I can see it now. I take a photo of the Wife and little Johnny on Times Square, on our vacation.
I don't notice it, but a sinister van follows along behind us. When we reach our hotel there is a man waiting in the lobby. He hands us a legal writ, forbidding us to do anything to modify the billboards in the photograph I took.
Later, when we are back from the vacation, another man pays us a visit with a search warrant, and demands to see our photo album, to verify the photo lab didn't insert their advertisement over his client's.
Formerly boring slide shows of people's vacations become exciting legal exhibits, including representatives (with implements of enforcement) from various interests whose ads are featured in the slides on hand to insure the proper message is delivered.
Eventually big 'Generic' amusement parks spring up all over the world, where people are guaranteed a fun vacation with no high-risk corporate logos in sight anywhere.
Shall we work out a rough draft of the script? Sounds like a fun 'cult' film.
When I went to tech school (Brown Institute) us Electronic tech types had to deal with the kind of people who were taking the 'broadcasting' course. BI has put many eminent 'broadcating professionals' into the market.
My feeling in being around those airheads is that to be a broadcaster you have to be coached in having a proper voice. One particular advantage is if you start out with a head with the proper resonance characteristics. It also helps if you can learn to read the material smoothly without letting the content affect you.
Needless to say, mindless drones do well at that sort of thing. They rise to the top of their field.
I live in a society where there is a thing called ethics. We all trust one another to varying degrees, but we have ethical standards. As a result of these standards, people within our society tend to believe what we tell each other, and we vigorously denounce those who we discover lying. Surely you've noticed a lot of vigorous denunciation of WJ Clinton, as an example. By this process of following a common ethic, we are able to establish a society. It's sometimes called 'civilisation.'
There are people who seek to tear down this society, some of whom are known as nihilists. There's in fact a social revolution of sorts going on right now. Liars are being tagged and denounced, and even the party of the liars feels compelled to champion candidates who have the appearnce of having an ethical base to their personal philosophy.
I won't go into a lot of proper nouns, because that always stirs up a fight. But be aware that there's a cultural revolution brewing, and nihilists, postmodernists, and other relativists of various stripes are coming down.
Yeah, and Apple should be required to sell us CPU boxes without their inferior keyboards and mice. Just like Compaq and Dell should be require to sell us laptops without an inferior Operating System.
Why should anybody be required to pay twice to get usable input devices?
I guess what more all of us should say is that it just goes to show that Apple is so insular and 'face-inward-at-all-times' that they can't design hardware that can be outsourced.
They had to kill the cloners because they couldn't compete against them, after all.
Humans are just part of a system. If we don't bring along the whole biosphere, it's a losing proposition.
Too many people have watched too much Star Trek.
It would never work like that. What you think of as yourself contains essential symbiotic bacteria, for instance. I've never been able to figure out how 'landing crews' show up on a new planet without the bacterium in their gut wiping out the local flora and fauna.
But SF is all just entertainment for those afflicted with arrested development, in the end.
One of the reasons Microsoft has integrated in such a fashion is to 'control the Web.'
Another reason is to integrate HTML/Web Technologies into their system (system meaning 'their way of doing things.').
Something interesting to think about--- I downloaded and installed Star Office 5.2 the other day. I installed it on my Windows 2000 machine (which has Office 2000 and IE 5 on it). I decided to check out 'browing the web' with StarOffice. Guess what popped up when I entered a defective URL?? The standard 'Action Canceled' message, informing me that 'Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you requested. The page might be temporarily unavailable.'
So in order to Browse the Web, Star Office uses IE?? (Netscape is also installed on this machine, so it shouldn't have had to use IE).
Slashdot Mirror
Hallelulah! It's a miracle.
Actually, that fits right in with ESR, because he's big on Ceremonial Magick and such.
Hey, Slackware is cool, brother.
The Red Hat is actually just a dark shade of pink.
I can see it now. I take a photo of the Wife and little Johnny on Times Square, on our vacation.
I don't notice it, but a sinister van follows along behind us. When we reach our hotel there is a man waiting in the lobby. He hands us a legal writ, forbidding us to do anything to modify the billboards in the photograph I took.
Later, when we are back from the vacation, another man pays us a visit with a search warrant, and demands to see our photo album, to verify the photo lab didn't insert their advertisement over his client's.
Formerly boring slide shows of people's vacations become exciting legal exhibits, including representatives (with implements of enforcement) from various interests whose ads are featured in the slides on hand to insure the proper message is delivered.
Eventually big 'Generic' amusement parks spring up all over the world, where people are guaranteed a fun vacation with no high-risk corporate logos in sight anywhere.
Shall we work out a rough draft of the script? Sounds like a fun 'cult' film.
When I went to tech school (Brown Institute) us Electronic tech types had to deal with the kind of people who were taking the 'broadcasting' course. BI has put many eminent 'broadcating professionals' into the market.
My feeling in being around those airheads is that to be a broadcaster you have to be coached in having a proper voice. One particular advantage is if you start out with a head with the proper resonance characteristics. It also helps if you can learn to read the material smoothly without letting the content affect you.
Needless to say, mindless drones do well at that sort of thing. They rise to the top of their field.
I live in a society where there is a thing called ethics. We all trust one another to varying degrees, but we have ethical standards. As a result of these standards, people within our society tend to believe what we tell each other, and we vigorously denounce those who we discover lying. Surely you've noticed a lot of vigorous denunciation of WJ Clinton, as an example. By this process of following a common ethic, we are able to establish a society. It's sometimes called 'civilisation.'
There are people who seek to tear down this society, some of whom are known as nihilists. There's in fact a social revolution of sorts going on right now. Liars are being tagged and denounced, and even the party of the liars feels compelled to champion candidates who have the appearnce of having an ethical base to their personal philosophy.
I won't go into a lot of proper nouns, because that always stirs up a fight. But be aware that there's a cultural revolution brewing, and nihilists, postmodernists, and other relativists of various stripes are coming down.
It's a failed philosophy.
Yes, but it's amazing that Sun Microsystems can now be counted among the developers who have embedded IE.
Yeah, and Apple should be required to sell us CPU boxes without their inferior keyboards and mice. Just like Compaq and Dell should be require to sell us laptops without an inferior Operating System.
Why should anybody be required to pay twice to get usable input devices?
I guess what more all of us should say is that it just goes to show that Apple is so insular and 'face-inward-at-all-times' that they can't design hardware that can be outsourced.
They had to kill the cloners because they couldn't compete against them, after all.
Humans are just part of a system. If we don't bring along the whole biosphere, it's a losing proposition.
Too many people have watched too much Star Trek.
It would never work like that. What you think of as yourself contains essential symbiotic bacteria, for instance. I've never been able to figure out how 'landing crews' show up on a new planet without the bacterium in their gut wiping out the local flora and fauna.
But SF is all just entertainment for those afflicted with arrested development, in the end.
Get a clue! This is a Junk Science discussion topic. There just isn't an icon and topic heading for that (yet).
Wrong.
One of the reasons Microsoft has integrated in such a fashion is to 'control the Web.'
Another reason is to integrate HTML/Web Technologies into their system (system meaning 'their way of doing things.').
Something interesting to think about--- I downloaded and installed Star Office 5.2 the other day. I installed it on my Windows 2000 machine (which has Office 2000 and IE 5 on it). I decided to check out 'browing the web' with StarOffice. Guess what popped up when I entered a defective URL?? The standard 'Action Canceled' message, informing me that 'Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you requested. The page might be temporarily unavailable.'
So in order to Browse the Web, Star Office uses IE?? (Netscape is also installed on this machine, so it shouldn't have had to use IE).