I got news for ya. In the long run, we're ALL ugly. In 10 years, 20 years, 30 years YOU will be the ugly one.
I view age differently. With age, breasts just become longer, penises grow larger. There's nothing wrong with "sexy grandmas" or grandfathers, yet Hollywood does not give us many role models for the older folks. Think Tina Turner and Clint Eastwood. They are up there in age.
Wrinkles come from exposure to the sun and are multiplied by smoking. Nothing wrong with older women and men, except for those who do not take care of their health.
Not everyone turns fat and ugly in old age. Some are still physicaly fit and like to fuck. Don't let age discourage, let it bring wisdom and happiness.
Here's an idea that may solve even the worst condensation problems: triple expanding foam. The stuff in the can from the hardware store. Encase the areas of the CPU and motherboard that will get cool. Now you can run that liquid nitrogen line to your CPU.
A temperature sensor embedded on the CPU would be necessary, for a failure in the cooling system with this kind of insulation would surely cause a fire.
By the way, they also charge you if you want no long distance carrier.
They may charge extra if you decline, because it might be they sell your number to telemarketers. Everytime I get a new number from H^HBellSouth, I get a rash of telemarketers, especially those who try to sell me long distance. I was keenly aware of this coincidence, because I work nights and sleep days. Imagine a dozen fucking phone calls a day from determined telemarketers about every hour or two when you are trying to sleep.
No law protects day sleepers. I asked for my number to be unlisted, private, don't share. Well, buddy, they simply ignored that and published my number in the white pages again, year after year. Years of torment from telemarketers and you too could have an impressive volcabulary of crude words expressing displeasure at these sales drones. They even retaliated against me by cancelling my long distance service for "fraud."
There are phone providers that forbid telemarketing, period. So, now my BellSouth line no longer has a ringer on it, but is a dedicated connection to the internet. My cellphone provider does not sell or allow telemarketing. This is why I do business with them.
Seems like those who write laws want to create revenue from any viable source they can muster. If it has value, tax it.
I use my ass everyday. Why don't they tax it? Imagine, they could get a reasonable percentage of everything that goes through it.
Once upon a time, taxes were levied for roads, schools, and implimenting basic utilities. That was great. Now, the Biggest Business in the Country wants a cut of our own profits. Why, because it can get away with it. Make it law. If I refuse, I go to jail. So I pay.
There should be a line drawn between special interests bodies and official government services.
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Its nice having a home webcam to check on whenever out of town to know at least if the important connection is still up...
So, if his house is toast, he oughta travel the world in style and put on these conventions. The ALS once again had excellent accomodations... marble floors, grand pianos, limo service, free tshirts, and did I mention free stuff?
The people here at the ALS always do an outstanding job setting us up. Here's my thanks!
Try to make a bigger antenna, add a few meters of wire to your current antenna.
I found this to be a good solution as I work inside a building with masses of iron, gigantic copper reels, and other enemies of radio wave propagation.
Most of the time an additional length of antenna works well. Also, where it is placed makes a large difference. The wavelength of the FM band effectively makes dead spots every half a wavelength where it cancels out at the antenna.
The FM band is also highly reflective, so placing your antenna a certain distance from a length of grounded wire can effectively amplify your signal strength. For an industrial strength solution in an industrial building, your best bet may be to sneak one of those rooftop yagi antennas from RadioScrap, hide and aim it around non conductive mass, like the wall of a cubicle.
If you wish to make your own stealth antennas on a cubicle wall disguised as artwork from pushpins and wire, there are many good books here. If someone can find a good web based yagi design calculator, please let me know!
He adds: "Someone who owns a newspaper can pick up the phone to the editor and say 'run headlines I like'.
He owns the newspapers and buys editorials if he buys full page ads.
He owns grass roots campains and "independent" funded studies if he pays for them.
What we do is create tools like a word processor that lets people express their ideas and we're not at all involved in how they choose to use it.
And define the lock-in protocol of the word processors that are loosely defined and full of undocumented features? No, his company would NEVER go that low, would it?
Lots of good keywords in the comment, but they are all seperated by commas. Anyone at the NSA could write a bogon filter that simply checks for a comma after the keyword to turn the red flag off. Or a simple check to filter out the same hash of words.
I bet a little script to insert random dictionary words and sentences between them would produce something that would be more difficult to screen.
Subversive? I prefer to call it civil war. Or we can wait until the corruption boils over into World War III.
That's what I get by paying taxes in the good ol USA. I seem to be supporting a bully that wants to tell others how to trade, spy on others, not communicate in confidence, etc...
I'm reading into that perhaps too much, but if countries go to war, communication should increase, not decrease. If a government attempts to disable a communication medium dominated by citizens, that is bad. Disabling radar sites could be considered a viable strategy, and I have reservations about knocking out television sites, but the internet or ham radio operators? It just proves war is ugly and full of destruction in every way.
Back when I was in college, the internet was just a very useful medium in which to exchange ideas. Sure, there were problems that errupted from flamewars, a few compromised accounts, denial of service attacks, etc.
If the net was down for a day due to a dumptruck backing into the air conditioner system letting the computers overheat, satellite was down, someone cut the cable, or whatever, life went on. It was never made into a federal case. Someone may have got a talking to or wrists got slapped. The worst case when the VAX was rooted. The person in charge was fired over the incident and the student was later in school.
Now, it seems people are taking the internet more seriously by putting all their eggs in this basket, but understanding less about what happens to that traffic. The net these days seems to have connotations of Al Gore, Microsoft, AOL, the FBI, and child molesters, and terrorism.
Few people think about the community of people that make this information network happen. Its about people hooking up hardware and writing the software to make it all happen. Money seems to distort the fun nature of all this into corruption.
Al Gore created the internet? Bullshit. Microsoft innovate the internet and the road ahead? Big Lie. FBI and the NSA need to watch it? Keep their Goddamn hands out of it! AOL the internet? They provide many people now, but started off badly.
.sex for Adult Oriented pr0n sites. *.h4c for all the geocities hax0r groups. *.sec for true blue Security sites. *.own for sites that lack security. *.cus for those who want domains like. fuck.* or bitch.*...
What if I have a site that impliments all of these methods of speech to describe a product I'm selling? You know how sex sells, offensive words in source code comments ("Who the fuck wrote this line:") and you know it takes hacking to perfect the art of security. So, how can we seperate the diverse personalities among those of us who are well rounded?
The way people were graded when I was in school was that 68% (if I remember right) got a C, and the rest were distributed under the nice model of a bell curve. A teacher explained if he were to give us all A's, he would have to do some serious explaining to the administration about how brilliant we were. That, I think is what education should be all about: to nurture and build confidence for willingness to learn. Taken by itself, the bell curve just promotes brutal competition.
So what does the bell curve have to do with cribbing essays and work from the net? It raises competition. The art of education becomes cheating. Whoever is the most innovative cheater, wins. Its because when the grades go up, the level of work must increase to equalize the grades. So, more people suffer from burnout and turn to cheating. Its a race.
I graduated in 1992 with an engineering degree and get to see where the cheaters are today. It brings me great joy to see that they are employed, but in places like Walmart, approving checks, and meanial jobs like that. Those who do not have a clue now will never get it on their own later.
Imagine students and teachers all battling it out and competing against eachother like a game of chess. Who's going to win? It doesn't seem a very efficient method of education to me.
Back when I was in school, it was paper and pencil. It was a drag without the calculators, but it was fair.
Well, almost... Send an email to someone using Groupwise with the date in the headers set to a distant past. After the receiptient reads it, it will seem to vanish, only to be discovered the mail was sorted by date into the beginning of the cue (rather than when it was received.)
I found this to be a neat trick and often place "this email will self destruct in 30 seconds" at the footer.
Having a public personality should not be too difficult, unless greed is the only useful skill. The trick is to make one's self valuable to society. There is a saying in small towns that the worst thing that can happen to a person is if nobody knows them. Granted, there will be rough times and the downward spiral or two, but this builds character.
People like Jenni have developed unique positions for themselves and that is part of their personality. It may be difficult to throw away a personality and a disadvantage to do so. Its interesting to watch the reaction of those who are famous and those who react to them. It would be silly to think I would know a polition or anyone else on a personal level, just because they (and the families) would be in the news so often.
I have been posting on usenet news for several years and have found much, but not all have been archived. My floppies may have not lasted over the years, but many of my posts have. Many were good posts and then there were the ones that made me feel like I was looking at my own ass. But one thing is for sure, I have never regretted using my identity.
There were times when being anonymous was important, but usually, I like to have a name, not a number.
What is the proper etiquette for registering your family name with a TLD?
There has been none. Its a finite physical space, or address that must be unique. That may be why the price of land in areas, such as San Jose, are so high. Just like TLD's, computers have an affinity to give each item unique addresses.
I was too late to get attaway.com, so I am happy with an org. With the current trend of sue happy people in the USA (the US seems to have an inordinate amount of control over the internet,) I'm sure I'll find someone of my last name trying to assert rights over the address I have chosen.
Last names cause conflicts in the telephone book too. My mom has a business in her maiden last name in Kansas City (I won't mention it here, because credit card companies use maiden names like passwords!) Its not a popular last name, but there happened to be another business in the city of that name. She had the first entry in the telephone book.
I'm aware of other Attaway's on the internet, musicians (my sister is one,) teachers, scientists, and one Attaway-Electronics beat me to getting a trademark.
People and nations go to war over land. I'm sure that attitude will infect the internet too. Hopefully there will be enough productive discussion to cure this ill.
Its amazing how Google does great searches and if it doesn't go the bloat route like dejanews did, the good life will never end.
The clean Google interface and great results seems to be one of the greatest gifts of the internet. Its gives me great hope that services such as this are given to the community.
If you broke Microsoft into OS and Apps, you'd have two monopolies instead of one:
I liken it to the idea of breaking up a spore of anthrax. Want more Microsoft? Break it up. So what happens if we don't break it up? We'll get more Microsoft.
Best bet is to investigate the people behind the anticompetitive deal making, not the company itself. Then the truly guilty parties might stand a better chance of being punished accordingly to the actual damages they caused. I doubt you will see this method promoted, because its not what they want you to hear.
A breakup of the company means less attention away from those responsible, not to mention the promotions of many to oversee the new companies. A breakup just rewards those involved.
nly instead, we'd really make a "National Spam-The-Spammers Day," and
For Spammer's Day, let's support them in a nationwide effort to locate them and show our support in person at their doorsteps. Imagine a spammer answering his door and receiving the gift of a free clue bat !
Yep. Your (Massachusetts) tax dollars at work going to finance MS patents.
Let me paraphrase that: Your tax dollars at work going to pay for MS patents that will take away freedom of others to innovate with the latest technology.
Further: Your tax dollars supporting an outreaching monopoly that wants not just the market on software, but entertainment, media, travel services, etc...
Ultimately: we will all work under One Big Company. Its cheaper that way: no patent fights, no one to sue, and we all get to work for the devil himself.
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I got news for ya. In the long run, we're ALL ugly. In 10 years, 20 years, 30 years YOU will be the ugly one.
I view age differently. With age, breasts just become longer, penises grow larger. There's nothing wrong with "sexy grandmas" or grandfathers, yet Hollywood does not give us many role models for the older folks. Think Tina Turner and Clint Eastwood. They are up there in age.
Wrinkles come from exposure to the sun and are multiplied by smoking. Nothing wrong with older women and men, except for those who do not take care of their health.
Not everyone turns fat and ugly in old age. Some are still physicaly fit and like to fuck. Don't let age discourage, let it bring wisdom and happiness.
Here's an idea that may solve even the worst condensation problems: triple expanding foam. The stuff in the can from the hardware store. Encase the areas of the CPU and motherboard that will get cool. Now you can run that liquid nitrogen line to your CPU.
A temperature sensor embedded on the CPU would be necessary, for a failure in the cooling system with this kind of insulation would surely cause a fire.
By the way, they also charge you if you want no long distance carrier.
They may charge extra if you decline, because it might be they sell your number to telemarketers. Everytime I get a new number from H^HBellSouth, I get a rash of telemarketers, especially those who try to sell me long distance. I was keenly aware of this coincidence, because I work nights and sleep days. Imagine a dozen fucking phone calls a day from determined telemarketers about every hour or two when you are trying to sleep.
No law protects day sleepers. I asked for my number to be unlisted, private, don't share. Well, buddy, they simply ignored that and published my number in the white pages again, year after year. Years of torment from telemarketers and you too could have an impressive volcabulary of crude words expressing displeasure at these sales drones. They even retaliated against me by cancelling my long distance service for "fraud."
There are phone providers that forbid telemarketing, period. So, now my BellSouth line no longer has a ringer on it, but is a dedicated connection to the internet. My cellphone provider does not sell or allow telemarketing. This is why I do business with them.
Seems like those who write laws want to create revenue from any viable source they can muster. If it has value, tax it.
I use my ass everyday. Why don't they tax it? Imagine, they could get a reasonable percentage of everything that goes through it.
Once upon a time, taxes were levied for roads, schools, and implimenting basic utilities. That was great. Now, the Biggest Business in the Country wants a cut of our own profits. Why, because it can get away with it. Make it law. If I refuse, I go to jail. So I pay.
Yes, gop."gov" is more of an organization, not a government body, such as noaa.gov, nasa.gov, or nist.gov.
There should be a line drawn between special interests bodies and official government services.
Its nice having a home webcam to check on whenever out of town to know at least if the important connection is still up...
So, if his house is toast, he oughta travel the world in style and put on these conventions. The ALS once again had excellent accomodations... marble floors, grand pianos, limo service, free tshirts, and did I mention free stuff?
The people here at the ALS always do an outstanding job setting us up. Here's my thanks!
Try to make a bigger antenna, add a few meters of wire to your current antenna.
I found this to be a good solution as I work inside a building with masses of iron, gigantic copper reels, and other enemies of radio wave propagation.
Most of the time an additional length of antenna works well. Also, where it is placed makes a large difference. The wavelength of the FM band effectively makes dead spots every half a wavelength where it cancels out at the antenna.
The FM band is also highly reflective, so placing your antenna a certain distance from a length of grounded wire can effectively amplify your signal strength. For an industrial strength solution in an industrial building, your best bet may be to sneak one of those rooftop yagi antennas from RadioScrap, hide and aim it around non conductive mass, like the wall of a cubicle.
If you wish to make your own stealth antennas on a cubicle wall disguised as artwork from pushpins and wire, there are many good books here . If someone can find a good web based yagi design calculator, please let me know!
He adds: "Someone who owns a newspaper can pick up the phone to the editor and say 'run headlines I like'.
He owns the newspapers and buys editorials if he buys full page ads.
He owns grass roots campains and "independent" funded studies if he pays for them.
What we do is create tools like a word processor that lets people express their ideas and we're not at all involved in how they choose to use it.
And define the lock-in protocol of the word processors that are loosely defined and full of undocumented features? No, his company would NEVER go that low, would it?
Here is the Nobel Prize in Chemistry given for the discovery of carbon atoms in a ball. It shows how you can make your own and play ball with them.
Lots of good keywords in the comment, but they are all seperated by commas. Anyone at the NSA could write a bogon filter that simply checks for a comma after the keyword to turn the red flag off. Or a simple check to filter out the same hash of words.
I bet a little script to insert random dictionary words and sentences between them would produce something that would be more difficult to screen.
Subversive? I prefer to call it civil war. Or we can wait until the corruption boils over into World War III.
That's what I get by paying taxes in the good ol USA. I seem to be supporting a bully that wants to tell others how to trade, spy on others, not communicate in confidence, etc...
I'm reading into that perhaps too much, but if countries go to war, communication should increase, not decrease. If a government attempts to disable a communication medium dominated by citizens, that is bad. Disabling radar sites could be considered a viable strategy, and I have reservations about knocking out television sites, but the internet or ham radio operators? It just proves war is ugly and full of destruction in every way.
Back when I was in college, the internet was just a very useful medium in which to exchange ideas. Sure, there were problems that errupted from flamewars, a few compromised accounts, denial of service attacks, etc.
If the net was down for a day due to a dumptruck backing into the air conditioner system letting the computers overheat, satellite was down, someone cut the cable, or whatever, life went on. It was never made into a federal case. Someone may have got a talking to or wrists got slapped. The worst case when the VAX was rooted. The person in charge was fired over the incident and the student was later in school.
Now, it seems people are taking the internet more seriously by putting all their eggs in this basket, but understanding less about what happens to that traffic. The net these days seems to have connotations of Al Gore, Microsoft, AOL, the FBI, and child molesters, and terrorism.
Few people think about the community of people that make this information network happen. Its about people hooking up hardware and writing the software to make it all happen. Money seems to distort the fun nature of all this into corruption.
Al Gore created the internet? Bullshit. Microsoft innovate the internet and the road ahead? Big Lie. FBI and the NSA need to watch it? Keep their Goddamn hands out of it! AOL the internet? They provide many people now, but started off badly.
.sex for Adult Oriented pr0n sites. *.h4c for all the geocities hax0r groups. *.sec for true blue Security sites. *.own for sites that lack security. *.cus for those who want domains like. fuck.* or bitch.*...
What if I have a site that impliments all of these methods of speech to describe a product I'm selling? You know how sex sells, offensive words in source code comments ("Who the fuck wrote this line:") and you know it takes hacking to perfect the art of security. So, how can we seperate the diverse personalities among those of us who are well rounded?
The way people were graded when I was in school was that 68% (if I remember right) got a C, and the rest were distributed under the nice model of a bell curve. A teacher explained if he were to give us all A's, he would have to do some serious explaining to the administration about how brilliant we were. That, I think is what education should be all about: to nurture and build confidence for willingness to learn. Taken by itself, the bell curve just promotes brutal competition.
So what does the bell curve have to do with cribbing essays and work from the net? It raises competition. The art of education becomes cheating. Whoever is the most innovative cheater, wins. Its because when the grades go up, the level of work must increase to equalize the grades. So, more people suffer from burnout and turn to cheating. Its a race.
I graduated in 1992 with an engineering degree and get to see where the cheaters are today. It brings me great joy to see that they are employed, but in places like Walmart, approving checks, and meanial jobs like that. Those who do not have a clue now will never get it on their own later.
Imagine students and teachers all battling it out and competing against eachother like a game of chess. Who's going to win? It doesn't seem a very efficient method of education to me.
Back when I was in school, it was paper and pencil. It was a drag without the calculators, but it was fair.
Well, almost... Send an email to someone using Groupwise with the date in the headers set to a distant past. After the receiptient reads it, it will seem to vanish, only to be discovered the mail was sorted by date into the beginning of the cue (rather than when it was received.)
I found this to be a neat trick and often place "this email will self destruct in 30 seconds" at the footer.
Having a public personality should not be too difficult, unless greed is the only useful skill. The trick is to make one's self valuable to society. There is a saying in small towns that the worst thing that can happen to a person is if nobody knows them. Granted, there will be rough times and the downward spiral or two, but this builds character.
People like Jenni have developed unique positions for themselves and that is part of their personality. It may be difficult to throw away a personality and a disadvantage to do so. Its interesting to watch the reaction of those who are famous and those who react to them. It would be silly to think I would know a polition or anyone else on a personal level, just because they (and the families) would be in the news so often.
I have been posting on usenet news for several years and have found much, but not all have been archived. My floppies may have not lasted over the years, but many of my posts have. Many were good posts and then there were the ones that made me feel like I was looking at my own ass. But one thing is for sure, I have never regretted using my identity.
There were times when being anonymous was important, but usually, I like to have a name, not a number.
What is the proper etiquette for registering your family name with a TLD?
There has been none. Its a finite physical space, or address that must be unique. That may be why the price of land in areas, such as San Jose, are so high. Just like TLD's, computers have an affinity to give each item unique addresses.
I was too late to get attaway.com, so I am happy with an org. With the current trend of sue happy people in the USA (the US seems to have an inordinate amount of control over the internet,) I'm sure I'll find someone of my last name trying to assert rights over the address I have chosen.
Last names cause conflicts in the telephone book too. My mom has a business in her maiden last name in Kansas City (I won't mention it here, because credit card companies use maiden names like passwords!) Its not a popular last name, but there happened to be another business in the city of that name. She had the first entry in the telephone book.
I'm aware of other Attaway's on the internet, musicians (my sister is one,) teachers, scientists, and one Attaway-Electronics beat me to getting a trademark.
People and nations go to war over land. I'm sure that attitude will infect the internet too. Hopefully there will be enough productive discussion to cure this ill.
Wow. You just type that all in?
This is a riot in a more digestible format that may describe the fustration towards big evil software companies.
Here's what seems to me a squatter on my last name. So, I had to settle for an .org address. Domain squatters need to rot in hell.
Its amazing how Google does great searches and if it doesn't go the bloat route like dejanews did, the good life will never end.
The clean Google interface and great results seems to be one of the greatest gifts of the internet. Its gives me great hope that services such as this are given to the community.
If you broke Microsoft into OS and Apps, you'd have two monopolies instead of one:
I liken it to the idea of breaking up a spore of anthrax. Want more Microsoft? Break it up. So what happens if we don't break it up? We'll get more Microsoft.
Best bet is to investigate the people behind the anticompetitive deal making, not the company itself. Then the truly guilty parties might stand a better chance of being punished accordingly to the actual damages they caused. I doubt you will see this method promoted, because its not what they want you to hear.
A breakup of the company means less attention away from those responsible, not to mention the promotions of many to oversee the new companies. A breakup just rewards those involved.
nly instead, we'd really make a "National Spam-The-Spammers Day," and
For Spammer's Day, let's support them in a nationwide effort to locate them and show our support in person at their doorsteps. Imagine a spammer answering his door and receiving the gift of a free clue bat !
Yep. Your (Massachusetts) tax dollars at work going to finance MS patents.
Let me paraphrase that: Your tax dollars at work going to pay for MS patents that will take away freedom of others to innovate with the latest technology.
Further: Your tax dollars supporting an outreaching monopoly that wants not just the market on software, but entertainment, media, travel services, etc...
Ultimately: we will all work under One Big Company. Its cheaper that way: no patent fights, no one to sue, and we all get to work for the devil himself.