I find it amazing too how close-minded you are in highschool. The little world you are in seems to be all that is and ever will be. We're constantly told that our teen years (maybe early 20's too) are the best years of our life. There needs to be something done to address the nagging issue of teen depression. Guns and bombs or date raping or drunk driving or drug abuse or any other multitude of teenage vices all stem from deeper problems. Its those problems that need to be addressed.
In my highschool days, I was in many ways similar to the denver shooter's profiles: I was active on the early incarnation of the net, loved DOOM, was interested in world history, particularily wars. I was antisocial and wasn't popular at school, especially with the Jocks. I even wore a trench coat and hung out with proto-goths for a while. Going further, I had access to some pretty powerful weapons and built things that went "bang" with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. As far as I know, I have never shot anyone, or gone on a killing rampage. In fact, the net actually facilitated an outlet for my frustrations. The whole 31337 movement, early BBS' and later the Linux movement gave me something to beleive and created a positive outlet for my insecurity. I can see now when all the jocks that terrorized us in Highschool are working for their dad's at the car dealership have 2 kids an ugly wife and thinning hair, I laugh as I see how much more "constructive" my high school time ended up being. The blame shouldn't be put on Doom or the Net... the blame should be on people trying to illegitemize the things that people like myself need to thrive. mailto://karges@hotmail.com
1) I loved the old SGI logo. I was even seriously considering getting it tatooed on my lower back... now I can do it legally Plus when I see the old logo my brain links to to "steal me please"... The new one: I work for CGI but i claim I am SGI. 2) Perhaps a naked keith richards would be a better logo for SGI... I expect that neither logo would effect animal life either.
Contact was a disaster?!? Damn Straight.
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I though contact was absolutely terrible... Its got that rosy-hollywood glow riding on xfiles frige-geek popularity. Sickening. I don't work in a SETI lab, but are all the employees there nice looking?
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What is the point of _branding_ things GNU and branding things "open source" anyways... The suit world is taking the OpenSource license in heart just like the "OPEN" movement of the past -- Its a great catch-word to get people's attention. To tell you the truth, im stick of GNU C+ and GNU license files and such and so forth -- Its becoming the same brand-loyalty bull as MS-DOS and MICROSOFT windows and MICROSOFT office and on and on... GNU has become the brand name that is self-defeating in itself. karges@videotron.ca
Perhaps microsoft has a trick up its sleeve... (dont leave doctored video/results out of the equasion)... Maybe their going to post much higher performance than one might expect?
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I find it amazing too how close-minded you are in highschool. The little world you are in seems to be all that is and ever will be. We're constantly told that our teen years (maybe early 20's too) are the best years of our life. There needs to be something done to address the nagging issue of teen depression. Guns and bombs or date raping or drunk driving or drug abuse or any other multitude of teenage vices all stem from deeper problems. Its those problems that need to be addressed.
In my highschool days, I was in many ways similar to the denver shooter's profiles: I was active on the early incarnation of the net, loved DOOM, was interested in world history, particularily wars. I was antisocial and wasn't popular at school, especially with the Jocks. I even wore a trench coat and hung out with proto-goths for a while. Going further, I had access to some pretty powerful weapons and built things that went "bang" with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. As far as I know, I have never shot anyone, or gone on a killing rampage. In fact, the net actually facilitated an outlet for my frustrations. The whole 31337 movement, early BBS' and later the Linux movement gave me something to beleive and created a positive outlet for my insecurity. I can see now when all the jocks that terrorized us in Highschool are working for their dad's at the car dealership have 2 kids an ugly wife and thinning hair, I laugh as I see how much more "constructive" my high school time ended up being. The blame shouldn't be put on Doom or the Net ... the blame should be on people trying to illegitemize the things that people like myself need to thrive. mailto://karges@hotmail.com
Please don't ... The thought is enough to MAKE dj shadow release to BRIBE you not to GREG
1) I loved the old SGI logo. I was even seriously considering getting it tatooed on my lower back ... now I can do it legally Plus when I see the old logo my brain links to to "steal me please"... The new one: I work for CGI but i claim I am SGI. 2) Perhaps a naked keith richards would be a better logo for SGI ... I expect that neither logo would effect animal life either.
I though contact was absolutely terrible... Its got that rosy-hollywood glow riding on xfiles frige-geek popularity. Sickening. I don't work in a SETI lab, but are all the employees there nice looking?
Thats the point of a reviewm dude...
What is the point of _branding_ things GNU and branding things "open source" anyways... The suit world is taking the OpenSource license in heart just like the "OPEN" movement of the past -- Its a great catch-word to get people's attention. To tell you the truth, im stick of GNU C+ and GNU license files and such and so forth -- Its becoming the same brand-loyalty bull as MS-DOS and MICROSOFT windows and MICROSOFT office and on and on ... GNU has become the brand name that is self-defeating in itself. karges@videotron.ca
Perhaps microsoft has a trick up its sleeve ... (dont leave doctored video/results out of the equasion) ... Maybe their going to post much higher performance than one might expect?