...and taxed again if you invest the income and make money off of it
...and taxed yet again if you use that money to buy something
...and taxed again if you leave that something to your children after you die
...and taxed again if they sell it and make money
Many people will be paying taxes on their income long after they've died.
I'm not averse to paying taxes in general, there's a lot of things government can do better than me. What I do resent is the absolute duplicity, misdirection and outright lying the government uses to hide how much they are really taking. It started with Income Tax withholding in the 40's and gets worse every year.
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MICROS~1 could probably eliminate 3/4 of their stability issues if they could just learn this lesson, but it will never happen despite the fact that their quality is going down the toilet and disk space is as cheap as water (approaching 1 penny per megabyte).
I work at a company that adamantly refuses to include any kind of versioning in the DLL's it releases for in-house development, and I have been linking everything statically for quite a while. I figure I've saved the company thousands of dollars just for not having to spend a lot of time diagnosing mismatched DLL's.
An unfounded, uneducated, narrow-minded comment based on the fact that Microsoft is currently in quality freefall and is so totally disorganized and fragmented that half the company doesn't know what the other half is doing.
Yes, it's a stupid comment, but it does reflect how many of us who use NT feel. NT 3.51 was pretty much rock solid, NT 4 started out pretty solid. Nowadays just getting Microsoft software installed can be a nightmare...
Win2K will probably do OK despite all its problems, the U.S. Government will continue blundering along doing a few things well and a lot of things poorly. Network TV will continue to suck (mostly). Life goes on.
But many of use who use Microsoft know how things _could_ be and it makes us bitter.
Excellent suggestion, although "dekabytes", in theory, collides with the deca- prefix of SI, and would thus mean 10 (or 8?) bytes.
Seriously, I would have a lot easier time adopting neat looking Greek terms than something that sounds like the name of a nasal-talking puppet on a PBS show.
I heard a rumor that the "B-Movie Channel" was thing about picking up MST3K. It looks like a good fit to me. Here's the e-mail response I got from them:
Hello Rick,
Thank you for your comments. Yes we are considering to possibly do something with MST3K. Please sign up on our mailing list to get the breaking news when it happens.
Have a good day
Dennis
I suggest we fans send them a lot of mail requesting them to pick up the show and promising to subscribe to their channel if they do!
That's why I said "Latinish" rather than Latin. Thanks for the Latin lesson, anyway. It's a language I really wish I knew. Far more logical than English... Rick "E Pluribus Uranium"
Good point. If you read the Bill of Rights closely and grammatically, something few people do, you will note that they are not giving rights to anyone. What they are doing is guaranteeing that the government does not take away preexisting rights. What it is fact saying is that poeple have a "natural" (my word) and preexisting right to free speech, practice of religion, owns arms, associate with whomever they want, and the government that obeys these Amendments will not take them away.
Of course, the attitude these days seems to be that anything we have is because the government gives it to us, but the Founding Fathers realized differently. We have all these rights as humans and a just government will not take them away.
I just wish our Congress would start legislating for everyone rather than passing draconian measures to deal with a very small minority of people. There's too much, "How will this hurt the bad guys?" and not enough of "How will this help the good guys?"
Oh, yes, let's all follow the example of Ted Turner:
Denegrate the Ten Commandments (obstensibly practiced by about 2 billion Jews and Christians) as being outdated and silly?
Answer a question about the Pope (who, let's face it, has done more to further human rights than Turner ever will, regardless of what you think of Catholicism), by making Pollock jokes?
Preach high and low about population control and yet have five children of his own. (Translation: I can make as many rich, well-educated kids as I want but let's get rid of those smelly little yellow and brown people messing up our planet).
I won't even mention his traitorous wife who would have been hanged for treason in previous generations.
Yes, an example for all of us to follow.
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Yes, a union is a bad idea for a group of people who are generally about as herdable as cats. And let's face it, unions are essentially lower case "c" communist in nature ("Workers of the world, unite!") whereas the geeks I know are the pinnacles of entrepreneurship and self-determination. I personally would sooner drop out of the technical field altgother than be forced to join such an organization.
On the other hand a group that advocates truth and education about high-tech concerns would be a worthwhile proposition. Especially if it is friendly and readily accessible to the mass media (who unfortunatly rarely let ignorance or lack of facts get in the way of a good story).
Question: Wouldn't this be a good issue to be addressed by the ACM?
While I recognize that unions might be useful for those workers who on their own are not particularly powerful vis-a-vis employers (i.e., not well educated or skilled and therefore have few options, or narrowly skilled, also few options), and that employers can and do screw people with impunity, the idea of a programmer's union (whatever you want to call it) is absolutely abhorent to me, and I imagine most people I know and certainly anyone I would want to work with.
If I don't like my working conditions, I will find a job that better suits me. I wield considerable power in the marketplace to demand a certain salary and working conditions based on the fact that I am competent, have a good repututation and am honest.
While recognizing that unions do serve a good purpose for some, I would think in my field they would only serve to as a shelter for the incompetenent and lazy and could only hurt me by limiting the options I could exercise in a free market.
Furthermore, I have found that in the business world, the best guarantee for screwing yourself is to rely on others. I would stand nothing to gain by such a propostion and everything to lose... so much so that I would rather switch careers than be forced to join a union.
As far as the press goes, mass ignorance will always be with us. Anyone who doesn't understand that 90% of the press is made up of people too stupid to do real work (compare requirements for a journalism degree with anything other than an education degree and see what I mean) and legitimate and worthwhile journalism is being pushed further and further into the fringes. I generally find the level of intelligence expressed on slashdot to equal or exceed most newspaper columnists (and certainly reporters), particularly since I can see so many viewpoints easily.
Ignorance is a fact of life, and I don't really give a d*mn what people at large think since they will always misunderstand someone like me anyway.
From a Christian perspective, I don't see how a clone could be considered non-human any more than someone conceived via test-tube fertilization.
The evils from cloning come from the fact that they _are_ creating humans and then doing very inhumane things to them.
Unfortunately, many people conveniently define human life as beginning at birth (or worse at some arbitrary and undefinable point in between).
The logical result of this is that the definition of human life becomes arbitrary and subject to all kinds of ridiculous criteria:
1. This embryo/fetus is human but this one who is five minutes younger is not. (The "viability" argument, or detectable brain waves, heartbeat, etc)
2. Being human depends on how much technology your parents have access to, or worse how much money. (The "viability" argument again)
3. Being human depends on whether or not someone else wants you to be human (the logical conconlusion of a lot of pro-abortion people, and coincidently, the KKK and the Nazis too). i.e, I want my unborn baby therefore he/she's human. I don't want my unborn baby therefore it's just a blob of cells to be excised.
Given that logic dictates human life be defined as starting at conception, when a genertically unique individual is created who only needs oridinary (not extraordinary) care to survive and grow, we must therefore conclude that clones are would be subject to the same rights and privileges as all humans.
Hey, there is a detailed discussion in that book on how to build a record player that can duplicate any sound (even one that would destroy the record player).
That's some serious technology.:)
Also, I think there's a big potential market for computers composed of ant colonies (a la Terry Pratchett's "Hex" ("Anthill Inside" boo bee boo boop!))
In all seriousness, I would love to see more articles on pure science, photography, music, SF and cooking. These are all technical fields that seem to have a lot of overlap with hacking.
So you're saying you want to be an officially recognized victim?
Political correctness is what stupid people do when they are trying to be sensitive to others and think that thoughts come from words and not the other way around.
Political correctness is George Orwell's NewSpeak. It is the absurd philosophy that if you dumb down the language enough no one can offend or be offended. ("Mentally challenged" == "retarded"? The day I am not "mentally challenged" is the day I'm dead (or wish I was!))
I would resent that journalists have misused the term excpet I don't expect journalists to get anything right that's more deep than the president's sexual preferences. Let's face it, a lot of journalists are in their field because they were too incompetent to get a college degree in anything else. When is the last time you saw a TV reporter who had the slightest clue about anything he or she was talking about? When was the last time you saw a newspaper story written without the most common grammatical errors? When was the last time you read or heard a reporter talk about something technical you knew in detail and get even a majority of the facts right (even without a deliberate slant)?
The problem stems from the fact that for most people, being a computer expert no matter how you call it is equated to the silliest "hacker" stereotype you can imagine because most people don't understand what we don't and fewer still understand why we do it.
Hacking is an esoteric interest that few people will bother to consider (for good reasons or bad... there is life away from computers... or so I've heard) what it's about any more deeply than the most superficial stereotype. Thee same goes for those of us who play role-playing games, read science fiction, listen to good progressive music (something most people don't realize exists!) or any of a thousand other pursuits taken on by people who like to exercise their intelligence or imaginations.
I learned as a child that I'm a lot happier when I really don't give a d*mn what people think.
I won't flame you because I think you're right. Star Trek is usually weak science fiction at best. That doesn't mean that it doesn't have usually good and often excellent stories (ok, Voyager is often awful), but the science fiction elements are usually completely overlooked (the incredible potential of discovering a Dyson's Sphere in ST:TNG's "Relics", which was quickly written off) or reduced to technobabble (how many problems are simply solved by a beam of some exotic particle).
As stories about interesting ideas in a futuristic setting (or simply allegories to contemporary issues), Star Trek is an entertaining medium and does a good job while remaining accessible to most people.
Star Wars is fantasy, pure and simple. No explanations are given (or desired) for the technological aspects of the world of Star Wars. It's just pure and simple fun (OK, maybe not so simple). It's a brain twinkie, but that doesn't mean it has to be vapid or uninteresting to anyone with a 3-digit IQ.
Star Wars spawned a whole industry of sf/fantasy movies that tried to imitate what made it sucessful. There was a lot of dreck, but there was a lot of good stuff, too. Aside of Star Trek and Contact, what was the last SF or fantasy movie that wasn't a moronic kid's film or a thinly veiled horror or action flick. I'm hoping PM will rejuvenate what I consider to be a brain-dead and violence-obsessed industry.
p.s. "missed the final Deep Space Nine"? I thought it wasn't till next month!
Journalism is one of those fields you go into when you're too stupid to do anything useful. Computer journalism is for journalists with no people skills.
Now there are intelligent journalists out there, but it's obvious that most of the press and especially TV do not have any standards. Just look of the level of grammar in a typical newspaper or the insipid questions of a typical TV interviewer.
This article is typical of one that you read about a subject that you know a lot about, but most people don't. He can say anything he wants about Linux, because 99.9% of his readers don't know any better.
If car reviews were written like software reviews we'd be seeing in-depth recommendations based solely on the quality of paint job.
Yes, the point of all this ridiculous bickering over format is so one company can establish a monopoly. Anti-trust issues aside, these companies simply want to have a successful proprietary format so everyone else has kiss up (i.e, pay $$$) to buy in. What happens is that this fighting usually causes the new technology to be delayed for years (or never happen, like stereo AM radio), and you can guarantee we poor end users will get the short end of the stick.
How best to serve the customer is never an issue. The issue is to try and screw all the competition and create the perception of being the best. You think SmallSquishy got where they are today by providing the best software for users. Has anyone used Windows or Office lately?
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I saw the reference to UF being shutdown on/. this morning, but I might have very easily seen it on the site itself since I read it every day.
Either way, it didn't occur to me that it was a joke given the kind of thing that's been happening to Dave's Classics and others lately.
The fact that I did not immediately dismiss this story as a hoax because of it obviously being totally against the laws and traditions in this country only demonstrated to me how jaded I've become to the erosion of those rights. I didn't think, "Holy Cow! That could never happen, we have free speech in the U.S", but rather "Yet another example of speech not really being free, especially when expensive lawyers or bureaucrats are around."
Far from being a silly and pointless prank, I saw the UF shutdown hoax as a grim reminder of how out of control some things are in this country.
On the other hand, the cold fusion story was hilarious.
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I'm glad to see the strategy of submitting patent applications for any and every obvious idea you can come up with occasionally pays off.
I should join the Patent Lottery and see if I can get a similar patent for something like making a Tom Collins, linked lists, or breathing.
On the other hand, maybe algore can get a patent for the Internet.
Excellent forethought!
But when the feds step in that statement won't be worth the paper it's printed on.
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...and taxed again if you invest the income and make money off of it
...and taxed yet again if you use that money to buy something
...and taxed again if you leave that something to your children after you die
...and taxed again if they sell it and make money
Many people will be paying taxes on their income long after they've died.
I'm not averse to paying taxes in general, there's a lot of things government can do better than me. What I do resent is the absolute duplicity, misdirection and outright lying the government uses to hide how much they are really taking. It started with Income Tax withholding in the 40's and gets worse every year.
MICROS~1 could probably eliminate 3/4 of their stability issues if they could just learn this lesson, but it will never happen despite the fact that their quality is going down the toilet and disk space is as cheap as water (approaching 1 penny per megabyte).
I work at a company that adamantly refuses to include any kind of versioning in the DLL's it releases for in-house development, and I have been linking everything statically for quite a while. I figure I've saved the company thousands of dollars just for not having to spend a lot of time diagnosing mismatched DLL's.
An unfounded, uneducated, narrow-minded comment based on the fact that Microsoft is currently in quality freefall and is so totally disorganized and fragmented that half the company doesn't know what the other half is doing.
Yes, it's a stupid comment, but it does reflect how many of us who use NT feel. NT 3.51 was pretty much rock solid, NT 4 started out pretty solid. Nowadays just getting Microsoft software installed can be a nightmare...
Win2K will probably do OK despite all its problems, the U.S. Government will continue blundering along doing a few things well and a lot of things poorly. Network TV will continue to suck (mostly). Life goes on.
But many of use who use Microsoft know how things _could_ be and it makes us bitter.
Is it April 1st already?
Excellent suggestion, although "dekabytes", in theory, collides with the deca- prefix of SI, and would thus mean 10 (or 8?) bytes.
Seriously, I would have a lot easier time adopting neat looking Greek terms than something that sounds like the name of a nasal-talking puppet on a PBS show.
"KibiBytes"? Yech!
Rick
I heard a rumor that the "B-Movie Channel" was thing about picking up MST3K. It looks like a good fit to me. Here's the e-mail response I got from them:
Hello Rick,
Thank you for your comments. Yes we are considering to possibly do something
with MST3K. Please sign up on our mailing list to get the breaking news when
it happens.
Have a good day
Dennis
I suggest we fans send them a lot of mail requesting them to pick up the show and promising to subscribe to their channel if they do!
Rick
Actually, I saw this first on Anchordesk and came here becuase I figured I'd find more info than the little "news burst".
/. (like a ling to Science article?)
I don't mind minor flatulence from ZD, but I would have expected the whole BM from
Oh well, it's years away anyway.
Rick
That's why I said "Latinish" rather than Latin.
Thanks for the Latin lesson, anyway. It's a language I really wish I knew. Far more logical than English...
Plus I would get all those Terry Pratchett jokes... :)
Rick
"E Pluribus Uranium"
That's why I said "Latinish" rather than Latin. Thanks for the Latin lesson, anyway. It's a language I really wish I knew. Far more logical than English... Rick "E Pluribus Uranium"
You missed my point. I said "assuming Latinish pluralization".
I don't have a problem with Latinizing words, but if you're going to do, at least be consistent and don't just use "ii" because it looks cool.
Not to detract from an interesting story with big ramifications, but it really bugs me when people use the term "virii".
If the plural of "radius" is "radii", then the plural of "virus" (assuming you are using Latinish pluralization) should be "viri".
Right?
Good point. If you read the Bill of Rights closely and grammatically, something few people do, you will note that they are not giving rights to anyone. What they are doing is guaranteeing that the government does not take away preexisting rights. What it is fact saying is that poeple have a "natural" (my word) and preexisting right to free speech, practice of religion, owns arms, associate with whomever they want, and the government that obeys these Amendments will not take them away.
Of course, the attitude these days seems to be that anything we have is because the government gives it to us, but the Founding Fathers realized differently. We have all these rights as humans
and a just government will not take them away.
I just wish our Congress would start legislating for everyone rather than passing draconian measures to deal with a very small minority of people. There's too much, "How will this hurt the bad guys?" and not enough of "How will this help the good guys?"
Oh, yes, let's all follow the example of Ted Turner:
Denegrate the Ten Commandments (obstensibly practiced by about 2 billion Jews and Christians) as being outdated and silly?
Answer a question about the Pope (who, let's face it, has done more to further human rights than Turner ever will, regardless of what you think of Catholicism), by making Pollock jokes?
Preach high and low about population control and yet have five children of his own. (Translation: I can make as many rich, well-educated kids as I want but let's get rid of those smelly little yellow and brown people messing up our planet).
I won't even mention his traitorous wife who would have been hanged for treason in previous generations.
Yes, an example for all of us to follow.
Well said, sir.
Yes, a union is a bad idea for a group of people who are generally about as herdable as cats. And let's face it, unions are essentially lower case "c" communist in nature ("Workers of the world, unite!") whereas the geeks I know are the pinnacles of entrepreneurship and self-determination. I personally would sooner drop out of the technical field altgother than be forced to join such an organization.
On the other hand a group that advocates truth and education about high-tech concerns would be a worthwhile proposition. Especially if it is friendly and readily accessible to the mass media (who unfortunatly rarely let ignorance or lack of facts get in the way of a good story).
Question: Wouldn't this be a good issue to be addressed by the ACM?
While I recognize that unions might be useful for those workers who on their own are not particularly powerful vis-a-vis employers (i.e., not well educated or skilled and therefore have few options, or narrowly skilled, also few options), and that employers can and do screw people with impunity, the idea of a programmer's union (whatever you want to call it) is absolutely abhorent to me, and I imagine most people I know and certainly anyone I would want to work with.
If I don't like my working conditions, I will find a job that better suits me. I wield considerable power in the marketplace to demand a certain salary and working conditions based on the fact that I am competent, have a good repututation and am honest.
While recognizing that unions do serve a good purpose for some, I would think in my field they would only serve to as a shelter for the incompetenent and lazy and could only hurt me by limiting the options I could exercise in a free market.
Furthermore, I have found that in the business world, the best guarantee for screwing yourself is to rely on others. I would stand nothing to gain by such a propostion and everything to lose... so much so that I would rather switch careers than be forced to join a union.
As far as the press goes, mass ignorance will always be with us. Anyone who doesn't understand that 90% of the press is made up of people too stupid to do real work (compare requirements for a journalism degree with anything other than an education degree and see what I mean) and legitimate and worthwhile journalism is being pushed further and further into the fringes. I generally find the level of intelligence expressed on slashdot to equal or exceed most newspaper columnists (and certainly reporters), particularly since I can see so many viewpoints easily.
Ignorance is a fact of life, and I don't really give a d*mn what people at large think since they will always misunderstand someone like me anyway.
From a Christian perspective, I don't see how a clone could be considered non-human any more than someone conceived via test-tube fertilization.
The evils from cloning come from the fact that they _are_ creating humans and then doing very inhumane things to them.
Unfortunately, many people conveniently define human life as beginning at birth (or worse at some arbitrary and undefinable point in between).
The logical result of this is that the definition of human life becomes arbitrary and subject to all kinds of ridiculous criteria:
1. This embryo/fetus is human but this one who is five minutes younger is not. (The "viability" argument, or detectable brain waves, heartbeat, etc)
2. Being human depends on how much technology your parents have access to, or worse how much money. (The "viability" argument again)
3. Being human depends on whether or not someone else wants you to be human (the logical conconlusion of a lot of pro-abortion people, and coincidently, the KKK and the Nazis too). i.e, I want my unborn baby therefore he/she's human. I don't want my unborn baby therefore it's just a blob of cells to be excised.
Given that logic dictates human life be defined as starting at conception, when a genertically unique individual is created who only needs oridinary (not extraordinary) care to survive and grow, we must therefore conclude that clones are would be subject to the same rights and privileges as all humans.
Rick
Hey, there is a detailed discussion in that book on how to build a record player that can duplicate any sound (even one that would destroy the record player).
:)
That's some serious technology.
Also, I think there's a big potential market for computers composed of ant colonies (a la Terry Pratchett's "Hex" ("Anthill Inside" boo bee boo boop!))
In all seriousness, I would love to see more articles on pure science, photography, music, SF and cooking. These are all technical fields that seem to have a lot of overlap with hacking.
Rick
"allowed a piece of the PC pie"?
So you're saying you want to be an officially recognized victim?
Political correctness is what stupid people do when they are trying to be sensitive to others and think that thoughts come from words and not the other way around.
Political correctness is George Orwell's NewSpeak. It is the absurd philosophy that if you dumb down the language enough no one can offend or be offended. ("Mentally challenged" == "retarded"? The day I am not "mentally challenged" is the day I'm dead (or wish I was!))
I would resent that journalists have misused the term excpet I don't expect journalists to get anything right that's more deep than the president's sexual preferences. Let's face it, a lot of journalists are in their field because they were too incompetent to get a college degree in anything else. When is the last time you saw a TV reporter who had the slightest clue about anything he or she was talking about? When was the last time you saw a newspaper story written without the most common grammatical errors? When was the last time you read or heard a reporter talk about something technical you knew in detail and get even a majority of the facts right (even without a deliberate slant)?
The problem stems from the fact that for most people, being a computer expert no matter how you call it is equated to the silliest "hacker" stereotype you can imagine because most people don't understand what we don't and fewer still understand why we do it.
Hacking is an esoteric interest that few people will bother to consider (for good reasons or bad... there is life away from computers... or so I've heard) what it's about any more deeply than the most superficial stereotype. Thee same goes for those of us who play role-playing games, read science fiction, listen to good progressive music (something most people don't realize exists!) or any of a thousand other pursuits taken on by people who like to exercise their intelligence or imaginations.
I learned as a child that I'm a lot happier when I really don't give a d*mn what people think.
Rick the Hacker
I won't flame you because I think you're right. Star Trek is usually weak science fiction at best. That doesn't mean that it doesn't have usually good and often excellent stories (ok, Voyager is often awful), but the science fiction elements are usually completely overlooked (the incredible potential of discovering a Dyson's Sphere in ST:TNG's "Relics", which was quickly written off) or reduced to technobabble (how many problems are simply solved by a beam of some exotic particle).
As stories about interesting ideas in a futuristic setting (or simply allegories to contemporary issues), Star Trek is an entertaining medium and does a good job while remaining accessible to most people.
Star Wars is fantasy, pure and simple. No explanations are given (or desired) for the technological aspects of the world of Star Wars.
It's just pure and simple fun (OK, maybe not so simple). It's a brain twinkie, but that doesn't mean it has to be vapid or uninteresting to anyone with a 3-digit IQ.
Star Wars spawned a whole industry of sf/fantasy movies that tried to imitate what made it sucessful. There was a lot of dreck, but there was a lot of good stuff, too. Aside of Star Trek and Contact, what was the last SF or fantasy movie that wasn't a moronic kid's film or a thinly veiled horror or action flick. I'm hoping PM will rejuvenate what I consider to be a brain-dead and violence-obsessed industry.
p.s. "missed the final Deep Space Nine"? I thought it wasn't till next month!
I'm a big fan of both
Journalism is one of those fields you go into when you're too stupid to do anything useful. Computer journalism is for journalists with no people skills.
Now there are intelligent journalists out there, but it's obvious that most of the press and especially TV do not have any standards. Just look of the level of grammar in a typical newspaper or the insipid questions of a typical TV interviewer.
This article is typical of one that you read about a subject that you know a lot about, but most people don't. He can say anything he wants about Linux, because 99.9% of his readers don't know any better.
If car reviews were written like software reviews we'd be seeing in-depth recommendations based solely on the quality of paint job.
Yes, the point of all this ridiculous bickering over format is so one company can establish a monopoly. Anti-trust issues aside, these companies simply want to have a successful proprietary format so everyone else has kiss up (i.e, pay $$$) to buy in. What happens is that this fighting usually causes the new technology to be delayed for years (or never happen, like stereo AM radio), and you can guarantee we poor end users will get the short end of the stick.
How best to serve the customer is never an issue. The issue is to try and screw all the competition and create the perception of being the best. You think SmallSquishy got where they are today by providing the best software for users. Has anyone used Windows or Office lately?
I saw the reference to UF being shutdown on
Either way, it didn't occur to me that it was a joke given the kind of thing that's been happening to Dave's Classics and others lately.
The fact that I did not immediately dismiss this story as a hoax because of it obviously being totally against the laws and traditions in this country only demonstrated to me how jaded I've become to the erosion of those rights. I didn't think, "Holy Cow! That could never happen, we have free speech in the U.S", but rather "Yet another example of speech not really being free, especially when expensive lawyers or bureaucrats are around."
Far from being a silly and pointless prank, I saw the UF shutdown hoax as a grim reminder of how out of control some things are in this country.
On the other hand, the cold fusion story was hilarious.
Rick