I'm tempted to go figure out how that BitTorrent thing works, more for the sake of avoiding Sci-Fi's extensive commercials (and seeing the stuff they cut to make time for them) than out of impatience to see the other - what, seven episodes? (Litmus, tonight, is the sixth.)
After all, that sort of thing is supposedly what my broadband connection is for.
...even if that kind of detection was for real, he'd have serious problems using it in later episodes. And no, I'm not talking about his losing precious parts of his body.
Well, one _would_ commission women to perform such a test on the men...
That's why he went the real nerd way, and got his _detection_ elsewhere in the science lab...
So, I've gathered that Gaius comes up with a real, functional, Cylon test, but then fudges his results. Typical of his fscking up. Is this in Litmus Test? Please don't tell me anything more, because it'll be aired in a few hours here, and I'll have to see it to believe it.
What do you mean, that he's got it in his brain together with No. 6's "image"?
No, it's in his _other_ head! Read what I wrote again. Or watch Baltar's first scene in the miniseries/pilot, about 24-26 minutes in (to Sci-Fi's broadcast, with their 5-minute commercial breaks).
Spoiler snipped - we haven't seen that in the US, so it hasn't happened yet.
Oh, no, no way. The question came in in a piece of fanmail. Bamber & Callis found it "a little too amusing".
I think both of their characters are supposed to be pretty straight. Baltar certainly appears to be, although I've heard pathological sexual addiction such as his attributed to repressed homosexuality. I cannot, however, see the Suits thinking on that level.
Apollo is IMHO in considerable danger, over the long term, of being nailed by Starbuck. You hide & watch, and give 'em a couple years to fly together and run out of subplots. They'll probably get stranded somewhere, this worked for Worf & Ezri, and Janeway & Paris, and Hawkeye & Houlihan, and (almost but not quite) Picard & Crusher, and...
HMmmm... I wonder if any BSG:TOS fanfic ever paird up Apollo and Starbuck...
How often does this documentary air?
I dunno. I caught it when Sci-Fi was rerunning the miniseries/pilot. Maybe you might get it from BitTorrent? It's the sort of thing the Suits shouldn't object to being passed around, I would think, but then, I don't think like Suits. You might find some of it here.
"...bringing Starbuck to life was over the dead imaginations of a lot of Network Executives. Every character trait I struggled to give him was met with vigourous resistance. A charming womaniser? The "Suits" (Network Executives) hated it. A cigar (fumerello) smoker? The Suits hated it. A reluctant hero who found humour in the bleakest of situations? The Suits hated it. All this negative feedback convinced me I was on the right track.
"...Show Business has been morphing for many decades now and has finally become Biz Business. The creative artists have lost and the Suits have won. Suits. Administrators. Technocrats. Metro-sexual money-men (and women) who create formulas to guarantee profit margins. Because movies and television shows are not made to enlighten or even entertain but simply to make money.
"...Harvard Business School Technocrats run Hollywood and what Technocrats know is what must be removed from all business is Risk. And I tell you life, real life, is all about risk. I tell you that without risk you have no creativity, no art. I tell you that without risk you have Remakes. You have Charlie's Angels, The Saint, Mission Impossible, The A-Team (coming soon) Battlestar Galactica. All risk-free brand names, franchises.
Don't forget Star Wars. And we can now add Star Trek to that list. Enterprise was obviously supposed to be a safe moneymaker, but the Suits got ahold of it, removed all remnants of risk, and thereby screwed it beyond hope. Thank you, Dirk, for pointing your cigar directly at the crux of the problem.
Right On. That's just the stuff about Network Suits. There's plenty about feminism, too, which I don't disagree with but I don't want to end up quoting his entire piece.
Go read for yourself, MUYOM (Make Up Your Own Mind) that's what it's for.
in the documentary, and they're both British, and IMHO they're both gay.
Maybe it was their accents, or maybe it was the way they giggled like schoolgirls at a question about a gay character on BSG.
There was discussion about how a Yank would pronounce the word "bugger". Neither one understood that we don't use the word as a general curse the way the Brits do. It has a much more specific meaning over here.
YMMV. Watch the documentary and make up your own mind.
The blonde screwed Dr. Baltar's brains out for a couple o' years. She also helped him debug the software he sold to the defense department. While she was at it, she built major backdoors into all this software, and had a go at the central defense mainframe as well. Through these backdoors, the Cylons were able to take out the human defense systems with barely any fight. It's all more or less Baltar's fault, for watching her tits instead of her changelogs. About the time the bombs started falling she told Baltar she's a Cylon, an android, a baddie. She's model Six out of twelve. Dr. Baltar's mind has snapped from the guilt, lust, and fear of discovery. Although number Six didn't make it off Caprica with him, he still sees her, in his head. She taunts him, and she screws him, usually at the most inappropriate times.
Boomer is a Cylon also, we don't know which model. There's one of her on Caprica and another on the Galactica, and neither one knows she's a Cylon. Little things, like waking up soaking wet with an extra bomb in her duffel bag the night before the water tanks all blow up, make her suspect that something's terribly wrong, but she's in fear and denial. She's screwing the hanger chief, but Col. Tighe (or maybe it was Adama) has told her to knock that off. Chief Tyrol helps her cover her tracks.
Starbuck screwed Zak Adama so senseless that he couldn't fly his Viper straight, and he crashed and was killed. That was a couple of years ago. She blames herself, 'cuz she was his instructor, and she could tell he wasn't up to it, but she passed him anyway because she wanted to marry him. Adama blames himself for Zak's death, because he pushed Zak into becoming a fighter pilot when he really wasn't good enough at it. Apollo blames 'em both, and doesn't hesitate to lay on the guilt every chance he gets. My money sez he wishes he was the one that Starbuck had screwed cross-eyed. Maybe he'll get his chance, someday.
Of course the Cylons are chasing them all, and are a LOT more numerous and better organized. The only real chance the hew-mons have is that these new Cylons are at least as horny as they are, and they seem to really dig screwing humans. I don't (yet) see how that can be used to the humans' advantage, but they're beat from every other direction.
That example of Firefly stood out because it bothered me right then....
Then you _need_ to watch those DVDs, in the commentary of which Joss apologizes for this. He did it for the drama of the story, and after it was done it looked wierd to him, too. It was of course too late to fix it.
There are 2 shows in the DVDs that were never aired. One of them (Objects In Space) is outstanding, and when you run out you can always watch 'em again. The surprises aren't there, but there's enough in them that you'll see things on the second (and third) pass which you miss on the first.
Nonetheless it still hurts - almost physically - to know that there will probably be no more. The movie cannot possibly satisfy my jones for about six more years of Firefly.
There's NO intelligent life among the network suits who choose which shows we'll get to see. Firefly's cancellation, after barely half a season, proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
If Viacom wants to own The Next Fifty Years of the Star Trek universe, they simply are going to HAVE to show us the Romulan War, and they're going to have to do it rather well. They've taken four years to get anywhere near it with ST:Enterprise, and pretty much screwed it up. After 'Revenge Of The Sith' I sorta doubt that the quality bar for the Interplanetary War As Entertainment industry is going to be set real high.
With the WWW and the Usenet in the state they are today, fan-based life support for Star Trek will be _much_ more fun than watching Cathedral-style canon. If it wasn't for the fact that 1) Viacom owns all the copyrights and 2) they're pretty territorial about 'em, I'd say: "fsck Viacom, we can do better ourselves".
Boomer was the calm cool collected black man who always had Starbuck's back. Now, we have a whiny asian girl that maybe a cylon...
May be a Cylon? I guess you haven't seen that _other_ Boomer, have you?
I too was surprised at how easily Katie Sackhoff fits the Starbuck character. It works because she's not quite (but almost) as pretty as Dirk Benedict, and the resemblence gets stronger when she sticks a cigar in her mouth.
I was never that involved with the old BSG. It was OK, in its day. It cut new ground and its effects were Star Wars-era, tuned down in co$t for TV. The concept is now about thirty years old. They'll keep me interested for a while, by turning up the $effects and $CheesCake variables to 21st-Century standards, but really, it's been done before.
I find the only really refreshing character to be Gaius Baltar. I never understood the old Baltar's motivation. How could one sell out one's _entire_ species? The new guy, now, is clearly half self-centered and half hypnotized by his Cylon biatch. I can get there, no problem. Poor sap, he's been totally played.
The Cylons. Okay....a tad bit more intimidating. I will give you that.
Look for shots of Baltar & Number Six in the pilot. She's taller than him! If you've ever had a girlfriend whom you had to look up at, you know how scary this can be, even if the difference is really only the heels of her shoes.
...I want to hear at least a few more "By your command"s
Hasn't anybody said that yet?? A serious omission. 'Twould be amusing to see Boomer say this, maybe to Adama. He'd probably miss it.
I can't say I hate it, but the Million$ being poured into it would, IMHO, be far better spent making more Firefly. Or Farscape, haven't seen that yet.
...they were stupid and stopped to help some one. won't make that mistake again.
If you can regard stopping to get hijacked by Claudia Black(can't link directly to her photo) as "a stupid mistake we won't need to repeat", I'm sorry, I can't help you. I'd rather wait in line for a chance to get beat up by her. 'Prometheus Unbound' has to rank as THE best SG-1 episode I've ever seen (not that that's really an extensive statistical sample, YMMV).
V1@gr4, C|al1$, 0xycOnt1n and the rest of those (the real ones) are PRESCRIPTION drugs - "Controlled Substances" - the distribution of which (without proper licensing & documentation) is a Big Federal Felony(tm). Anyone "selling" any of those things on the Internet is selling - at best - fakes, and is more likely a simple fraud.
Even if they're doing it from offshore, selling the REAL stuff (particularly narcotics like Oxyc0d0ne) is a big enough crime (in the US) to obtain action from Interpol resulting in extradition of the offenders. These are scams, every bit as much as Muhammed Al-Quedah, who wants to cut you in on the $22e6 which he skimmed out of Sadam's treasury, and now needs your (confidential) help to get it out of the Netherlands.
Take note of: 1)The date 2)This was written by a Canadian
And where was the rest of the world last summer, when Florida was pounded, four times, by hurricanes?
Oh, right. Bitching about our overthrow of Saddam's government, that's where. As if the world isn't a better place with him sitting in a jail cell.
And, for the record, we hardly devastated Iraq. We were careful to avoid damaging things like water works and electric power distribution, probably because it was pretty obvious that we'd be rebuilding those things as soon as the shooting quieted down. The worst damage has been done by ba'athist loyalists, trying to keep the fighting going. According to the interim prime minister, the majority of Iraq is peaceful and happy to see America there, it's only a tiny minority that are dressing up in explosive vests and bombing the (combined American-Iraqui military) mess hall, and kidnapping and beheading the contracters we're hiring to keep the power plants and cellphone stations up.
Unless you're Kim Il-Jung, you _really_ do not have a helluva lot to worry about from America. We as a people find invading other countries distasteful. We learned that lesson well in Vietnam. It's only when we're pretty directly threatened that we will defend ourselves, and the rest of the world, too, if necessary.
It is only natural that American Media won't tell about the people the US Military killed in Iraq.
That's simply wrong. Just the other night I was watching US Marines get shot at from some stone house someplace in Iraq. There was much confusion, yelling, and scrambling around. Finally a grenade got thrown into a window. After it went off all of the shooting suddenly stopped, the only noise left was someone screaming. A Marine went up to the window, stuck his rifle muzzle in, took a look in after it, and fired a single shot. The screaming stopped. "He's gone", the Marine said as he turned around and walked away.
So yeah, they're telling us about the people the military killed, and is still killing, in Iraq. We also get photos of every car bomb that goes off, complete with body counts, of both American and Iraqui soldiers killed. They do not bother to count the insurgents killed...
Did it ever occur to you that the media show people might have wanted to take five minutes to put a factual story together, and took the opportunity to cut to commercials whilst they did, because they _knew_ they wouldn't be breaking again for at least the next hour?
I can tell you this: Any graduate from CTI in the past 20 years must be smarter than all of the programmers what's left of the Internet Explorer unit combined!
Exactly. Any graduate from DePaul knows what Micro$oft is, and if a Micro$oft employee doesn't know what DePaul is, well that's purty damn dumb.
Ditch the... command-line interfaces, and maybe Linux will be ready for the desktop.
NO, I WON'T! I just got the "terminal app" (Qterm) installed on my Zaurus and I realize that it's what I've been missing all along. Now I can finally _move_files_ to/from the CF card into the "Documents" directory which is the _only_ place the "Text Editor" can open anything from. Now I can finally delete all those backups that filled up my old CF card. Now I finally have some interaction with my machine beyond the point & drool interface. Now to get some tiny emacs emulator into it, so I'll have a REAL editor!
I DON'T CARE if the laiety is 'intimidated' by "bash:~$", I UNDERSTAND IT, I LIKE IT, I WANT IT, AND YOU'LL GET IT AWAY FROM ME WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD FINGERS!!!
No, wait - not even then - because I HAVE THE SOURCE CODE!!!!!!
In fairness, the gooey _is_ improving, and is nearly "fully functional". I've been using (I think) metacity for a couple of weeks now, and there's a buttload of stuff available on the menus and it all seems to work. But where's grep? gzip? They're probably there somewhere, but WHY should I have to look down five layers of silly menus when I KNOW all I _really_ need to do is type `modconf`? You want user-friendly? Turn on filename completion, there's user-friendliness for ya.
To get somewhere near the topic, there are some real gems in that article, like: "Immutable Law of Security #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer any more."
Someone's already pointed out that that Bad Guy == Bill Gates.
"This is what the `Secure Deployment' part of Microsoft's SD3+C campaign is all about; we design and develop secure software..."
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahah Oh, stop. Please.
"I personally don't care if people choose to run Firefox or Linux or any other software on their computers..."
Bwahahaha I bet you don't. You may not personally, but the public stance of your employer is that that awful GPL has gotta go.
"...we'll never get past the spyware / adware problem if people continue to think that installing unsigned code from random web sites is A Good Idea."
Hehe. I'm writing this on a machine which has had practiclly ALL of its software (_including_ Mozilla, Firefox & Thunderbird) loaded by apt (which I assume checks the MD5s, for download integrity if nothing else) from us.debian.org, non-us.debian.org, & security.debian.org, ALL of which I trust one helluva lot more than msn.com & microsoft.com! This may not be the majority approach, but it works for me, I'm certain there are at least a couple of other guys around here doing the same, and I advocate it to all.
None of the "unsigned code from random websites" seems to work on my system, so I don't bother with it. This locks me out of a few websites I guess, but I'd rather have a computer that I can trust.
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Powering the thing is a _serious_ issue in the third world, where electricity is either unavailable or relatively expensive, and $1 is a day's income - IF you have a job which pays money, which most do not.
I can't imagine what the people in the farming villages would do with a computer anyway, without an Internet connection, which is out of the question. Outside of a city, land lines are nonexistant. A satellite link is about the only connection, and co$t$ $80/month, which would be a significant fraction of the income of a village. Someone else mentioned that it would take an entire village to come up with $100, and that's not an exaggeration. What these villages could _really_ use might be: 1. Power Line Modems (for the ones which _have_ power) and 2. Wireless ethernet, with directional antennas capable of links of several miles. OH - and, solar power, definately.
Maybe in town, where DSL is available and jobs are more common, a DSL connection might be affordable if shared between a dozen households. Maybe. The rich kids paying $.60/hr in parlors to play multiplayer FPS won't be interested in this box.
School kids might use these (in town & out, without Internet), but they won't touch 'em without WinBloze, especially when their teachers issue and expect Word documents. Forget the co$t of M$, they pay $3 for a bootleg, and the Emperor is fine with that. Ballmer wants a $100 _PC_ to insure Imperial penetration into these markets, (especially the schools,) before that horrible GPL software, on some cheaper platform, can get a foothold.
The BIG question is not "Will it run Linux?", but "Will it run LoseXP?"
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Thanx.
I'm tempted to go figure out how that BitTorrent thing works, more for the sake of avoiding Sci-Fi's extensive commercials (and seeing the stuff they cut to make time for them) than out of impatience to see the other - what, seven episodes? (Litmus, tonight, is the sixth.)
After all, that sort of thing is supposedly what my broadband connection is for.
...even if that kind of detection was for real, he'd have serious problems using it in later episodes. And no, I'm not talking about his losing precious parts of his body.
Well, one _would_ commission women to perform such a test on the men...
That's why he went the real nerd way, and got his _detection_ elsewhere in the science lab...
So, I've gathered that Gaius comes up with a real, functional, Cylon test, but then fudges his results. Typical of his fscking up. Is this in Litmus Test? Please don't tell me anything more, because it'll be aired in a few hours here, and I'll have to see it to believe it.
AND that Tyrel has _never_ had Sharon from behind, either?
Give me a break!
Maybe Six would avoid such positions, but Boomer couldn't even know.
Remember the way Number Six' whole spine got red hot when she rode him?
Are we to believe that in two years, he's _never_ done her doggy style?
This is the sort of flaw the critics bitch about.
What do you mean, that he's got it in his brain together with No. 6's "image"?
No, it's in his _other_ head! Read what I wrote again. Or watch Baltar's first scene in the miniseries/pilot, about 24-26 minutes in (to Sci-Fi's broadcast, with their 5-minute commercial breaks).
Spoiler snipped - we haven't seen that in the US, so it hasn't happened yet.
Is that what the documentary implied?
Oh, no, no way. The question came in in a piece of fanmail. Bamber & Callis found it "a little too amusing".
I think both of their characters are supposed to be pretty straight. Baltar certainly appears to be, although I've heard pathological sexual addiction such as his attributed to repressed homosexuality. I cannot, however, see the Suits thinking on that level.
Apollo is IMHO in considerable danger, over the long term, of being nailed by Starbuck. You hide & watch, and give 'em a couple years to fly together and run out of subplots. They'll probably get stranded somewhere, this worked for Worf & Ezri, and Janeway & Paris, and Hawkeye & Houlihan, and (almost but not quite) Picard & Crusher, and...
HMmmm... I wonder if any BSG:TOS fanfic ever paird up Apollo and Starbuck...
How often does this documentary air?
I dunno. I caught it when Sci-Fi was rerunning the miniseries/pilot.
Maybe you might get it from BitTorrent? It's the sort of thing the Suits shouldn't object to being passed around, I would think, but then, I don't think like Suits.
You might find some of it here.
Don't forget Star Wars. And we can now add Star Trek to that list. Enterprise was obviously supposed to be a safe moneymaker, but the Suits got ahold of it, removed all remnants of risk, and thereby screwed it beyond hope. Thank you, Dirk, for pointing your cigar directly at the crux of the problem.
Right On. That's just the stuff about Network Suits.
There's plenty about feminism, too, which I don't disagree with but I don't want to end up quoting his entire piece.
Go read for yourself, MUYOM (Make Up Your Own Mind) that's what it's for.
I think she's doing a fine job.
She punched the frackin' XO. The asshole deserved it.
But I still like Firefly _much_ better.
And Zoe would kick her silly little tail.
in the documentary, and they're both British, and IMHO they're both gay.
Maybe it was their accents, or maybe it was the way they giggled like schoolgirls at a question about a gay character on BSG.
There was discussion about how a Yank would pronounce the word "bugger". Neither one understood that we don't use the word as a general curse the way the Brits do.
It has a much more specific meaning over here.
YMMV. Watch the documentary and make up your own mind.
Lessee....
The blonde screwed Dr. Baltar's brains out for a couple o' years.
She also helped him debug the software he sold to the defense department.
While she was at it, she built major backdoors into all this software, and had a go at the central defense mainframe as well.
Through these backdoors, the Cylons were able to take out the human defense systems with barely any fight. It's all more or less Baltar's fault, for watching her tits instead of her changelogs.
About the time the bombs started falling she told Baltar she's a Cylon, an android, a baddie. She's model Six out of twelve.
Dr. Baltar's mind has snapped from the guilt, lust, and fear of discovery. Although number Six didn't make it off Caprica with him, he still sees her, in his head. She taunts him, and she screws him, usually at the most inappropriate times.
Boomer is a Cylon also, we don't know which model.
There's one of her on Caprica and another on the Galactica, and neither one knows she's a Cylon.
Little things, like waking up soaking wet with an extra bomb in her duffel bag the night before the water tanks all blow up, make her suspect that something's terribly wrong, but she's in fear and denial.
She's screwing the hanger chief, but Col. Tighe (or maybe it was Adama) has told her to knock that off. Chief Tyrol helps her cover her tracks.
Starbuck screwed Zak Adama so senseless that he couldn't fly his Viper straight, and he crashed and was killed. That was a couple of years ago.
She blames herself, 'cuz she was his instructor, and she could tell he wasn't up to it, but she passed him anyway because she wanted to marry him.
Adama blames himself for Zak's death, because he pushed Zak into becoming a fighter pilot when he really wasn't good enough at it.
Apollo blames 'em both, and doesn't hesitate to lay on the guilt every chance he gets. My money sez he wishes he was the one that Starbuck had screwed cross-eyed. Maybe he'll get his chance, someday.
Of course the Cylons are chasing them all, and are a LOT more numerous and better organized.
The only real chance the hew-mons have is that these new Cylons are at least as horny as they are, and they seem to really dig screwing humans. I don't (yet) see how that can be used to the humans' advantage, but they're beat from every other direction.
That example of Firefly stood out because it bothered me right then....
Then you _need_ to watch those DVDs, in the commentary of which Joss apologizes for this. He did it for the drama of the story, and after it was done it looked wierd to him, too. It was of course too late to fix it.
There are 2 shows in the DVDs that were never aired. One of them (Objects In Space) is outstanding, and when you run out you can always watch 'em again. The surprises aren't there, but there's enough in them that you'll see things on the second (and third) pass which you miss on the first.
Nonetheless it still hurts - almost physically - to know that there will probably be no more. The movie cannot possibly satisfy my jones for about six more years of Firefly.
There's NO intelligent life among the network suits who choose which shows we'll get to see. Firefly's cancellation, after barely half a season, proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
If Viacom wants to own The Next Fifty Years of the Star Trek universe, they simply are going to HAVE to show us the Romulan War, and they're going to have to do it rather well. They've taken four years to get anywhere near it with ST:Enterprise, and pretty much screwed it up. After 'Revenge Of The Sith' I sorta doubt that the quality bar for the Interplanetary War As Entertainment industry is going to be set real high.
With the WWW and the Usenet in the state they are today, fan-based life support for Star Trek will be _much_ more fun than watching Cathedral-style canon. If it wasn't for the fact that 1) Viacom owns all the copyrights and 2) they're pretty territorial about 'em, I'd say: "fsck Viacom, we can do better ourselves".
Gee, they've had me fooled since Tricia Helfer took off her panties and rode her guy until she was orange-hot.
and doesn't even know it.
Remember the way Number Six' whole spine got red hot when she rode him?
A complete giveaway.
Boomer was the calm cool collected black man who always had Starbuck's back. Now, we have a whiny asian girl that maybe a cylon...
...I want to hear at least a few more "By your command"s
May be a Cylon? I guess you haven't seen that _other_ Boomer, have you?
I too was surprised at how easily Katie Sackhoff fits the Starbuck character. It works because she's not quite (but almost) as pretty as Dirk Benedict, and the resemblence gets stronger when she sticks a cigar in her mouth.
I was never that involved with the old BSG. It was OK, in its day. It cut new ground and its effects were Star Wars-era, tuned down in co$t for TV. The concept is now about thirty years old. They'll keep me interested for a while, by turning up the $effects and $CheesCake variables to 21st-Century standards, but really, it's been done before.
I find the only really refreshing character to be Gaius Baltar. I never understood the old Baltar's motivation. How could one sell out one's _entire_ species? The new guy, now, is clearly half self-centered and half hypnotized by his Cylon biatch. I can get there, no problem. Poor sap, he's been totally played.
The Cylons. Okay....a tad bit more intimidating. I will give you that.
Look for shots of Baltar & Number Six in the pilot. She's taller than him! If you've ever had a girlfriend whom you had to look up at, you know how scary this can be, even if the difference is really only the heels of her shoes.
Hasn't anybody said that yet?? A serious omission. 'Twould be amusing to see Boomer say this, maybe to Adama. He'd probably miss it.
I can't say I hate it, but the Million$ being poured into it would, IMHO, be far better spent making more Firefly. Or Farscape, haven't seen that yet.
...they were stupid and stopped to help some one. won't make that mistake again.
If you can regard stopping to get hijacked by Claudia Black(can't link directly to her photo) as "a stupid mistake we won't need to repeat", I'm sorry, I can't help you. I'd rather wait in line for a chance to get beat up by her. 'Prometheus Unbound' has to rank as THE best SG-1 episode I've ever seen (not that that's really an extensive statistical sample, YMMV).
Damn. Farscape DVDs go for about $90 a season.
Particularly without a prescr|pti0n.
V1@gr4, C|al1$, 0xycOnt1n and the rest of those (the real ones) are PRESCRIPTION drugs - "Controlled Substances" - the distribution of which (without proper licensing & documentation) is a Big Federal Felony(tm). Anyone "selling" any of those things on the Internet is selling - at best - fakes, and is more likely a simple fraud.
Even if they're doing it from offshore, selling the REAL stuff (particularly narcotics like Oxyc0d0ne) is a big enough crime (in the US) to obtain action from Interpol resulting in extradition of the offenders. These are scams, every bit as much as Muhammed Al-Quedah, who wants to cut you in on the $22e6 which he skimmed out of Sadam's treasury, and now needs your (confidential) help to get it out of the Netherlands.
Looks like the US is on it's way to donate more than the combined european union (who have significant more tsunami victims in the area)
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This ain't unusual:
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/america
Take note of:
1)The date
2)This was written by a Canadian
And where was the rest of the world last summer, when Florida was pounded, four times, by hurricanes?
Oh, right. Bitching about our overthrow of Saddam's government, that's where. As if the world isn't a better place with him sitting in a jail cell.
And, for the record, we hardly devastated Iraq. We were careful to avoid damaging things like water works and electric power distribution, probably because it was pretty obvious that we'd be rebuilding those things as soon as the shooting quieted down. The worst damage has been done by ba'athist loyalists, trying to keep the fighting going. According to the interim prime minister, the majority of Iraq is peaceful and happy to see America there, it's only a tiny minority that are dressing up in explosive vests and bombing the (combined American-Iraqui military) mess hall, and kidnapping and beheading the contracters we're hiring to keep the power plants and cellphone stations up.
Unless you're Kim Il-Jung, you _really_ do not have a helluva lot to worry about from America. We as a people find invading other countries distasteful. We learned that lesson well in Vietnam. It's only when we're pretty directly threatened that we will defend ourselves, and the rest of the world, too, if necessary.
It is only natural that American Media won't tell about the people the US Military killed in Iraq.
That's simply wrong. Just the other night I was watching US Marines get shot at from some stone house someplace in Iraq. There was much confusion, yelling, and scrambling around. Finally a grenade got thrown into a window. After it went off all of the shooting suddenly stopped, the only noise left was someone screaming. A Marine went up to the window, stuck his rifle muzzle in, took a look in after it, and fired a single shot. The screaming stopped. "He's gone", the Marine said as he turned around and walked away.
So yeah, they're telling us about the people the military killed, and is still killing, in Iraq. We also get photos of every car bomb that goes off, complete with body counts, of both American and Iraqui soldiers killed. They do not bother to count the insurgents killed...
Did it ever occur to you that the media show people might have wanted to take five minutes to put a factual story together, and took the opportunity to cut to commercials whilst they did, because they _knew_ they wouldn't be breaking again for at least the next hour?
For ME.
Or perhaps some other geek on your Christmas list.
Even better yet would be a kit, so the recipient would get the fun of assembling the project him<M-Del>themself.
It's too bad all kids nowdays have the attention span of an albino ferret, this'd be a GREAT educational project....
I can tell you this: Any graduate from CTI in the past 20 years must be smarter than all of the programmers what's left of the Internet Explorer unit combined!
Exactly. Any graduate from DePaul knows what Micro$oft is, and if a Micro$oft employee doesn't know what DePaul is, well that's purty damn dumb.
Ditch the ... command-line interfaces, and maybe Linux will be ready for the desktop.
a ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahah
NO, I WON'T! I just got the "terminal app" (Qterm) installed on my Zaurus and I realize that it's what I've been missing all along. Now I can finally _move_files_ to/from the CF card into the "Documents" directory which is the _only_ place the "Text Editor" can open anything from. Now I can finally delete all those backups that filled up my old CF card. Now I finally have some interaction with my machine beyond the point & drool interface. Now to get some tiny emacs emulator into it, so I'll have a REAL editor!
I DON'T CARE if the laiety is 'intimidated' by "bash:~$", I UNDERSTAND IT, I LIKE IT, I WANT IT, AND YOU'LL GET IT AWAY FROM ME WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD FINGERS!!!
No, wait - not even then - because I HAVE THE SOURCE CODE!!!!!!
In fairness, the gooey _is_ improving, and is nearly "fully functional". I've been using (I think) metacity for a couple of weeks now, and there's a buttload of stuff available on the menus and it all seems to work. But where's grep? gzip? They're probably there somewhere, but WHY should I have to look down five layers of silly menus when I KNOW all I _really_ need to do is type `modconf`? You want user-friendly? Turn on filename completion, there's user-friendliness for ya.
To get somewhere near the topic, there are some real gems in that article, like:
"Immutable Law of Security #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer any more."
Someone's already pointed out that that Bad Guy == Bill Gates.
"This is what the `Secure Deployment' part of Microsoft's SD3+C campaign is all about; we design and develop secure software..."
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Oh, stop. Please.
"I personally don't care if people choose to run Firefox or Linux or any other software on their computers..."
Bwahahaha I bet you don't. You may not personally, but the public stance of your employer is that that awful GPL has gotta go.
"...we'll never get past the spyware / adware problem if people continue to think that installing unsigned code from random web sites is A Good Idea."
Hehe. I'm writing this on a machine which has had practiclly ALL of its software (_including_ Mozilla, Firefox & Thunderbird) loaded by apt (which I assume checks the MD5s, for download integrity if nothing else) from us.debian.org, non-us.debian.org, & security.debian.org, ALL of which I trust one helluva lot more than msn.com & microsoft.com! This may not be the majority approach, but it works for me, I'm certain there are at least a couple of other guys around here doing the same, and I advocate it to all.
None of the "unsigned code from random websites" seems to work on my system, so I don't bother with it. This locks me out of a few websites I guess, but I'd rather have a computer that I can trust.
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to run an XboX.
Powering the thing is a _serious_ issue in the third world, where electricity is either unavailable or relatively expensive, and $1 is a day's income - IF you have a job which pays money, which most do not.
I can't imagine what the people in the farming villages would do with a computer anyway, without an Internet connection, which is out of the question. Outside of a city, land lines are nonexistant. A satellite link is about the only connection, and co$t$ $80/month, which would be a significant fraction of the income of a village. Someone else mentioned that it would take an entire village to come up with $100, and that's not an exaggeration. What these villages could _really_ use might be: 1. Power Line Modems (for the ones which _have_ power) and 2. Wireless ethernet, with directional antennas capable of links of several miles. OH - and, solar power, definately.
Maybe in town, where DSL is available and jobs are more common, a DSL connection might be affordable if shared between a dozen households. Maybe. The rich kids paying $.60/hr in parlors to play multiplayer FPS won't be interested in this box.
School kids might use these (in town & out, without Internet), but they won't touch 'em without WinBloze, especially when their teachers issue and expect Word documents. Forget the co$t of M$, they pay $3 for a bootleg, and the Emperor is fine with that. Ballmer wants a $100 _PC_ to insure Imperial penetration into these markets, (especially the schools,) before that horrible GPL software, on some cheaper platform, can get a foothold.
The BIG question is not "Will it run Linux?", but "Will it run LoseXP?"