Hatch is a Mormon and Mormon's believe that one day the Constitution of the US will "hang by a thread."
In that day, the Mormon belief goes, the Elders of the Mormon church will rush in to rescue it.
I wonder if Hatch believes he is rescuing the Constitution here or if he is trying to hurry it's demise so that the Mormon Elders can come in to rescue it.
Remember, this is the same guy who wants a Constitutional ammendment to prohibit flag burning.
(Note: Before you flame me for being a Mormon basher, please note that I myself am a Mormon and my views on Senator Hatch have nothing to do with my views on my religion.)
They should make these orange and license them with the NBA. They'd make a fortune because people would constantly be slam-dunking them and then having to buy a new one.
Green Eggs and Ham is not what your parents told you. It is not a story about trying something you think is gross and discovering that you might like it. It is a dark tale of the evil implications of the age of information in which we live.
Sam I am is the archetypical villian of modern society. He is the ever-present, ever-persistent marketing puppet of the information age. He peddles his wares incessantly via any and all means, until we give up in desperation and eat those disgusting green eggs and ham. Not only do we eat them, but the parable has us shouting for glee that we love the green eggs and ham that have been forced down our collective, societal throat.
Sam I am is, poet, priest, and politician. But he may also be: boss, parent, spouse, news anchor, movie star, CEO, etc.
Green eggs and ham are the collective physical, emotional, metaphysical and other wares being thrown at us faster and faster in this so-called information age.
This is going to be one of those situations where technology outpaces our ability to deal with the philosophical issues involved.
I know what you're thinking: "Enough with the philosophy bullshit."
And, of course, that response demonstrates exactly why we need to consider the "philosophy bullshit."
Medical advances have burst on the scene so suddenly that we've had to quickly come up with a new area called bio-ethics to deal with all the ramifications of our new abilities.
We need new definitions and new delimiters to help us cope with the new technology. Even the technologists have to create new semantics to help them create the new technologies.
Of course, we could just keep it all to ourselves and say, "To hell with anyone who can't understand our science."
But then we would just be a bunch of assholes who don't deserve the gift of intellect with which we've been endowed.
Microsoft is scared, and the SEC makes them show it. While Steve Ballmer is running around making statements about how Microsoft is "pretty close" to making it easier to move from UNIX to Windows than from UNIX to Linux, his company's annual statements are painting a different picture. Every year since 1995 Microsoft has described UNIX variants such as Linux as having "gained increasing acceptance." The space devoted to these operating systems, particularly Linux, has certainly increased in Microsoft's annual statements.
In 1995 Microsoft's 10-K filing with the SEC stated:
"Variants of UNIX run on a wide variety of computer platforms and have gained increasing acceptance as desktop operating systems."
That sentence is the foundation upon which Microsoft has voiced its official concern at the encroachment of the Linux operating system; it has remained intact in every annual report Microsoft has filed, including its most recent filing of September 6, 2002.
I love "technical" articles that start out by announcing a new technology's potential in finding a cure for cancer. This is a sure sign that the article was written (or underwritten) by someone who is trying to sell more than advertising space (pop-up or otherwise).
If you think this article is sincere, here are some more of today's headlines for you:
Microsoft Profit, Sales Up, Shares Rise on News of Windows-based Cancer Cure
Indonesia Appears to Signal Anti-Terror Resolve as Indonesian Doctors Close in on Cancer Cure
'Rosie' Magazine Shuttered, 120 Jobs Slashed, Cancer Research Reporters Kept On
Jazz Forward Malone Mulls Retirement, Plans to Become National Spokesperson for American Cancer Society
Apparently the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) is responsible for administering this new law under the Paperwork Reduction Act. and each agency is responsible to tell the OMB how they are going to implement it.
David Packard, using his superior brain power cunningly embedded a repeating hidden message in his poster (five times).
Using a complex mathematical formula, similar to the one used in the Bible Code, David has the last laugh.
I have decoded it here for you:
Hewlett Packard
1938 -- 2002
R.I.P.
The Stanford Theatre still exists today only because of the employees of the Hewlett Packard Company. Without their achievements over the years, there would have been no foundation to purchase and restore this theatre.
Palo Alto might have had one more book store, or perhaps another restaurant. Architects had plans ready for a new "Casablanca Cafe" at this location when the Packard Foundation rescued the theater in 1987.
The Hewlett Packard Company was founded in 1938 in a garage on Addison Street only a few blocks from where you are now standing. Back then, the Stanford Theatre was showing brand new movies. In 1938 you could have seen Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby and Holiday. You could have seen Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood . You could have seen Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, and Tyrone Power in Alexander's Ragtime Band . You could have seen Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You . You still can see these same movies at the Stanford Theatre. Our audiences know that they are truly timeless.
The HP Way also touched many people's lives. Most of us expected that it would last forever -- that it would prove as timeless as a Frank Capra movie. But those entrusted with the duty to safeguard it have exercised their legal right to make another choice. Dura lex, sed lex. The law is harsh, but it is the law.
HP employees are now on a new ship, being taken on a new voyage. The company has even changed its stock symbol to HPQ to stress that the "old" HP is gone. For the sake of the surviving employees, of course I hope for a good outcome. But it is hard to imagine that their leaders can invent something better than what they left behind.
Slashdot Mirror
I read somewhere that the big blob that washed up on the coast of Chile was one of Pamela Anderson's old implants.
Verizon can afford the costs of litigation as well and they still got screwed in their battle with the RIAA.
Hatch is a Mormon and Mormon's believe that one day the Constitution of the US will "hang by a thread."
In that day, the Mormon belief goes, the Elders of the Mormon church will rush in to rescue it.
I wonder if Hatch believes he is rescuing the Constitution here or if he is trying to hurry it's demise so that the Mormon Elders can come in to rescue it.
Remember, this is the same guy who wants a Constitutional ammendment to prohibit flag burning.
(Note: Before you flame me for being a Mormon basher, please note that I myself am a Mormon and my views on Senator Hatch have nothing to do with my views on my religion.)
So we can fuck up space too?
I'm reminded of a debate in one of my high-school classes. We were talking about disarmament and what to do with all the extra missile lying around.
Someone suggested we just shoot them into the sun. To which a particularly dim bulb responded:
"Oh, right, and what if we blow up the sun!"
I think it's interesting that Tufts said it wasn't causing a bandwidth problem for them.
Usually bandwidth is one of the arguments used against spammers.
Don't most ATMs have cameras now that take your picture when you do a transaction?
When these "phantom transactions" occur, I assume there is a picture taken of a dark wraith in a hooded cloak.
But seriously, wouldn't the bank have your picture if you had performed a transaction?
I keep saying 'Pedophilia' instead of 'Philadelphia.'
That's no asteroid. It's a giant Space Potato!
The space elevator is a dumb idea.
My vote is for the Space Shuttlecock.
Tell that to the writers at Space.com who wrote the mission headlines.
They should make these orange and license them with the NBA. They'd make a fortune because people would constantly be slam-dunking them and then having to buy a new one.
Yet another case of Sam I Am figuring out how to get us to eat those disgusting Green Eggs and Ham:
From Soupyet.com:
Green Eggs and Ham is not what your parents told you. It is not a story about trying something you think is gross and discovering that you might like it. It is a dark tale of the evil implications of the age of information in which we live.
Sam I am is the archetypical villian of modern society. He is the ever-present, ever-persistent marketing puppet of the information age. He peddles his wares incessantly via any and all means, until we give up in desperation and eat those disgusting green eggs and ham. Not only do we eat them, but the parable has us shouting for glee that we love the green eggs and ham that have been forced down our collective, societal throat.
Sam I am is, poet, priest, and politician. But he may also be: boss, parent, spouse, news anchor, movie star, CEO, etc.
Green eggs and ham are the collective physical, emotional, metaphysical and other wares being thrown at us faster and faster in this so-called information age.
This is going to be one of those situations where technology outpaces our ability to deal with the philosophical issues involved.
I know what you're thinking: "Enough with the philosophy bullshit."
And, of course, that response demonstrates exactly why we need to consider the "philosophy bullshit."
Medical advances have burst on the scene so suddenly that we've had to quickly come up with a new area called bio-ethics to deal with all the ramifications of our new abilities.
What happens when washing machines become self-aware?
We need new definitions and new delimiters to help us cope with the new technology. Even the technologists have to create new semantics to help them create the new technologies.
Of course, we could just keep it all to ourselves and say, "To hell with anyone who can't understand our science."
But then we would just be a bunch of assholes who don't deserve the gift of intellect with which we've been endowed.
Microsoft is scared, and the SEC makes them show it. While Steve Ballmer is running around making statements about how Microsoft is "pretty close" to making it easier to move from UNIX to Windows than from UNIX to Linux, his company's annual statements are painting a different picture. Every year since 1995 Microsoft has described UNIX variants such as Linux as having "gained increasing acceptance." The space devoted to these operating systems, particularly Linux, has certainly increased in Microsoft's annual statements.
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In 1995 Microsoft's 10-K filing with the SEC stated:
"Variants of UNIX run on a wide variety of computer platforms and have gained increasing acceptance as desktop operating systems."
That sentence is the foundation upon which Microsoft has voiced its official concern at the encroachment of the Linux operating system; it has remained intact in every annual report Microsoft has filed, including its most recent filing of September 6, 2002.
More here . .
If you think this article is sincere, here are some more of today's headlines for you:
There are a lot of writers out there who have been talking about this concept for years.
Tom Heuerman calls the "slack" concept Organizational Mindfulness.
Not as snappy as "Slack," but essentially the same idea.
BTW, is somebody looking into grabbing the domain slackdot.org?
I did a little looking and found an interesting article on the FCC web site about the Data Quality Act and their proposed implementation of it.
Apparently the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) is responsible for administering this new law under the Paperwork Reduction Act. and each agency is responsible to tell the OMB how they are going to implement it.
I thought Slashdot was the popular press. I feel so misled.
Didn't they do this already a few years ago with Elian Gonzales, Fidel Castro and Janet Reno?
David Packard, using his superior brain power cunningly embedded a repeating hidden message in his poster (five times).
Using a complex mathematical formula, similar to the one used in the Bible Code, David has the last laugh.
I have decoded it here for you:
Hewlett Packard
1938 -- 2002
R.I.P.
The Stanford Theatre still exists today only because of the employees of the Hewlett Packard Company. Without their achievements over the years, there would have been no foundation to purchase and restore this theatre.
Palo Alto might have had one more book store, or perhaps another restaurant. Architects had plans ready for a new "Casablanca Cafe" at this location when the Packard Foundation rescued the theater in 1987.
The Hewlett Packard Company was founded in 1938 in a garage on Addison Street only a few blocks from where you are now standing. Back then, the Stanford Theatre was showing brand new movies. In 1938 you could have seen Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby and Holiday. You could have seen Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood . You could have seen Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, and Tyrone Power in Alexander's Ragtime Band . You could have seen Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You . You still can see these same movies at the Stanford Theatre. Our audiences know that they are truly timeless.
The HP Way also touched many people's lives. Most of us expected that it would last forever -- that it would prove as timeless as a Frank Capra movie. But those entrusted with the duty to safeguard it have exercised their legal right to make another choice. Dura lex, sed lex. The law is harsh, but it is the law.
HP employees are now on a new ship, being taken on a new voyage. The company has even changed its stock symbol to HPQ to stress that the "old" HP is gone. For the sake of the surviving employees, of course I hope for a good outcome. But it is hard to imagine that their leaders can invent something better than what they left behind.
David W. Packard
The Stanford Theatre Foundation.
The domain is being held by "One Gentleman of Verona"
http://whois.dotregistrar.com/drs/wwwhois.pl?doma
Actually, it was an attempt at journalistic detachment.
I didn't realize slashdot was considered a scientific community.
Did you find yourself laughing hysterically?
The 60-70-80 rule appears to be accurate based on the sampling I did, and nobody has shown me anything to make me believe it is not accurate.