I've been playing (or is it praying) on the guitar for a while and I often find difficult sections have an erie feel to them because if I get them down correctly it's as if my hands we're programmed to do a section all on their own. There's that "disconnected" feeling.
Sure after I do that a few times I can scale up and down from anywhere. I suppose it's about using your thought processing to structure the song and your hands can do all the work.
Go ahead walk up to Bush to tell him what you think of his ideas. Do you really think he gives a crap.
We have 6 candidates How about giving each 16,66667 % of the vote. Better than apathy and it sends a message to them.
But then any history teacher will tell you the best way to introduce chaos (like in Russia) is to destroy a clear succession of power. Confucius say "Someone must be on top" I don't know if he means sex or politics.
socialism is still a theory capitalism is still a theory
Feudalism never ended. People just feel rich because of suits.
communism is extreme socialism for control of power. Some cultures' medium of value(currency) is power.
protectionism is extreme capitalism for control of money. Some cultures' medium of value is money.
so far no culture has held value as a medium of value.
stop trying to legislate or institutionalize good will. nothing lasts past a few generations after its inception. every generation is as far from the last generation as the next will be from it because nothing changes just the percentage of different qualities of character. stop being so ridiculously enthusiastic, it's sickening.
Read Forever Flowing, A Captive Mind, watch "Brazil" a few times.
"but we can still do much better..." go back to coding.
First, I didn't say get a life. I DID say get a girlfriend. I said it after reading the responses people gave.
Anyways...
All I see is talk of speeds and chewing gum. Deep hack mode is about indirectly distancing yourself from your ego void. So is asking a woman out on a date. Cracking does not count as deep hack mode and multitasking will not get you there.
LSD is interesting to this story because as a friend of mine once told me he was better able to multitask on it. All his college work was positioned in windows of information in front of him as he sat on a beach. So yes a drug will help you multitask but being able to manage all that information is about skill not speed. BSD was written on marijuana not crack. It's the differennce between seeing a bunch of windows in front of your face or seeing the ceiling melt into floor. One is a useful enhancement. The other depending on how you look at it is entertainment.
Consider trying to write an 8-part jazz piece with all parts going in all directions. It's funny. The whole concept of paying attention excludes the ability to multitask. Paying attention by definition means singling out parts which makes mutitasking impossible because you're constantly trying to listen and block each part out at the same time.
The same goes for deep hack mode. You've finally managed to convince the rest of your body not to sneeze, fart, or in any way disturb you while you work.
Ps.
Ok maybe I snapped. All week I have been around the shallowest people you ever met. They constantly wanted to discuss solutions to Littleton. People who would revere Ben Stein because he knows what tree extract turpentine comes from. Sort of how Bill Gates keeps up with the times by reading every newspaper. Wonder if he's ever heard of Kafka or if he's ever seen Terry Gilliam's "Brazil". So when I saw silly stuff about speeds I lost it. Sorry.
Seriously, I'm more willing to swim through flamewars (I have my filter setting set to -1 because I like complete pictures) than ride a FUD wave designed especially for me by a news site that thinks it has the last word.
However, you need to go study complex systems (and don't be dreamin up terminators either) and a perfectly complete and dynamic way to do that is to ask a woman out on a date. If you watch what happens to you and her over a few weeks you'll have all your questions answered guaranteed.
Now if only I could practice what I preach more often.
I'd tell you what I've learned but then I'd have to kill you.
Marx/Smith never got their theories into practice
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Get your heads out of the encyclopedias and into the real world. Read a little history while you're at it.
Communism is extreme socialism for control of power which represents that culture's medium of value for intellectual and emotional reasons. Note I don't subscribe to too many theories on cultural identity that discuss much beyond coincindence. Two people can have culture as I see it.
Protectionism is extreme capitalism for control of money which represents that culture's medium of value for intellectual and emotional reasons.
You want a real picture? Two erasable marker clipboards: One for social class and one for education in the ways of the world, that is, training to be a VB slave is not an education.
In blue magic marker stands the current distribution of information. In black magic marker stands the need for information. In green magic marker we have the desire for information. In red magic marker we have the ability to use information.
Our patented VersaFlip Clipboard Animator would show socialism and capitalism were around for a fleeting moment (a few years) before bleating sheep allowed the clowns to get away with murder. One last note: Everything from Open Source to religion to has been called a communist plot. The fact of the matter is the Cold War or what some refer to as Communism was just that the Cold War, a vague but self-justified self-perpetuating paranoia. We got out as the Greeks would say when the Gods began to pity mankind or rather everyone was sick and tired of it. It went from Communism to Nationalism to Militarism to Totalitarianism back and forth as electrons do when we're not watching them. That's just it. We weren't watching them. All we saw was the propaganda. No real hard evidence for anything that was going on was available.
But who gives a crap? Feudalism, "Protectionism", Communism. It's all the same to me. Hierarchism is hierarchism is hierarchism regardless whether it is in fields of gold wheat, a meat packing plant, or a cubicle. Heck, early Egyptian cultures were socialist. Nothing new. Nothing to see folks. Move along.
The future is the past and the past is the future or some shit like that. It's all a matter of abuse.
Gun Jobs Page /.ed? Hmm. encouraging.
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Damn.
BTW Happy B-Day Rob
Frag them and lets move on .
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This is to keep us busy from coding. Cakewalk for Linux anyone? CartoonShop? GameCAD?
As long as an industry continues to separate the platform hackers from the developers and the developers from the users, they're going to have other people walk all over them. It's all a matter of whether or not buyers want a do-hickey like their neighbors or they want to decide what they need it for after the purchase.
Some want a do-hickey. Like all those different removable drive sizes we're about to be bombarded with again. You know - standard issue homework disc 35MB, Professional Email archive disc 40MB, Enterprise report disc 63MB. How far can you take a gimmick? Depends on who or what your customer is. Last I checked they were people but that was a while ago. Now they seem like mindless zombies.
No serious user would bother with a PSX with email when it's so much easier to just buy or e-purchase an email program. Nevermind the savings in styrofoam, cardboard boxes, bubblewrap:) (Keep our attics clean!)
Besides, if the majority of people just want to get a,b,and c done and don't have to lift a finger, who's pushing the industry forward? What's a college degree worth to those of us who give a shit, if the market is full of fad freaks? There's a price to pay kissing up to couch potatoes. Speaking precisely of the hardware industry, it was PC gaming not console gaming that pushed it forward.
With job security and economic growth seemingly becoming mutually exclusive (half the technologies being developed these days is to allow corporations to hire idiots for minimum wage to do jobs that used to have to be done by educated degreed employees.) There's a few markets opening up now. You've got to start playing hardball with the world. I don't mean walk like a consultant, and think like one, but compete.
Just read slashdot and see what technical questions people are asking, questions professional magazine reports do not answer because they were written to sell products not to support.
We don't live in cyberspace where everyone can hide and pause their evolution. (best place for self-analysis is cyberspace.)
There's no elevator (or hand of God to carry you) that takes you to a job for a certain attitude (only when you're useful). There's no ladder that you can just climb and hope to keep your spot when you've earned it. All we have is a road that goes east or west. The wind can blow you either way and when it doesn't blow you're still in danger. There's no end to the road in either direction. You can go too far either way without anything to stop you from becoming a Unabomber, a Dr. Mengala, a National clown like Hitler (recent discoveries of letters between successful upright citizens running a private witch hunt on non-Aryans suggest Hitler was insignificant beyond military strategy which he drew from that genius asshole Rommel anyway and Gerbel (sp?) was just the MC), or a catatonic paranoid hypochondriac.
No one is molded or stable except to the extent their education and behavioral development hinders or allows them to be so.
Where you end up depends not only on your efforts to get somewhere but also on your efforts to avoid arriving in other places. (You wanna climb the ladder but you do not want to tip it.)
Cyberspace has few rules. True impartiality might be possible. It might just be possible to just think of people as different. Real Life has many rules related to social structure and such. People are not just different. They aren't just squares on a quilt each one unique. To have that would require being able to pull a person out of thin air designed according to precise specs. You can't do that. There's little chance that you can find stability and humanity in all claases of personalities.
That said I do agree with putting some effort in not being ignorant. The people I dealt with growing up taught me (by no intent of their own) no one deserves unearned respect, only common courtesy. You can't carry the whole world on your back and please or appease them all, nor can you be completely impartial. In the former case you'll go insane. Some people are impossible and they don't even know or care. Remember there's no rope or tether that holds people from doing stupid things. Life is short. Choose your battles by your conscience and move on.
In the latter case, people who do want to be understood do not want to be patronized. You're not going to reach them with unconditional acceptance. If you only give them a calm smile they either don't trust you or if there's any effect it doesn't disarm them. It only makes them temporarily dormant without actually having any impact.
Linux unlike Windows doesn't become incompatible just because a version number changes. Second clear up your ideas, Redhat is not an OS it is a distribution. Just like Valenti motors in my town is not a car and not even a carmaker, they are car dealers. RedHat might sponsor kernel development but Linux [TM] Linus Torvalds not Linux [TM] RedHat
I'm a Clinton groupie and I'm OK! Not!
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What climate of hate asswipe? You don't even know any of us. But that's part and parcel of Christianity isn't it. Unrelieved judgement of others and unrelieved pity. We don't need your guilt trips hypocrite, and we certainly don't need your fucking help. Who tbe hell are you to help anyone? Have a little respect and ask people if they need it! Giving clothing and money and food to the poor, indeed. more like white-slavery to me. Poor people need to be on their feet not comfortable. Poverty is not a sickness you treat. Poverty is torture you have to put an end to. Of course all you care about is hunger and cold. People should be warm and have a full stomach. People don't need to have dreams and a life. Bullshit.
So secularism is killing people? How many times have the KKK pulled their beliefs right out of the Bible. So do the Nazis. BTW, Nazism is not a unique and separate phylosophy. Nazi means member of the National Socialist Party. Read a little history and get off your fucking high horse moron. Do you really know who those pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock were? A bunch of censoring religious extremists who couldn't get along with all the other religious extremists on mainland Europe not just Anglican Church territory. Wake the fuck up!
Almost every single war in this century has been motivated by a degenerate philosophy or religion.. And for you dense idiots: The word religion has nothing to do with Christianity, Catholicism, etc. Get your head out of the dictionary and breathe a little of the hot air you're blowing. Communism was derived from some philosophy that never took off because people are dense and developed into a degenerate religion. Degenerate, folks (I can't believe I have to explain this, but you force me to) means in this case unwilling to put the religion or philosophy to tests. And the fact that a majority of people were still excited about Communism as they are even now when their world was falling apart proves it.
A book you should read to further you education in Humanity 101: Vasily Grossman's Forever Flowing.
BTW, I happen to believe Jesus did exist and I think all the shroud of Turin does is mystify the truth even more so that Christianity maintains its legend status. The idea the Jesus did not exist is as ludicrous as Holocaust revisionism. The nazis did not invent concentration camps. They've been used in some form or another. Look at the Gulag, Manzanaar (an United States trip through history), Dungeons, as well as Auschwitz.
I also believe he was a pretty cool dude who spent time with thieves, poor people, prostitutes and stayed away from Pharisees like yourself. Why he ever felt he had to put this miserable world on his shoulders I don't know.
I warn you do not even bring up subjects like prostitution and purity. Unless you're willing to defend your ideas.
We're so close.. Damn it!
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This seems to me to be on a higher level than Mindcraft vs Linux. The problem is that while we can objectively rip through a bullshit benchmark, social matters on the other hand are next to impossible. The media plays the idiot at every event while they shrewdly raise their ratings.
However, as a student of complex systems (read: watching the neighbors play house) I know that the more drastic and uncontrolled the act the shorter the life-span of its immediate effects and the more unstable. You may not get get what you asked for.
NEW PROJECT! (GPL'ed of course)
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Anyone interested?
Tired of yelling at the TV?
Normal news comes in with headlines under the newspaper's masthead. What if it were the other way around. What if you could take headlines and place mastheads under them?
A little competition among newspapers then under that a/. or Talkback forum.
The user downloads the news system, installs it on his/her/its web site and adds his/her/its favorite or his/her/its least favorite news sources to the list.
Needs a headline spider or some sort of submission form for stories.
Needs a summary spider that can cut through html tags and select a few lines of news or even a frame's worth to display next to each masthead.
I think the final product should be themes capable (KDE, blackbox, ice, flwm, mwm, WindowMaker, GNOME, etc..) and should be split in three: the newsbin library of spiders, the themes for looks, and user addons such as framing of article forums, and such.
It should not be a news site in itself more like a balanced diet of news.
email firewalk@linuxstart.com
Get a dog! Kids != Ken & Barbie
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The simplicity of the medias contribution to this issue terrifies me. Are ppl this stupid?
Seriously, overpopulation isn't about how many ppl can fit in a telephone booth (I read an idiot in my college paper thinks there's no overpopulation because you can fit the entire population of the world in the state of Texas with 1/4 acre assigned to each - for what? I don't know... farming, fish hatcheries, concentration camps?)
Not long from now (maybe tomorrow in a town right next to yours:
Let's see the Ministry of Purity and Perfection (Nazi's and Fundamentalists and Political Bandwagoneers) is still in deliberations after weeks of studying the case of Jane and John Q Public maintaining a private website from which they share tapes and stories between cyber-companions. The website was allegedly accidentally discovered and doubleoverplus-popularised by porn-peddlers as their own. The Publics quite surprisingly sued for invasion of privacy, plus internet breaking and entering by the explicit resellers.
No sooner did they win their case that they were investigated for not properly labelling and marking their site. The Publics cite the need to maintain privacy.
Currently the score is at an xxx-2.181818189536363
In a future follow-up we will provide a full analysis of reasons and issues addressed by each decimal. Thanks to our modern scientific process of justice we can more accurately represent the decisions we make. However, even science sometimes takes awhile to come to a conclusion.
Slashdot Mirror
... and sharpen your senses.
I've been playing (or is it praying) on the guitar for a while and I often find difficult sections have an erie feel to them because if I get them down correctly it's as if my hands we're programmed to do a section all on their own. There's that "disconnected" feeling.
Sure after I do that a few times I can scale up and down from anywhere. I suppose it's about using your thought processing to structure the song and your hands can do all the work.
Go ahead walk up to Bush to tell him what you think of his ideas. Do you really think he gives a crap.
We have 6 candidates
How about giving each 16,66667 % of the vote. Better than apathy and it sends a message to them.
But then any history teacher will tell you the best way to introduce chaos (like in Russia) is to destroy a clear succession of power. Confucius say "Someone must be on top" I don't know if he means sex or politics.
socialism is still a theory
capitalism is still a theory
Feudalism never ended. People just feel rich because of suits.
communism is extreme socialism for control of power. Some cultures' medium of value(currency) is power.
protectionism is extreme capitalism for control of
money. Some cultures' medium of value is money.
so far no culture has held value as a medium of value.
stop trying to legislate or institutionalize good will. nothing lasts past a few generations after its inception. every generation is as far from the last generation as the next will be from it because nothing changes just the percentage of different qualities of character. stop being so ridiculously enthusiastic, it's sickening.
Read Forever Flowing, A Captive Mind, watch "Brazil" a few times.
"but we can still do much better..." go back to coding.
it's easier to repeat then analyse. At Critical Mass it is vital to repeat and not analyse if you know what's good for you.
First, I didn't say get a life. I DID say get a girlfriend. I said it after reading the responses people gave.
Anyways...
All I see is talk of speeds and chewing gum. Deep hack mode is about indirectly distancing yourself from your ego void. So is asking a woman out on a date. Cracking does not count as deep hack mode and multitasking will not get you there.
LSD is interesting to this story because as a friend of mine once told me he was better able to multitask on it. All his college work was positioned in windows of information in front of him as he sat on a beach. So yes a drug will help you multitask but being able to manage all that information is about skill not speed. BSD was written on marijuana not crack. It's the differennce between seeing a bunch of windows in front of your face or seeing the ceiling melt into floor. One is a useful enhancement. The other depending on how you look at it is entertainment.
Consider trying to write an 8-part jazz piece with all parts going in all directions. It's funny. The whole concept of paying attention excludes the ability to multitask. Paying attention by definition means singling out parts which makes mutitasking impossible because you're constantly trying to listen and block each part out at the same time.
The same goes for deep hack mode. You've finally managed to convince the rest of your body not to sneeze, fart, or in any way disturb you while you work.
Ps.
Ok maybe I snapped. All week I have been around the shallowest people you ever met. They constantly wanted to discuss solutions to Littleton. People who would revere Ben Stein because he knows what tree extract turpentine comes from. Sort of how Bill Gates keeps up with the times by reading every newspaper. Wonder if he's ever heard of Kafka or if he's ever seen Terry Gilliam's "Brazil". So when I saw silly stuff about speeds I lost it. Sorry.
Seriously, I'm more willing to swim through flamewars (I have my filter setting set to -1 because I like complete pictures) than ride a FUD wave designed especially for me by a news site that thinks it has the last word.
However, you need to go study complex systems (and don't be dreamin up terminators either) and a perfectly complete and dynamic way to do that is to ask a woman out on a date. If you watch what happens to you and her over a few weeks you'll have all your questions answered guaranteed.
Now if only I could practice what I preach more often.
I'd tell you what I've learned but then I'd have to kill you.
fwd://www.zdnet.com
fwd://www.abc.com
fwd://www.nbc.com
fwd://www.msnbc.com
fwd: fwd: fwd:!!!
Just had to say it.
Get your heads out of the encyclopedias and into the real world. Read a little history while you're at it.
Communism is extreme socialism for control of power which represents that culture's medium of value for intellectual and emotional reasons. Note I don't subscribe to too many theories on cultural identity that discuss much beyond coincindence. Two people can have culture as I see it.
Protectionism is extreme capitalism for control of money which represents that culture's medium of value for intellectual and emotional reasons.
You want a real picture?
Two erasable marker clipboards:
One for social class and one for education in the ways of the world, that is, training to be a VB slave is not an education.
In blue magic marker stands the current distribution of information. In black magic marker stands the need for information. In green magic marker we have the desire for information. In red magic marker we have the ability to use information.
Our patented VersaFlip Clipboard Animator would show socialism and capitalism were around for a fleeting moment (a few years) before bleating sheep allowed the clowns to get away with murder.
One last note:
Everything from Open Source to religion to has been called a communist plot. The fact of the matter is the Cold War or what some refer to as Communism was just that the Cold War, a vague but self-justified self-perpetuating paranoia. We got out as the Greeks would say when the Gods began to pity mankind or rather everyone was sick and tired of it. It went from Communism to Nationalism to Militarism to Totalitarianism back and forth as electrons do when we're not watching them. That's just it. We weren't watching them. All we saw was the propaganda. No real hard evidence for anything that was going on was available.
But who gives a crap? Feudalism, "Protectionism", Communism. It's all the same to me. Hierarchism is hierarchism is hierarchism regardless whether it is in fields of gold wheat, a meat packing plant, or a cubicle. Heck, early Egyptian cultures were socialist. Nothing new. Nothing to see folks. Move along.
The future is the past and the past is the future or some shit like that. It's all a matter of abuse.
Damn.
BTW Happy B-Day Rob
This is to keep us busy from coding. Cakewalk for Linux anyone? CartoonShop? GameCAD?
$67 Motherboard AGP K6-III ready
$90 AMD K6-2 400
$85 3.2 G HD
$175 17" Monitor
$5 Keyb/Mouse/Pad
$36 24X CDROM
$230 TNT2
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$513
check pricewatch for real prices
add 20% per item at fairs
add $400 for brand name store PC's
simple verdict.
:)
As long as an industry continues to separate the platform hackers from the developers and the developers from the users, they're going to have other people walk all over them. It's all a matter of whether or not buyers want a do-hickey like their neighbors or they want to decide what they need it for after the purchase.
Some want a do-hickey. Like all those different removable drive sizes we're about to be bombarded with again. You know - standard issue homework disc 35MB, Professional Email archive disc 40MB, Enterprise report disc 63MB. How far can you take a gimmick? Depends on who or what your customer is. Last I checked they were people but that was a while ago. Now they seem like mindless zombies.
No serious user would bother with a PSX with email when it's so much easier to just buy or e-purchase an email program. Nevermind the savings in styrofoam, cardboard boxes, bubblewrap
(Keep our attics clean!)
Besides, if the majority of people just want to get a,b,and c done and don't have to lift a finger, who's pushing the industry forward? What's a college degree worth to those of us who give a shit, if the market is full of fad freaks? There's a price to pay kissing up to couch potatoes. Speaking precisely of the hardware industry, it was PC gaming not console gaming that pushed it forward.
With job security and economic growth seemingly becoming mutually exclusive (half the technologies being developed these days is to allow corporations to hire idiots for minimum wage to do jobs that used to have to be done by educated degreed employees.) There's a few markets opening up now. You've got to start playing hardball with the world. I don't mean walk like a consultant, and think like one, but compete.
:).
Just read slashdot and see what technical questions people are asking, questions professional magazine reports do not answer because they were written to sell products not to support.
If you're a geek prove it already
We don't live in cyberspace where everyone can hide and pause their evolution. (best place for self-analysis is cyberspace.)
There's no elevator (or hand of God to carry you) that takes you to a job for a certain attitude (only when you're useful). There's no ladder that you can just climb and hope to keep your spot when you've earned it. All we have is a road that goes east or west. The wind can blow you either way and when it doesn't blow you're still in danger. There's no end to the road in either direction. You can go too far either way without anything to stop you from becoming a Unabomber, a Dr. Mengala, a National clown like Hitler (recent discoveries of letters between successful upright citizens running a private witch hunt on non-Aryans suggest Hitler was insignificant beyond military strategy which he drew from that genius asshole Rommel anyway and Gerbel (sp?) was just the MC), or a catatonic paranoid hypochondriac.
No one is molded or stable except to the extent their education and behavioral development hinders or allows them to be so.
Where you end up depends not only on your efforts to get somewhere but also on your efforts to avoid arriving in other places. (You wanna climb the ladder but you do not want to tip it.)
Cyberspace has few rules. True impartiality might be possible. It might just be possible to just think of people as different. Real Life has many rules related to social structure and such. People are not just different. They aren't just squares on a quilt each one unique. To have that would require being able to pull a person out of thin air designed according to precise specs. You can't do that. There's little chance that you can find stability and humanity in all claases of personalities.
That said I do agree with putting some effort in not being ignorant. The people I dealt with growing up taught me (by no intent of their own) no one deserves unearned respect, only common courtesy. You can't carry the whole world on your back and please or appease them all, nor can you be completely impartial. In the former case you'll go insane. Some people are impossible and they don't even know or care. Remember there's no rope or tether that holds people from doing stupid things. Life is short. Choose your battles by your conscience and move on.
In the latter case, people who do want to be understood do not want to be patronized. You're not going to reach them with unconditional acceptance. If you only give them a calm smile they either don't trust you or if there's any effect it doesn't disarm them. It only makes them temporarily dormant without actually having any impact.
But then maybe I'm the crazy one.
Seriuosly though, any OS that reboots itself every morning needs to be looked at.
Linux unlike Windows doesn't become incompatible just because a version number changes. Second clear up your ideas, Redhat is not an OS it is a distribution. Just like Valenti motors in my town is not a car and not even a carmaker, they are car dealers. RedHat might sponsor kernel development but Linux [TM] Linus Torvalds not Linux [TM] RedHat
What climate of hate asswipe? You don't even know any of us. But that's part and parcel of Christianity isn't it. Unrelieved judgement of others and unrelieved pity. We don't need your guilt trips hypocrite, and we certainly don't need your fucking help. Who tbe hell are you to help anyone? Have a little respect and ask people if they need it! Giving clothing and money and food to the poor, indeed. more like white-slavery to me. Poor people need to be on their feet not comfortable. Poverty is not a sickness you treat. Poverty is torture you have to put an end to.
Of course all you care about is hunger and cold. People should be warm and have a full stomach. People don't need to have dreams and a life. Bullshit.
So secularism is killing people? How many times have the KKK pulled their beliefs right out of the Bible. So do the Nazis. BTW, Nazism is not a unique and separate phylosophy. Nazi means member of the National Socialist Party. Read a little history and get off your fucking high horse moron. Do you really know who those pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock were? A bunch of censoring religious extremists who couldn't get along with all the other religious extremists on mainland Europe not just Anglican Church territory. Wake the fuck up!
Almost every single war in this century has been motivated by a degenerate philosophy or religion.. And for you dense idiots: The word religion has nothing to do with Christianity, Catholicism, etc. Get your head out of the dictionary and breathe a little of the hot air you're blowing. Communism was derived from some philosophy that never took off because people are dense and developed into a degenerate religion. Degenerate, folks (I can't believe I have to explain this, but you force me to) means in this case unwilling to put the religion or philosophy to tests. And the fact that a majority of people were still excited about Communism as they are even now when their world was falling apart proves it.
A book you should read to further you education in Humanity 101: Vasily Grossman's Forever Flowing.
BTW, I happen to believe Jesus did exist and I think all the shroud of Turin does is mystify the truth even more so that Christianity maintains its legend status. The idea the Jesus did not exist is as ludicrous as Holocaust revisionism. The nazis did not invent concentration camps. They've been used in some form or another. Look at the Gulag, Manzanaar (an United States trip through history), Dungeons, as well as Auschwitz.
I also believe he was a pretty cool dude who spent time with thieves, poor people, prostitutes and stayed away from Pharisees like yourself. Why he ever felt he had to put this miserable world on his shoulders I don't know.
I warn you do not even bring up subjects like prostitution and purity. Unless you're willing to defend your ideas.
This seems to me to be on a higher level than Mindcraft vs Linux. The problem is that while we can objectively rip through a bullshit benchmark, social matters on the other hand are next to impossible. The media plays the idiot at every event while they shrewdly raise their ratings.
However, as a student of complex systems (read: watching the neighbors play house) I know that the more drastic and uncontrolled the act the shorter the life-span of its immediate effects and the more unstable. You may not get get what you asked for.
Anyone interested?
/. or Talkback forum.
Tired of yelling at the TV?
Normal news comes in with headlines under the newspaper's masthead. What if it were the other way around. What if you could take headlines and place mastheads under them?
A little competition among newspapers then under that a
The user downloads the news system, installs it on his/her/its web site and adds his/her/its favorite or his/her/its least favorite news sources to the list.
Needs a headline spider or some sort of submission form for stories.
Needs a summary spider that can cut through html tags and select a few lines of news or even a frame's worth to display next to each masthead.
I think the final product should be themes capable (KDE, blackbox, ice, flwm, mwm, WindowMaker, GNOME, etc..) and should be split in three: the newsbin library of spiders, the themes for looks, and user addons such as framing of article forums, and such.
It should not be a news site in itself more like a balanced diet of news.
email firewalk@linuxstart.com
The simplicity of the medias contribution to this issue terrifies me. Are ppl this stupid?
Seriously, overpopulation isn't about how many ppl can fit in a telephone booth (I read an idiot in my college paper thinks there's no overpopulation because you can fit the entire population of the world in the state of Texas with 1/4 acre assigned to each - for what? I don't know... farming, fish hatcheries, concentration camps?)
They just refuse to give up a chance at an upper hand
Not long from now (maybe tomorrow in a town right next to yours:
Let's see the Ministry of Purity and Perfection (Nazi's and Fundamentalists and Political Bandwagoneers) is still in deliberations after weeks of studying the case of Jane and John Q Public maintaining a private website from which they share tapes and stories between cyber-companions. The website was allegedly accidentally discovered and doubleoverplus-popularised by porn-peddlers as their own. The Publics quite surprisingly sued for invasion of privacy, plus internet breaking and entering by the explicit resellers.
No sooner did they win their case that they were investigated for not properly labelling and marking their site. The Publics cite the need to maintain privacy.
Currently the score is at an xxx-2.181818189536363
In a future follow-up we will provide a full analysis of reasons and issues addressed by each decimal. Thanks to our modern scientific process of justice we can more accurately represent the decisions we make. However, even science sometimes takes awhile to come to a conclusion.
Um teachers found students with pron... then? What...?
Read Welcome to the Mokey House get away from the TV a bit.
Check out S3 they chose to sue Nvidia for a vague patent issue instead of working on their hardware.
Who's on top now?