"You could find them all on NPR. Heck, try the evening news or the TV talk shows!" (referring to "liberal" bias)
HELL YES!
Just LOOK at the savage hecotring poor Ann Coulter was subjected to to the other day on The Tonight Show! George Carlin and Jay Leno (who is from Massachusetts, if you know what I mean!) Those liberal bastards wouldn't let her get a word in edgewise, they brutally insulted her and her honest Christian faith, finally reducing the poor thing to tears.
The bastards! The LIEberal bastards!/snark
Ahem. In actuallity, those two useless sods just sat there as she spewed her usual lies and BS.
With a fast enough onboard computer, robust software and suitable servos, one could have an aircraft that constantly monitors and corrects for the instabilities inherent in such an aircraft.
I once commented that Libertarianism was the Esperonto of politics.
I was rightly corrected. More people actually speak and read Esperonto than will EVER vote Libertarian. Indeed, more folks speak Esperonto than will ever take Libertarianism seriously.
The above bullshit about democrats and communism merely reinforces the image of Libertarians as pathetic assholes.
Yes, it was a grand resource. The guys behind it were seriously devoted to the C64.
I scored a bunch of them when the local users group went belly up.
I wish I had the room to set up my 128 system again. For all their super graphics and billions of polygons, there's damn few games today that have the same appeal and playability as some of these old 8-bit games.
" I've spend a bit of time on www.c64s.com lately, and found out that a lot of the games of the time really weren't worth the effort of loading in. Remember listening to 30 minutes of peeps and squicks to find out that you just loaded an amazingly crappy game? (luckily you got a cracked version from a copied tape for free anyway)"
Which prompted people to then buy the 1541 disk drive. Which was somewhat faster than the cassette drive.
Shortly afterwards, an EPYX FastLoad cartridge was inevitably purchased to go along with the appalling slow disk drive.
(I really want to set up my Commodore 128 system again. As much as I like my PowerMac, the 128 is still my favorite computer.)
Big Bizang Words: MC Hawking & Fred Ciesla Music: Dark Matter
In the beginning there was nothing, not even time. No planets, no stars, no hip-hop, no rhyme. Then there was a bang like the sound of my gatt, the universe was born and the shit was phat
The universe began as a singularity, nobody knows what went on then G. For ten million, trillion, trillion, trillionths of a second the state of the universe cannot be reckoned. The fundamental forces were unified, we've no theory to describe that 'though I've tried, then the forces split and the universe was born, it was hotter than a priest watching kiddy-porn. Protons, neutrons and electrons came to pass, as photons collided changing energy to mass. Three minutes go by, temps a cool one billion, down from one hundred million, trillion, trillion. This reduced heat allowed a new event, the formation of heavier elements. Still it was millions of years, 'fore the first start glowed, if you're down with the bang sing along here we go!
It was a big-pow, piz-ow, bang-a-dang, bigitty-digitty, boom, bigitty-boom, ka-boom, the big bizang.
Hold on now what about inflation? Well that's a little tricky, and could use some explanation. Inflation, one could fairly state, was a time when the universe expanded at a rate, that was faster than the speed of light, but that over simplifies and it ain't quite right. Still for purposes here it will have to do, 'cause I ain't got the time to explain it to you.
The beginning of time and the birth of all matter, say it took seven days you're as mad as a hatter, it was millions of year 'fore the first star glowed, if you're down with the bang sing along here we go!
Books you'll likely NOT find in the Bob Jones University
Library!
First up, Legends of Caltech and More
Legends of Caltech.
These two 80 page volumes chronic(WHAT?)le technopranking
at Caltech from the 1920s to the late 1980s. Learn about the classic
Rose Bowl card section prank that was broadcast live on NBC, See the
HOLLYWOOD sign become the CALTECH sign before your very eyes.
Vicariously enjoy the revenge of Caltech students upon a greedy
police department.
These books MUST be ordered from the
Caltech bookstore, as they are privately published by the Caltech
Alumni Association. Ordering info is at the bottom of this
page.
Ah, but what of MIT? For their history we must
turn to a trio of books.
The Journal of the Institute
for Hacks, TomFoolery & Pranks at MIT.
Published by the MIT Museum, this is a 158 page book with lots of
photos and text concerning the hacks pulled by MIT men and women over
the decades. See The Great Breast of Knowledge, The Great Pumpkin, the
legendary Smoot Marks on the Harvard Bridge. Read about the chronic
humiliation suffered by the inmates at Harvard as MIT has its way with
the statue of John Harvard and the Harvard Stadium.
"Is
This The Way To Baker House?" - A Compendium of HackingLore. 165
pages of legends, essays, photographs and stories of and about hacking
at MIT. This book, published in 1996, continues where the
Journal leaves off. The MIT Campus Police car on the Great Dome,
arguably one the greatest hacks in MIT history, graces the cover and
several inside pages. Regrettably, only black and white photographs
are used in the body of the book, as there are several hacks, most
notably, the Cathedral of Our Lady of The All Night Tool (The
"stained glass" panels in Lobby 7) that really should be
seen in full color. That minor gripe aside, this is a fine companion
volume to The Journal and shares the same binding dimensions as The
Journal, making them a handsome pair of books to grace the shelves of
any creative malcontent. (The title refers to the canonical reply
to an MIT Campus cop when one is discovered in a spectacularly
inappropriate location, such as the apex of the Great Dome at
4:00AM.)
NIGHTWORK: A
History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT, by Institute Historian T. F.
Peterson.
This is a semi-compendium of hacks detailed in the
previous two volumes, as well as detailing some hacks that occured
after the publication of the second volume, "Is The The Way To Baker
House?". It also includes details of pranks and goings-on at MIT in
it's early years.
One difference from the previous books is
that it includes a section of color photographs, something sorely
lacking in the previous books. Some of the color pictures are of the
"stained glass windows" of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the All Night
Tool.
On the other hand, some of the black and white images in
the book are very poorly processed and are lacking in
detail.
One surprise is that the binding does not match the
previous books. It's rather smaller in height.
The specifics: 8
x 9, 208 pp., 125 illus., 16 color $19.95/13.50 (PAPER)
Our
final book is published by St. Martin's Press.
If At All Possible,
Involve A Cow - The Book Of College Pranks, is a 240 page history of
collegiate pranking in America, beginning with the earliest colleges
in America, and even taking note of some hijinx taking place
in Canada.
This is an excellent companion volume to the
preceeding four books, as it covers collegiate pranking in general, as
well as detailing some events that are NOT covered in either the
Caltech or MIT books.
If I were sending a son or
daughter off to college, I would certainly include all six of these
books in their "books to bring to school" box.Sta
Why spend years learning woodworking and buying tools and selecting wood and then spending weekends building cabinets and bookcases, when you could be sitting on your butt drinking beer and playing FPS games?
Buy 'em at IKEA or Home Depot. Done.
Golias, for the hacker, it is ALWAYS more about the journey, than the destination.
DRM, lack of WMA compatiblity, ITMS files can't play on other players, "this here no name plastic player from China is cheaper and plays Ogg and... yadda yadda yadda".
OK, sit down, shut up and pay attention.
The overwhelming majority of people who buy iPods and KEEP buying iPods don't care a fat rat's ass about ANY OF THAT. Not one little bit do they care.
They want something that simply works. They don't care about ITMS DRM. They DO care about the fact that they can get music they want right now for a modest sum. They know they'll get a quality file.
They buy iPods because the interface is simple and it works well.
They buy iPods because they are small, sturdy and hold an amazing amount of music.
The overwhelming majority of the buying public is who Apple is targetting the iPod line to.
Not you smelly Linux hippies with your handmade machines and having to config it. And then you have to write some shell scripts. Update your RPMs. You have to partition your drives. And patch your kernel. Compile your binaries. Check your version dependencies. Probably do that once or twice.
Just to install an MP3 player.(and after all that, you STILL don't have more friends!) You are not the consumer Apple cares about.
You have never been the consumer Apple cares about.
You will never be the consumer Apple cares about.
Get over yourself and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed overlords!
"If Apple does it, it's HIP and NOW and HAPPENING and the general public accepts it wholeheartedly."
Yes, smelly Linux hippie! The general public HAS accepted it wholeheartedly. They demonstrate this by buying iPods and not the cheap plastic crap from China. They demonstrate this by buying additional iPods.
Over 75% of all DMPs sold have the Apple logo laser engraved on the back.
To reiterate:
You are not the consumer Apple cares about.
You have never been the consumer Apple cares about.
You will never be the consumer Apple cares about.
Gripe on/. all you want. Steve Jobs doesn't care. He doesn't have to. He owns the DMP market in North America and iTunes Music Store pwn3d the "new" Napster from before day 1.
Get over yourself and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed overlords!
DRM, lack of WMA compatiblity, ITMS files can't play on other players, "this here no name plastic player from China is cheaper and plays Ogg and... yadda yadda yadda".
OK, sit down, shut up and pay attention.
The overwhelming majority of people who buy iPods and KEEP buying iPods don't care a fat rat's ass about ANY OF THAT. Not one little bit do they care.
They want something that simply works. They don't care about ITMS DRM. They DO care about the fact that they can get music they want right now for a modest sum. They know they'll get a quality file.
They buy iPods because the interface is simple and it works well.
They buy iPods because they are small, sturdy and hold an amzing amount of music.
The overwhelming majority of the buying public is who Apple is targetting the iPod line to.
Not you smelly Linux hippies with your handmade machines and having to config it. And then you have to write some shell scripts. Update your RPMs. You have to partition your drives. And patch your kernel. Compile your binaries. Check your version dependencies. Probably do that once or twice.
Just to install an MP3 player.(and after all that, you STILL don't have more friends!)
You are not the consumer Apple cares about.
You have never been the consumer Apple cares abou.
You will never be the consumer Apple cares about.
Get over yourself and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed overlords!
Geeze, lady! You should have tried watching Justice League Unlimited.
A much better storyline/arc that beats most of the "adult" dramas on the "adult" channels in their "adult" timeslots.
Some of the recent Teen Titans stories have been equally good as well.
"Do you prefer watching ridiculously drawn women in nothing more than a couple strips of leather battling multi-armed beasts?"
Haven't seen much Cowboy Bebob, The Big O, FLCL, et al, etc., lately, have you?
"I just kind of cringe when I hear them talking about anime. I feel like I'm looking at someone a couple years away from being raided by the FBI for soliciting sex with a minor in a chatroom. "
Yeah. AKIRA/My Neighbor Totoro/Princess Mononke/Spirited Away is really gonna make me want to fuck a 12 year old girl in the ass.
Slashdot Mirror
So operagost sez:
/snark
"You could find them all on NPR. Heck, try the evening news or the TV talk shows!" (referring to "liberal" bias)
HELL YES!
Just LOOK at the savage hecotring poor Ann Coulter was subjected to to the other day on The Tonight Show! George Carlin and Jay Leno (who is from Massachusetts, if you know what I mean!) Those liberal bastards wouldn't let her get a word in edgewise, they brutally insulted her and her honest Christian faith, finally reducing the poor thing to tears.
The bastards! The LIEberal bastards!
Ahem. In actuallity, those two useless sods just sat there as she spewed her usual lies and BS.
In other words, she was her usual self.
With a fast enough onboard computer, robust software and suitable servos, one could have an aircraft that constantly monitors and corrects for the instabilities inherent in such an aircraft.
As is the case with the F-117 "Stealth" aircraft.
I once commented that Libertarianism was the Esperonto of politics.
I was rightly corrected. More people actually speak and read Esperonto than will EVER vote Libertarian. Indeed, more folks speak Esperonto than will ever take Libertarianism seriously.
The above bullshit about democrats and communism merely reinforces the image of Libertarians as pathetic assholes.
Go back to your L Neil Smith libertarian porn.
Yes, it was a grand resource. The guys behind it were seriously devoted to the C64.
I scored a bunch of them when the local users group went belly up.
I wish I had the room to set up my 128 system again. For all their super graphics and billions of polygons, there's damn few games today that have the same appeal and playability as some of these old 8-bit games.
So pimpimpim sez:
" I've spend a bit of time on www.c64s.com lately, and found out that a lot of the games of the time really weren't worth the effort of loading in. Remember listening to 30 minutes of peeps and squicks to find out that you just loaded an amazingly crappy game? (luckily you got a cracked version from a copied tape for free anyway)"
Which prompted people to then buy the 1541 disk drive. Which was somewhat faster than the cassette drive.
Shortly afterwards, an EPYX FastLoad cartridge was inevitably purchased to go along with the appalling slow disk drive.
(I really want to set up my Commodore 128 system again. As much as I like my PowerMac, the 128 is still my favorite computer.)
You know that someone is thinking abou;remaking "Real Genius" and "Office Space", updating them for the 21st Century.
Let's see, what unfunny member of the Saturday Night Live cast has yet to make a movie? (not based on their unfunny signature SNL character, that is!)
Yes, dear friends, it's only going to keep getting worse.
...to explain it all to you:
Big Bizang
Words: MC Hawking & Fred Ciesla
Music: Dark Matter
In the beginning there was nothing, not even time.
No planets, no stars, no hip-hop, no rhyme.
Then there was a bang like the sound of my gatt,
the universe was born and the shit was phat
The universe began as a singularity,
nobody knows what went on then G.
For ten million, trillion, trillion, trillionths of a second
the state of the universe cannot be reckoned.
The fundamental forces were unified,
we've no theory to describe that 'though I've tried,
then the forces split and the universe was born,
it was hotter than a priest watching kiddy-porn.
Protons, neutrons and electrons came to pass,
as photons collided changing energy to mass.
Three minutes go by, temps a cool one billion,
down from one hundred million, trillion, trillion.
This reduced heat allowed a new event,
the formation of heavier elements.
Still it was millions of years, 'fore the first start glowed,
if you're down with the bang sing along here we go!
It was a big-pow, piz-ow,
bang-a-dang, bigitty-digitty,
boom, bigitty-boom,
ka-boom, the big bizang.
Hold on now what about inflation?
Well that's a little tricky,
and could use some explanation.
Inflation, one could fairly state,
was a time when the universe expanded at a rate,
that was faster than the speed of light,
but that over simplifies and it ain't quite right.
Still for purposes here it will have to do,
'cause I ain't got the time to explain it to you.
The beginning of time and the birth of all matter,
say it took seven days you're as mad as a hatter,
it was millions of year 'fore the first star glowed,
if you're down with the bang sing along here we go!
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/FrameGrabs/2 ACV18/Grabs/pic00045.jpg
Books you'll likely NOT find in the Bob Jones University Library!
First up, Legends of Caltech and More Legends of Caltech.
These two 80 page volumes chronic(WHAT?)le technopranking at Caltech from the 1920s to the late 1980s. Learn about the classic Rose Bowl card section prank that was broadcast live on NBC, See the HOLLYWOOD sign become the CALTECH sign before your very eyes. Vicariously enjoy the revenge of Caltech students upon a greedy police department.
These books MUST be ordered from the Caltech bookstore, as they are privately published by the Caltech Alumni Association. Ordering info is at the bottom of this page.
Ah, but what of MIT? For their history we must turn to a trio of books.
The Journal of the Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery & Pranks at MIT. Published by the MIT Museum, this is a 158 page book with lots of photos and text concerning the hacks pulled by MIT men and women over the decades. See The Great Breast of Knowledge, The Great Pumpkin, the legendary Smoot Marks on the Harvard Bridge. Read about the chronic humiliation suffered by the inmates at Harvard as MIT has its way with the statue of John Harvard and the Harvard Stadium.
"Is This The Way To Baker House?" - A Compendium of HackingLore. 165 pages of legends, essays, photographs and stories of and about hacking at MIT. This book, published in 1996, continues where the Journal leaves off. The MIT Campus Police car on the Great Dome, arguably one the greatest hacks in MIT history, graces the cover and several inside pages. Regrettably, only black and white photographs are used in the body of the book, as there are several hacks, most notably, the Cathedral of Our Lady of The All Night Tool (The "stained glass" panels in Lobby 7) that really should be seen in full color. That minor gripe aside, this is a fine companion volume to The Journal and shares the same binding dimensions as The Journal, making them a handsome pair of books to grace the shelves of any creative malcontent. (The title refers to the canonical reply to an MIT Campus cop when one is discovered in a spectacularly inappropriate location, such as the apex of the Great Dome at 4:00AM.)
NIGHTWORK: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT, by Institute Historian T. F. Peterson.
This is a semi-compendium of hacks detailed in the previous two volumes, as well as detailing some hacks that occured after the publication of the second volume, "Is The The Way To Baker House?". It also includes details of pranks and goings-on at MIT in it's early years.
One difference from the previous books is that it includes a section of color photographs, something sorely lacking in the previous books. Some of the color pictures are of the "stained glass windows" of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the All Night Tool.
On the other hand, some of the black and white images in the book are very poorly processed and are lacking in detail.
One surprise is that the binding does not match the previous books. It's rather smaller in height.
The specifics: 8 x 9, 208 pp., 125 illus., 16 color $19.95/13.50 (PAPER)
Our final book is published by St. Martin's Press.
If At All Possible, Involve A Cow - The Book Of College Pranks, is a 240 page history of collegiate pranking in America, beginning with the earliest colleges in America, and even taking note of some hijinx taking place in Canada.
This is an excellent companion volume to the preceeding four books, as it covers collegiate pranking in general, as well as detailing some events that are NOT covered in either the Caltech or MIT books.
If I were sending a son or daughter off to college, I would certainly include all six of these books in their "books to bring to school" box.Sta
Original Recipe Flintstones(TM) Wooly Mammoth ribs!
Mmmmmmm........ ribs!
Five Words:
Amy Wong full frontal nudity.
Why spend years learning woodworking and buying tools and selecting wood and then spending weekends building cabinets and bookcases, when you could be sitting on your butt drinking beer and playing FPS games?
Buy 'em at IKEA or Home Depot. Done.
Golias, for the hacker, it is ALWAYS more about the journey, than the destination.
<Cartman>What the goddamn hell is that supposed to mean, you goddamn folksinging hippie?</Cartman>
They only deign to let recent versions of IE or Netscape use their site.
The fact that once I told iCab, the Mac only browser to spoof its identity, the site worked perfectly for me.
So the pricks at Propper lost a sale due to their stupid website developers who can't code for anything other than IE or Netscape.
Fuck 'em!
Will no one THINK of the TEACHERS?
From the school website:
"Teachers Sites
Mrs_Askin Mrs_Harrigan Mrs_Olsen
Mrs_Astor Mrs_Kalafsky Mrs_Partida
Mrs_Buniak Mr_Kenny Mr_Peck
Mrs_Covel Mrs_Morris Mrs_M.Ross
Ms_deVries Mr_Morro Mr_Vohden
Mr_Ferrise Mr_Nicholson
Mrs_Franc Mrs. O'Connell"
Look at all those websites! Surely, each and every one a target for the foul predators that lurk on the Internets!
Please, for their own good and safety, they must be PREVENTED from having their own websites!
I see that the smelly Linux hippies actually banded together to mod me down.
Whatsa matter, boys? Don't like having your Sacred Cows (or should that be Penguins?) being mocked?
Sorry boys, what I said still holds true. It's not flamebait, it's not trolling. It's the truth:
You are not the consumer Apple cares about.
You have never been the consumer Apple cares about.
You will never be the consumer Apple cares about.
Get over yourselves and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed overlords!
Mod this fellow WAY up!
Someone with a sense of humor... on a Slashdot article about Apple/iPod.
The age of miracles is not yet past!
DRM, lack of WMA compatiblity, ITMS files can't play on other players, "this here no name plastic player from China is cheaper and plays Ogg and... yadda yadda yadda".
OK, sit down, shut up and pay attention.
The overwhelming majority of people who buy iPods and KEEP buying iPods don't care a fat rat's ass about ANY OF THAT. Not one little bit do they care.
They want something that simply works. They don't care about ITMS DRM. They DO care about the fact that they can get music they want right now for a modest sum. They know they'll get a quality file.
They buy iPods because the interface is simple and it works well.
They buy iPods because they are small, sturdy and hold an amazing amount of music.
The overwhelming majority of the buying public is who Apple is targetting the iPod line to.
Not you smelly Linux hippies with your handmade machines and having to config it. And then you have to write some shell scripts. Update your RPMs. You have to partition your drives. And patch your kernel. Compile your binaries. Check your version dependencies. Probably do that once or twice.
Just to install an MP3 player.(and after all that, you STILL don't have more friends!)
You are not the consumer Apple cares about.
You have never been the consumer Apple cares about.
You will never be the consumer Apple cares about.
Get over yourself and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed overlords!
Because he's a pretentious git, who wants people to think he's hip, happening, with it, a part of the hip happening with it scene.
Actually, he's just some damn skript kiddie. They ALL talk like that.
Pathetic, actually.
The wish is granted!
Long live Jombi!
Some smelly Linux hippie sez:
/. all you want. Steve Jobs doesn't care. He doesn't have to. He owns the DMP market in North America and iTunes Music Store pwn3d the "new" Napster from before day 1.
"If Apple does it, it's HIP and NOW and HAPPENING and the general public accepts it wholeheartedly."
Yes, smelly Linux hippie! The general public HAS accepted it wholeheartedly. They demonstrate this by buying iPods and not the cheap plastic crap from China. They demonstrate this by buying additional iPods.
Over 75% of all DMPs sold have the Apple logo laser engraved on the back.
To reiterate:
You are not the consumer Apple cares about.
You have never been the consumer Apple cares about.
You will never be the consumer Apple cares about.
Gripe on
Get over yourself and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed overlords!
Shut up, smelly Linux hippie!
The grownups are having a conversation.
When I want your opinion, I'll disembowel you and read it in your entrails.
DRM, lack of WMA compatiblity, ITMS files can't play on other players, "this here no name plastic player from China is cheaper and plays Ogg and... yadda yadda yadda".
OK, sit down, shut up and pay attention.
The overwhelming majority of people who buy iPods and KEEP buying iPods don't care a fat rat's ass about ANY OF THAT. Not one little bit do they care.
They want something that simply works. They don't care about ITMS DRM. They DO care about the fact that they can get music they want right now for a modest sum. They know they'll get a quality file.
They buy iPods because the interface is simple and it works well.
They buy iPods because they are small, sturdy and hold an amzing amount of music.
The overwhelming majority of the buying public is who Apple is targetting the iPod line to.
Not you smelly Linux hippies with your handmade machines and having to config it. And then you have to write some shell scripts. Update your RPMs. You have to partition your drives. And patch your kernel. Compile your binaries. Check your version dependencies. Probably do that once or twice.
Just to install an MP3 player.(and after all that, you STILL don't have more friends!)
You are not the consumer Apple cares about.
You have never been the consumer Apple cares abou.
You will never be the consumer Apple cares about.
Get over yourself and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed overlords!
Geeze, lady! You should have tried watching Justice League Unlimited.
A much better storyline/arc that beats most of the "adult" dramas on the "adult" channels in their "adult" timeslots.
Some of the recent Teen Titans stories have been equally good as well.
"Do you prefer watching ridiculously drawn women in nothing more than a couple strips of leather battling multi-armed beasts?"
Haven't seen much Cowboy Bebob, The Big O, FLCL, et al, etc., lately, have you?
"I just kind of cringe when I hear them talking about anime. I feel like I'm looking at someone a couple years away from being raided by the FBI for soliciting sex with a minor in a chatroom. "
Yeah. AKIRA/My Neighbor Totoro/Princess Mononke/Spirited Away is really gonna make me want to fuck a 12 year old girl in the ass.
The Apple Extended Keyboard.
Not the Extended II, which is pretty good, but the original Extended, with the rainbow Apple in the lower left hand corner.
Compared to the Extended, every other keyboard feels like I'm poking at a slab of Silly Putty.