Never said I hated them. On the contrary, as people, they are fun to hang out with.
But I don't want them building any rockets/planes/automobiles I might ever use someday.
Being a nice person, or enjoyable company, doesn't make one a good engineer. I'll gladly go drinking with a Brazilian, but if I'm going to be launched into space, I want a German/Russian/Japanese/American designed craft, NOT one from a Da Silva.
Fuck man, the Embraer Bandeirante has THE HIGHEST crash rate of ANY commercial jetliner IN HISTORY!(Concorde factored out)
Designed by who? BRAZILIANS! Built by who? BRAZILIANS!
But no, it's just a fluke, right? Brazilian mentatlity couldn't have ANYTHING to do with this, right?
I'll sip a caipirinha anyday, but I wouldn't set foot on an Embraer.
Now go ahead and deny the FACTS. Brazilians are GREAT at that.
As usual, the typical Slashdotter will, without knowing anything about Brazil and its notoriously clumsy government, chalk this up to 'Good Try' and remind the Americans that we better watch out because other countries will surpass us in space and blah blah blah...
I have a condo in Rio. I've lived amongst Brazilians for a little over 3 years now.
You cannot possibly fathom what a bumbling and disorganized country this is. The only surprise about this story is that the rocket didn't veer into a population center and kill hundreds/thousands more. THAT would be a Brazilian-style debacle. Only killing people in the immediate area is a success in their books.
The U.S. government will continue to sit on its ass and point and laugh at these countries, because they KNOW they are not even close to being a threat. Right now it's 90% diarrhea of the mouth, and 10% failed attempts.
The problem is at the most basic societal levels. The way Brazilians simply ARE is slack. They don't work hard, and when they do, things like attention to detail is an afterthought, at BEST.
Those buzzcut, Coke-bottle bi-focal, white button-down Oxford, pocket protector wearing, STRAIGHT-LACED, ANAL RETENTIVE, NO SOCIAL LIFE HAVING NERDS are what a space program needs.
That is a rare, if not non-existent phenotype in Brazil. Down here, being able to do the Lambada is far more important than knowing calculus.
Now go ahead and bash me because I'm not politically correct. FUCK being politically correct. I'm RIGHT, and that's far and away more important. I LIVE IN BRAZIL. I'm not some keyboard jockey in Ohio who thinks he knows the ins-and-outs of the world because he reads the BBC online.
I'm the guy on the ground, and Brazilians are as grabastic as any race on the planet.
Now when it comes to sex, the women are fucking Olympians. But this is rocket science, not shagging. And at that, they simply suck.
Yeah, 'overpopulated' is a subjective term if there ever was one.
Personally, I like the idea of everyone having ample land for themselves and family, enough food of any kind to go around, safety, no pollution, no animal species being endangered, etc.
This world *is* possible, but not with even 6 billion, much less 10, 20 or 100 billion.
But sure, if you economize everything, and pack people into sardine can apartments, feed them only the nutritional minimum to get by, take away property, piss on the environment, sure, we can swell our masses to insect proportions.
But I don't think it's a good, or even desirable idea for anyone, not even them.
As processes get streamlined (energy sources, food production, etc.) then sure, we could safely expand the population *if* we decide that's a good idea. But to sacrifice comfort, clean air/water, land, animals, and on and on just so we can have MORE PEOPLE is insane.
I can think of a thousand reasons to have a smaller population and not even one good one to have a larger population.
Historically, wars are an incredibly ineffective way to trim populations. Using the U.S. as an example, an absolutely HORRIBLE war would cost us 30 million lives. That would be more casualties then every war we've fought in history, including the Civil War, combined x 10.
And that would only be 10% of our current population.
And we're not overpopulated.
For the die-offs needed to reduce the world population by a significant percentage, we'd need either nuclear holocaust, or plague. Plague being more efficient, especially if it exclusively or primarily targets humans, and not other species, since we are, hands down, the 'problem' species on the planet right now.
AIDS held promise, and to a degree I suppose it still does, because it basically targets a specific sub-section of society: the irresponsible.
It is common knowledge how AIDS spreads. Ignorance is no longer an excuse, especially willful ignorance.
So who contracts it? IV drug users, prostitutes and those who have sex with them unprotected, as well as people who sleep around and don't use protection, including and especially gay men (due to the nature of gay sex - not a punishment from god).
This isn't a morality call, it's a fact.
There are, of course, innocents who contract AIDS (children born with the disease, blood/organ recipients from an infected donor, rape victims, et al) but these people make up a tiny fraction of the total cases - less than 1%.
So if you can't control your IV drug habit and are too stupid/lazy/IRRESPONSIBLE to use a clean syringe, you're probably going to die. If you are a prostitute or one who sleeps with them and are too stupid/lazy/IRRESPONSIBLE to change your ways, you are probably going to contract HIV. If you sleep around, especially if you are a gay man, and are too stupid/lazy/IRRESPONSIBLE to use protection, you are probably going to get AIDS.
AIDS might be the first disease that almost exclusively targets the unsavory sub-sections of society. And I don't mean gay men, drug users or even prostitutes. I know people from each category who are productive citizens.
But the irresponsible idiots in each category will be no great loss to society.
Now, if they could just make a bug that killed faster and targeted say, the low IQ, lazy and mens rea people of the world...
I don't. Ever read Rainbow Six? If not, you should. The main story is about a group of really clever scientists who get fed up with with humanity's irresponsibility and decide to kill 99.999+% of the population via a smart bug (modified Ebola virus mixed w/ cancer genes for robustness).
There are people who are smart enough to create such a thing, there are people who hate the idea of overpopulation that they would happily kill off the masses, and all that would really need to happen is to find those traits in one or a few people.
It could happen, if it hasn't/isn't already. If people can't control themselves, it might be the only solution.
If it comes down to the irresponsibility of the masses threatening the lives of the intellectually elite, the masses will (and should) lose.
We were sailing off the coast of Spain once and the Spanish Navy was running military exercises nearby. They had a jammer that scrambled GPS signals, in this case by stripping out all the Westward coordinates.
The navigational system that shows the ship superimposed on a map by using a GPS feed had us squarely in the center of the Sahara:)
The ex-Soviet republics are _THE_WORST_ for radar interference. I swear they think someone is going to launch an attack on them every minute of the day. NOTHING but an orgy of signal jamming/scrambling when you get near their coasts. C-Band, INMARSAT, GPS...all yolked.
I work as a communications officer aboard a ship. We pulled into Cape Town on day 1 of the World Cricket Championships. One of the games was being broadcast nearby, until our active radar filled the air with distortion.
The second the gangway hit the deck, two sweaty, panicked cameramen came charging up, asking to speak to me. I was already at the gangway because I needed to meet a technician.
"You have to turn off your radar! We're broadcasting the World Cricket Chapmionships LIVE AND YOU KILLED OUR SIGNAL!"
Me: "Oh. Who's playing?"
Them: "Pakistan and Bangladesh."
Me: "Pakistan, eh? Yeah, I'll turn it off ASAP."
And 20 minutes later, I did;)
For any of you gusy that were watching that game, sorry.
bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight? BritneySpears14: Aight. bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah. BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja. bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat. BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up. bloodninja: Me too baby. BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest. bloodninja: I cast Lvl 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman. BritneySpears14: Hey... bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl 8 Penis of the Infinite. BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it. bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty of the Beyondness. BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous. bloodninja: Don't shit with me biznitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands. bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl 1, 000, 000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl 2 Druid. BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece. bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal. bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him. bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now. bloodninja: Baby?
--
bloodninja: Ok baby, we got to hurry, I don't know how long I can keep it ready for you. j_gurli3: thats ok. ok i'm a japanese schoolgirl, what r u. bloodninja: A Rhinocerus. Well, hung like one, thats for sure. j_gurli3: haha, ok lets go. j_gurli3: i put my hand through ur hair, and kiss u on the neck. bloodninja: I stomp the ground, and snort, to alert you that you are in my breeding territory. j_gurli3: haha, ok, u know that turns me on. j_gurli3: i start unbuttoning ur shirt. bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't wear shirts. j_gurli3: No, ur not really a Rhinocerus silly, it's just part of the game. bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't play games. They fucking charge your ass. j_gurli3: stop, cmon be serious. bloodninja: It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass. bloodninja: I stomp my feet, the dust stirs around my tough skinned feet. j_gurli3: thats it. bloodninja: Nostrils flaring, I lower my head. My horn, like some phallic symbol of my potent virility, is the last thing you see as skulls collide and mine remains the victor. You are now a bloody red ragdoll suspended in the air on my mighty horn. bloodninja: Fuck am I hard now.
--
BritneySpears14: Ok, are you ready? eminemBNJA: Aight, yeah I'm ready. BritneySpears14: I like your music Em... Tee hee. eminemBNJA: huh huh, yeah, I make it for the ladies. BritneySpears14: Mmm, we like it a lot. Let me show you. BritneySpears14: I take off your pants, slowly, and massage your muscular physique. eminemBNJA: Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat. BritneySpears14: What the fuck, I told you not to message me again. eminemBNJA: BritneySpears14: I swear if you do it one more time I'm gonna report your ISP and say you were sending me kiddie porn you fuck up. eminemBNJA: Oh eminemBNJA: damn I gotta write down your names or something
"If it's Arab oil on Arab land, in all fairness, why should the US profit from it?"
The Arabs didn't even know it was there until the U.S. (Saudi Arabia & Kuwait) and Britain (Iran & Iraq) showed them it was there. In addition, even if they knew it was there, they had no technology to get at it. The first oil drill was invented by Edwin L. Drake, an American.
Now assume the Arabs knew the oil was there (they didn't) and had the ability to extract it (they didn't), who would they have sold it to?
North America and Europe were the only two continents industrialized enough to need that amount of oil.
So, we showed them it was there (all they saw was a vast, useless desert), gave them the technology to extract it, and gave them the markets to sell their otherwise useless oil to.
And you don't think we (the U.S. and Britain) deserve a slice of the pie?
Bombs aren't always dropped to achieve democracy. Sometimes it's just for self-defense, in various forms.
Blowing up a cocaine factory in Columbia, for example, is a form of self-defense as the drug industry negatively impacts our people, both the users and the dealers. People die and go to jail, in no small numbers, because of the drug trade.
And you might want to not believe every quote you hear. Go read about the former Yugoslavia and the governments that now are in charge of the independent countries.
Also, just because an American bomb exploded on a certain piece of geography doesn't mean we 'bombed' that country. During WWII we accidentally dropped bombs on Switzerland, but we didn't BOMB Switzerland. Shit, we had to explode ordnance in France during WWII, but France doesn't run around saying we BOMBED them.
There are reasons for what we did in every country that article mentions. I'll just take Somalia as an example, because I recently sailed off its coast.
We tried to FEED the Somalis. That is why we were there. Local militia took OUR food and started 'selling' it to the very population we were trying to feed. They demanded money, valuables, and if the person didn't have anything, sex. Or, sometimes they would demand to have sex with the person's child.
You object to kicking the shit out of such people?
Such people DESERVE to have bombs shoved up their asses.
Awwwwww.... POOR SOMALIS!
Do you realize Somalia is now regarded as the most dangerous coast in the world for piracy? The *minimum* recommended distance from shore is 50 miles. 100 is preferable.
Don't be so quick with the knee-jerk anti-U.S. reactions.
When you find yourself defending countries like Iraq, you are probably on the wrong side of the argument. Dictators *love* people like you.
"...Linus Torvalds has suggested...former Slashdot editor Chris DiBona for membership on the panel of experts to which SCO executive Chris Sontag has offered to reveal evidence of copying code from SCO UnixWare to Linux."
And you just freakin' know what LT wanted to add was, "I would also recommend Slashdot editor CmdrTaco, but judging from his posts, he doesn't seem to know much about UNIX and is kinda stupid in general."
"maybe redhat will find out that by having everything tunred on by defaut, and having to work for 2 hours to turn it all off really pisses off sysadmins."
The same thing can be said about Windows machines, especially from Win2K forward. They are highly configurable, if you know wtf you are doing, and the MS defaults are often insecure, useless or just annoying. SP3 addresses many issues, but it still requires lots of registry tweaking and time spent using the Admin tools to get everything *just* right.
So what I do is have one IMAGE machine that is always kept *perfectly* tweaked, with all the latest patches, bug fixes, upgrades, etc. installed, so when we get a new machine or one of the existing ones takes a dump, I just Ghost the tweaked machine and 5 minutes later, the workstation is good-to-go.
"Imagine all hard disks coming preloaded with a self-configuring Linux distro. That would be cool."
Yeah, and being familiar with real-world (not claimed) MTBF rates for Fujitsu hard drives, you will get to experience that coolness over and over again.
Let's look at the facts about this seemingly innocuous meeting:
"Papers are being solicited for the second Camp of the Chaos Computer Club e.V., Germany, to be held near Berlin, Germany, on 7/8/9/10th August 2003."
'Camp of the Chaos Computer Club' can be reduced to the initialism 'CCCC'. You'll note it is 4-letters in length. The fact that 'NAZI' is also 4-letters in length strikes me as a bit too much of a coincident.
Just like 'HAL' in the movie 2001 was actually 'IBM' rolled back one letter, 'CCCC' is actually 'NAZI' if you roll the first 'C' forward 11 letters, the second 'C' back 2 letters, the third 'C' forward 23 letters and the last 'C' forward 6 letters.
11 - 2 + 23 + 6 = 28, i.e. 1928, the year the Nazi Party came to power in Germany.
And where does this so-called 'Computer Club' call home?
GERMANY!
The cat is out of the bag, chumps. We're onto you like hair on a gorilla.
MOD me up: +1 Sherlockish
Tal
Re:Alex should have just waited
on
Half Mast
·
· Score: 4, Funny
Mullets were *never* in style, unless you live in 'Bama, and Poison *did* rock, make-up and all.
Slashdot Mirror
Never said I hated them. On the contrary, as people, they are fun to hang out with.
But I don't want them building any rockets/planes/automobiles I might ever use someday.
Being a nice person, or enjoyable company, doesn't make one a good engineer. I'll gladly go drinking with a Brazilian, but if I'm going to be launched into space, I want a German/Russian/Japanese/American designed craft, NOT one from a Da Silva.
Fuck man, the Embraer Bandeirante has THE HIGHEST crash rate of ANY commercial jetliner IN HISTORY!(Concorde factored out)
Designed by who? BRAZILIANS! Built by who? BRAZILIANS!
But no, it's just a fluke, right? Brazilian mentatlity couldn't have ANYTHING to do with this, right?
I'll sip a caipirinha anyday, but I wouldn't set foot on an Embraer.
Now go ahead and deny the FACTS. Brazilians are GREAT at that.
As usual, the typical Slashdotter will, without knowing anything about Brazil and its notoriously clumsy government, chalk this up to 'Good Try' and remind the Americans that we better watch out because other countries will surpass us in space and blah blah blah...
I have a condo in Rio. I've lived amongst Brazilians for a little over 3 years now.
You cannot possibly fathom what a bumbling and disorganized country this is. The only surprise about this story is that the rocket didn't veer into a population center and kill hundreds/thousands more. THAT would be a Brazilian-style debacle. Only killing people in the immediate area is a success in their books.
The U.S. government will continue to sit on its ass and point and laugh at these countries, because they KNOW they are not even close to being a threat. Right now it's 90% diarrhea of the mouth, and 10% failed attempts.
The problem is at the most basic societal levels. The way Brazilians simply ARE is slack. They don't work hard, and when they do, things like attention to detail is an afterthought, at BEST.
Those buzzcut, Coke-bottle bi-focal, white button-down Oxford, pocket protector wearing, STRAIGHT-LACED, ANAL RETENTIVE, NO SOCIAL LIFE HAVING NERDS are what a space program needs.
That is a rare, if not non-existent phenotype in Brazil. Down here, being able to do the Lambada is far more important than knowing calculus.
Now go ahead and bash me because I'm not politically correct. FUCK being politically correct. I'm RIGHT, and that's far and away more important. I LIVE IN BRAZIL. I'm not some keyboard jockey in Ohio who thinks he knows the ins-and-outs of the world because he reads the BBC online.
I'm the guy on the ground, and Brazilians are as grabastic as any race on the planet.
Now when it comes to sex, the women are fucking Olympians. But this is rocket science, not shagging. And at that, they simply suck.
Tal
Yeah, 'overpopulated' is a subjective term if there ever was one.
Personally, I like the idea of everyone having ample land for themselves and family, enough food of any kind to go around, safety, no pollution, no animal species being endangered, etc.
This world *is* possible, but not with even 6 billion, much less 10, 20 or 100 billion.
But sure, if you economize everything, and pack people into sardine can apartments, feed them only the nutritional minimum to get by, take away property, piss on the environment, sure, we can swell our masses to insect proportions.
But I don't think it's a good, or even desirable idea for anyone, not even them.
As processes get streamlined (energy sources, food production, etc.) then sure, we could safely expand the population *if* we decide that's a good idea. But to sacrifice comfort, clean air/water, land, animals, and on and on just so we can have MORE PEOPLE is insane.
I can think of a thousand reasons to have a smaller population and not even one good one to have a larger population.
Historically, wars are an incredibly ineffective way to trim populations. Using the U.S. as an example, an absolutely HORRIBLE war would cost us 30 million lives. That would be more casualties then every war we've fought in history, including the Civil War, combined x 10.
And that would only be 10% of our current population.
And we're not overpopulated.
For the die-offs needed to reduce the world population by a significant percentage, we'd need either nuclear holocaust, or plague. Plague being more efficient, especially if it exclusively or primarily targets humans, and not other species, since we are, hands down, the 'problem' species on the planet right now.
AIDS held promise, and to a degree I suppose it still does, because it basically targets a specific sub-section of society: the irresponsible.
It is common knowledge how AIDS spreads. Ignorance is no longer an excuse, especially willful ignorance.
So who contracts it? IV drug users, prostitutes and those who have sex with them unprotected, as well as people who sleep around and don't use protection, including and especially gay men (due to the nature of gay sex - not a punishment from god).
This isn't a morality call, it's a fact.
There are, of course, innocents who contract AIDS (children born with the disease, blood/organ recipients from an infected donor, rape victims, et al) but these people make up a tiny fraction of the total cases - less than 1%.
So if you can't control your IV drug habit and are too stupid/lazy/IRRESPONSIBLE to use a clean syringe, you're probably going to die. If you are a prostitute or one who sleeps with them and are too stupid/lazy/IRRESPONSIBLE to change your ways, you are probably going to contract HIV. If you sleep around, especially if you are a gay man, and are too stupid/lazy/IRRESPONSIBLE to use protection, you are probably going to get AIDS.
AIDS might be the first disease that almost exclusively targets the unsavory sub-sections of society. And I don't mean gay men, drug users or even prostitutes. I know people from each category who are productive citizens.
But the irresponsible idiots in each category will be no great loss to society.
Now, if they could just make a bug that killed faster and targeted say, the low IQ, lazy and mens rea people of the world...
Ya think 'we' (humanity) will let that happen?
I don't. Ever read Rainbow Six? If not, you should. The main story is about a group of really clever scientists who get fed up with with humanity's irresponsibility and decide to kill 99.999+% of the population via a smart bug (modified Ebola virus mixed w/ cancer genes for robustness).
There are people who are smart enough to create such a thing, there are people who hate the idea of overpopulation that they would happily kill off the masses, and all that would really need to happen is to find those traits in one or a few people.
It could happen, if it hasn't/isn't already. If people can't control themselves, it might be the only solution.
If it comes down to the irresponsibility of the masses threatening the lives of the intellectually elite, the masses will (and should) lose.
You had me up until "...insects and even down to single-celled organisms..."
If a court anywhere on the planet tells me I can't squash one of these god damn mosquitos that keep feeding off me, they can go straight to Hell.
And the single-celled organisms that are currently giving me hershey squirts are about to get steamrolled by 1000mg of Cipro. FUCK their 'rights'.
Sometimes, your mind can be so open your brain falls out.
Tal
All you need is a way on.
As for e-mail, you can use Hotmail, Yahoo! or any of the other hundreds (thousands?) of free e-mail providers.
Or, use Cyber-Rights for free, SECURE, e-mail that isn't gleaned by the hosts for marketing info.
Newsgroups? groups.google.com
If you have a way onto the 'Net, all the other stuff can be had for free.
Tal
This is long past due. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been pining for regular updates as to what goes on in the mind of an AOL user.
And if I was in the military, you might have had a point.
"He probably means Latvia, Estonia and Lithunia."
Bingo. Ukraine and Bulgaria like their jammers, too.
We were sailing off the coast of Spain once and the Spanish Navy was running military exercises nearby. They had a jammer that scrambled GPS signals, in this case by stripping out all the Westward coordinates.
:)
The navigational system that shows the ship superimposed on a map by using a GPS feed had us squarely in the center of the Sahara
The ex-Soviet republics are _THE_WORST_ for radar interference. I swear they think someone is going to launch an attack on them every minute of the day. NOTHING but an orgy of signal jamming/scrambling when you get near their coasts. C-Band, INMARSAT, GPS...all yolked.
Tal
I work as a communications officer aboard a ship. We pulled into Cape Town on day 1 of the World Cricket Championships. One of the games was being broadcast nearby, until our active radar filled the air with distortion.
;)
;)
The second the gangway hit the deck, two sweaty, panicked cameramen came charging up, asking to speak to me. I was already at the gangway because I needed to meet a technician.
"You have to turn off your radar! We're broadcasting the World Cricket Chapmionships LIVE AND YOU KILLED OUR SIGNAL!"
Me: "Oh. Who's playing?"
Them: "Pakistan and Bangladesh."
Me: "Pakistan, eh? Yeah, I'll turn it off ASAP."
And 20 minutes later, I did
For any of you gusy that were watching that game, sorry.
Kinda
Tal
And if you could, would you really want to?
bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight?
BritneySpears14: Aight.
bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah.
BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja.
bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up.
bloodninja: Me too baby.
BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest.
bloodninja: I cast Lvl 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
BritneySpears14: Hey...
bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl 8 Penis of the Infinite.
BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it.
bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty of the Beyondness.
BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous.
bloodninja: Don't shit with me biznitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands.
bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl 1, 000, 000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl 2 Druid.
BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece.
bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now.
bloodninja: Baby?
--
bloodninja: Ok baby, we got to hurry, I don't know how long I can keep it ready for you.
j_gurli3: thats ok. ok i'm a japanese schoolgirl, what r u.
bloodninja: A Rhinocerus. Well, hung like one, thats for sure.
j_gurli3: haha, ok lets go.
j_gurli3: i put my hand through ur hair, and kiss u on the neck.
bloodninja: I stomp the ground, and snort, to alert you that you are in my breeding territory.
j_gurli3: haha, ok, u know that turns me on.
j_gurli3: i start unbuttoning ur shirt.
bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't wear shirts.
j_gurli3: No, ur not really a Rhinocerus silly, it's just part of the game.
bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't play games. They fucking charge your ass.
j_gurli3: stop, cmon be serious.
bloodninja: It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass.
bloodninja: I stomp my feet, the dust stirs around my tough skinned feet.
j_gurli3: thats it.
bloodninja: Nostrils flaring, I lower my head. My horn, like some phallic symbol of my potent virility, is the last thing you see as skulls collide and mine remains the victor. You are now a bloody red ragdoll suspended in the air on my mighty horn.
bloodninja: Fuck am I hard now.
--
BritneySpears14: Ok, are you ready?
eminemBNJA: Aight, yeah I'm ready.
BritneySpears14: I like your music Em... Tee hee.
eminemBNJA: huh huh, yeah, I make it for the ladies.
BritneySpears14: Mmm, we like it a lot. Let me show you.
BritneySpears14: I take off your pants, slowly, and massage your muscular physique.
eminemBNJA: Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: What the fuck, I told you not to message me again.
eminemBNJA:
BritneySpears14: I swear if you do it one more time I'm gonna report your ISP and say you were sending me kiddie porn you fuck up.
eminemBNJA: Oh
eminemBNJA: damn I gotta write down your names or something
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they sue the fuck out of you.
Then you...
?
"Computers never make mistakes, do they?"
Not nearly as often as humans.
"If it's Arab oil on Arab land, in all fairness, why should the US profit from it?"
The Arabs didn't even know it was there until the U.S. (Saudi Arabia & Kuwait) and Britain (Iran & Iraq) showed them it was there. In addition, even if they knew it was there, they had no technology to get at it. The first oil drill was invented by Edwin L. Drake, an American.
Now assume the Arabs knew the oil was there (they didn't) and had the ability to extract it (they didn't), who would they have sold it to?
North America and Europe were the only two continents industrialized enough to need that amount of oil.
So, we showed them it was there (all they saw was a vast, useless desert), gave them the technology to extract it, and gave them the markets to sell their otherwise useless oil to.
And you don't think we (the U.S. and Britain) deserve a slice of the pie?
Talk about unfair...
Talisman
Bombs aren't always dropped to achieve democracy. Sometimes it's just for self-defense, in various forms.
Blowing up a cocaine factory in Columbia, for example, is a form of self-defense as the drug industry negatively impacts our people, both the users and the dealers. People die and go to jail, in no small numbers, because of the drug trade.
And you might want to not believe every quote you hear. Go read about the former Yugoslavia and the governments that now are in charge of the independent countries.
Also, just because an American bomb exploded on a certain piece of geography doesn't mean we 'bombed' that country. During WWII we accidentally dropped bombs on Switzerland, but we didn't BOMB Switzerland. Shit, we had to explode ordnance in France during WWII, but France doesn't run around saying we BOMBED them.
There are reasons for what we did in every country that article mentions. I'll just take Somalia as an example, because I recently sailed off its coast.
We tried to FEED the Somalis. That is why we were there. Local militia took OUR food and started 'selling' it to the very population we were trying to feed. They demanded money, valuables, and if the person didn't have anything, sex. Or, sometimes they would demand to have sex with the person's child.
You object to kicking the shit out of such people?
Such people DESERVE to have bombs shoved up their asses.
Awwwwww.... POOR SOMALIS!
Do you realize Somalia is now regarded as the most dangerous coast in the world for piracy? The *minimum* recommended distance from shore is 50 miles. 100 is preferable.
Don't be so quick with the knee-jerk anti-U.S. reactions.
When you find yourself defending countries like Iraq, you are probably on the wrong side of the argument. Dictators *love* people like you.
"As a non american i feel threatened.
Am i to be 'liberated' next?"
Dunno. Where do you live?
DO NOT READ the second to last line of the last paragraph. He snuck in a Matrix spoiler.
Dirty BASTARD! I HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM YET!!!!
Talisman
From the article:
"...Linus Torvalds has suggested...former Slashdot editor Chris DiBona for membership on the panel of experts to which SCO executive Chris Sontag has offered to reveal evidence of copying code from SCO UnixWare to Linux."
And you just freakin' know what LT wanted to add was, "I would also recommend Slashdot editor CmdrTaco, but judging from his posts, he doesn't seem to know much about UNIX and is kinda stupid in general."
Talisman
"maybe redhat will find out that by having everything tunred on by defaut, and having to work for 2 hours to turn it all off really pisses off sysadmins."
The same thing can be said about Windows machines, especially from Win2K forward. They are highly configurable, if you know wtf you are doing, and the MS defaults are often insecure, useless or just annoying. SP3 addresses many issues, but it still requires lots of registry tweaking and time spent using the Admin tools to get everything *just* right.
So what I do is have one IMAGE machine that is always kept *perfectly* tweaked, with all the latest patches, bug fixes, upgrades, etc. installed, so when we get a new machine or one of the existing ones takes a dump, I just Ghost the tweaked machine and 5 minutes later, the workstation is good-to-go.
The same can be done for Red Hat machines.
Talisman
"Imagine all hard disks coming preloaded with a self-configuring Linux distro. That would be cool."
Yeah, and being familiar with real-world (not claimed) MTBF rates for Fujitsu hard drives, you will get to experience that coolness over and over again.
Talisman
"I just need a sample cause no one says it's wrong
It's so easy to rip-off using someone else's songs"
Sir Mix-a-Lot did a remake of Black Sabbath's Iron Man on his 1988 Swass album, and guess who played the hard rock chords while he rapped over them?
Metal Church.
Talisman
Let's look at the facts about this seemingly innocuous meeting:
"Papers are being solicited for the second Camp of the Chaos Computer Club e.V., Germany, to be held near Berlin, Germany, on 7/8/9/10th August 2003."
'Camp of the Chaos Computer Club' can be reduced to the initialism 'CCCC'. You'll note it is 4-letters in length. The fact that 'NAZI' is also 4-letters in length strikes me as a bit too much of a coincident.
Just like 'HAL' in the movie 2001 was actually 'IBM' rolled back one letter, 'CCCC' is actually 'NAZI' if you roll the first 'C' forward 11 letters, the second 'C' back 2 letters, the third 'C' forward 23 letters and the last 'C' forward 6 letters.
11 - 2 + 23 + 6 = 28, i.e. 1928, the year the Nazi Party came to power in Germany.
And where does this so-called 'Computer Club' call home?
GERMANY!
The cat is out of the bag, chumps. We're onto you like hair on a gorilla.
MOD me up: +1 Sherlockish
Tal
Mullets were *never* in style, unless you live in 'Bama, and Poison *did* rock, make-up and all.
And bayyyy-bay.... Talk dirty to me.
Tal