they allow this type of clearly anti-government material to be published.
For now. There is a Right-wing movement to have the documentary's advertisments pulled after July 30th under some arcane reading of the Federal Election law. Most likely this will get fought all the way to the Supreme Court where the 5 Republicans who matter will shit can the appeal, thereby setting yet another scary precedent.
Michael Moore is now the Democrat's Leni Riefenstahl.
First, consider the source. Ralph's ego is so big it get's 2 zip codes. He's just jealous because he is not the focus of Moore's approbrium. Of course, he wouldn't be. Moore is not a member of the Democratic Party. I think he is an independent who voted for, guess who, Nader.
Second, consider this statement:
"Mel Gibson is the Right's Leni Riefenstahl."
If you know anything about Leni Riefenstahl, you would see that the latter is more accurate esp. in terms of Fascistic imagery and personal "I'm a martyr" protestations. Did you see the movie "The Patriot?" Did you know that the British DID NOT commit the atrocities depicted in the film? Of course not.
Also, notice I say "the Right." Democrats are not leftists unless the US suddenly has become the Fundamentalist Theocratic Police State that so few (but so powerful) want. Wait for it....
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Constantine is a chain-smoking, sarcastic, bastardly magician from Liverpool.
An I always thought the definition of Perl was executable line noise!
And it is that also. I think of it more as line-noise that only makes sense to one person, but stops being intelligible, even to it's creator, after about two weeks running amok as a cron job.
My impression of perl: it's an inscruitably complex scripting language playing at being a programming language to somehow legitimize the menial task of batch processing.
Do I win?
No. It is a simple programming language playing at being a scripting language to somehow legitimize the menial task of making shit work.
When I was 5 I discovered electricity for myself by sticking a fork in an outlet. Thereby proving Benjamin Franklin right and developing prior art to use against Microsoft. Ah, the follies of youth.
As for tradition, it is illogical to use tradition as an excuse. Just because something is traditional, doesn't mean that it is right. An example would be female circumcision (or male for that matter).
it's a win-win scenario because Galileo will greatly improve GPS accuracy and Galileo will benefit from the experience of the GPS system.
Irony is: the Russian GLONASS system was always more accurate than GPS. Just those guys had a hard time fighting off the huge army of Super Reagans and couldn't implement it fully.
Could this pose some problems for the X-Prize contender?
C'mon. What are you a Mac user?;-) Not everything works seemlessly out of the box. If anything this is a perfect reason why there should a human behind the controls. "Yeah, the controls got stiff then I lost attitude control. Then they became softer." That is the kind of feedback that engineers, especially those making it up on the spot, live by.
Well, someone had to come up with a "it's part of their plan" post.
Sabotage (Ill Communication)
I Can't Stand It I Know You Planned It I'm Gonna Set It Straight, This Watergate I Can't Stand Rocking When I'm In Here Because Your Crystal Ball Ain't So Crystal Clear So While You Sit Back and Wonder Why I Got This Fucking Thorn In My Side Oh My, It's A Mirage I'm Tellin' Y'all It's Sabotage
So Listen Up 'Cause You Can't Say Nothin' You'll Shut Me Down With A Push Of Your Button? But Yo I'm Out And I'm Gone I'll Tell You Now I Keep It On And On
'Cause What You See You Might Not Get And We Can Bet So Don't You Get Souped Yet You're Scheming On A Thing That's A Mirage I'm Trying To Tell You Now It's Sabotage
Whyyy; Our Backs Are Now Against The Wall Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage
I Can't Stand It, I Know You Planned It But I'm Gonna Set It Straight This Watergate But I Can't Stand Rockin' When I'm In This Place Because I Feel Disgrace Because You're All In My Face But Make No Mistakes And Switch Up My Channel I'm Buddy Rich When I Fly Off The Handle What Could It Be, It's A Mirage You're Scheming On A Thing - That's Sabotage
Interesting that M$ would use the laws of a country that allows politicos to bring charges to muzzle dissent. A lot of Americans thing Brazil is some sort of paradise. It is a nightmare of despair wrought by American neoconservative-backed strongarm politics. Yeah, you can check out the hot pussy in Rio, but you should see a favela.
Emacs Diary? C'mon, that's like swatting a pissant with a brick. You need 512 of RAM just to get Emacs to run at anything like a usable speed, and then you fire up an extension to boot. Does the keyboard even respond? I mean the thing is programmed in Lisp. What's next a spreadsheet programmed in FORTH? A Webserver in Postscript?
Here's what I suggest:
create a directory called to-do. Cd to it. Then fire up vi. Save a file named by the date using vi's intuitive interface. Put everything you need to do for that day in that file. Easy as vi!
F1 had no trouble with TV audiences in the early and mid-80s
I guess, I am talking from the European perspective. I recently saw a truck at a rest stop in Italy that was completely painted like the Scuderia Ferrari. I thought "Cool a team truck." Nope. He was hauling freight to Slovenia. It is a fan base not unlike the Dale Earnhardt worship you see in the States.
Plus, Eddy did have a pretty good team behind him as well.
The British Eurosport commentator (I forget his name) said that Merckx did not need a team. This from a guy who rode against him. He rode off the front. I have a killer poster of him dropping some unfortunate soul and the guy looks like he's been shot. Problem is: the guy was on his own fucking team.
Doping: unfortunately, so did Tom Simpson... the hard way. Doping is ruining the sport and it is not even as prevalent as it is in places like Track and Field or American Football. I played football in college and everyone juiced. Everyone. Yes, we won football games.
But Merckx won on heavier bikes as well. Interestingly, Schwinn produced drillium bikes back in the day. Give me my carbon fiber anyday. I wonder what the ride was like?
You are right. It is difficult to compare riders from different eras, other than in one way: 5 Tours. 5 Giros. 3 Vueltas. With nowhere near the support they have today. This much is true.
True. But they have also sacrificed competitiveness. F1 deaths don't occur in car-to-car incidents -- see Ayrton Senna. Stewart makes this point. They occur when the engineers produce a vehicle that can't be handled by a human. So F1 is right to make safety a concern, but they still want the speed and flair. I would like to see them merely slow the cars down so there would be some passing.
Toughness: notice I said "on the bike." I like Armstrong, but he is no Tyler Hamilton. As for climbing, Merckx did it all. It did not matter. IIRC, he did win mountain stages. My point is that it was about breaking spirits not going faster. Hinault was a bastard. Armstrong less like Hinault in that respect. Remember Hinault finishing with a broken nose soaked in blood? That's Hamilton. Armstrong and Hamilton are alike in that they both know how to talk and don't act like assholes like Hinault did.
Merckx was known for his viciously light bikes; remember drillium?
Could he use it on the Tour? I think the rules were different for the Tour back then and did not follow the rest of the world. It was after the Classics permitted derailluers that the Tour did so. This is the case today as well, especially with regard to doping. Anyhow, I think the more salient point is this: stomp on the pedals on a 1969 bike vs. a 2004 bike. There is no comparison. Merckx makes this point himself about modern bikes. The equipment is so much better.
This goes against/. canon. See, if X is better because it is more popular, more techie, not the "norm," etc. then it is what should be done. He may be a multimillionare but he's no Schumacher millionaire. MS pulls down $50 million just to sit in the car. Gordon and NASCAR guys make nowhere near this amount of money to just drive the vehicle. Scumacher's Omega watch endorsement money exceeds Gordon's base salary.
Boring: granted. But if Ferrari doesn't win. no one will watch. It is hard to understate how popular Ferrari is and how rabid the tifosi are.
Armstrong wins because he's a genetic freak. He's got the second highest VO2Max ever recorded (93.5) and generally has lactate levels under load half that of most other riders. No matter what endurance sport he embraced, he'd be ruling it.
Granted. But I doubt he could ever touch a psychotic like Merckx or Hinault in terms of just being tough on the bike. If Eddy Merckx decided he wanted to win a race, he did. Guys would ask him if he was there to win or not and drop from race if he said 'to win' because he was unbeatable. As for the the difference in training methods and the UCI I think that is relative. What is not relative is the equipment. A 1978 Raleigh Tour model weighed nearly 30lbs dressed out. My Giant ONCE TCR weighs 16.5lbs with Ultegra components. With the Stock Campy Record, it was b 15.4lbs. The bikes today are so responsive and you are operating the mechanics at a much higher efficiency than back in the day. Every turn of the pedals sees more power to the ground.
Same for the Rangers, who also boast a fairly high rate of team spending.
I have a friend who insists that Jeff Gordon would win easily at F1. But he doesn't. Why? Because he isn't man enough to try it. This could be the only reason. The money is WAAAAAY better than NASCAR. The exposure and fame are exponentially greater as well. Why doesn't he try F1? He's scared. I have been to an F1 race as well as many NASCAR races (I grew up in a small VA town with a NASCAR Nextel CUP track). The cars are so incredibly fast in F1. NASCAR pales in comparison both as a motorsport and as a product, especially in terms of popularity. F1 is to NASCAR as World Cup Soccer is to the NFL.
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they allow this type of clearly anti-government material to be published.
For now. There is a Right-wing movement to have the documentary's advertisments pulled after July 30th under some arcane reading of the Federal Election law. Most likely this will get fought all the way to the Supreme Court where the 5 Republicans who matter will shit can the appeal, thereby setting yet another scary precedent.
Michael Moore is now the Democrat's Leni Riefenstahl.
First, consider the source. Ralph's ego is so big it get's 2 zip codes. He's just jealous because he is not the focus of Moore's approbrium. Of course, he wouldn't be. Moore is not a member of the Democratic Party. I think he is an independent who voted for, guess who, Nader.
Second, consider this statement:
"Mel Gibson is the Right's Leni Riefenstahl."
If you know anything about Leni Riefenstahl, you would see that the latter is more accurate esp. in terms of Fascistic imagery and personal "I'm a martyr" protestations. Did you see the movie "The Patriot?" Did you know that the British DID NOT commit the atrocities depicted in the film? Of course not.
Also, notice I say "the Right." Democrats are not leftists unless the US suddenly has become the Fundamentalist Theocratic Police State that so few (but so powerful) want. Wait for it....
Constantine is a chain-smoking, sarcastic, bastardly magician from Liverpool.
I think you mean Michael Owen....
Linked to from their home page, has been for quite a few hours.
Therefore, you should be patched. I mean IT HAS BEEN THERE FOR HOURS.
Sorry I was channelling all of the M$ fanboys who can't admit how fucking bad M$ truly is.
An I always thought the definition of Perl was executable line noise!
And it is that also. I think of it more as line-noise that only makes sense to one person, but stops being intelligible, even to it's creator, after about two weeks running amok as a cron job.
My impression of perl: it's an inscruitably complex scripting language playing at being a programming language to somehow legitimize the menial task of batch processing.
Do I win?
No. It is a simple programming language playing at being a scripting language to somehow legitimize the menial task of making shit work.
Yes. Those were the family joules.
When I was 5 I discovered electricity for myself by sticking a fork in an outlet. Thereby proving Benjamin Franklin right and developing prior art to use against Microsoft. Ah, the follies of youth.
1/3 in + 1/3 in + 1/3 in = 1 inch.
0.33cm + 0.33cm + 0.33cm != 1cm.
As for tradition, it is illogical to use tradition as an excuse. Just because something is traditional, doesn't mean that it is right. An example would be female circumcision (or male for that matter).
it's a win-win scenario because Galileo will greatly improve GPS accuracy and Galileo will benefit from the experience of the GPS system.
Irony is: the Russian GLONASS system was always more accurate than GPS. Just those guys had a hard time fighting off the huge army of Super Reagans and couldn't implement it fully.
The article originally said altitude control, I emailed CmdrTaco to fix it before the article went live.
Could you quick e-mail him and tell him to bring back Jon Katz? We really miss him.
Could this pose some problems for the X-Prize contender?
;-) Not everything works seemlessly out of the box. If anything this is a perfect reason why there should a human behind the controls. "Yeah, the controls got stiff then I lost attitude control. Then they became softer." That is the kind of feedback that engineers, especially those making it up on the spot, live by.
C'mon. What are you a Mac user?
Refresh? No problem.
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#!/usr/bin/perl
while(1) { system("wget ('http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ss1/status.html')
Well, someone had to come up with a "it's part of their plan" post.
Sabotage (Ill Communication)
I Can't Stand It I Know You Planned It
I'm Gonna Set It Straight, This Watergate
I Can't Stand Rocking When I'm In Here
Because Your Crystal Ball Ain't So Crystal Clear
So While You Sit Back and Wonder Why
I Got This Fucking Thorn In My Side
Oh My, It's A Mirage
I'm Tellin' Y'all It's Sabotage
So Listen Up 'Cause You Can't Say Nothin'
You'll Shut Me Down With A Push Of Your Button?
But Yo I'm Out And I'm Gone
I'll Tell You Now I Keep It On And On
'Cause What You See You Might Not Get
And We Can Bet So Don't You Get Souped Yet
You're Scheming On A Thing That's A Mirage
I'm Trying To Tell You Now It's Sabotage
Whyyy; Our Backs Are Now Against The Wall
Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage
Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage
Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage
Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage
I Can't Stand It, I Know You Planned It
But I'm Gonna Set It Straight This Watergate
But I Can't Stand Rockin' When I'm In This Place
Because I Feel Disgrace Because You're All In My Face
But Make No Mistakes And Switch Up My Channel
I'm Buddy Rich When I Fly Off The Handle
What Could It Be, It's A Mirage
You're Scheming On A Thing - That's Sabotage
Interesting that M$ would use the laws of a country that allows politicos to bring charges to muzzle dissent. A lot of Americans thing Brazil is some sort of paradise. It is a nightmare of despair wrought by American neoconservative-backed strongarm politics. Yeah, you can check out the hot pussy in Rio, but you should see a favela.
And we're off!
Emacs Diary? C'mon, that's like swatting a pissant with a brick. You need 512 of RAM just to get Emacs to run at anything like a usable speed, and then you fire up an extension to boot. Does the keyboard even respond? I mean the thing is programmed in Lisp. What's next a spreadsheet programmed in FORTH? A Webserver in Postscript?
Here's what I suggest:
create a directory called to-do. Cd to it. Then fire up vi. Save a file named by the date using vi's intuitive interface. Put everything you need to do for that day in that file. Easy as vi!
F1 had no trouble with TV audiences in the early and mid-80s
I guess, I am talking from the European perspective. I recently saw a truck at a rest stop in Italy that was completely painted like the Scuderia Ferrari. I thought "Cool a team truck." Nope. He was hauling freight to Slovenia. It is a fan base not unlike the Dale Earnhardt worship you see in the States.
Plus, Eddy did have a pretty good team behind him as well.
The British Eurosport commentator (I forget his name) said that Merckx did not need a team. This from a guy who rode against him. He rode off the front. I have a killer poster of him dropping some unfortunate soul and the guy looks like he's been shot. Problem is: the guy was on his own fucking team.
Doping: unfortunately, so did Tom Simpson ... the hard way. Doping is ruining the sport and it is not even as prevalent as it is in places like Track and Field or American Football. I played football in college and everyone juiced. Everyone. Yes, we won football games.
But Merckx won on heavier bikes as well. Interestingly, Schwinn produced drillium bikes back in the day. Give me my carbon fiber anyday. I wonder what the ride was like?
You are right. It is difficult to compare riders from different eras, other than in one way: 5 Tours. 5 Giros. 3 Vueltas. With nowhere near the support they have today. This much is true.
True. But they have also sacrificed competitiveness. F1 deaths don't occur in car-to-car incidents -- see Ayrton Senna. Stewart makes this point. They occur when the engineers produce a vehicle that can't be handled by a human. So F1 is right to make safety a concern, but they still want the speed and flair. I would like to see them merely slow the cars down so there would be some passing.
Toughness: notice I said "on the bike." I like Armstrong, but he is no Tyler Hamilton. As for climbing, Merckx did it all. It did not matter. IIRC, he did win mountain stages. My point is that it was about breaking spirits not going faster. Hinault was a bastard. Armstrong less like Hinault in that respect. Remember Hinault finishing with a broken nose soaked in blood? That's Hamilton. Armstrong and Hamilton are alike in that they both know how to talk and don't act like assholes like Hinault did.
Merckx was known for his viciously light bikes; remember drillium?
Could he use it on the Tour? I think the rules were different for the Tour back then and did not follow the rest of the world. It was after the Classics permitted derailluers that the Tour did so. This is the case today as well, especially with regard to doping. Anyhow, I think the more salient point is this: stomp on the pedals on a 1969 bike vs. a 2004 bike. There is no comparison. Merckx makes this point himself about modern bikes. The equipment is so much better.
This goes against /. canon. See, if X is better because it is more popular, more techie, not the "norm," etc. then it is what should be done. He may be a multimillionare but he's no Schumacher millionaire. MS pulls down $50 million just to sit in the car. Gordon and NASCAR guys make nowhere near this amount of money to just drive the vehicle. Scumacher's Omega watch endorsement money exceeds Gordon's base salary.
Boring: granted. But if Ferrari doesn't win. no one will watch. It is hard to understate how popular Ferrari is and how rabid the tifosi are.
Armstrong wins because he's a genetic freak. He's got the second highest VO2Max ever recorded (93.5) and generally has lactate levels under load half that of most other riders. No matter what endurance sport he embraced, he'd be ruling it.
Granted. But I doubt he could ever touch a psychotic like Merckx or Hinault in terms of just being tough on the bike. If Eddy Merckx decided he wanted to win a race, he did. Guys would ask him if he was there to win or not and drop from race if he said 'to win' because he was unbeatable. As for the the difference in training methods and the UCI I think that is relative. What is not relative is the equipment. A 1978 Raleigh Tour model weighed nearly 30lbs dressed out. My Giant ONCE TCR weighs 16.5lbs with Ultegra components. With the Stock Campy Record, it was b 15.4lbs. The bikes today are so responsive and you are operating the mechanics at a much higher efficiency than back in the day. Every turn of the pedals sees more power to the ground.
Same for the Rangers, who also boast a fairly high rate of team spending.
I have a friend who insists that Jeff Gordon would win easily at F1. But he doesn't. Why? Because he isn't man enough to try it. This could be the only reason. The money is WAAAAAY better than NASCAR. The exposure and fame are exponentially greater as well. Why doesn't he try F1? He's scared. I have been to an F1 race as well as many NASCAR races (I grew up in a small VA town with a NASCAR Nextel CUP track). The cars are so incredibly fast in F1. NASCAR pales in comparison both as a motorsport and as a product, especially in terms of popularity. F1 is to NASCAR as World Cup Soccer is to the NFL.
Same for the Rangers, who also boast a fairly high rate of team spending.
Hell, they are still recovering from their inept management team from the early 90s. Wait a minute. Isn't he the same guy who....