I'm only half serious, but he's recently become a catch basin for sceptics who attribute "anachronistic" scientific achievements to him.
Last weeks news about the Shroud caused quite a stir, and CNN reported one the current theories regarding the origins of the Shroud of Turin has Leonardo creating it using some as yet un(re)discovered method of self portraiture...
Without a clearly defined and very high peak he's not getting into the hall with less than around 225 wins (and that may be low), something I highly doubt he can do at this age. His injuries and his obscurity in Philadelphia will keep him out. Now whether or not this is fair is another matter, but his low win total will precluded him from Cooperstown.
The most telling stat for why he's not a HOF'er is who he compares to at his age:
Similar Pitchers through Age 36
1. Bret Saberhagen (935)
2. John Smoltz (920)
3. John Candelaria (915)
4. Kevin Brown (907)
5. Orel Hershiser (903)
6. Charley Root (899)
7. Jimmy Key (897)
8. Ron Guidry (893)
9. Dave Stewart (892)
10. Scott Sanderson (891)
A lot of good pitchers, but not a HOF'er on the list ('though Smoltz is still around and could wind up in the Hall via the Eckersley method if he puts up another 150 saves).
Of course if he pitches 'til he's 45 all bets are off, but that would be remarkably rare.
Ok, so we're talking about a group of people who are:
1) Unix Geeks
that
2) decided to roll back their "Discordian" t-shirt long enough to find their (gratis) copy of PC magazine wot mentions the unix workalike underpinnings of OS X. (we're talking -UNIX- geek here people)
3) don't like the available Linux gui options.
4) are willing to pay twice as much (at least) than they would for an x86 Unix workalike
5) have trouble with gui usability...
This person doesn't exist. Unix geek = someone who enlists in the vi/emacs Blood War. People who bitch about GUI usability = people who bitch about "right clicking".
I once proposed a P2P food sharing program. Imagine the possibilities. You're standing in front of your fridg and there's nothing that interests you. Sure, you've got half a carton of last night's curry chicken but that's not what you're looking for.
Go online, fire up "Snackster" and check what's out there. Oh look, via Snackster's geographic IP address location logic you see that a guy two blocks away has three two day old tamales and a six ounces of chips. With the click of a button you make your offer, yesterday's curry for Tuesdays's mexican food. A quick link from Snackster to mapquest get's you directions and twenty minutes you're eating something you'd like.
You avoid tossing out stuff that's perfectly good but not appealing, plus you can take advantage of the huge portions most restaurants serve by saving half for your Snackster catalog.
I'm willing to be a large number of consumers have to take a piss.
Really. I've borrowed events that friends have taped for me and having the commercials in place serves a couple of useful functions. Obvious sometimes you gotta go to the bathroom, and most event with commercials break the show up into logical scenes so taking a piss doesn't distrupt the flow of the show. Also, considering that almost every tv has got a "MUTE" button, commercials can be a good opportunity to turn off the sound and discuss the show/even with the other people in the room, and for things like sporting events this can be as much fun as watching the game.
Also whenever I've been around someone with a PVR I tend to notice more pauses in the program than I might otherwise. If the movie or game is paused for everyone's trip to the bathroom rather than having people fit their bladders around the sponsor's schedule there tend to be more interruptions. Likewise everyone might have to wait for the host to get off the phone, or talk to a neighbor, or haggle with the pizza guy.
Moreso it begs the question of why you posted anonymously? The usage of this phrase has changed. Deal with it. We can't all live in the 20th century...
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pretty much the only web browser was something you would install on a UNIX shell, then use SLIP to access.
Very anachronistic for 1985. Nobody was installing web browsers on unix shells (whatever that's supposed to mean) in 1985. 14.4 modems??? Think blazing 2400 baud modems. Maybe you're thinking more like 1991 and the old SlipKnot proggy...
I'd have them run Dansguardian/Squid with no content filtering but very restrictive file type blocking. If they need content filtering you could tune it for them at some additional time investment.
I'm sure there's a way to do this without Dans and using only squid so it could run on MS systems as I don't think Dans is available for Windows. Anyway, Dans makes it so easy it's what I'd recommend.
Also you get the lower virus profile with something like Lycoris, and you could cron up all the autoupdating.
I'd also a VNC server service on their box so you can help them out easily and even show them how things are done. There are other ways to do this too, but I live VNC best as it's easy to setup on almost any platform.
I'm sure the graphics will be quite a bit degraded from the original, as back in the 80s we had vivid imaginations driven by hormones and angst at what seemed like an inevitable nuclear confrontation. Now that young people thing with their thumbs I'm sure the graphics will take quite a hit.
And it appears the owners of the copyright are claiming complete and exclusive use of the name of a plant, which has been used for centuries.
And it's plant that has a long "magical" (actually occult) tradition in many parts of the world because it tends to grow in the shape of a man. History of mandrake root. Their claim to the word "mandrake" as it relates to magic is wrong. If they're arguing that the association of the word "mandrake" with a cartoon penguin dressed up as a magician violates their trademark on their cartoon magician they may have a slightly better point.
Rambus, long an innovator in memory designs has been virtually sued to death by JEDEC members over their IP rights to the RDRAM designs.
I can't possibly imagine how you could have followed this case and come to that conclusion unless you've had blinders on and are deep into Rambus stock. Rambus deserves the title "Litigous Bastards" almost as much as SCO.
I'll believe it when I see some kind of data. I have yet to see Linux being used in a desktop environment. I've seen a few macs, but a majority have been Windows based.
And I've never seen Bigfoot but I know it exists. Your point?
Sounds like this would make it possible for a retailer to copyright the information contained in weekly flyers and prohibit places like fatwallet.com from listing them.
This could have a possibly monstrous effect on online comparison shopping. Things like www.froogle.com become impossible as retailers begin copyrighting their inventory and price databases.
class and general management of time while in college.
Please realize the structure of modern educational systems is based on regimenting people to a time clock, to produce work for evaluation, and for punctuality. It's really not designed to educate, for even those that "fail" have at least learned the "rules of school": show up, don't be late and when the bell rings, work is over. Perfect for modern factory work. Guess when the modern school developed. If you said "hand in hand with factory work" you are right.
150 years ago there would be no diagnosis for your condition, and having to work for more than 30 minutes without taking a break wouldn't be an illness. There was no concept of a "work day" anyway and rural folk had work that was entirely seasonal. Anyone of even vague wealth would find the idea of being tied to a clock moronic. The idea that you are "sick" because you can't concentrate on one typically boring or otherwise mundane concept for more than half an hour says a lot more about how work/education has changed than anything else.
I'm sorry you feel like you have an illness, but I have a great deal of trouble believing millions of people are rightly drugged for a disease that didn't exist sixty years ago.
Huh, something about him being joined at the hip with Clinton for 20 years and helping Clinton get elected to politcial office half a dozen times made me think he was a Democrat...
Democratic political wonk that was once tight with the Clinton administrator 'til it was discovered that he was knocking boots with hookers fairly regularly. (I think that was it, sounds right to me.)
For a visual, picture Tom Arnold in a business suit pissing on Lee Atwater's grave.
What Dean was saying follows a direct ideological course back to MLK. Poor whites have been sold the notion that if they continue to support conservative causes they will maintain their economic/social "superiority" over black in the South. By trying to include minorities and poor whites (the stars and bars fans he mentions) he's trying to break down that idea. Unfortunately he picked a politically charged symbol to identify these poor whites, but I suppose he'd also be criticized if he's said "gun rack" instead of confederate flag.
Dems now know that they really need the southern white vote, or at least a good percentage of it to win. The only two Democratic presidents in my lifetime were both southerners who carried large parts of the South. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was based on using race as lever to drive poor whites away from the Democratic party, and Johnson said, on the event of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that the Democrats "have lost the South for a generation." Check the last Georgia gubernatorial election for how this works out today.
That Dean would make a play for them isn't surprising. If he could show the Southern white voters that the promise the conservatives made to keep them "above" poor blacks is meaningless in a supply side world then he might be able to bring them into a stronger democratic party that can offer real economic and social protection for all poor people. Unfortunately the conservatives have been very adept in dividing these two groups of people who, in large, share almost identical economic needs and concerns.
Well, this is an illegal enterprise that can generate a great deal of money, much of it under the table. These kinds of "businesses" are wide open to money laundering and the involvment of more "traditional" organized crime elements. I read a recent article about how the mob is getting into spam because they can shake down spammers without fear of being reported to the police.
What I'm looking for next is a national "Do Not Junk Mail" list so that I can stop getting seven to ten letters in my mail slot every day that I just toss without opening, not to mention the sales circulars and restaurant ads addressed to "Occupant".
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I'm having a hard time with this one....
-dameron
pyramids, the Baghdad Battery...
Is there nothing that Leonardo can't explain?
I'm only half serious, but he's recently become a catch basin for sceptics who attribute "anachronistic" scientific achievements to him.
Last weeks news about the Shroud caused quite a stir, and CNN reported one the current theories regarding the origins of the Shroud of Turin has Leonardo creating it using some as yet un(re)discovered method of self portraiture...
Perhaps he knows where Saddam's WMDs are...
-dameron
Without a clearly defined and very high peak he's not getting into the hall with less than around 225 wins (and that may be low), something I highly doubt he can do at this age. His injuries and his obscurity in Philadelphia will keep him out. Now whether or not this is fair is another matter, but his low win total will precluded him from Cooperstown.
The most telling stat for why he's not a HOF'er is who he compares to at his age:
Similar Pitchers through Age 36
1. Bret Saberhagen (935)
2. John Smoltz (920)
3. John Candelaria (915)
4. Kevin Brown (907)
5. Orel Hershiser (903)
6. Charley Root (899)
7. Jimmy Key (897)
8. Ron Guidry (893)
9. Dave Stewart (892)
10. Scott Sanderson (891)
A lot of good pitchers, but not a HOF'er on the list ('though Smoltz is still around and could wind up in the Hall via the Eckersley method if he puts up another 150 saves).
Of course if he pitches 'til he's 45 all bets are off, but that would be remarkably rare.
-dameron
Not really even close. He's 37 and has 164 wins. Ain't gonna happen.
-dameron
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Diderot
And Ashcroft thinks he's both king and priest. I wonder how far up his own ass he'd have to stuff his head before he choked on his own entrails...
-dameron
I've ever seen one of my post get the:
Extra 'Troll' Modifier
listed. I guess I pissed off someone. But hey, I guess:
40% Troll
40% Insightful
20% Interesting
means "troll" right...
-dameron
Ok, so we're talking about a group of people who are:
1) Unix Geeks
that
2) decided to roll back their "Discordian" t-shirt long enough to find their (gratis) copy of PC magazine wot mentions the unix workalike underpinnings of OS X. (we're talking -UNIX- geek here people)
3) don't like the available Linux gui options.
4) are willing to pay twice as much (at least) than they would for an x86 Unix workalike
5) have trouble with gui usability...
This person doesn't exist. Unix geek = someone who enlists in the vi/emacs Blood War. People who bitch about GUI usability = people who bitch about "right clicking".
I'm almost serious. Who are these people...?
-dameron
I once proposed a P2P food sharing program. Imagine the possibilities. You're standing in front of your fridg and there's nothing that interests you. Sure, you've got half a carton of last night's curry chicken but that's not what you're looking for.
Go online, fire up "Snackster" and check what's out there. Oh look, via Snackster's geographic IP address location logic you see that a guy two blocks away has three two day old tamales and a six ounces of chips. With the click of a button you make your offer, yesterday's curry for Tuesdays's mexican food. A quick link from Snackster to mapquest get's you directions and twenty minutes you're eating something you'd like.
You avoid tossing out stuff that's perfectly good but not appealing, plus you can take advantage of the huge portions most restaurants serve by saving half for your Snackster catalog.
-dameron
I'm willing to be a large number of consumers have to take a piss.
Really. I've borrowed events that friends have taped for me and having the commercials in place serves a couple of useful functions. Obvious sometimes you gotta go to the bathroom, and most event with commercials break the show up into logical scenes so taking a piss doesn't distrupt the flow of the show. Also, considering that almost every tv has got a "MUTE" button, commercials can be a good opportunity to turn off the sound and discuss the show/even with the other people in the room, and for things like sporting events this can be as much fun as watching the game.
Also whenever I've been around someone with a PVR I tend to notice more pauses in the program than I might otherwise. If the movie or game is paused for everyone's trip to the bathroom rather than having people fit their bladders around the sponsor's schedule there tend to be more interruptions. Likewise everyone might have to wait for the host to get off the phone, or talk to a neighbor, or haggle with the pizza guy.
-dameron
Moreso it begs the question of why you posted anonymously? The usage of this phrase has changed. Deal with it. We can't all live in the 20th century...
of the user's data.
-dameron
pretty much the only web browser was something you would install on a UNIX shell, then use SLIP to access.
Very anachronistic for 1985. Nobody was installing web browsers on unix shells (whatever that's supposed to mean) in 1985. 14.4 modems??? Think blazing 2400 baud modems. Maybe you're thinking more like 1991 and the old SlipKnot proggy...
-dameron
I'd have them run Dansguardian/Squid with no content filtering but very restrictive file type blocking. If they need content filtering you could tune it for them at some additional time investment.
I'm sure there's a way to do this without Dans and using only squid so it could run on MS systems as I don't think Dans is available for Windows. Anyway, Dans makes it so easy it's what I'd recommend.
Also you get the lower virus profile with something like Lycoris, and you could cron up all the autoupdating.
I'd also a VNC server service on their box so you can help them out easily and even show them how things are done. There are other ways to do this too, but I live VNC best as it's easy to setup on almost any platform.
-dameron
It was to be dubbed Superflu-US, but then it was decided they didn't need it after all..
-dameron
I'm sure the graphics will be quite a bit degraded from the original, as back in the 80s we had vivid imaginations driven by hormones and angst at what seemed like an inevitable nuclear confrontation. Now that young people thing with their thumbs I'm sure the graphics will take quite a hit.
-dameron
And it's plant that has a long "magical" (actually occult) tradition in many parts of the world because it tends to grow in the shape of a man. History of mandrake root. Their claim to the word "mandrake" as it relates to magic is wrong. If they're arguing that the association of the word "mandrake" with a cartoon penguin dressed up as a magician violates their trademark on their cartoon magician they may have a slightly better point.
-dameron
I can't possibly imagine how you could have followed this case and come to that conclusion unless you've had blinders on and are deep into Rambus stock. Rambus deserves the title "Litigous Bastards" almost as much as SCO.
-dameron
And I've never seen Bigfoot but I know it exists. Your point?
-dameron
Please mod parent up.
A linux based PVR is almost too simple to be considered "hacking" at this point.
-dameron
Sounds like this would make it possible for a retailer to copyright the information contained in weekly flyers and prohibit places like fatwallet.com from listing them.
This could have a possibly monstrous effect on online comparison shopping. Things like www.froogle.com become impossible as retailers begin copyrighting their inventory and price databases.
-dameron
class and general management of time while in college.
Please realize the structure of modern educational systems is based on regimenting people to a time clock, to produce work for evaluation, and for punctuality. It's really not designed to educate, for even those that "fail" have at least learned the "rules of school": show up, don't be late and when the bell rings, work is over. Perfect for modern factory work. Guess when the modern school developed. If you said "hand in hand with factory work" you are right.
150 years ago there would be no diagnosis for your condition, and having to work for more than 30 minutes without taking a break wouldn't be an illness. There was no concept of a "work day" anyway and rural folk had work that was entirely seasonal. Anyone of even vague wealth would find the idea of being tied to a clock moronic. The idea that you are "sick" because you can't concentrate on one typically boring or otherwise mundane concept for more than half an hour says a lot more about how work/education has changed than anything else.
I'm sorry you feel like you have an illness, but I have a great deal of trouble believing millions of people are rightly drugged for a disease that didn't exist sixty years ago.
-dameron
Huh, something about him being joined at the hip with Clinton for 20 years and helping Clinton get elected to politcial office half a dozen times made me think he was a Democrat...
-dameron
Democratic political wonk that was once tight with the Clinton administrator 'til it was discovered that he was knocking boots with hookers fairly regularly. (I think that was it, sounds right to me.)
For a visual, picture Tom Arnold in a business suit pissing on Lee Atwater's grave.
-dameron
What Dean was saying follows a direct ideological course back to MLK. Poor whites have been sold the notion that if they continue to support conservative causes they will maintain their economic/social "superiority" over black in the South. By trying to include minorities and poor whites (the stars and bars fans he mentions) he's trying to break down that idea. Unfortunately he picked a politically charged symbol to identify these poor whites, but I suppose he'd also be criticized if he's said "gun rack" instead of confederate flag.
Dems now know that they really need the southern white vote, or at least a good percentage of it to win. The only two Democratic presidents in my lifetime were both southerners who carried large parts of the South. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was based on using race as lever to drive poor whites away from the Democratic party, and Johnson said, on the event of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that the Democrats "have lost the South for a generation." Check the last Georgia gubernatorial election for how this works out today.
That Dean would make a play for them isn't surprising. If he could show the Southern white voters that the promise the conservatives made to keep them "above" poor blacks is meaningless in a supply side world then he might be able to bring them into a stronger democratic party that can offer real economic and social protection for all poor people. Unfortunately the conservatives have been very adept in dividing these two groups of people who, in large, share almost identical economic needs and concerns.
-dameron
Well, this is an illegal enterprise that can generate a great deal of money, much of it under the table. These kinds of "businesses" are wide open to money laundering and the involvment of more "traditional" organized crime elements. I read a recent article about how the mob is getting into spam because they can shake down spammers without fear of being reported to the police.
What I'm looking for next is a national "Do Not Junk Mail" list so that I can stop getting seven to ten letters in my mail slot every day that I just toss without opening, not to mention the sales circulars and restaurant ads addressed to "Occupant".
-dameron