.
So riddle me this, what turns everybody on about anime? What is so great about it as a genre? And why should a non-anime fan pay attention?
This just in: running open source software at all is, well, kinda like running betas all the time. Read the non-warranty of the GPL...
Between employers, stalkers, and jealous spouses, there ought be plenty of room for unhappiness.
And governmental abuse. I think it would be a matter of one rotation of good ole Cesium-133 before somebody put out a jamming device. Maybe it would screw with the reception on the handy but a missed phone call or two is worth a shot at MaryJane's pink bits.
Sweet. My entry made the big time! Thanx B3ryllium.
Smoking marlboro lights and pretending I am Andrew Macarthy in Less than Zero.
Well, be glad you weren't pretending that you were Robert Downey, Jr. in Less that Zero.