This planet's already been fscked up as a result of our last century of spiting it.
So now we can mine asteroids and it's too expensive to bring the goodies back to Terra. Next logical extension, let's move to space.
We can do all the dirty work there in the giant vacuum, and let the ecosystems of Terra begin to heal. Maybe we'll learn some respect for life in the thousands of years we'll have to spend in exile...
We'll have to be careful with asteroid mining though, changing the mass and trajectory of objects in such a wonderfully stable orbital system. If we use an unstable O/S, we might end up crashing Terra into Io or something worse. Keep working on that kernel!
Of course, the gram is not a measure of wieght, per say.
Still in high school? Good--take a fookin' latin class. It's per se. And use it cautiously. And never, ever try to buy your weed in newtons, drams, or grains.
(Berlin) -
Yesterday, attorneys for the long-dead Fuehrer filed a lawsuit in The Hague, alleging that the governments of the United States ("the Colonies") and the United Kingdom violated article 23 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) by reverse-engineering the Enigma machine.
When the Allies broke the Enigma's complex coding scheme, they were able to intercept and decrypt strategic Nazi communiques, eventually leading to Herr Hitler's suicide and an Allied victory.
Herr Doctor Spelunkenzweis, primary counsel for the late Hitler, claims that such blatant disregard of the creator's exclusive rights to his Intellectual Property is intolerable and that the perpetrators must be used as an example.
The late Hitler is seeking an already-controversial list of damages, including ownership of all assets of modern England, France, Austria, Italy, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Poland, Libya, and Ethiopia, as well as a written apology from the ghosts of the Right Honorable Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt.
...'til I make millionz of bux0rz so I can buy one of these things. Maybe then Natalie Portman will come over. Then I'll sell her 3-D nude image to all of you other geeks for mucho $$$. I'll be richer than Gates in no time....
ever since the mid-1980s, when Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) began to emerge...
Great. We're trusting a multi-variable analytical computer system that's as old as Pac Man... Especially considering that:
The strongly held belief among FPEs that latent fingerprints can be matched to one person alone, wrote David Stoney in a 1997 legal practice manual, is "the product of probabilistic intuitions widely shared among fingerprint examiners, not of scientific research."
and
...proficiency tests reveal high rates of error by FPEs.
I could just picture the conversation in the lab at Lockheed International Conglomerate: "Richard, I've been thinking...what about distortion from pressure on either the latent print or the test print, or both!" "Oh Sam, you know we only have 640KB of RAM to do our matrix multiplications in...and besides, the government's paying us a lot for this. We're gonna have one hell of a Christmas bonus..."
Consider this, too:
But forensic fingerprint identification is supposed to compare two different impressions from the same finger. As Stoney noted, "No two things, no two representations of this person's signature, no two representations of their fingerprint will be exactly alike." The test, therefore, ought to have used two different impressions from the same finger to establish a baseline score for a match. "It is really shocking," Stoney testified, "to see something presented...that doesn't have that basic element of forensic examination in part of the study."
Great, they may as well be dowsing for water wells now... Okay, I bet $10 that the feebs' computer (AFIS) is a total fraud. The burden of proof, however, is on you...
You forgot organized crime, the mafia, la cosa nostra, etc...
During the early 1980's, when things such as the Iran/Contra affair were being investigated, as well as the Propaganda 2 (do a google on "P2"), the trails seemed to vanish inside the Vatican. Been there? It takes about twenty minutes to circumnavigate the entire country on foot. Tiny, but powerful.
Oh, and the largest collection of stolen art in the world--kinda makes the Nazis look like boy scouts.
So PacBell is gonna foil those 1337 h4x0rz again by using DHCP. I feel safer already:
With a dynamic IP address, a computer's "location" on the Internet is periodically changed, thereby...
Wow. They move you to a different part of the "Information Superhighway" and the l337 ldd33z have to ask for directions. I have DSL through a baby bell i don't want retaliation from, and i have been scanned within minutes of getting my IP from the DHCP god.
So basically the marketing guy did his job and lied for the reporter. He should get a job working for bush
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Oops, guess I'm too late...
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
This planet's already been fscked up as a result of our last century of spiting it.
So now we can mine asteroids and it's too expensive to bring the goodies back to Terra. Next logical extension, let's move to space.
We can do all the dirty work there in the giant vacuum, and let the ecosystems of Terra begin to heal. Maybe we'll learn some respect for life in the thousands of years we'll have to spend in exile...
We'll have to be careful with asteroid mining though, changing the mass and trajectory of objects in such a wonderfully stable orbital system. If we use an unstable O/S, we might end up crashing Terra into Io or something worse. Keep working on that kernel!
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
try here
By the way, SP!
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
Still in high school? Good--take a fookin' latin class. It's per se. And use it cautiously. And never, ever try to buy your weed in newtons, drams, or grains.
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
Ouch! Flamebait? Damn, these moderators suck tonight. I would have modded you up & had a hard time deciding between "Insightful" and "Funny".
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
(Berlin) -
Yesterday, attorneys for the long-dead Fuehrer filed a lawsuit in The Hague, alleging that the governments of the United States ("the Colonies") and the United Kingdom violated article 23 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) by reverse-engineering the Enigma machine.
When the Allies broke the Enigma's complex coding scheme, they were able to intercept and decrypt strategic Nazi communiques, eventually leading to Herr Hitler's suicide and an Allied victory.
Herr Doctor Spelunkenzweis, primary counsel for the late Hitler, claims that such blatant disregard of the creator's exclusive rights to his Intellectual Property is intolerable and that the perpetrators must be used as an example.
The late Hitler is seeking an already-controversial list of damages, including ownership of all assets of modern England, France, Austria, Italy, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Poland, Libya, and Ethiopia, as well as a written apology from the ghosts of the Right Honorable Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt.
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
What's a perv to do???
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
...'til I make millionz of bux0rz so I can buy one of these things. Maybe then Natalie Portman will come over. Then I'll sell her 3-D nude image to all of you other geeks for mucho $$$. I'll be richer than Gates in no time....
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
Great. We're trusting a multi-variable analytical computer system that's as old as Pac Man... Especially considering that:
and
I could just picture the conversation in the lab at Lockheed International Conglomerate:
"Richard, I've been thinking...what about distortion from pressure on either the latent print or the test print, or both!" "Oh Sam, you know we only have 640KB of RAM to do our matrix multiplications in...and besides, the government's paying us a lot for this. We're gonna have one hell of a Christmas bonus..."
Consider this, too:
Great, they may as well be dowsing for water wells now... Okay, I bet $10 that the feebs' computer (AFIS) is a total fraud. The burden of proof, however, is on you...
This sucks. I'm going back to bed.
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
that's the problem!
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
You forgot organized crime, the mafia, la cosa nostra, etc...
During the early 1980's, when things such as the Iran/Contra affair were being investigated, as well as the Propaganda 2 (do a google on "P2"), the trails seemed to vanish inside the Vatican. Been there? It takes about twenty minutes to circumnavigate the entire country on foot. Tiny, but powerful.
Oh, and the largest collection of stolen art in the world--kinda makes the Nazis look like boy scouts.
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
A default winbloze98 install offers about as much protection as a chickenwire condom.
Do you hate other human beings?
Wow. They move you to a different part of the "Information Superhighway" and the l337 ldd33z have to ask for directions. I have DSL through a baby bell i don't want retaliation from, and i have been scanned within minutes of getting my IP from the DHCP god.
So basically the marketing guy did his job and lied for the reporter. He should get a job working for bush
Do you hate other human beings?