This post is not directed toward every american, only the religious nutjobs (well, they sure ain't christian). It however turned out to a big rant, not really applying to the space-weapon race... Sorry about that.
I just have this feeling that your president has understood that it is real easy to control the majority of the population as long as he is able to point towards some enemy.
Whenever the elite in the US need something (taxcuts, cheap labour, protection from competition or a new system of controlling the mindless public) they manage to come up with a good enemy. Your last enemy is as you all know the spooky "terrorists". Well, face it terrorism is not exactly a new enemy. Oh and terrorists usually fight for a cause, does america? Oh, yeah... you fight for your right to be the only superpower with the ability to fuck the rest of the world with polution, shitty food, and crap products (face it, american products went into a decline decades ago.)
Oh, and the american values thingy.. When did christianity promote an eye for an eye (ok, in the old testament). Jesus (the mythological stoner) promoted the direct opposite. If you want people to treat you nicely you will have to look beyond their faults. I seriously doubt that Jesus for instance would be denying people the right to abortion (they might be punished by god, however hell was invented about 1200 year ago, so the punishment shouldn't be too bad).
Oh, Jesus never had a girl, right (maybe the maria magdalena character, though). What the fuck do the right wing religius nutjobs think he was? Asexual, a wanker or GAY?
Okay, let me get back on topic here.
Why on earth do your government think they even have the right to attack other nations, and on top of that they havbe the nerve to try and make it impossible to retaliate. I really think that your government tries to isolate you... And a large portion of the population does not even notice (offtopic again, sorry)..
One thing is for certain, this will not make you less prone to attacks from terrorists.
Oh, and I am not trolling. Just expressing my view, as a norwegian (located in Europe for those that went to a public school in the mid-west.)
Just to finish of, those of you who voted for Kerry or Nader: Thank you. You've proved that not the entire american population is totally brainwashed. Now I can say that I like most of your big cities.
Damn, can't finish off just yet. As a student (School of management and economics) I studied with quite a few american exchange students. They seemed like nice people, even those from texas! And i've met several other americans around Europe, however I've never met anybody admitting to support the republicans! Is the republican party the worlds most elaborate hoax, or are republicans hiding underground in their atomic proof bunkers?
ouch.. this is really gonna get modded down, if anybody reads it, that is.
Oh, and english is not my primary language, so please excuse any gramatical errors.
I know what you did last summer;), I know that you are a cheap bastard buying a cheap fake diamond instead of a real one when you married, what on earth did you do in amsterdam last year (supporting terrorism?), why did you donate money to a foreign group..
The upside is that the fbi will need more manpower , and reduce the unemployment.;)
I really got amazed to find out that the us tries to outlaw model rockets (terrorism?), but does pretty little to stop the free gun trade (safety?).
I just though that 42 seemed like a much better answer, to the utimate question of "how many bits our processors need to access more or less unlimited ram."
lol! Was Iraq a nice nation in the war iran-iraq (when the US supported Iraq)? Was Osama a nice guy when the american government trained him as an terrorist?
wait... are we talking about the US or the French here? I'm trying to think of a country that has abused US military hardware... I suppose some would say Israel, but can you name any others.
Not that I really care, but...
Iraq. where do you think they got their chemical wepons from? ever heard about chemical ali, his toxic shit came from the us.
Osama was trained by americans, probably got some weapons to fight the sovjet as well..
What about the various (former) military dictatorships in south america. Pretty much all supported by the us.
The problem for the us is that it seems to change it's "friends" ever so often.
I don't quite understand all the fuss about beeing able to drive for a km without anyone to drive it. Automatic farm equipment is already in existance, and I think it is way harder to run a tractor in a wet, muddy field than drivin this bot on a relatively flat and dry surface.
The developers probably have fun, though:)
My lego mindstorms have been running around in my appartment for a while now, and I haven't given it an instruction for weeks (besides changing batteries and turning it on)
And if they spend $5 billion on R&D, why does so much of their stuff suck?
Because people will buy it regardless? The effort is not primarily to make their "stuff" better, but to develop new stuff - think X-box, DRM, etc.
I'm pretty sure that most of MS R&D department is involved in drawing new user-interfaces. Is it good enough for etch-a-sketch - it is good enough for everybody.
I thought that Bush has worked pretty hard his entire time as president.
Have you forgotten that some of his shady business from before he entered politics? Or the fact that some of the big companies that went bankrupt (f.i Enron) was both his main contributors and were actually hired as his economic advisors?
I'm not from the US, but it seems like Bush is extremely well protected by his marketing team, constantly sending out propaghanda.
War on Terrorism... like the war on drugs worked out just fine...
However what on earth has this to do with microsoft, again? Oh. I don't think this Bushman will do very much about microsoft. I guess he'll do anything to help "hard working americans" like BG.
It is actually rather amusing sitting in Europe and reading about all the strange stuff that goes on in the US, seems like your personal freedom is shrinking fast. Echelon, DMCA, extreme view of intellectual property etc.
If the world really was a simulation, it would be probable that the humans escaped into the simulation, as a way to get away from hunger/pollution/whatever. The new lifeform (based in a computer) could use the energy from the sun, and only need to calculate whatever is studied at the moment.
DarwinBots is a kinda cool alife demonstration, and it stores every "lifeform" as a program that runs in paralell with the other "organisms".
And about the idea of putting a terminator in Colloseum in greece, whows that some people really should learn a little bit more about ancient history. Perhaps a simulation of ancioent rome would be better;)
In quantum theory there is a "rule" saying that things don't change until you study the object.
I think that my old hp48 (calculator) has been able to have fun with remote controlled devices since I bought it in 1994 (first version around 1990).
I would evem call it the first pda, as it is expandable, programmable, contains a time scheduler/calendar, IR port. There is even a tiny multitasking unix clone for it.
There is even designs for soundcards (the internal beeper is no good for music), radio cards, sensor interfaces.
There is even developed a TCP/IP stack, mail client, a web browser and a tiny tiny web-server.
I was kinda surprised when I wanted to use a NT4 box to surf, and I suddenly got an error stating "The internet is busy", strangely engough this box was connected to a LAN, and every other network operation worked.
hmm... Are you quite sure that it is impossible to encrypt the data stream? If you're using a unencrypted network you can get any password you want anyway. The use of p2p as backups does not change that.
I also do not think that the passwd db will be treated as any other file.
If you're using w2k servers I think that they already send out encrypted password files whenever they want.
But besides security, I see it as a solution in search of a problem. It's easy to back-up one system to another with the current tools, and it would happen in a much more simple, organized, and controlled manner.
Who needs order and control?;)
Actually I think this is a pretty cool backup solution in some areas. I wouldn't use it at my workplace, maybe in a few years.
I've used (not tried, used) with debian, mandrake + red hat and In my opinion windows XP is s quite decent OS. The good parts are
-beeing able to have several users logged on (graphical environment) simmultaneously. Yes, I can do this in linux as well, the XP solution seemed pretty easy though. Didn't play with it for long, though.
-Games, Windows XP sure runs a lot more games than any linux solution. I usually don't give a rats ass about games, though.
-Simple communication with windows networks. I have no problem doing whatever I want on a network with my linux box, but with XP it is just point and click. Good for lusers, doesn't matter to me.
However:
-The default skin looks like shit, and all the cool stuff seems to be copied from KDE ( my main Desktop environment)
-It is not very stable. Mandrake 8.1 crashed once in 7 months, XP crashed 7 (seven) minutes (!!!) after I installed it. I tried to install Office, something went wrong. No blue-screen.
-The default logging sucks big time. I never looked into the log function. Maybe it is possible to get better looging.
My conclution: XP is very good for playing Red Alert..;)
The unix anology works just great. No need to copy all your atoms/cells/structures, just update the location table to convince the universe that you're not on earth anymore, but on mars or something;)
maybe because IE is supposedly stable and out of its beta period. As far as I know mozilla 1.0 RC1 is "just another beta release"(TM).
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hehe.. don't think it will show any agreement to the computer it is installed to (as it is spyware I mean).
Anyway, I think it should be no problem for a employer to install a program like this on a workstation in the office environment.
It would be something entirely different if the user owned any of the programs affected. No matter what the eula says, it should not be allowed to change anything I've bought/made without letting me know it beforehand.
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wtf.?! That is some funny shit.. I've never seen that many conspiracy theories before.
Didn't really know that cold fusion was easy to implement either.
This post is not directed toward every american, only the religious nutjobs (well, they sure ain't christian). It however turned out to a big rant, not really applying to the space-weapon race... Sorry about that.
I just have this feeling that your president has understood that it is real easy to control the majority of the population as long as he is able to point towards some enemy.
Whenever the elite in the US need something (taxcuts, cheap labour, protection from competition or a new system of controlling the mindless public) they manage to come up with a good enemy. Your last enemy is as you all know the spooky "terrorists". Well, face it terrorism is not exactly a new enemy. Oh and terrorists usually fight for a cause, does america? Oh, yeah... you fight for your right to be the only superpower with the ability to fuck the rest of the world with polution, shitty food, and crap products (face it, american products went into a decline decades ago.)
Oh, and the american values thingy.. When did christianity promote an eye for an eye (ok, in the old testament). Jesus (the mythological stoner) promoted the direct opposite. If you want people to treat you nicely you will have to look beyond their faults. I seriously doubt that Jesus for instance would be denying people the right to abortion (they might be punished by god, however hell was invented about 1200 year ago, so the punishment shouldn't be too bad).
Oh, Jesus never had a girl, right (maybe the maria magdalena character, though). What the fuck do the right wing religius nutjobs think he was? Asexual, a wanker or GAY?
Okay, let me get back on topic here.
Why on earth do your government think they even have the right to attack other nations, and on top of that they havbe the nerve to try and make it impossible to retaliate. I really think that your government tries to isolate you... And a large portion of the population does not even notice (offtopic again, sorry)..
One thing is for certain, this will not make you less prone to attacks from terrorists.
Oh, and I am not trolling. Just expressing my view, as a norwegian (located in Europe for those that went to a public school in the mid-west.)
Just to finish of, those of you who voted for Kerry or Nader: Thank you. You've proved that not the entire american population is totally brainwashed. Now I can say that I like most of your big cities.
Damn, can't finish off just yet. As a student (School of management and economics) I studied with quite a few american exchange students. They seemed like nice people, even those from texas! And i've met several other americans around Europe, however I've never met anybody admitting to support the republicans! Is the republican party the worlds most elaborate hoax, or are republicans hiding underground in their atomic proof bunkers?
ouch.. this is really gonna get modded down, if anybody reads it, that is.
Oh, and english is not my primary language, so please excuse any gramatical errors.
uh... kernel vulnearbilities?
;)
never heard of em
I know what you did last summer ;), I know that you are a cheap bastard buying a cheap fake diamond instead of a real one when you married, what on earth did you do in amsterdam last year (supporting terrorism?), why did you donate money to a foreign group..
;)
The upside is that the fbi will need more manpower , and reduce the unemployment.
I really got amazed to find out that the us tries to outlaw model rockets (terrorism?), but does pretty little to stop the free gun trade (safety?).
I know...
I just though that 42 seemed like a much better answer, to the utimate question of "how many bits our processors need to access more or less unlimited ram."
umm could we add in one more, just as a controller I mean? ;)
we need 42 processors to take advantage of nanotube ram!
lol! Was Iraq a nice nation in the war iran-iraq (when the US supported Iraq)? Was Osama a nice guy when the american government trained him as an terrorist?
Why didn't the us government like Alliende?
Not that I really care, but...
Iraq. where do you think they got their chemical wepons from? ever heard about chemical ali, his toxic shit came from the us.
Osama was trained by americans, probably got some weapons to fight the sovjet as well..
What about the various (former) military dictatorships in south america. Pretty much all supported by the us.
The problem for the us is that it seems to change it's "friends" ever so often.
Um... No property rights would probably mean that you could pick up whatever you wanted. Also how does property rights effect the market?
No property rights -> no licence fees -> larger return on investment -> development in the not so near future.
it actually tries to draw a map of my room..
:)
It havent quite managed, though.
And it tries to use the rooms light level to double check. Not sure what it does when the lights go out
I don't quite understand all the fuss about beeing able to drive for a km without anyone to drive it. Automatic farm equipment is already in existance, and I think it is way harder to run a tractor in a wet, muddy field than drivin this bot on a relatively flat and dry surface.
:)
The developers probably have fun, though
My lego mindstorms have been running around in my appartment for a while now, and I haven't given it an instruction for weeks (besides changing batteries and turning it on)
I'm pretty sure that most of MS R&D department is involved in drawing new user-interfaces. Is it good enough for etch-a-sketch - it is good enough for everybody.
I thought that Bush has worked pretty hard his entire time as president.
Have you forgotten that some of his shady business from before he entered politics? Or the fact that some of the big companies that went bankrupt (f.i Enron) was both his main contributors and were actually hired as his economic advisors?
I'm not from the US, but it seems like Bush is extremely well protected by his marketing team, constantly sending out propaghanda.
War on Terrorism... like the war on drugs worked out just fine...
However what on earth has this to do with microsoft, again? Oh. I don't think this Bushman will do very much about microsoft. I guess he'll do anything to help "hard working americans" like BG.
It is actually rather amusing sitting in Europe and reading about all the strange stuff that goes on in the US, seems like your personal freedom is shrinking fast. Echelon, DMCA, extreme view of intellectual property etc.
Tor Erik (not trying to troll)
I guess you really need todays documentation. Who could figure out that a blue cable is supposed to fit in the blue hole.
Let me get this right.. you want a picture of a vacuum surrounded by air. Now that sounds like a nice picture.
If the world really was a simulation, it would be probable that the humans escaped into the simulation, as a way to get away from hunger/pollution/whatever. The new lifeform (based in a computer) could use the energy from the sun, and only need to calculate whatever is studied at the moment.
;)
DarwinBots is a kinda cool alife demonstration, and it stores every "lifeform" as a program that runs in paralell with the other "organisms".
And about the idea of putting a terminator in Colloseum in greece, whows that some people really should learn a little bit more about ancient history. Perhaps a simulation of ancioent rome would be better
In quantum theory there is a "rule" saying that things don't change until you study the object.
I think that my old hp48 (calculator) has been able to have fun with remote controlled devices since I bought it in 1994 (first version around 1990).
I would evem call it the first pda, as it is expandable, programmable, contains a time scheduler/calendar, IR port. There is even a tiny multitasking unix clone for it.
There is even designs for soundcards (the internal beeper is no good for music), radio cards, sensor interfaces.
There is even developed a TCP/IP stack, mail client, a web browser and a tiny tiny web-server.
oh, it works great as a calculator as well
have you ever tried to eat mushrooms? they really do give you a really really weird sense of self awareness.
It is really strange, and it is hard to explain. How exactly this is linked to evolution is however in the blue to me.
on a sidenote: George W. Bush should smoke some pot!
I was kinda surprised when I wanted to use a NT4 box to surf, and I suddenly got an error stating "The internet is busy", strangely engough this box was connected to a LAN, and every other network operation worked.
;)
The internet was not down neither.
I also do not think that the passwd db will be treated as any other file.
If you're using w2k servers I think that they already send out encrypted password files whenever they want.
Who needs order and control?
Actually I think this is a pretty cool backup solution in some areas. I wouldn't use it at my workplace, maybe in a few years.
I've used (not tried, used) with debian, mandrake + red hat and In my opinion windows XP is s quite decent OS. The good parts are
;)
-beeing able to have several users logged on (graphical environment) simmultaneously. Yes, I can do this in linux as well, the XP solution seemed pretty easy though. Didn't play with it for long, though.
-Games, Windows XP sure runs a lot more games than any linux solution. I usually don't give a rats ass about games, though.
-Simple communication with windows networks. I have no problem doing whatever I want on a network with my linux box, but with XP it is just point and click. Good for lusers, doesn't matter to me.
However:
-The default skin looks like shit, and all the cool stuff seems to be copied from KDE ( my main Desktop environment)
-It is not very stable. Mandrake 8.1 crashed once in 7 months, XP crashed 7 (seven) minutes (!!!) after I installed it. I tried to install Office, something went wrong. No blue-screen.
-The default logging sucks big time. I never looked into the log function. Maybe it is possible to get better looging.
My conclution: XP is very good for playing Red Alert..
The unix anology works just great. No need to copy all your atoms/cells/structures, just update the location table to convince the universe that you're not on earth anymore, but on mars or something ;)
maybe because IE is supposedly stable and out of its beta period. As far as I know mozilla 1.0 RC1 is "just another beta release"(TM).
hehe.. don't think it will show any agreement to the computer it is installed to (as it is spyware I mean).
Anyway, I think it should be no problem for a employer to install a program like this on a workstation in the office environment.
It would be something entirely different if the user owned any of the programs affected. No matter what the eula says, it should not be allowed to change anything I've bought/made without letting me know it beforehand.
do you really want someone to check how secure it is?
no retaliation?
You should never invite someone to try to hack your box unless you know him/her pretty well I think.
Protection is way more fun than cracking!