I'm making my way through this one right now. That's some vintage "war on drugs" propaganda:
All right students! I won't keep you in suspense any longer! The next surprise is a special visitor from the Coastal City Police Department here to give us all a talk about the DANGERS of drug abuse!
I can't wait to see the computer say no through their DC10 modem!
It isn't that Americans have an innate deference to authority. (Well, some of us might, but the numbers aren't huge.) It's that most Americans seem to be extremely loyal to one political party or another to the point where if the party recommended jumping off bridges for national security/to help the poor, they'd do it.
Case in point is Bill Clinton's administration. Those like Heather McDonald would whine all day and night about how much the government wasn't a good, fathering figure and even needed to be deposed. "Gov'mint" this, "gov'mint" that -- you couldn't get away from it. Now the same people would give their first-born to the same institution for a marginal increase in safety.
The Clinton-supporters were no different. They're all out protesting the war and forwarding email petitions now, but you couldn't find this many when he decided to bomb Sudan or Iraq. If a Democrat gets in office after the next election and continues the war, the people who voted for him will turn into Hawks and the Republicans will find some way of being opposed to the war.
It's honestly like people just like demagogues that agree with them -- no matter what their positions on issues. Americans follow character and they will follow it wherever it goes. I don't have to tell you all how scary that is based on historical precedent, but watch out.
From: 16 August 1967, Atlanta, Ga. Speech "Where do we go from here?"
And the other thing is, I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.
Well duh, you'd just have to send it backwards across the international date line and then locally queue it! I'll tell you, engineers have no imagination these days....
Or you could use the sun to slingshot the information back in time.
Or you could fly in circles around the earth, backwards, with the information in hand.
Or ditch the wires altogether and get a Delorean with a removable hard drive!
^ | --- This one has apparently been drawn into her madness.
"Do not get involved with sendmail. She is an exotic lover, whispering delicious promises in your ear, flashing her dark eyes at you. But she is insane, and will draw you down in to her madness." -Andrew Molitor
...are supposed to be able to handle stuff like that. Maybe not a 20-foot drop, but the casing was supposedly quite shock resistant. They were made for field work and were one of the first to have screens readable in very high-light, high-glare conditions. Heavy as can be, though.
One of the profs I quasi-admin for swears by the things, though I believe she was having trouble finding one lately for an affordable price.
Actually, I wanted to hit both "breast" and "chest", but you're right that one might be more appropriate than the other.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not too choosy in this category, but why does every actress have to look so emaciated lately? Maybe you can't model the latest Gucci but at least no one would be able to see your frickin bones...
Buffy's cute, but give me Buffy looking healthy (and silicon-free) any day.
I've always thought it would be really neat if someone could make a basically PCMCIA based computer. No PCI slots, no need to open up your computer -- just a slot in the front of the computer where you could insert a new card that gets automatically plugged in, enabling pre-existing ports on the back of one's box.
Instead of having to make users deal with a modem PCI card, a network PCI card, sound card, etc, all they would need to do to upgrade is eject one of the old PCMCIA cards and load a new one like one loads a video tape.
I'm not saying this would be easy or compatible with existing OSs, but it sure would be cool.
Martin S. maybe hasn't received the acclaim he's due, but Adaptation and 25th hour were FAR better movies. Not as good as The Hours, maybe, but geez...
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I'd swear the biggest snub of the year is Spike Lee. 25th hour was much better than last year's Training Day and Lee deserves at least a nomination. Lee directing Ed Norton was AMAZING. Norton was at least better and more subtle than Daniel Day-Lewis in S's trainwreck of a movie.
Not to mention Spike Jonze, who is one of the hottest directors in Hollywood when paired with Kauffman. I liked Two Towers a lot too, but Adaptation deserves best picture nods with the best of them.
I mean, of course these awards don't mean anything, but it's upsetting when Hollywood can't separate out the innovators from the dead wood.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
This is really the best remark I have seen on this topic. I work at a big university, and while kids might all own a computer of their own nowadays, they often take stuff to the labs to be printed. Now you can make all the lab computers come with CD-RW's at $25 per in bulk or floppy drives at, what $3 per?
Without something like Mt. Rainier on CD drives, it doesn't look rosy for those students. Even then -- one bad burn and who knows what would happen.
That's what surprised me most about this story, Dell is a large supplier to my college. The floppy isn't even close to having a replacement in that kind of environment.
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I'm making my way through this one right now. That's some vintage "war on drugs" propaganda:
All right students! I won't keep you in suspense any longer! The next surprise is a special visitor from the Coastal City Police Department here to give us all a talk about the DANGERS of drug abuse!
I can't wait to see the computer say no through their DC10 modem!
I don't know, think of all the money Microsoft would save not having to send checks to everyone who has forwarded their email.
Of course M$ can be trusted. They can be trusted to be evil!
I am not saying that my people are "better" or objectively more important than foreigners, only that they are more important to me.
This, of course, is only natural. However, if your people are really no more important than other people objectively, then you have a mistaken belief.
I mean, no one ever said morality was easy.
I'm glad someone said it!
It isn't that Americans have an innate deference to authority. (Well, some of us might, but the numbers aren't huge.) It's that most Americans seem to be extremely loyal to one political party or another to the point where if the party recommended jumping off bridges for national security/to help the poor, they'd do it.
Case in point is Bill Clinton's administration. Those like Heather McDonald would whine all day and night about how much the government wasn't a good, fathering figure and even needed to be deposed. "Gov'mint" this, "gov'mint" that -- you couldn't get away from it. Now the same people would give their first-born to the same institution for a marginal increase in safety.
The Clinton-supporters were no different. They're all out protesting the war and forwarding email petitions now, but you couldn't find this many when he decided to bomb Sudan or Iraq. If a Democrat gets in office after the next election and continues the war, the people who voted for him will turn into Hawks and the Republicans will find some way of being opposed to the war.
It's honestly like people just like demagogues that agree with them -- no matter what their positions on issues. Americans follow character and they will follow it wherever it goes. I don't have to tell you all how scary that is based on historical precedent, but watch out.
Martin Luther King Jr.:
From: 16 August 1967, Atlanta, Ga. Speech "Where do we go from here?"
And the other thing is, I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.
Do you really need to be evil in order to destroy evil? Is open source evil enough to beat MS?
You obviously haven't been taking your propaganda pills lately.
Yeah, yeah, the Spaceballs quotation, but I prefer MLK:
"Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that."
We're the United States Government. We don't do that kind of thing.
(referencing peace on earth, good will towards men)
Well duh, you'd just have to send it backwards across the international date line and then locally queue it! I'll tell you, engineers have no imagination these days....
Or you could use the sun to slingshot the information back in time.
Or you could fly in circles around the earth, backwards, with the information in hand.
Or ditch the wires altogether and get a Delorean with a removable hard drive!
^
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--- This one has apparently been drawn into her madness.
"Do not get involved with sendmail. She is an exotic lover, whispering delicious promises in your ear, flashing her dark eyes at you. But she is insane, and will draw you down in to her madness."
-Andrew Molitor
...are supposed to be able to handle stuff like that. Maybe not a 20-foot drop, but the casing was supposedly quite shock resistant. They were made for field work and were one of the first to have screens readable in very high-light, high-glare conditions. Heavy as can be, though.
One of the profs I quasi-admin for swears by the things, though I believe she was having trouble finding one lately for an affordable price.
She could have a very profitable movie career. Or she could have an uneventful one with her clothes on...
Any Sports Night fans around? Best thing that ever happened to my DVD player (and worst thing to happen to my dissertation...)
Actually, spelling errors are a little more disgusting to me, so thanks!
Maybe I'll start a new sig:
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Silicone: Ruining perfectly good pr0n for 30+ years.
Actually, I wanted to hit both "breast" and "chest", but you're right that one might be more appropriate than the other.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not too choosy in this category, but why does every actress have to look so emaciated lately? Maybe you can't model the latest Gucci but at least no one would be able to see your frickin bones...
Buffy's cute, but give me Buffy looking healthy (and silicon-free) any day.
After the picture on the site it's linking to, I might be thinking "vest" too... and other words that end in the sound made by "est"...
They must have discovered the secret Kaballahscope!
How do you support "sex outside marriage"??? Is someone trying to pass a law against it?
If so, I think we can count on voter turnout being quite a bit higher in the coming years.... especially among college students.
I've always thought it would be really neat if someone could make a basically PCMCIA based computer. No PCI slots, no need to open up your computer -- just a slot in the front of the computer where you could insert a new card that gets automatically plugged in, enabling pre-existing ports on the back of one's box.
Instead of having to make users deal with a modem PCI card, a network PCI card, sound card, etc, all they would need to do to upgrade is eject one of the old PCMCIA cards and load a new one like one loads a video tape.
I'm not saying this would be easy or compatible with existing OSs, but it sure would be cool.
Yes, very bad, because you know if this happens one day you'll see:
Click here to flash your bios.
And you can count the number of seconds on your right hand that will elapse before that link fries your motherboard.
Martin S. maybe hasn't received the acclaim he's due, but Adaptation and 25th hour were FAR better movies. Not as good as The Hours, maybe, but geez...
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I'd swear the biggest snub of the year is Spike Lee. 25th hour was much better than last year's Training Day and Lee deserves at least a nomination. Lee directing Ed Norton was AMAZING. Norton was at least better and more subtle than Daniel Day-Lewis in S's trainwreck of a movie.
Not to mention Spike Jonze, who is one of the hottest directors in Hollywood when paired with Kauffman. I liked Two Towers a lot too, but Adaptation deserves best picture nods with the best of them.
I mean, of course these awards don't mean anything, but it's upsetting when Hollywood can't separate out the innovators from the dead wood.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
This is really the best remark I have seen on this topic. I work at a big university, and while kids might all own a computer of their own nowadays, they often take stuff to the labs to be printed. Now you can make all the lab computers come with CD-RW's at $25 per in bulk or floppy drives at, what $3 per?
Without something like Mt. Rainier on CD drives, it doesn't look rosy for those students. Even then -- one bad burn and who knows what would happen.
That's what surprised me most about this story, Dell is a large supplier to my college. The floppy isn't even close to having a replacement in that kind of environment.