Ah young Jedi... you have fallen into his trap! He said It happened here on Earth, therefor the probability of it happening is > 0.
He didn't say anything about it happening on other planets. And actually, it's kind of a compelling argument - It DID in fact happen here... Of course, if it's already happened, is it still a probability? (In which case he has poor english skills...)
Let's take a walk down Denises' review and look for a few key mistakes:
1) extremely well-researched and detailed report; Highly annotated and illustrated; a wealth of documented information; a plethora of written documentation ably enhances his description; Also explored in great detail; replete with scientific data; provides hours of reading material and documentation;
All this and more in 139 fun filled pages of nonsense! Do you really believe that in a book almost half the size of Stephen Hawking's 'the universe in a nutshell' we get the science of intelligence, intelligent life, explanations for UFO's (along with not only documented 'events' but replete with diagrams and POSSIBLE starship models and what they're made of! WOW!) and the science to back it up? I scoff, but only because my horoscope says star people are stealing my brainwaves.
2) How and why these creatures have gained such highly specialized communication skills
Yes indeed. Somewhere in those 139 pages is the answer that oceanographers and biologists everywhere have been looking for for the past umpteen years. Right. The book is listed under both 'self help' and 'entertainment'. I suggest you get more of the first, and realize the impact the second has had on your sense of reality.
For God's sake, stop hitting back and turn the other cheek. How else will we be able to stop this (imo) unfair treatments?
Hit back HARDER! At some point you both laugh at the pain you caused each other and agree to stop it, or one of you has to hide the body. Which is plenty hard and makes you sweat a lot, plus it's a hassle, so you tend to not get in any more fights. God, the death of common sense around here is annoying... *SMACK*
And yes, you might be stupid. The guy took some pictures of Ralsky's house - I would hardly call that 'hitting back' or disrespectful. Someone threatening this guy... that's hitting back. Or just hitting if you consider that the first 'hit' was taking a picture.
Furthermore, this isn't one of those turn the other cheek situations - the guy who took the pictures is getting anonymous threatening phone calls. He damned well better protect himself, turning the cheek could get him killed.
6 hour work days. (I think there was an article here before on it...) Facinating stuff though, and great for the economy, the government, unemployment rates, social involvement (local politics to community involvement), all kinds of other things. So far the only downside is that increases the cost of some business'. Although... oddly enough not the business' that pay hourly wages. In many cases they get a break (less chance of overtime).
Here's some good readings: http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2001/090 1m utari.html http://www.youroffice.ca/full_arts.asp ?DocumentID= 1775 http://lamar.colostate.edu/~terrel/details.h tm
[sorry, I can't find the one I was looking for... and I'm not in the mood to edit with tags...] It's been said that employees who work a 6 hour day get more done because there's a sense of urgency to their day - less time to get something done usually means you work harder to get it done.
If your getting modded down it's because you bring nothing to the table. Take for example your post here: subject: who would want to program for linux? you don't get paid.. First, that's a troll if we ever saw one. Because 1) there are millions upon millions who program for linux now. 2) they do it for fun, not money. 3) some do it for money too. 4) some do it just for the money. 5) who ever wrote a program they got rich off of? Careful here, remember that Bill Gates bought his first program to sell, and stole many others (or built on the work of others) after that. Microsoft makes money by SELLING software. Not writing it. There is a significant and subtle difference.
Moving on: Welcome to America, land of capitalism..Is Microsoft hiring? If I'm not mistaken, America is the land of the free, not the land of capitalism. Capitalism (in it's purest form) has nothing to do with money. A capitalist form of finance stops being capitalism as soon as any one person or company has the ability to create an artificial barrier to competition (and that's whether or not they do actually create the barrier - it just has to be possible). In short - Capitalism depends on a free market, which you don't have if there are barriers to competition in an industry. So much for America being the land of Capitalism. Indeed, you misunderstand capitalism entirely. Capitalism centers around the individual. The individual has the final say and right in _any_ situation - Microsoft on the other hand is anti-capitalist in that whatever the programmer makes belongs to the company he works for. This is a violation of the programmers right to do what they want their own ideas. For example, if you helped write Microsoft's media-player, and had an ingenious idea on how to do it better, you could not leave the company and create this new player based on the knowledge you gained at Microsoft. You'd get sued into oblivion, even if you didn't use Microsofts IP to do it. The GPL on the other hand entitles the original author some degree of control over his work - if you wrote the original you (the individual) have the right to use the GPL or not (you can even re-licence _your own_ code to companies who don't want the restrictions of the GPL... just make sure it's ALL your code that your re-licencing), and entitles you (the individual) to place restrictions on how your work is used. Get it? Capitalism depends on the individual having rights that supercede the greater interest. Corporations supercede the right of the individual for the good of the company.
And finally, if Microsoft is hiring, what difference does that make to you? Even Microsoft has standards.
Listen - I take it back. Forget I ever mentioned Microsoft. It wasn't an article about Microsoft. I didn't intend to point out yet another thing they've done poorly, and they certainly aren't alone in this regard. I know this crowd (myself included) enjoys seeing Microsoft stumble (for whatever reasons) which is why I even mentioned it. But seriously - I take it back.
The article has good information on how corporate loans BECAME a problem in the first place. Those loans aren't inherently bad. And when you have to pay them back, there's nothing wrong with them. I thought it was facinating that the loans weren't a problem for anyone, not even share holders, (even after they went from 'loan' to 'gift') until companies started failing becuase of them.
See, that's interesting. It's information. It's history, finance, and business ethics all rolled up into a nice article. Which seemed to me to be appropriate for/.
And I truely regret that so many people missed all that information because I spoke the unspeakable name. I'm sorry.
Ctimes2.
PS - I was only poking microsoft, not full on bashing. I was bashing the 'executives are evil' crowd.
(good lord, you log off for one day, and they post your article... 8O! )
I probably should have left the MS jab out, but that wasn't the heart of the matter I was trying to direct your attention to - It's just the finance part that I found interesting.
Specifically, the fact that corporate loans have been a part of the industry for YEARS and it wasn't a problem for anyone. Further, it's just in the last 20 that they've ballooned to obscene amounts. And even still, the loans weren't that big of a deal to the stock holders because they were loans - loans that had to be paid back. Then, more recently, when loop holes were used to allow the executives to get a loan, not pay it back, the stockholders STILL didn't CARE because they were making money too.
What I was trying to point out is that this kind of corporate kick-back wasn't a problem for anyone until it started bankrupting the company. I found it facinating that when the line was finally crossed (not only not requiring that the loan be paid back, but actually desinging the loan that way) it was crossed with such... enthusiasm. By everyone. [Seriously, the MS jab was just my personal bias - it didn't have that much to do with the story, and I'm sorry it's distracted so many people from the information I (or rather that website...) intended to share.]
From the first viewing of the pilot episode where the explicit and gratuitous 'Rubbing gel all over the bodies of a well-stacked bird and some buffed up fella' scene happened I have had little interest in Star Trek Enterprise
Funny, that's what's keeping me interested. Yep. All that other stuff too (ok, except for the song...). God Bless America... [wipes misty tear from eye]
Seriously, it's a TV show, not the Discovery Channel.
No you stupid asshole, i'm a democrat! and i'm going to blame everything that happens in this world on bush, whether it's his fault or not (even if it's not related to him at all.) you right wingers are so stupid Why don't you post a reply instead of modding me down?
Because you're a democrat. It's more fun for everyone when a democrat thinks he's/she's being ignored. Look at Al Gore.
My dad was a TV repair man... - The version with the automatic transmission would have 4 drive gears that all work differently, that way you can pick one from an individual that you like. Just use RPM (Regear program manager)
- Instead of intuitive buttons on the steering column to turn on windshield wipers and so on, you have a patch board complete with a very nice array of differing lengths of cable. What's wrong with patch panels?! You have to learn how to do things in Hyundai's too you'know!
- The driver of the car has to understand how the internal combustion engine works before he can go anywhere in it. Read the how-to (holy crap this is turning out good!) http://www.howstuffworks.com/engine.htm;)
- More than one steering wheel can be added to the car, afterall it is a multi-user OS. My audi has seats with presets for up to 4 users, why shouldn't my stearing wheel? Try to do that with your Pinto!
- The gas door would be located underneath the car so that gas doesn't have to go as far to reach the tank. A bottleneck is removed that way. Sheesh - just rebuild your engine with the loadable-gastank filler module... duh!
- The key to get into the door can only fit one right side up, afterall it is case sensitive. It's harder to crack that way. And if you wrap it in ssh (secure sticky handle) it's even harder for someone to get a hold of your key. That's security baby. Unless of course they break your window because you didn't apply the latest tire patch...
- The 'ding ding' noise when you start the car without the seatbelt fastened won't go off because the sound drivers don't work....I'm a geek. Not a god.
- The car wouldn't come with headlights because only newbs need to be able to see where they're going. You can driveload thermal sights, range finders, radio locators, infrared and night-vision sensors at auto-forge. Who needs headlights? Hell, who needs WINDOWS! (sorry, couldn't resist...)
*Hopes the mods have a sense of humor today.* Amen brother... amen.
... Advertisements above urinals cut down on graffiti. By something like 90%. It distracts the 'user' long enough for them to finish. I just thought you might want to know.;)
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Can the robots then be turned against us or do they just quit working
Only if they're union. In which case they'll stop every 2 hours for 15 minutes, once a day for 30 minutes, once again for an hour, and will consume 1.5 times more electricty for every hour over 8. With a maximum of 12 hours work in a day.
OSS doesn't need sponsorship. You might, but OSS doesn't.
Apache. Perl. Linux. ad. nausium
OSS desktops work now. Would an ad-sponsored desktop work as well? Probably... not as well as one without the ad-ware crap built in, so it might "work" but I don't see how someone could justify selling it, using it, or buying ad-time on it.
Given the following situation - At the prompting of your bank you sign up for a passport account. At some point Passport is cracked, or flawed, or sold, etc. ad nausium - who's laible for the damage to your credit, for your identity theft, or fraud to your account? 1) The bank for offloading the responsibility of authentication to a private and I'm pretty sure un-insured institution, or 2) Microsoft or the institution hosting the passport authentication information that was cracked (EULA not withstanding - please, let's not go there.).
More importantly, how many hoops will you have to go through on both sides when both sides now have the ability to point the finger until you go away... or lose your house, wife and dog and go on a tri-state killing spree. Or become an all star country singer in cyber-space. Either way, you're screwed.
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Ah young Jedi... you have fallen into his trap!
He said It happened here on Earth, therefor the probability of it happening is > 0.
He didn't say anything about it happening on other planets. And actually, it's kind of a compelling argument - It DID in fact happen here... Of course, if it's already happened, is it still a probability? (In which case he has poor english skills...)
Let's take a walk down Denises' review and look for a few key mistakes:
1) extremely well-researched and detailed report; Highly annotated and illustrated; a wealth of documented information; a plethora of written documentation ably enhances his description; Also explored in great detail; replete with scientific data; provides hours of reading material and documentation;
All this and more in 139 fun filled pages of nonsense! Do you really believe that in a book almost half the size of Stephen Hawking's 'the universe in a nutshell' we get the science of intelligence, intelligent life, explanations for UFO's (along with not only documented 'events' but replete with diagrams and POSSIBLE starship models and what they're made of! WOW!) and the science to back it up? I scoff, but only because my horoscope says star people are stealing my brainwaves.
2) How and why these creatures have gained such highly specialized communication skills
Yes indeed. Somewhere in those 139 pages is the answer that oceanographers and biologists everywhere have been looking for for the past umpteen years. Right. The book is listed under both 'self help' and 'entertainment'. I suggest you get more of the first, and realize the impact the second has had on your sense of reality.
Either that, or she's a space alien here to prepare us for use as slaves and food for her hideous grey masters
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
For God's sake, stop hitting back and turn the other cheek. How else will we be able to stop this (imo) unfair treatments?
Hit back HARDER! At some point you both laugh at the pain you caused each other and agree to stop it, or one of you has to hide the body. Which is plenty hard and makes you sweat a lot, plus it's a hassle, so you tend to not get in any more fights. God, the death of common sense around here is annoying... *SMACK*
And yes, you might be stupid. The guy took some pictures of Ralsky's house - I would hardly call that 'hitting back' or disrespectful. Someone threatening this guy... that's hitting back. Or just hitting if you consider that the first 'hit' was taking a picture.
Furthermore, this isn't one of those turn the other cheek situations - the guy who took the pictures is getting anonymous threatening phone calls. He damned well better protect himself, turning the cheek could get him killed.
"I'm a doctor, not a gynecologist... ah, well, maybe just this once..."
-- parody by Kevin Pollak (I think)
*snrk* zzzzzz.....
:)
wha..? is he done yet?
(just kidding jace
Divx. (not the codec)
6 hour work days. (I think there was an article here before on it...) Facinating stuff though, and great for the economy, the government, unemployment rates, social involvement (local politics to community involvement), all kinds of other things. So far the only downside is that increases the cost of some business'. Although... oddly enough not the business' that pay hourly wages. In many cases they get a break (less chance of overtime).
0 1m utari.htmlp ?DocumentID= 1775h tm
Here's some good readings:
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2001/09
http://www.youroffice.ca/full_arts.as
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~terrel/details.
[sorry, I can't find the one I was looking for... and I'm not in the mood to edit with tags...] It's been said that employees who work a 6 hour day get more done because there's a sense of urgency to their day - less time to get something done usually means you work harder to get it done.
And there in lies the crisis... and opportunity. ;)
You have to take the unknown value of x hours of battery consumption and apply it to the estimated average of the inverse expected increase in n.
.26ths of an hour increase in average expected battery life, or about 15 minutes. This is how you keep your job as an engineer... :)
x = 1/n(25%/400% - y) where y = battery life now (say 4 hours).
x = 1/n(16% - 4) [.16 - 4 = -3.84)
x = 1/n(-3.84)
1/3.84 = n
[this is a joke. this is only a joke. these numbers may be interperated by completing the square in a quadratic equation]
If your getting modded down it's because you bring nothing to the table. Take for example your post here:
subject: who would want to program for linux?
you don't get paid..
First, that's a troll if we ever saw one. Because 1) there are millions upon millions who program for linux now. 2) they do it for fun, not money. 3) some do it for money too. 4) some do it just for the money. 5) who ever wrote a program they got rich off of? Careful here, remember that Bill Gates bought his first program to sell, and stole many others (or built on the work of others) after that. Microsoft makes money by SELLING software. Not writing it. There is a significant and subtle difference.
Moving on:
Welcome to America, land of capitalism..Is Microsoft hiring?
If I'm not mistaken, America is the land of the free, not the land of capitalism. Capitalism (in it's purest form) has nothing to do with money. A capitalist form of finance stops being capitalism as soon as any one person or company has the ability to create an artificial barrier to competition (and that's whether or not they do actually create the barrier - it just has to be possible). In short - Capitalism depends on a free market, which you don't have if there are barriers to competition in an industry. So much for America being the land of Capitalism. Indeed, you misunderstand capitalism entirely. Capitalism centers around the individual. The individual has the final say and right in _any_ situation - Microsoft on the other hand is anti-capitalist in that whatever the programmer makes belongs to the company he works for. This is a violation of the programmers right to do what they want their own ideas. For example, if you helped write Microsoft's media-player, and had an ingenious idea on how to do it better, you could not leave the company and create this new player based on the knowledge you gained at Microsoft. You'd get sued into oblivion, even if you didn't use Microsofts IP to do it.
The GPL on the other hand entitles the original author some degree of control over his work - if you wrote the original you (the individual) have the right to use the GPL or not (you can even re-licence _your own_ code to companies who don't want the restrictions of the GPL... just make sure it's ALL your code that your re-licencing), and entitles you (the individual) to place restrictions on how your work is used. Get it? Capitalism depends on the individual having rights that supercede the greater interest. Corporations supercede the right of the individual for the good of the company.
And finally, if Microsoft is hiring, what difference does that make to you? Even Microsoft has standards.
oh.. that's juicy...
how do you become one of your fans?
Listen - I take it back. Forget I ever mentioned Microsoft. It wasn't an article about Microsoft. I didn't intend to point out yet another thing they've done poorly, and they certainly aren't alone in this regard. I know this crowd (myself included) enjoys seeing Microsoft stumble (for whatever reasons) which is why I even mentioned it. But seriously - I take it back.
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The article has good information on how corporate loans BECAME a problem in the first place. Those loans aren't inherently bad. And when you have to pay them back, there's nothing wrong with them. I thought it was facinating that the loans weren't a problem for anyone, not even share holders, (even after they went from 'loan' to 'gift') until companies started failing becuase of them.
See, that's interesting. It's information. It's history, finance, and business ethics all rolled up into a nice article. Which seemed to me to be appropriate for
And I truely regret that so many people missed all that information because I spoke the unspeakable name. I'm sorry.
Ctimes2.
PS - I was only poking microsoft, not full on bashing. I was bashing the 'executives are evil' crowd.
(good lord, you log off for one day, and they post your article... 8O! )
I probably should have left the MS jab out, but that wasn't the heart of the matter I was trying to direct your attention to - It's just the finance part that I found interesting.
Specifically, the fact that corporate loans have been a part of the industry for YEARS and it wasn't a problem for anyone. Further, it's just in the last 20 that they've ballooned to obscene amounts. And even still, the loans weren't that big of a deal to the stock holders because they were loans - loans that had to be paid back. Then, more recently, when loop holes were used to allow the executives to get a loan, not pay it back, the stockholders STILL didn't CARE because they were making money too.
What I was trying to point out is that this kind of corporate kick-back wasn't a problem for anyone until it started bankrupting the company. I found it facinating that when the line was finally crossed (not only not requiring that the loan be paid back, but actually desinging the loan that way) it was crossed with such... enthusiasm. By everyone. [Seriously, the MS jab was just my personal bias - it didn't have that much to do with the story, and I'm sorry it's distracted so many people from the information I (or rather that website...) intended to share.]
No bone head - he was released December 13th of 2001. He's in Russia.
s kl yarov_faq.html#Status
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elcomsoft/us_v_
Funny, that's what's keeping me interested. Yep. All that other stuff too (ok, except for the song...). God Bless America... [wipes misty tear from eye]
Seriously, it's a TV show, not the Discovery Channel.
No you stupid asshole, i'm a democrat! and i'm going to blame everything that happens in this world on bush, whether it's his fault or not (even if it's not related to him at all.) you right wingers are so stupid
Why don't you post a reply instead of modding me down?
Because you're a democrat. It's more fun for everyone when a democrat thinks he's/she's being ignored. Look at Al Gore.
The support groups meet on Thursday, we ask that you bring a dollar to help with coffee. ;)
YES, I'm a Christian. Got a problem with that?
;)
Not unless your invading my country. Again.
My dad was a TV repair man...
;)
...I'm a geek. Not a god.
- The version with the automatic transmission would have 4 drive gears that all work differently, that way you can pick one from an individual that you like.
Just use RPM (Regear program manager)
- Instead of intuitive buttons on the steering column to turn on windshield wipers and so on, you have a patch board complete with a very nice array of differing lengths of cable.
What's wrong with patch panels?! You have to learn how to do things in Hyundai's too you'know!
- The driver of the car has to understand how the internal combustion engine works before he can go anywhere in it.
Read the how-to (holy crap this is turning out good!) http://www.howstuffworks.com/engine.htm
- More than one steering wheel can be added to the car, afterall it is a multi-user OS.
My audi has seats with presets for up to 4 users, why shouldn't my stearing wheel? Try to do that with your Pinto!
- The gas door would be located underneath the car so that gas doesn't have to go as far to reach the tank. A bottleneck is removed that way.
Sheesh - just rebuild your engine with the loadable-gastank filler module... duh!
- The key to get into the door can only fit one right side up, afterall it is case sensitive.
It's harder to crack that way. And if you wrap it in ssh (secure sticky handle) it's even harder for someone to get a hold of your key. That's security baby. Unless of course they break your window because you didn't apply the latest tire patch...
- The 'ding ding' noise when you start the car without the seatbelt fastened won't go off because the sound drivers don't work.
- The car wouldn't come with headlights because only newbs need to be able to see where they're going.
You can driveload thermal sights, range finders, radio locators, infrared and night-vision sensors at auto-forge. Who needs headlights? Hell, who needs WINDOWS! (sorry, couldn't resist...)
*Hopes the mods have a sense of humor today.*
Amen brother... amen.
Well thank-you-very-much-mister-sunshine fancy-pants! I think I'll just go kill myself now!
... Advertisements above urinals cut down on graffiti. By something like 90%. It distracts the 'user' long enough for them to finish. I just thought you might want to know. ;)
Can the robots then be turned against us or do they just quit working
Only if they're union. In which case they'll stop every 2 hours for 15 minutes, once a day for 30 minutes, once again for an hour, and will consume 1.5 times more electricty for every hour over 8. With a maximum of 12 hours work in a day.
And they'll want benefits.
OSS doesn't need sponsorship. You might, but OSS doesn't.
Apache.
Perl.
Linux.
ad. nausium
OSS desktops work now. Would an ad-sponsored desktop work as well? Probably... not as well as one without the ad-ware crap built in, so it might "work" but I don't see how someone could justify selling it, using it, or buying ad-time on it.
Given the following situation - At the prompting of your bank you sign up for a passport account. At some point Passport is cracked, or flawed, or sold, etc. ad nausium - who's laible for the damage to your credit, for your identity theft, or fraud to your account?
1) The bank for offloading the responsibility of authentication to a private and I'm pretty sure un-insured institution, or
2) Microsoft or the institution hosting the passport authentication information that was cracked (EULA not withstanding - please, let's not go there.).
More importantly, how many hoops will you have to go through on both sides when both sides now have the ability to point the finger until you go away... or lose your house, wife and dog and go on a tri-state killing spree. Or become an all star country singer in cyber-space. Either way, you're screwed.
Ctimes2