Fine. Give them a couple of doses and, if it doesn't kill them or turn them purple with green spots, then slam in the implant. Or you could just slam in the implant and hope for the best. If it kills them... well, it probably saved a quarter of the Earth's population from an agonising protracted death from whatever mutie bug they were incubating. And it's not as if homo sapiens is an endangered species or anything.
You never hear people try to pass legislation to prevent the plumbers from making overtime, etc.
That's because there's only a very limited number of people that'll put up with being called at midnight to put their hand in other people's shit. Nobody want to be seen alienating plumbers (or whores), because they never know when they'll really, really need them.
I sure as heck don't need to show ID to get on a bus or a train...
I had to display my passport at boarding (out and return) when I bought a bus ticket from New York to Portland, Maine last year when I was travelling to my friends' wedding.
Of course, I'm not a USian (I'm from that well-known member of the Axis of Evil: Scotland, in the UK), and I was obviously acting shifty paying with cash. I paid cash to avoid overspending - I'd been unemployed for 2 years and the trip was being paid with travel agent's gift vouchers I'd gotten as a bonus 3 years before.
Nice to know that the most obvious way to live within your means is considered suspicious behaviour and an indicator of a threat to national security in the US of A.
What? You've only had a real name for a few months? Did you have a fake one like Phil McCrackin, Claude Bolz, or Bob Zyerunkle? That must be really wierd when you go to the trouble of showing folks your ID and they just take the piss.
I can see why you decided to get a real one. Mine real name's done fine for me for 3 decades now.
Except for the Queen. Prince Andrew did plenty of active service in the Falklands (in the HMS Brazen's helicopter, the Brazen Hussy). She's OK. A bit too rich maybe, but still OK.
The US in particular and the West in general doesn't realize that it's simultaneously educating its competitors and losing the skills needed to compete. In 10 years, all those hollow management-only companies will totally implode.
Yeah, but those new Indian start-ups will be funded by venture capital from the same people that created the investment banks and had seed money for IT companies, telecos, etc. here in the West. The same people, families, whatever, will be getting richer, the Indians will have a great time thinking they've got the tiger economy until it's rug-pulling time. The economic powerhouses seem to have been emigrating east since the industrial revolution: Britain and Europe, then the USA, then Japan, then Taiwan and Singapore, now India. Maybe some lucky Ethiopians are in for a shitload of IT contracts round about 2050.
The folks with the big money do this to stop everyone else having the werewithall to match their power (economic and otherwise) but still allowing people to delude themselves into thinking it something special about them, about their nation, that's allowing them to prosper. And they'll do this to the next round of dummies in about 20 years time again.
My only gripe about the way this stuff happens is that there should be more turnover at the top - you notice rich families aren't sending their sons and daughters to war now, what with death duties and all.
What gets me is that the biologists and taxonomists and other assorted animal philatelists discovered unmolested remains of a new type of super-sized squid and they thought to themselves "Hmmm... we need to give this big sucker a name, one that will fire the public's imagination 'cos calling it Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, well, it sucks. Got it! The Colossal squid!"
What about KRAKEN? It's what other humans have been calling the big suckers for about 2.5 centuries now. Biologists renaming the creature (and poorly too) is nothing but arrogance. It's like other human beings without PhDs couldn't spot a new species. You can just imagine any poor sailor that'd actually seen one of these deep-sea puppies at the dockside trying to explain to a nimrod labcoat "No! No! I keep telling you: it wasn't a giant squid - it was a MOTHER-FUCKING ENORMOUS FUCKING MONSTER squid!"
Anyway, poetry to add a breath of life into your stale, sterile, buttoned-down, airbag-cushioned existences:
Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Yeah, that's right: Kraken's got better poets working for him than that big insaniac douche-bag Cthulhu.
C1 and C2 carbonaceous chondrites (water- and carbon-bearing asteroids). Smash those puppies into the surface after stealing them from the asteroid belt. You get a bunch of carbon into the atmosphere on the way in and from the crap kicked back up on impact, and a pile of complex carbon molecules and other assorted chemical goodies in a handy lump on the surface. No more prospecting. You can use the stuff for fuel, chemical engineering, whatever.
A. It will be a cool show.
B. I will give shit about martians when they stop being stuck-up and start talking to us.
C. The martians won't be a problem after this anyway.
So, let just do it! C'mon - it'll be fun!
But... it'd be easier to do on the Moon and the manufactured products would be closer to Earth. Plus the Moon is stone cold dead and it's got more sunlight for solar energy (if you're into that tree-hugging hippy crap) to run your factories (just burning the organic molecules is a bit of a waste). And we'd be able to see the show without telescopes.
So, everybody's in agreement then - we blow up the Moon.
Given that their site & publication is called The Linux Weekly News, I doubt they give a flying fuck about terminal emulators for Windows.
You reckon? PuTTY's what I always use to access my Linux box at home (and every other unix flavour at work) from Windows. It is the gold standard for terminal emulators, and is the standard the others should be aiming for. If the guys designing terminal emulators under Linux don't know about it, they should. It's all about working with Linux after all, and PuTTY helps you do that.
I don't like cell-phone games because they suck! 3D games are fine and all, but I could spend HOURS playing Galaga, Commander Keen, and other great 2D games with "cartoon" graphics.
If only they were available for phones, that is.
There's e-MAME for the Sony Ericsson P800/P900, and other versions for other phones. Download that, steal^H^H^H^H^H legally obtain the ROMs for Galaga and, hey presto!
You're on your own with Commander Keen though. There was a movement in the forums to assault id HQ and set the code free like so many cosmetic lab puppies, but they pussied out on that. So you've either got to do it on your own ninja-style (then get arrested, imprisoned, etc.), re-write it for a mobile phone (then get sued), or just forget about Keen. Just let him go man - he'd be there for you if it was meant to be.
Jesus, the poor bastard asked for advice and you send him towards that nasty, dirty Colt POS. He should get himself one of these. Then he wouldn't be spending all his time cleaning the damn thing instead of... oh. I think I'll just shut up now.
... "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. Forget about how damn clever you think you are, just remember that all anybody has ever really been doing is trying to give you a boost when they tell you you're clever. You're not that clever. No-one is. Everybody has their own talents (and deficiencies) and people deserve respect, not some teenage nitwit telling them they're all dummies in comparison to him. Try to be clever and and 'beat' people in arguments and you'll only piss people off.
You want to learn something useful: it's better to be kind than clever.
I made a mistake there - the Medal of Honor has only ever been awarded to 2 conscientous objectors: Desmond Doss (a Seventh Day Adventist, in WWII) and Thomas W. Bennett in Viet Nam).
I think we can all see where my brain-fart originated.
It's a serious thing to strike people from the Roll (it indicates poor judgement on the part of the awards committee and trivialises other recipient's awards i.e. "If that clown could get one, what's mine worth?") and I don't think it's ever done for whimsical reasons or at the behest of any individual. I see your point but everything given can be taken away.
In this case, it'd be like finding an officer cheated regularly in their promotion boards and falsified unit readiness reports. What's that in the US Army? Stripped of rank, some time in Leavenworth, and dishonorably discharged? At the very least. You wouldn't be keeping your rank and medals for civilian life.
This German PhD^H^H^H guy was stripped of rank for perfectly good reasons. A PhD is the recognition of your peers that you are fit to carry out significant research without direct supervision, basically that you can be trusted to do it right. The people that recognised him in the first place no longer believe he deserves their trust. So no PhD.
Unless he can convince another university to award him one. Apparently he's a hard-working scientist, so if he stops being a hard-working liar maybe he can earn another PhD. To err is human, to forgive divine.
p.s. Doing my bit of research I found out another marvellous fact: the Medal of Honor has been awarded to 7 conscientious objectors for their bravery so far, the last being Combat Medic Thomas W. Bennett in Viet Nam. You don't have to kill anyone to win it.
whatever happens "after the fact" had no bearing upon the decision by the commitee to grant the PhD in the first place. it would be like taking away the Medal of Honor from a veteran, whom a commitee determined had accomplished a certain feat, for refusing to participate in a future conflict. it does not change what happened previously.
I checked, and people have been stripped Medals of Honor (technically their entries in the Roll of Navy Medals of Honor have been purged) for misbehaviour after the medal was issued. 7 were stripped for desertion (indicating a strong refusal to participate in further conflicts) and 1 for misconduct. The rest of the entries purged might have been due to medals issued in error. 911 other Medals of Honor (from the Roll of Army Medals of Honor) were also purged, but that had nothing to do with malfeasance (except maybe on the part of whoever promised US Civil War veterans those medals for re-enlisting).
So, there's definitely a precedent for this sort of action if you're making an analogy to the Medal of Honor. The analogy's wrong anyway - the Medal of Honor would be winning a Nobel prize, a PhD's more like making Major.
BT will spend around 3bn on the project - more than the annual spend on Britain's main roads
By about 2.9bn judging from our motorways
Leaving 10,000,000 for jeans that expose the workman's crack for every guy on site and 90,000,000 on NHS psychiatric treatments for those traumatised by the sight of acres of flabby, hairy arse flesh. Isn't it nice when the sums come out right?
The positioning of the circles with respect to the other circles is very important. Unless you've got an extremely flat abdomen, the positioning will get screwed up. And well, this being/. and all, I kinda doubt that you have such abs:-)
I have flat abs. But that's because I'm skinny anyway. Yeah it'd be hard to get a match off just one instance of the constellation, but you only have to get one set IDed. So cover the t-shirt in the pattern and if any one of them gets picked out, then the magic kicks in. You could also have patterns in different sizes to help with scale matching and stuff. I'll also bet that it's a fairly loose match the algorithms looking for, erring on the side of caution (as far as the EU governments are concerned), so close enough should work.
I, for one, welcome our new EU Overlords. They ain't too bright.
My dad was telling me about some of his work on old custom computer equipment back in the 70s or 80s. Basically, people were saying you couldn't do regular text along with graphics on the video equipment used, but he showed that you could; he switched video modes in the middle of screen refreshes.
That's how Elite for the BBC worked. Mode 1 (hi-res monochrome) for the spaceship vector graphics and then it would switch to mode 4 (low-res 4 colours) for the instrumentation about 4/5ths of the way through the screen. I was way impressed when I heard what the talented Messrs Braben and Bell had done (but I've no idea who actually did the nifty hack).
Someone else (not David Braben or Ian Bell) is working on a new version of Elite. Dunno much about it though, and it's still looks to be in the early stages of development. Plus it's all in German.
Aaahh, I'm getting all misty for the days where I could concentrate on playing 1 game for months at a time. That was playing a game properly. When being Elite meant something... (although I have to fess up to only being PC Elite, not BBC Elite).
And at some point I'll somehow figure out how to make a million dollars while sitting at home playing my Playstation, too.
Hey, that's my idea. And I'll thank you kindly from refraining from accomplishing said goal until I can patent that business method (and then license it to you at very reasonable rates) through the European Union's upcoming intellectual land-grab. I mean clarifications on patent law. Did I say land-grab? I meant nice clear laws. That's right: all nice and fair. Joe (or Jean or Jurgen) Pubic vs. every multi-national company on earth's legal department. That'll be an even playing field all right.
Anyway, point is: everyone that knows me knows that being lazy all my life was my idea and unless you thought of it over 32 years ago, I win.
But I feel validated learning that you came to the same conclusion;D
Let me get this straight; you're British but you don't like a nice ale-marinaded steak and kidney pie with chips and pies and a pint?
Kidneys sieve piss. That's the only reason I need.
Oh, and that crack about our leek-loving neighbours: we've already inflicted them on the Aussies and look at the damage that's done. No, we're safer with them where they are.
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No, we're just not.
Of course, I'm not a USian (I'm from that well-known member of the Axis of Evil: Scotland, in the UK), and I was obviously acting shifty paying with cash. I paid cash to avoid overspending - I'd been unemployed for 2 years and the trip was being paid with travel agent's gift vouchers I'd gotten as a bonus 3 years before.
Nice to know that the most obvious way to live within your means is considered suspicious behaviour and an indicator of a threat to national security in the US of A.
What? You've only had a real name for a few months? Did you have a fake one like Phil McCrackin, Claude Bolz, or Bob Zyerunkle? That must be really wierd when you go to the trouble of showing folks your ID and they just take the piss. I can see why you decided to get a real one. Mine real name's done fine for me for 3 decades now.
Except for the Queen. Prince Andrew did plenty of active service in the Falklands (in the HMS Brazen's helicopter, the Brazen Hussy). She's OK. A bit too rich maybe, but still OK.
Yeah, but those new Indian start-ups will be funded by venture capital from the same people that created the investment banks and had seed money for IT companies, telecos, etc. here in the West. The same people, families, whatever, will be getting richer, the Indians will have a great time thinking they've got the tiger economy until it's rug-pulling time. The economic powerhouses seem to have been emigrating east since the industrial revolution: Britain and Europe, then the USA, then Japan, then Taiwan and Singapore, now India. Maybe some lucky Ethiopians are in for a shitload of IT contracts round about 2050.
The folks with the big money do this to stop everyone else having the werewithall to match their power (economic and otherwise) but still allowing people to delude themselves into thinking it something special about them, about their nation, that's allowing them to prosper. And they'll do this to the next round of dummies in about 20 years time again.
My only gripe about the way this stuff happens is that there should be more turnover at the top - you notice rich families aren't sending their sons and daughters to war now, what with death duties and all.
What about KRAKEN? It's what other humans have been calling the big suckers for about 2.5 centuries now. Biologists renaming the creature (and poorly too) is nothing but arrogance. It's like other human beings without PhDs couldn't spot a new species. You can just imagine any poor sailor that'd actually seen one of these deep-sea puppies at the dockside trying to explain to a nimrod labcoat "No! No! I keep telling you: it wasn't a giant squid - it was a MOTHER-FUCKING ENORMOUS FUCKING MONSTER squid!"
Anyway, poetry to add a breath of life into your stale, sterile, buttoned-down, airbag-cushioned existences:
Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Yeah, that's right: Kraken's got better poets working for him than that big insaniac douche-bag Cthulhu.
So, let just do it! C'mon - it'll be fun!
But... it'd be easier to do on the Moon and the manufactured products would be closer to Earth. Plus the Moon is stone cold dead and it's got more sunlight for solar energy (if you're into that tree-hugging hippy crap) to run your factories (just burning the organic molecules is a bit of a waste). And we'd be able to see the show without telescopes.
So, everybody's in agreement then - we blow up the Moon.
You're on your own with Commander Keen though. There was a movement in the forums to assault id HQ and set the code free like so many cosmetic lab puppies, but they pussied out on that. So you've either got to do it on your own ninja-style (then get arrested, imprisoned, etc.), re-write it for a mobile phone (then get sued), or just forget about Keen. Just let him go man - he'd be there for you if it was meant to be.
This is more of a dialectic than a debate, I think. What do you think?
Jesus, the poor bastard asked for advice and you send him towards that nasty, dirty Colt POS. He should get himself one of these. Then he wouldn't be spending all his time cleaning the damn thing instead of... oh. I think I'll just shut up now.
Although I'd make the case that one tells you to get involved and the other tells you how to suceed when you get involved.
OK, OK, I know - bullshit rationalisation. So, the next useful tip is: be a better liar.
You want to learn something useful: it's better to be kind than clever.
I think we can all see where my brain-fart originated.
In this case, it'd be like finding an officer cheated regularly in their promotion boards and falsified unit readiness reports. What's that in the US Army? Stripped of rank, some time in Leavenworth, and dishonorably discharged? At the very least. You wouldn't be keeping your rank and medals for civilian life.
This German PhD^H^H^H guy was stripped of rank for perfectly good reasons. A PhD is the recognition of your peers that you are fit to carry out significant research without direct supervision, basically that you can be trusted to do it right. The people that recognised him in the first place no longer believe he deserves their trust. So no PhD.
Unless he can convince another university to award him one. Apparently he's a hard-working scientist, so if he stops being a hard-working liar maybe he can earn another PhD. To err is human, to forgive divine.
p.s. Doing my bit of research I found out another marvellous fact: the Medal of Honor has been awarded to 7 conscientious objectors for their bravery so far, the last being Combat Medic Thomas W. Bennett in Viet Nam. You don't have to kill anyone to win it.
So, there's definitely a precedent for this sort of action if you're making an analogy to the Medal of Honor. The analogy's wrong anyway - the Medal of Honor would be winning a Nobel prize, a PhD's more like making Major.
I, for one, welcome our new EU Overlords. They ain't too bright.
That's how Elite for the BBC worked. Mode 1 (hi-res monochrome) for the spaceship vector graphics and then it would switch to mode 4 (low-res 4 colours) for the instrumentation about 4/5ths of the way through the screen. I was way impressed when I heard what the talented Messrs Braben and Bell had done (but I've no idea who actually did the nifty hack).
Someone else (not David Braben or Ian Bell) is working on a new version of Elite. Dunno much about it though, and it's still looks to be in the early stages of development. Plus it's all in German.
Aaahh, I'm getting all misty for the days where I could concentrate on playing 1 game for months at a time. That was playing a game properly. When being Elite meant something... (although I have to fess up to only being PC Elite, not BBC Elite).
Hey, that's my idea. And I'll thank you kindly from refraining from accomplishing said goal until I can patent that business method (and then license it to you at very reasonable rates) through the European Union's upcoming intellectual land-grab. I mean clarifications on patent law. Did I say land-grab? I meant nice clear laws. That's right: all nice and fair. Joe (or Jean or Jurgen) Pubic vs. every multi-national company on earth's legal department. That'll be an even playing field all right.
Anyway, point is: everyone that knows me knows that being lazy all my life was my idea and unless you thought of it over 32 years ago, I win.
But I feel validated learning that you came to the same conclusion ;D
... And the people that it said didn't even know they were under suspicion.
Kidneys sieve piss. That's the only reason I need.
Oh, and that crack about our leek-loving neighbours: we've already inflicted them on the Aussies and look at the damage that's done. No, we're safer with them where they are.
What else is uniquely British that we'd want to entice the Americans into 'stealing' in a sort of 'You touched it last! It's your's now!' way?
7. Inalienable human rights (Magna Carta)
8. Liberal democracy (John Stuart Mill, John Locke, etc., etc...)
but the Americans don't seem to be using them any more. Can you send them back to Britain please if you're finished with them please?