"Little trivia fact for the global warming pundits: There are more trees in North America now than there were in 1970. It's true."
Yes it's true. Because in the 1970s we had this little thing called the environmental movement, which put a stop to the logging free-for-all of the previous 100 years. Compare the number of trees now to the year 1800 for a real picture.
I saw a commercial recently touting how air is cleaner now than it was in 1970. It was an ad for an energy company. Are we supposed to forget how that energy company fought tooth and nail against the environmental regulations they now claim credit for?
And the Bush administration works the same way. They take credit for an advance they fought against simply so they can co-opt it, own it, and de-tooth it. Just ask Carl Pope.
LOTR, all three books in one sitting, true to the book with background commentary, side plots, and all.
And did I mention this performance is a one-man off-Broadway show, starring Jar Jar Binks?
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It's not like he's a professional writer who spent years perfecting his craft.
You know what would have made a better book? Copy and paste the best comments from his web sites, and string that together into a narrative on each company. Some stuff in there is way funny, and has the added bonus of being written by people who were involved in the disasters.
My office is on Page Mill Road, with HP on one side and Agilent on the other. The Agilent building is empty, HP is bustling. Where would I rather work?
I once applied for a job at LoudCloud and sent them a resume in PostScript. When they wrote back requesting MS Word format, I sent them the LaTeX source.
I didn't want the job. I was just ticked off after working with them on a project.
Since you mention it, here's an amusing story about Riffage. I was involved in the original development and engineering of that site, and thought it was a good idea until the sales/marketing types f***ed it all up. That's right, they were greedy, and perhaps a little clueless (IMHO). But at least it was VC money they squandered, and not yours, right? (sorry Ken)
Part of this development involved the auto-email system. We had created a number of test email accounts (rif_test1, rif_test2, rif_test3, etc...) to QA the call-back, account verifications, newsletters, and notifications. You would do this for any site.
Riffage went under, and within a few weeks, all these test email accounts were innundated with spam, and we removed the addresses from our mail server.
I don't know who's running BeSonic now. I haven't been there. Not interested. The people who ran riffage don't talk to me any more. If you want to hear local bands, go out to the clubs.
Anything by Steven Levy is a good read. I read Hackers my first year in college. Before that, I read his column in Popular Computing every month.
Now he's a big shot writing for WSJ or Time or some such rag.
First off, Charles Darrow did NOT invent Monopoly, and this fact has been accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Secondly, the original Monopoly (or Landlord's Game as it was also known) was not intended to be zero sum. It had a rule (omitted by the fradulently copyrighted Parker Brothers version) where players could vote to turn the tide on Monopolists. The idea originated by Quakers circia 1903 was to show that 1) uncontrolled monopolists drive everyone else bankrupt, and 2) social action could break up monopolies and create non-zero-sum game.
See www.anti-monopoly.com
Charles Darrow STOLE monopoly, and Parker Brothers made a billion dollars from a fraudlent patent and copyright. The Atlantic City Quakers who actually invented the game got nothing.
Notice that Marven Gardens is misspelled and Short Line Railroad is actually Shore Fast Line, if you've ever been to Atlantic City.
"This is kill -9. When you absolutely positively have to kill every motherfucking process in the box."...or...
"What does Linus look like?"
"What?"
"What? What OS do you use?"
"What?"
"What? I never heard of no OS called What. Do they program C in What?"
We went through these when Sammy was in that Star Wars movie.
"An innovative stand against innovation." I love it!:-)...I mean:-(
I'm gonna hafta buy one of those "I read your email" bumper stickers now.
Elsewhere on the site, they mention Parker Brothers' theft of the game Monopoly. If you want to read about a real real evil use of trademark laws, go to www.antimonopoly.com
Or it might tick off a few people enough that they try and solve some of these intractible problems. Nothing quite as satisfying as doing the impossible. In my undergraduate algorithms class our professor told us that if we solve one of those problems or prove P=NP, we would not only have an instant PhD, we would be excused from taking the final:-)
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"Little trivia fact for the global warming pundits: There are more trees in North America now than there were in 1970. It's true."
Yes it's true. Because in the 1970s we had this little thing called the environmental movement, which put a stop to the logging free-for-all of the previous 100 years. Compare the number of trees now to the year 1800 for a real picture.
I saw a commercial recently touting how air is cleaner now than it was in 1970. It was an ad for an energy company. Are we supposed to forget how that energy company fought tooth and nail against the environmental regulations they now claim credit for?
And the Bush administration works the same way. They take credit for an advance they fought against simply so they can co-opt it, own it, and de-tooth it. Just ask Carl Pope.
Fossil record? That is exactly the problem. You have to look at ice core samples, not fossils.
Carbon-14 dating of sea shells proves the Earth was created 4-6,000 years ago.
I am the master of Video Olympics. Nobody twists a potentiometer like me! Bring on the Pong!
The title of the movie should be:
The Passion of Jar-Jar.
Two and a half hours of whipping. Meesa no!
Episode III ends with Jar Jar making an ill-timed trip to Alderan.
And the crowd cheers like never before!
And of course their guide and new friend, Jar Jar Binks!
LOTR, all three books in one sitting, true to the book with background commentary, side plots, and all.
And did I mention this performance is a one-man off-Broadway show, starring Jar Jar Binks?
It's not like he's a professional writer who spent years perfecting his craft.
You know what would have made a better book? Copy and paste the best comments from his web sites, and string that together into a narrative on each company. Some stuff in there is way funny, and has the added bonus of being written by people who were involved in the disasters.
My office is on Page Mill Road, with HP on one side and Agilent on the other. The Agilent building is empty, HP is bustling. Where would I rather work?
I once applied for a job at LoudCloud and sent them a resume in PostScript. When they wrote back requesting MS Word format, I sent them the LaTeX source.
I didn't want the job. I was just ticked off after working with them on a project.
It's been done.
http://www.futurehorizons.net/jetpacks.htm
"Yeah, but it still beats dealing with the airlines."
What radio station only plays 30 songs per day? Do you really think the RIAA can be toppled with a bootable CD and low powered broadcasting equipment?
Also, your sig links to a site regarding aid to Israel, and those figures don't add up either.
Since you mention it, here's an amusing story about Riffage. I was involved in the original development and engineering of that site, and thought it was a good idea until the sales/marketing types f***ed it all up. That's right, they were greedy, and perhaps a little clueless (IMHO). But at least it was VC money they squandered, and not yours, right? (sorry Ken)
Part of this development involved the auto-email system. We had created a number of test email accounts (rif_test1, rif_test2, rif_test3, etc...) to QA the call-back, account verifications, newsletters, and notifications. You would do this for any site.
Riffage went under, and within a few weeks, all these test email accounts were innundated with spam, and we removed the addresses from our mail server.
I don't know who's running BeSonic now. I haven't been there. Not interested. The people who ran riffage don't talk to me any more. If you want to hear local bands, go out to the clubs.
Don't even mention the word Utopia to me.
I think I saw him in Rent, or Romp, or Stomp, or some piece of crap.
I dunno. Look at his inventions: a stretcher/cot, hovercraft, leaky submarine, and a hat with a fan in it.
Doesn't bode well for his latest invention -- the untested manned rocket.
I don't know about the rest of you, but that's why I'm here.
I saw them once by pure chance through a telescope at low power. My friend thought I was on acid, so I didn't mention it again.
Anything by Steven Levy is a good read. I read Hackers my first year in college. Before that, I read his column in Popular Computing every month. Now he's a big shot writing for WSJ or Time or some such rag.
Is the source on 2600 yet?
First off, Charles Darrow did NOT invent Monopoly, and this fact has been accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Secondly, the original Monopoly (or Landlord's Game as it was also known) was not intended to be zero sum. It had a rule (omitted by the fradulently copyrighted Parker Brothers version) where players could vote to turn the tide on Monopolists. The idea originated by Quakers circia 1903 was to show that 1) uncontrolled monopolists drive everyone else bankrupt, and 2) social action could break up monopolies and create non-zero-sum game.
See www.anti-monopoly.com
Charles Darrow STOLE monopoly, and Parker Brothers made a billion dollars from a fraudlent patent and copyright. The Atlantic City Quakers who actually invented the game got nothing.
Notice that Marven Gardens is misspelled and Short Line Railroad is actually Shore Fast Line, if you've ever been to Atlantic City.
"This is kill -9. When you absolutely positively have to kill every motherfucking process in the box." ...or...
"What does Linus look like?"
"What?"
"What? What OS do you use?"
"What?"
"What? I never heard of no OS called What. Do they program C in What?"
We went through these when Sammy was in that Star Wars movie.
"An innovative stand against innovation." I love it! :-) ...I mean :-(
I'm gonna hafta buy one of those "I read your email" bumper stickers now.
Elsewhere on the site, they mention Parker Brothers' theft of the game Monopoly. If you want to read about a real real evil use of trademark laws, go to www.antimonopoly.com
Or it might tick off a few people enough that they try and solve some of these intractible problems. Nothing quite as satisfying as doing the impossible. In my undergraduate algorithms class our professor told us that if we solve one of those problems or prove P=NP, we would not only have an instant PhD, we would be excused from taking the final :-)