You don't own anything you can't show the receipt for.
Which is why you don't own or control HMG, and why your every wish and those of the millions of disgruntled brits is routinely denied with a wave of hands from Bliar and Brown.
Take for example the tax on petrol. The UK pays the most out of all Europeans simply because the tax is so absurdly high. Out of every £50 worth of fuel you pay £37 in pure tax.
If you really owned your 'democratic' government, you would be able to simply demand that the tax on fuel is abolished, OR ask for your money back by presenting your recipt, just like you do at Dixons's when you return a non working CD player you bought the day before.
HMG takes your money, screws you over, murders people with it and there is nothing you can do about it. That's nothing to be proud of.
If they were to promise to build an "Internet 3" with your money, or perhaps pay for some more dentists, nurses, operations etc, well, you would have a point, but the fact is, they will never spend your money on your benefit, and when Europeans do, the best thing they can come up with is Minitel.
The USA has done some bad stuff. Everyone knows this. However, this malarky is just pure spite. Let anyone that wants to have their own internet under their own control go and build it, just like the Saudis have. Whining bellyaching and begging doesn't make networks, or anything for that matter, become real.
Maybe they don't care, like the Plan 9 people don't care:
I don't think that the lack of interest by the world at large is due to a lack of comfortable, familiar applications. I think it's got more to do with a lack of understanding of why Plan 9 is (*really!*) interesting and a shortage of people who find that utterly compelling. People have given various excuses in the past (lack of gcc or X11, cost, licence terms) but if you're really enthused, none of that matters. Unix was a hit because it filled a niche, and what passes for Unix these days is still filling that niche, and for a lot of peple that's good enough. Those of us who can't imagine going back to living on what passes for Unix are a definite minority.
So what should be done? I don't think we should measure success by counting noses. I'm not even sure that Plan 9 needs to be a ``success''. We're using it, we like it and perhaps that's enough. Keeping up with new hardware is a worthy goal. We're all stretched a bit thin; as far as I know, none of us are able to work on Plan 9 development full-time. People have various pieces of work in progress. Perhaps after the election, the economy will pick up and we'll all have more time to devote.
`Plan 9: a ``Failure'' for 17 years and still ``failing''.'
I'm not suggesting it, the makers of that compound are, and they are actively trying to get government contracts as hurricane dispersers.
Amazing isn't it? Imagine the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico covered in an inch layer of insoluble jelly...imagine it washing up on shore...It's a nightmare, and yet, they are totally serious.
Dyn o Mat manufactures a water absorbing polymer that can suck up many times its own weight in water. And I quoth:
July 19, 2001: West Palm Beach, FL: Using a Canaberra, Dyn-O-Mat became the first people ever take a cloud off of Doppler radar.
For the last 2 years extensive field-testing has been taking place. Including: cutting a cloud in half using a crop duster.
Its made out of a polyacrylamide and they have been granted a patent.
Seeing a demonstration of this compound is astonishing; a small sachet sprinkled into a large bowl of water instantly turned the entire volume of liquid into a jelly.
My only question is this; what will all the fish think of it?
This is just another example of why I am glad to live here in the United States of America. We may complain about things from time to time, but at least we do have more freedom of information and able to know more, then most other countries out there.
Americans 'know more then (sic) other countries"? Americans know NOTHING about the rest of the world; thats why half of them still think Saddam Hussein had something to do with 911. Thats why half of all congressmen do not have passports. That country has one of the most parochial populations of all the nations on earth, and this would be perfectly fine if it did not go smashing up other peoples countries on a regular basis.
You are anything BUT free in the USA, now more than ever. You cannot move your money where you like without reporting to your government, you cannot travel on an airplane without showing your papers just like the Soviet Russians ('Commies') had to, and just ask the peope in New Orleans who are being forcibly evicted from their houses by the army thanks to new 'emergency powers' taken by the state, namely, 'The Louisiana Homeland Security Act'.
You and all of your fellow ostrich posturing eloi colleagues are the most blind deaf and dumb sheeple that fine country ever produced, and you are the precise cause of the problem, because if you were awake, your government would be under control, and the world would be a safer place.
I wonder how many of the people here railing against this detail-less deal downloaded and used MYSQL AND gave them a single dollar to say 'Thanks'....lets see:
mysql> select count(*) FROM users WHERE donators like %complainers%';
"The Physical Universe is connected with the underlying Hyperspace by some sparsely distributed particle size small windows called Fermions. These Fermions literally connect our universe with the 5-D Hyperspace."
RP: The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign--over 95 percent of all the incidents--has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw.
TAC: That would seem to run contrary to a view that one heard during the American election campaign, put forth by people who favor Bush's policy. That is, we need to fight the terrorists over there, so we don't have to fight them here.
RP: Since suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation and not Islamic fundamentalism, the use of heavy military force to transform Muslim societies over there, if you would, is only likely to increase the number of suicide terrorists coming at us. [...]
If in the future there are 'cyper jihadists' you can instanly infer why the once imagined future has again not come to pass. The countries with the money will have been spending all their time and cash on war and imperialism instead of space exploration.
There would be no jihadists anywhere were it not for the ambitions of the USA, who would do well to spend all their excess money on new types of propulsion and space exploration, rather than getting eveyone in the world to eat Kentucky Fried Chicken and watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Xine and VLC play them both, and...its like pr0n; OSX running on intel, booting on a laptop FASTER than my G4 powerbook boots.
When someone makes a DVD image of this hideously complicated hack into a neat, apple-like installer that you can run off a single DVD, it will spread like wildfire.
This is not keeping two opposing ideas in your head at the same time; this is being able to distinguish between two ideas that only apear to be the same on the surface, due to the form that they take.
Release: Apple MacOS X Tiger *x86* *PROPER* Type: OS Format: ISO Archives: 47x50mb Date: 08/2005 System requirements: Intel Pentium 4 w/HT/1GB RAM/10GB+ HD
R E L E A S E N O T E S Thanks to the guys at phe*NIX who released a non-working copy. Too bad we at XiSO had the OSX x86 DVD for a few weeks now, working hard on disabling the Infineon/Trusted Computing module which is present onboard of the "developer" Apple-Intel boxes. As some of you have heard, Rosetta, Apple's binary translation software used to convert PPC binaries to x86 bytecode at runtime is a primary user of this Trusted Computing module, and since majority of OSX Intel apps are actually PPC bins, not much of the OS is usable without this binary converter working. So we patched that, as well as a check during boot for "supported hardware". Enjoy!
I N S T A L L N O T E S 1. Burn to DVD using your favorite burning software. 2. Enjoy this fine release from XiSO. 3. This has been extensively tested on various hardware configurations, but you WILL NEED a SSE2+ enabled CPU to run this on. Also, this has *NOT* been tested, and not expected to work on AMD CPU's.
They also have a system that is directly affected by this patent. You can type an emoticon in a chat session and Skype will interpret it and display a custom emoticon instead of what you typed. Hello from Picassa/Google does this too.
Frankly, in light of the recent trashing of EU software patents I wish that Skype would just go ahead and put this feature in. Why should everyone in the world have to suffer crippled software because the US has a morally bankrupt patent office handing out nonsense patents like candy?
Slashdot Mirror
He claims his name is "Aubrey de Grey". This is an anagram.
Can you guess what his real name is?
It looks just like eval.rb the interactive ruby shell:
http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/strings.html
"One big question remains: When a brilliant idea pops into your mind in the future, what will appear over your head?"
... or more likely since we are talking about the future, a €uro sign.
A Dollar sign?
There are nail parlours of course. If you had a wife or a girlfrie....ah yes, Slashdot.
You don't own anything you can't show the receipt for.
Which is why you don't own or control HMG, and why your every wish and those of the millions of disgruntled brits is routinely denied with a wave of hands from Bliar and Brown.
Take for example the tax on petrol. The UK pays the most out of all Europeans simply because the tax is so absurdly high. Out of every £50 worth of fuel you pay £37 in pure tax.
If you really owned your 'democratic' government, you would be able to simply demand that the tax on fuel is abolished, OR ask for your money back by presenting your recipt, just like you do at Dixons's when you return a non working CD player you bought the day before.
HMG takes your money, screws you over, murders people with it and there is nothing you can do about it. That's nothing to be proud of.
If they were to promise to build an "Internet 3" with your money, or perhaps pay for some more dentists, nurses, operations etc, well, you would have a point, but the fact is, they will never spend your money on your benefit, and when Europeans do, the best thing they can come up with is Minitel.
The USA has done some bad stuff. Everyone knows this. However, this malarky is just pure spite. Let anyone that wants to have their own internet under their own control go and build it, just like the Saudis have. Whining bellyaching and begging doesn't make networks, or anything for that matter, become real.
but is willing to see we are not the anti-christ.
hardly surprising, as he is posting as the DEVIL'S advocate.
Thats why I mark you 'friend'.
The facts, delivered with total clarity.
Awesome.
Maybe they don't care, like the Plan 9 people don't care:
I'm not suggesting it, the makers of that compound are, and they are actively trying to get government contracts as hurricane dispersers.
Amazing isn't it? Imagine the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico covered in an inch layer of insoluble jelly...imagine it washing up on shore...It's a nightmare, and yet, they are totally serious.
Its made out of a polyacrylamide and they have been granted a patent.
Seeing a demonstration of this compound is astonishing; a small sachet sprinkled into a large bowl of water instantly turned the entire volume of liquid into a jelly.
My only question is this; what will all the fish think of it?
This is just another example of why I am glad to live here in the United States of America. We may complain about things from time to time, but at least we do have more freedom of information and able to know more, then most other countries out there.
Americans 'know more then (sic) other countries"? Americans know NOTHING about the rest of the world; thats why half of them still think Saddam Hussein had something to do with 911. Thats why half of all congressmen do not have passports. That country has one of the most parochial populations of all the nations on earth, and this would be perfectly fine if it did not go smashing up other peoples countries on a regular basis.
You are anything BUT free in the USA, now more than ever. You cannot move your money where you like without reporting to your government, you cannot travel on an airplane without showing your papers just like the Soviet Russians ('Commies') had to, and just ask the peope in New Orleans who are being forcibly evicted from their houses by the army thanks to new 'emergency powers' taken by the state, namely, 'The Louisiana Homeland Security Act'.
You and all of your fellow ostrich posturing eloi colleagues are the most blind deaf and dumb sheeple that fine country ever produced, and you are the precise cause of the problem, because if you were awake, your government would be under control, and the world would be a safer place.
Even better:
Quinet.iq
And that's a prediction.
are bound to be:
high.iq and low.iq
The latter being reserved by the installed govt for W.
Heh!
dollars
Indeed.
I wonder how many of the people here railing against this detail-less deal downloaded and used MYSQL AND gave them a single dollar to say 'Thanks'....lets see:
mysql> select count(*) FROM users WHERE donators like %complainers%';
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 0 |
+----------+
Thought so!
And I quoth:
"It's over; we have the high ground!"
RP: The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign--over 95 percent of all the incidents--has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw.
h ttp://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html
TAC: That would seem to run contrary to a view that one heard during the American election campaign, put forth by people who favor Bush's policy. That is, we need to fight the terrorists over there, so we don't have to fight them here.
RP: Since suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation and not Islamic fundamentalism, the use of heavy military force to transform Muslim societies over there, if you would, is only likely to increase the number of suicide terrorists coming at us. [...]
http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html">
No one who knows anything about this thinks this has anything to do with religion.
It's your world view that is both simple and incorrect. It was very probably spoon fed to you by ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX... but thats not your fault.
If in the future there are 'cyper jihadists' you can instanly infer why the once imagined future has again not come to pass. The countries with the money will have been spending all their time and cash on war and imperialism instead of space exploration.
There would be no jihadists anywhere were it not for the ambitions of the USA, who would do well to spend all their excess money on new types of propulsion and space exploration, rather than getting eveyone in the world to eat Kentucky Fried Chicken and watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
That spawned a long lost memory in me...
Bluewave...
Xine and VLC play them both, and...its like pr0n; OSX running on intel, booting on a laptop FASTER than my G4 powerbook boots.
When someone makes a DVD image of this hideously complicated hack into a neat, apple-like installer that you can run off a single DVD, it will spread like wildfire.
A CDR of the Shopping habbits of 10 million people is private data.
Secret facts about a new planet kept secret on a server is information.
One wants to be free, the other does not.
This is not keeping two opposing ideas in your head at the same time; this is being able to distinguish between two ideas that only apear to be the same on the surface, due to the form that they take.
From the .nfo:
Release: Apple MacOS X Tiger *x86* *PROPER*
Type: OS
Format: ISO
Archives: 47x50mb
Date: 08/2005
System requirements: Intel Pentium 4 w/HT/1GB RAM/10GB+ HD
R E L E A S E N O T E S
Thanks to the guys at phe*NIX who released a non-working copy. Too bad we at XiSO had the OSX x86 DVD for a few weeks now, working hard on disabling the Infineon/Trusted Computing module which is present onboard of the "developer" Apple-Intel boxes. As some of you have heard, Rosetta, Apple's binary translation software used to convert PPC binaries to x86 bytecode at runtime is a primary user of this Trusted Computing module, and since majority of OSX Intel apps are actually PPC bins, not much of the OS is usable without this binary converter working. So we patched that, as well as a check during boot for "supported hardware". Enjoy!
I N S T A L L N O T E S
1. Burn to DVD using your favorite burning software.
2. Enjoy this fine release from XiSO.
3. This has been extensively tested on various hardware configurations, but you WILL NEED a SSE2+ enabled CPU to run this on. Also, this has *NOT* been tested, and not expected to work on AMD CPU's.
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3363864
That was quick.
You BASTARD you made me choke!
Skype is already slightly crippled because of an M$ patent covering 'the other person is typing'. They have not put in this very useful feature even though other clients have it and Skype is based outside the USA.
They also have a system that is directly affected by this patent. You can type an emoticon in a chat session and Skype will interpret it and display a custom emoticon instead of what you typed. Hello from Picassa/Google does this too.
Frankly, in light of the recent trashing of EU software patents I wish that Skype would just go ahead and put this feature in. Why should everyone in the world have to suffer crippled software because the US has a morally bankrupt patent office handing out nonsense patents like candy?
let me guess, a dead cyclops with its tounge sticking out?