I always shake my head and chuckle when something is panned as a "Conspiracy Theory".
Given that every company and every government department has a "Confidentiality Agreement" (Agreement Ha!), or "Official Secrets Act", or "Commercially Sensitive Information" or "Trade Secret" or....
Conspiracy is this civilization's norm, not something cranky and weird.
It's what we do every week in the monday morning meeting.
Don't believe me? Just try paste the minutes of your last meeting on a publically visible website and see how long you last.
If what were doing is so good, why not let people see, it should be engendering public confidence and hence really good public relations.
Imagine a world in which, by law, if every meeting of three or more held was publically accessible. How would our world change?
How much that we do, which are basically ashamed of, will suddenly not be acceptable?
Which actions would suddenly no longer be orchestrated by these meetings?
I ask you, think back to your last two work meetings. What would have been said or done differently if your customers, shareholders, or the press or other stakeholders were listening?
The other day I was feeling ill I went to the doctor to get some pill he looked at me in despair, said my friend you're badly in need of repair now with this up-to date surgery we get our spare parts from the menagerie so if you'll kindly sit down a while I'll just telephone for a crocodile
I got the heart of an ape the liver of a chicken the blood of an ox through a tube which they stick in to me spleen which I borrowed from a cow I was human once but I'm not sure now.
Walking down the street me girlfriend I happen to meet me heart went bom-diddy-bom just like the ape that I got it from me ox blood boiled, I started to moo I was pawing at the ground, what else could I do? and when at last she walked on by I said cockadoodle-doo and started to fly
Help me! I got the heart of an ape...
Going out one night me and a feller got into a fight I hit him with a left then I hit him with a right but somehow I just couldn't finish the fight no matter what I did he kept coming at me he was the stubbornest man I ever did see it was in vain, I find out last this feller's got the jawbone of an ass
and me I got the heart of an ape...
Well in the end I was getting fed up I said to this doctor, look man, I've had enough All this animal junk won't do Get me some organ that doesn't come out of the zoo He said, what about this for size? I tell you, I could hardly believe me eyes I looked at this thing with dismay & suspicion It was the brain of a politician.
I can report it worked spectacularly on a Isuzu utility ten years ago.
Hmm. Depends, the topic is super modern computerised everything cars. It depends on how many computers they have in there. If it is one computer controlling everything, including fuel injection, then fun-fun-fun. If each subsystem has an independent computer, well, it might a tad hard.
Hmm, gives rise to another idea. If the computer does control the fuel injection, how about making the average amount of fuel injected as requested, but make the instantaneous flow fluctuate.
What I want to know is why, although I am sitting on South Island New Zealand, when I type in www.nzdl.org do I end up in Canada?
http://www.sadl.uleth.ca/nz/cgi-bin/library
Everything has its place. (The shadow creature doesn't belong in the bath-house; it's evil there. But it's not when it's outside.
Apparently the shadow creature was autobiographical. When Miyazaki became successful he became like the shadow creature. Everyone deferring to the man with gold, and the man with gold consuming so much it made him physically and spiritually ill.
Evil is a matter of perception.
Apparently that is a feature of Shinto. People are neither Good xor Evil, but Good and Evil.
Foreign aid packages to developing countries is often far far less helpful than the dollar value would suggest.
They often come with political agendas tying the country to destructive policies.
They are often in the form of "low interest loans", ostensibly to provide additional leverage. Unfortunately the real effect is the loan terms are in first world currencies, so when the destructive policies destruct and the developing countries economy collapses, the loan repayments are an impossible burden.
The aid is not just dollars to be spent anywhere, but an account with which to buy specific items from specific companies from the donor country. eg. A few dollars will buy a great water pump from a place like Pakistan, easily serviceable in a developing country. Unfortunately the strings attached to Aid dollars forces them to buy unserviceable units from some exorbitant place in the donor country.
But Open Source is just plain Good. It is friendly to non-English languages, has great support for alternate fonts and keys. No strings atatched and works on low end PC's.
Just a pity there isn't a "Clean Drinking Water" package on sourceforge!
I've never seen a fruitful discussion on the politics section either.
Always believe your politicians. If Bush says Kerry is a scuzbag.
Believe him.
If Kerry says Bush is a dirt ball.
Believe him.
But who should you vote for? Ah, but don't you see the smoke and mirrors. Debate and Counterpoint. Left or Right, dust or ashes. Flashes and Bangs. Why is it all there? Why is it _so_ noisy and fussy?
It is all sleight of hand. It is all there to stop you from actually GETTING OFF YOUR FAT BUTT AND DOING SOMETHING MEANINGFUL!
I get a deep gut rage when my Linux box that used to run for hundreds of days at a time freezes in the %$##@! Nvidia driver because a screensaver came on.
Dunno, seems to be standard intelligence practice.
They always did so in the bad old days of South African apartheid, they seem to do it here in New Zealand.
The most deeply held belief of these coinops types is that all popular activism is orchestrated by enemy agitators. (After all that is what _they_ would/are do/doing...)
For them to believe otherwise is to begin to suspect that their own dastardly deeds are wrong.
Thus they are always there, on the fringes, taking photographs and trying to correlate them to spot the real ringleaders.
Sort of sad really.
You may be tempted to wear concealing sunglasses and a hat next time you protest something, but odds on that will really convince them you're the "black hat" and they will put the hard question to you on the spot.
Probably not sasol, as it has a fair amount of scrubbing equipment. Probably the many coal fired power plants and/or burning of cheap high sulphur coal for home heating / cooking.
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Given that every company and every government department has a "Confidentiality Agreement" (Agreement Ha!), or "Official Secrets Act", or "Commercially Sensitive Information" or "Trade Secret" or....
Conspiracy is this civilization's norm, not something cranky and weird.
It's what we do every week in the monday morning meeting.
Don't believe me? Just try paste the minutes of your last meeting on a publically visible website and see how long you last.
If what were doing is so good, why not let people see, it should be engendering public confidence and hence really good public relations.
Imagine a world in which, by law, if every meeting of three or more held was publically accessible. How would our world change?
How much that we do, which are basically ashamed of, will suddenly not be acceptable?
Which actions would suddenly no longer be orchestrated by these meetings?
I ask you, think back to your last two work meetings. What would have been said or done differently if your customers, shareholders, or the press or other stakeholders were listening?
Quite a lot.
I can also pan C++ for an hour or two.
Nah, he's not negative. Just been around long enough to understand the Dilbert Principle properly. "People are Stupid."
You, me, Alan Kay, Gosling, Einstein, stupid, stupid, stupid, the lot of them.
But the Hubble, now that was so worthwhile.
I'm genuinely deeply upset to see the Hubble go.
I feel we're moving into one of those tacky dystopias where cars are all noise and futuristic styling, but the drivers are pedalling.
I just love Jeremy Taylor's Transplant Calypso
The other day I was feeling ill
I went to the doctor to get some pill
he looked at me in despair, said my friend you're badly in need of repair
now with this up-to date surgery
we get our spare parts from the menagerie
so if you'll kindly sit down a while I'll just telephone for a crocodile
I got the heart of an ape
the liver of a chicken
the blood of an ox
through a tube which they stick in
to me spleen
which I borrowed from a cow
I was human once
but I'm not sure now.
Walking down the street
me girlfriend I happen to meet
me heart went bom-diddy-bom
just like the ape that I got it from
me ox blood boiled, I started to moo
I was pawing at the ground,
what else could I do?
and when at last she walked on by
I said cockadoodle-doo and started to fly
Help me!
I got the heart of an ape...
Going out one night
me and a feller got into a fight
I hit him with a left then I hit him with a right
but somehow I just couldn't finish the fight
no matter what I did he kept coming at me
he was the stubbornest man I ever did see
it was in vain, I find out last
this feller's got the jawbone of an ass
and me
I got the heart of an ape...
Well in the end I was getting fed up
I said to this doctor, look man, I've had enough
All this animal junk won't do
Get me some organ that doesn't come out of the zoo
He said, what about this for size?
I tell you, I could hardly believe me eyes
I looked at this thing with dismay & suspicion
It was the brain of a politician.
I'd rather have
The heart of an ape...
Hmm. Depends, the topic is super modern computerised everything cars. It depends on how many computers they have in there. If it is one computer controlling everything, including fuel injection, then fun-fun-fun. If each subsystem has an independent computer, well, it might a tad hard.
Hmm, gives rise to another idea. If the computer does control the fuel injection, how about making the average amount of fuel injected as requested, but make the instantaneous flow fluctuate.
How long before occupants get sea sick?
On long downhills leave vehicle in gear, switch off engine, pump gas for awhile, switch on, BANG!
Exhaust fumes ignite explosively.
Tends to amaze followers when large chunks of the silencer come shooting out at them.
What I want to know is why, although I am sitting on South Island New Zealand, when I type in www.nzdl.org do I end up in Canada? http://www.sadl.uleth.ca/nz/cgi-bin/library
So you read every word of the last EULA you clicked "I Accept" to?
Dunno, grow some maryj in your backyard and see what happens when the cops come round...
Besides, they would just burn it to save on heating expenses.
Apparently the shadow creature was autobiographical. When Miyazaki became successful he became like the shadow creature. Everyone deferring to the man with gold, and the man with gold consuming so much it made him physically and spiritually ill.
Evil is a matter of perception.
Apparently that is a feature of Shinto. People are neither Good xor Evil, but Good and Evil.
But Open Source is just plain Good. It is friendly to non-English languages, has great support for alternate fonts and keys. No strings atatched and works on low end PC's.
Just a pity there isn't a "Clean Drinking Water" package on sourceforge!
Ah, well, call it a stupidity tax.
Worse, no one will actually shift their fat butts and actually _do_ anything!
Always believe your politicians. If Bush says Kerry is a scuzbag.
Believe him.
If Kerry says Bush is a dirt ball.
Believe him.
But who should you vote for? Ah, but don't you see the smoke and mirrors. Debate and Counterpoint. Left or Right, dust or ashes. Flashes and Bangs. Why is it all there? Why is it _so_ noisy and fussy?
It is all sleight of hand. It is all there to stop you from actually GETTING OFF YOUR FAT BUTT AND DOING SOMETHING MEANINGFUL!
Nah. Too expensive, too crappy. Practically everything we wear and most of our appliances are "Made in China".
I get a deep gut rage when my Linux box that used to run for hundreds of days at a time freezes in the %$##@! Nvidia driver because a screensaver came on.
They always did so in the bad old days of South African apartheid, they seem to do it here in New Zealand.
The most deeply held belief of these coinops types is that all popular activism is orchestrated by enemy agitators. (After all that is what _they_ would/are do/doing...)
For them to believe otherwise is to begin to suspect that their own dastardly deeds are wrong.
Thus they are always there, on the fringes, taking photographs and trying to correlate them to spot the real ringleaders.
Sort of sad really.
You may be tempted to wear concealing sunglasses and a hat next time you protest something, but odds on that will really convince them you're the "black hat" and they will put the hard question to you on the spot.
Probably not sasol, as it has a fair amount of scrubbing equipment. Probably the many coal fired power plants and/or burning of cheap high sulphur coal for home heating / cooking.
No we stink as well, just that the trade winds whip it into the wide blue pacific (almost) as fast as we make it.
Cheez, you're as bad as Dick Cheney.
The day after, the bad guys will take your fingers for a walk without you..
Carter's Law :- "People are just as dumb as they ever were."
When Moore's Law crosses Carter's Law, Fun Fun Fun.
And they just die.
I didn't know they only understood Japanese.