Still can't hold candle to the original Star Trek Pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Shatner was young, guest stars were Sally Kellerman and Gary Lockwood. Things covered in just one hour: Man as God, Humans evolving into superior being, life in deep space, absolute power and corruption, killing a loved friend, sacrificing oneself for another.
The report states that the Internet, the most obvious and well known center of lies and obfuscated information, a place so ravaged by dis-information that we as a people may have lost all hope of ever pulling ourselves out of ignorance and delusion, a place where major information providers lie (such as regarding Bin Laden using encrypted JPGs... he never did), and this report...
This report... thing... says Stenography isn't in wide use. WHO CARES!... Man.
I still love the original show. It's still far more intellegent and well written than many of the new shows. Best of all, it never had to explain itself as an advanced brotherhood of evolved humans, it just went along as if that were a given. I love it when people tell me "Spock's Brain" was the worst Star Trek ever. Some people just don't get it.
After a disappointing run with Voyager (a show that somewhat rises above such crap as Babylon5) I hope that the writers for Enterprise remember the one rule that always made Star Trek special.
Having gotten out of Internet "tech sup" after 5 years, I can honestly say that the problem of poor tech support lays squarely on the companies. They never paid for or committed to technical support for their customers. Heck, we used to call Bell Sympatico tech support for a laugh!
I've seen Bell move Call Centres out of any province that threatened to unionize. Now IBM has developed A.I. to replace those people.
Maybe there is a reason people are leaving the Internet in droves recently. Maybe, people are tired of being ripped off. BOFH !!! ______
jeff13
Don't bother writing software anymore. Throw out your computer. Now that Micro$oft has finally managed to make friends in high places, they can dictate law as well as the market.
Already, most software is owned and sold by Micro$oft... even though a 14 year old could create these things (and they have).
I mean, when Micro$oft rips off IRC do and legal eagles come to the defence of the poor guy who wrote the program (in college)?
Quite your job, become a cook or something. Unless you want to work for Chairman Bill. ______
jeff13
I'm a cartoonist and graphic artist. Years of using computers to create art has taught me one thing; computers suck camel sweat when it comes to art.
Sure... CG realism, animation, etc, are all pretty neat. But working with Adobe (or GIMP you Unix boy) and the other software professional artists use everyday... is a nightmare. The software is crap. It's always a struggle to get all this "art" software to do even the simplest projects. It's like painting by numbers for someone like me. An actual artist! *gasp*
I thought this computer crap was supposed to make it easier!
But the truth is, this software was dumped onto our industry just like everyone else's industry. I'm old enough to have had a traditional arts training (something that keep me from getting a job through the early 90s) and I can tell you with complete confidence that I could do a far far far better job and in less time.
Done even get me started on the printing problems.
Look, you wanna make art? Try a brush, ink, and paper. They work far better than those stupid "Filters". wtf are filters? I don't fuggin' know... ______
jeff13
I can't join an environmental group.
I can't vote without lossing job offers from governments that oppose my vote choices.
I can't post opinions online without hiding my identity - unless I like being fired over a Micro$oft rant.
I have to watch what I say over the phone.. NSA will flag "bad" words. Perhaps endangering friends traveling abroad.
I cannot chose products. It's all monopolized.
I'm forced to own a car.
I'm forced to work on a computer. It's just the way they do it now.
I'll have half the retirement money payoff my parents enjoyed. If the RRSPs don't go tits up.
I could go on and on and on. If only they'd listened to Eisenhower. Something about watching out for the Military Industrial Complex. I'm beginning to really fear this corporate-militarized American "culture". I'll let Ike say it for me...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th US President
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jeff13
There is no such thing as the Illuminati. Never was. The Illuminati Conspiracy is derived from a manifesto that was actually written to criticize the Russian Aristocracy. Some clever dick rewrote it to make the Jews look like they controlled everything. Even Henry Ford fell for this one... for a while.
Way to make yourself look like a fool FortKnox. ______
jeff13
If you understood directories and group policies, you would understand why this is so.
What??? It's basic you Microsoft wog. As someone who works on an IIS network, I can tell you without a doubt that it's the worst crap I've ever encountered. IMHO, it's Micro$oft that does not understand directories and group policies.
BTW, Group Policies??? What about permissions? Let's pick our terminology and stick with it shall we?
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jeff13
We have spent millions of dollars creating a new copyright law to protect authors and musicians, in Australia,
You're a liar. If you really protected artists they wouldn't be so thoroughly exploited by corporations-subsidized by your policies I might add. Copyright law is for business', not artists.
and you guys come along and simply slap up circumvention devices like there never was a problem.
There wasn't a problem until greedy morons like Bill Gates came along and made the Internet a commercial battleground. A battleground where your government gives money and infrastructure to businesses like Microsoft so they may succeed in this endeavor and control the entire Internet much like they already control the 'computers-sold' market worldwide. It's all about the market.
Why don't you government wogs ever give millions to artists every year? Answer: they don't pay for your campaigns.
Tell me this Smart arses:
BTW, impersonating a government official is a federal and international crime.
How do you think my corporate benefactors are going to treat me now that you've (in theory) stepped straight around the provisions in my new laws?? Don't you realize I'm going to have to send some Australians to jail for five years once they use this now illegal circumvention device.
That's right. Use the Internet and you could go to jail. Didn't take long for the powers that be to threaten the Net using public at large. How about this? You go to jail for misuse of the peoples funds and are banded from public service for being a brainless jerk! ______
jeff13
Here in fascist Harrisland (Used to be called Ontario), there is a 60 hour work week Bill to be legislated. Note that here in Harrisland, laws are simply passed without argument. Really (Americans get to vote on these municipal things... you're SO lucky).
Here's a little future for America to worry about. It's happening here thanks to NAFTA, etc. So beware!
By Judy Rebick (yea, Judy Rebick! What's wrong with her?)
Ontario Premier Mike Harris is giving Ontario employers a great big Christmas present by ramming through third reading of a bill that turns Ontario labour standards back two generations.
Bill 147 permits a 60-hour work week. Even worse, it allows for the averaging of overtime over four weeks. An employer does not have to pay overtime if the average work week over four weeks is 44 hours. In other words, someone could work 60 hours this week, 55 hours the week after and then 30 hours for the next two weeks and receive no overtime pay.
Since the Second World War the maximum work week in Ontario has been 48 hours, with overtime pay after 44 hours. There were lots of exemptions but at least there was a formal process and a tough requirement for overtime.
The rest is on the CBC site.
http://cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/columns/rebick/rebick 001220.html
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jeff13
After skimming each post here, I have to thank all you Americans for your comments about the Canadian Space effort with NASA. We, of course, leave our igloos to wave at the Space Station each time it orbits above Uranus. ______
jeff13
This reminds me of StanLee.Net, which died recently thanks to it's major share holder and "Consultant" Peter Paul. This bastard, friend to greedy shits all over America, sold most of the stock (reducing it below $1.00) and single handedly destroying Stan Lee himself and yet another attempt to bring comics to the Net.
This is more than a 90% reduction in the stock price, within 3 days (!).
From their desks in the "bullpen", employees gasped as they watched the stock drop like a dead donkey from the top of the Daily Bugle Building. No Spiderman webs to catch that fall. ______
jeff13
No, I would hope and pray that a court of law investigates and prosecutes those who poison the land and the people.
Oh wait... there isn't any such laws.
Multi-national companies have only weak govern'ment regulation to keep them from poisoning, killing, etc. And we have gone through decades of that without much luck. Erin Brokovitch is a rare case because they won. But only after many years, and a settlement. No convictions. No punishment... the company keeps going on and on.
And I remind you I'm posting from Ontario, a province that just saw a half dozen people die and thousands more becoming deathly ill due to the govern'ments best efforts.
If you think my posts are too harsh, I urge you to read a freakin' book. ______
jeff13
The Canadian farmers started to accuse Monsanto of cross pollinating a while ago. Farmers near fields with "those gall darn ge'tic seeds" found that Monsanto seed ended up in their crop. Fears of an uncontrollable cross pollinated world of genetically altered food started to be thrown about. What happened next?
Monsanto spied on farmers, then "burned" farmers fields in order to destroy evidence. When caught, Monsanto said they were "testing" fields. Hmm, and flew night missions in Cessnas to carry out these "normal" activities. Yea... sure.
And now they win a court case against a farmer who has complained about Monsanto seed in his crop before. I don't care if the whole field is full of Genetic seed, it's still Monsantos responsibility.
Monsanto wants to own the worlds food before the farmer does. It's insidious!
They have killed before, they will kill again. ______
jeff13
Slashdot Mirror
Still can't hold candle to the original Star Trek Pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Shatner was young, guest stars were Sally Kellerman and Gary Lockwood. Things covered in just one hour: Man as God, Humans evolving into superior being, life in deep space, absolute power and corruption, killing a loved friend, sacrificing oneself for another.
They don't write 'em like the used to.
Sooo, let me ge this straight.
... Man.
The report states that the Internet, the most obvious and well known center of lies and obfuscated information, a place so ravaged by dis-information that we as a people may have lost all hope of ever pulling ourselves out of ignorance and delusion, a place where major information providers lie (such as regarding Bin Laden using encrypted JPGs... he never did), and this report...
This report... thing... says Stenography isn't in wide use. WHO CARES!
I still love the original show. It's still far more intellegent and well written than many of the new shows. Best of all, it never had to explain itself as an advanced brotherhood of evolved humans, it just went along as if that were a given. I love it when people tell me "Spock's Brain" was the worst Star Trek ever. Some people just don't get it.
After a disappointing run with Voyager (a show that somewhat rises above such crap as Babylon5) I hope that the writers for Enterprise remember the one rule that always made Star Trek special.
It's about the humans!
Having gotten out of Internet "tech sup" after 5 years, I can honestly say that the problem of poor tech support lays squarely on the companies. They never paid for or committed to technical support for their customers. Heck, we used to call Bell Sympatico tech support for a laugh!
I've seen Bell move Call Centres out of any province that threatened to unionize. Now IBM has developed A.I. to replace those people.
Maybe there is a reason people are leaving the Internet in droves recently. Maybe, people are tired of being ripped off.
BOFH !!!
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jeff13
Don't bother writing software anymore. Throw out your computer. Now that Micro$oft has finally managed to make friends in high places, they can dictate law as well as the market.
Already, most software is owned and sold by Micro$oft... even though a 14 year old could create these things (and they have).
I mean, when Micro$oft rips off IRC do and legal eagles come to the defence of the poor guy who wrote the program (in college)?
Quite your job, become a cook or something. Unless you want to work for Chairman Bill.
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jeff13
I'm a cartoonist and graphic artist. Years of using computers to create art has taught me one thing; computers suck camel sweat when it comes to art.
Sure... CG realism, animation, etc, are all pretty neat. But working with Adobe (or GIMP you Unix boy) and the other software professional artists use everyday... is a nightmare. The software is crap. It's always a struggle to get all this "art" software to do even the simplest projects. It's like painting by numbers for someone like me. An actual artist! *gasp*
I thought this computer crap was supposed to make it easier!
But the truth is, this software was dumped onto our industry just like everyone else's industry. I'm old enough to have had a traditional arts training (something that keep me from getting a job through the early 90s) and I can tell you with complete confidence that I could do a far far far better job and in less time.
Done even get me started on the printing problems.
Look, you wanna make art? Try a brush, ink, and paper. They work far better than those stupid "Filters".
wtf are filters? I don't fuggin' know...
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jeff13
Hey. Why doesn't Micro$oft make some software for us?
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jeff13
Damn! ;p
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jeff13
Hmm. Let me see.
I can't join an environmental group.
I can't vote without lossing job offers from governments that oppose my vote choices.
I can't post opinions online without hiding my identity - unless I like being fired over a Micro$oft rant.
I have to watch what I say over the phone.. NSA will flag "bad" words. Perhaps endangering friends traveling abroad.
I cannot chose products. It's all monopolized.
I'm forced to own a car.
I'm forced to work on a computer. It's just the way they do it now.
I'll have half the retirement money payoff my parents enjoyed. If the RRSPs don't go tits up.
I could go on and on and on. If only they'd listened to Eisenhower. Something about watching out for the Military Industrial Complex. I'm beginning to really fear this corporate-militarized American "culture". I'll let Ike say it for me...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th US President
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jeff13
Weirdness!
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jeff13
Beatings with metal pipes would be acceptable.
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jeff13
There is no such thing as the Illuminati. Never was. The Illuminati Conspiracy is derived from a manifesto that was actually written to criticize the Russian Aristocracy. Some clever dick rewrote it to make the Jews look like they controlled everything. Even Henry Ford fell for this one... for a while.
Way to make yourself look like a fool FortKnox.
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jeff13
If you understood directories and group policies, you would understand why this is so.
What??? It's basic you Microsoft wog. As someone who works on an IIS network, I can tell you without a doubt that it's the worst crap I've ever encountered. IMHO, it's Micro$oft that does not understand directories and group policies.
BTW, Group Policies??? What about permissions? Let's pick our terminology and stick with it shall we?
______
jeff13
We have spent millions of dollars creating a new copyright law to protect authors and musicians, in Australia,
You're a liar. If you really protected artists they wouldn't be so thoroughly exploited by corporations-subsidized by your policies I might add. Copyright law is for business', not artists.
and you guys come along and simply slap up circumvention devices like there never was a problem.
There wasn't a problem until greedy morons like Bill Gates came along and made the Internet a commercial battleground. A battleground where your government gives money and infrastructure to businesses like Microsoft so they may succeed in this endeavor and control the entire Internet much like they already control the 'computers-sold' market worldwide. It's all about the market.
Why don't you government wogs ever give millions to artists every year? Answer: they don't pay for your campaigns.
Tell me this Smart arses:
BTW, impersonating a government official is a federal and international crime.
How do you think my corporate benefactors are going to treat me now that you've (in theory) stepped straight around the provisions in my new laws?? Don't you realize I'm going to have to send some Australians to jail for five years once they use this now illegal circumvention device.
That's right. Use the Internet and you could go to jail. Didn't take long for the powers that be to threaten the Net using public at large. How about this? You go to jail for misuse of the peoples funds and are banded from public service for being a brainless jerk!
______
jeff13
Here in fascist Harrisland (Used to be called Ontario), there is a 60 hour work week Bill to be legislated. Note that here in Harrisland, laws are simply passed without argument. Really (Americans get to vote on these municipal things... you're SO lucky).
Here's a little future for America to worry about. It's happening here thanks to NAFTA, etc. So beware!
By Judy Rebick (yea, Judy Rebick! What's wrong with her?)
Ontario Premier Mike Harris is giving Ontario employers a great big Christmas present by ramming through third reading of a bill that turns Ontario labour standards back two generations.
Bill 147 permits a 60-hour work week. Even worse, it allows for the averaging of overtime over four weeks. An employer does not have to pay overtime if the average work week over four weeks is 44 hours. In other words, someone could work 60 hours this week, 55 hours the week after and then 30 hours for the next two weeks and receive no overtime pay.
Since the Second World War the maximum work week in Ontario has been 48 hours, with overtime pay after 44 hours. There were lots of exemptions but at least there was a formal process and a tough requirement for overtime.
The rest is on the CBC site. http://cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/columns/rebick/rebic
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jeff13
Hey, look above this post... an Alliance Party Troll !!!
ROTFL !
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jeff13
Maybe he just got there the hard way !
Kidding...
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jeff13
After skimming each post here, I have to thank all you Americans for your comments about the Canadian Space effort with NASA. We, of course, leave our igloos to wave at the Space Station each time it orbits above Uranus.
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jeff13
But these people were fun to beat with a Circa '85 IBM keyboard.
Those things were heavy!
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jeff13
This reminds me of StanLee.Net, which died recently thanks to it's major share holder and "Consultant" Peter Paul. This bastard, friend to greedy shits all over America, sold most of the stock (reducing it below $1.00) and single handedly destroying Stan Lee himself and yet another attempt to bring comics to the Net.
This is more than a 90% reduction in the stock price, within 3 days (!).
From their desks in the "bullpen", employees gasped as they watched the stock drop like a dead donkey from the top of the Daily Bugle Building. No Spiderman webs to catch that fall.
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jeff13
That's right, only giant coporations are allowed to distribute culture.
Back off Napster, or Billy Gates will eat your children.
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jeff13
"nothing is ready for mainstream until your mom or a pot-smoking graphic designer can figure it out."
Hey, I figured out Linux. Really!
*cough*, pass it to the left.
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jeff13
*Best Krusty the Clown voice*> Hi kids! Mhuaa HAHHaHa!
Yea, the movie was boring for ya eh? Didn't like listening to classical music while watching a space ship flip around over and over and over.
Kids today... they seem to think these things come from the ether.
Pod noise:"BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek..., BONG-cleek...,".
HAL... Open the pod bay doors HAL.
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jeff13
No, I would hope and pray that a court of law investigates and prosecutes those who poison the land and the people.
Oh wait... there isn't any such laws.
Multi-national companies have only weak govern'ment regulation to keep them from poisoning, killing, etc. And we have gone through decades of that without much luck. Erin Brokovitch is a rare case because they won. But only after many years, and a settlement. No convictions. No punishment... the company keeps going on and on.
And I remind you I'm posting from Ontario, a province that just saw a half dozen people die and thousands more becoming deathly ill due to the govern'ments best efforts.
If you think my posts are too harsh, I urge you to read a freakin' book.
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jeff13
The Canadian farmers started to accuse Monsanto of cross pollinating a while ago. Farmers near fields with "those gall darn ge'tic seeds" found that Monsanto seed ended up in their crop. Fears of an uncontrollable cross pollinated world of genetically altered food started to be thrown about. What happened next?
Monsanto spied on farmers, then "burned" farmers fields in order to destroy evidence. When caught, Monsanto said they were "testing" fields. Hmm, and flew night missions in Cessnas to carry out these "normal" activities. Yea... sure.
And now they win a court case against a farmer who has complained about Monsanto seed in his crop before. I don't care if the whole field is full of Genetic seed, it's still Monsantos responsibility.
Monsanto wants to own the worlds food before the farmer does. It's insidious!
They have killed before, they will kill again.
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jeff13