The ground looks like it's been disturbed in the panoramic image from the website. A few locations, most notibly a little left of the "Northwest Hill 335.9 Azimuth 11.2 Kilometers" marking looks like it could've been caused by the rovers bouncing airbag landing. Anyone know for certain or can identify any terrain disturbed by the landing?
Iraq is not an Asian nation. It is in the middle east. Syria is even farther to the west. What kind of a crazy map are you looking at??
The middle east is not a continent. If Iraq is not a part of Asia, would you consider it be part of Europe or Africa?
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If I remember correctly, it's a very bad idea to attempt to sedate a reptile. Determining proper dosage is near impossible for our sensitive cold blooded friends and the attempt would most likely result in the untimely death of the snake.
Think the IGS SuSE partnership had anything to do with SuSE being the only qualified distro to run on p-series hardware? Ow, I think I just ate some bait.
You're annoyed that they released the results for a 90 day stress test on a 2.4.x kernel, but not a 90 day stress test on a 2.6.x kernel? The 2.6.x kernel has been out for nine days. How would they have any results on the new kernel? By sending results to us using the Way Back Machine?
I think IBM used SuSE instead of Redhat because IBM Global Services and SuSE have been partners for almost two years.
Maybe you should stop hmmmmm'ing about these great mysteries and start googling.
Amen. An ad on the back of the January '04 Popular Science ragazine reads:
My adrenaline fix isn't what it used to be. Double the dose.
AMD me.
Introducting the AMD Athlon (TM) 64 FX processor. Take your system to extremes. Double the data path from 32- to 64-bit and you more than double the thrill factor. Uninterrupted, ear-splitting, streaming audio and rich, razor sharp video make your pad a launching pad. What's more, you get all the power you need to edit, mix, and model your own digital creations with memory to spare. Prepare to blow minds. Get a dose of the AMD Athlon 64 FX edge at www.amd.com/amdathlon64fx
The ad really annoyed me. Apparently a wider data bus doubles the computing "thrill factor". Which is good because for a while there it seemed we were approaching a "thrill factor" barrier. *Whew* glad we found away to continue the growth of the "thrill factor". I'm happy to see the computing "thrill factor" will continue to grow at an exponential rate for the foreseeable future.
It's great they're acting like you need a multi-gigahertz 64 bit processor to stream audio. Yep, this new processor will really speed up my net connection.
Lastly, because the processor is 64-bit, apparently I will have memory to spare for "editing, mixing, and modeling my own digital creations". And here I just thought I'd have the ability to address more memory, but I was wrong, nope, it will *give* me memory to spare.
I wouldn't compare the GPL to other common EULA's. The GPL grants rights, it doesn't attempt to take them away. Every other EULA I've seen attempts to take away rights or come to some "agreement" after the exchange of money for a good or service.
Infact, the GPL only grants additional rights for the public to use the source code in many ways that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright law. EULA's on the other hand and in my opinion, are non-binding statements that the company *hopes* you believe to be some kind of contract dealing with their distributed binaries.
It starts getting into a lot of opinion at this point, but just by the basics a GPL type license and EULA's are completely different, the only similar part is the "license" in the name. If you can argue that the GPL is non-binding and doesn't need to be adhered by, then all the code falls back onto standard copyright law, which is more restrictive. If you can argue that the standard binary EULA is non-binding and doesn't need to be adhered by, there is no legislation for it to fall back on saying MS has the rights to your first born child.
GPL == Accept the GPL or be more restrictived by copyright law, you're choice.
EULA's == Accept this agreement after purchasing our software, uhm, BECAUSE! We said so. Really. We mean it.
Rock, Paper, Scissors is outdated and has been updated. To further the "paperless society", it's just Rock, Scissors. Daryl took the scissors and is running around with them sharp end pointed up. I guess we'll just have to find a rock to throw at him. Not the same but fun none the less!
gamers teach themselves to solve problems with violence and to use weapons quickly and easily.
There's a world of difference between knowing how to skillfully and thoughtlessly use a weapon in a video game than in real life.
Most gamers I know wouldn't even know how to load a real gun.
In a fantasy virtual world I can race a motorcycle like no other and am a fighter pilot ace. Yet in the real world I wouldn't even know how to operate a motorcycle or how to taxi a plane let alone pilot it. If you're right maybe I should contact the military about my piloting prowess, I think they'd be very interested in my real world skills I've obtained through gaming.
I think the lines between a fantasy universe and reality are blurred in your assumption that video games teach gamers how to use weapons quickly and easily. I can understand the argument that it could desensitize an individual to violence (although I have a different opinion), but to think games skillfully train people to be soldiers? Get real. If anything a gamer would be less skillful for all the hours of sitting on their butt at a keyboard drinking mountain dew by the case. If games train anything its that weapons are weightless, automatically reload themselves, and you magically have thousands of rounds of ammunition in your pocket.
Ever considered the possibility that a violent video game may suggest how brutal the real acts can be? I think the average Joe would assume a person killed by a gunshot wound just gets a little blood on his shirt, clutches his chest and peacefully goes to sleep. Maybe gamers have a more correct image of what really happens. Bits of skull fly everywhere and a mass of brain may land on the pavement or spray on your face. I wonder which would take more consideration into actually committing the act in the Real World (TM)? I think if one is aware of how truly brutal the act can be might actually think twice before committing it. Just random thoughts.
I don't know... has he seen what the networks are showing these days???
All joking aside, no it's really not better than not watching TV at all. I'm afraid I *haven't* seen what the networks are showing these days and I don't really care to.
I think warehouses should do this more often - get defective goods stolen.
Uhm yea I'm sure this is exactly how they planned it. I know when I get robbed I make sure it's only my broken stuff they randomly take in a methodic heist in the middle of the night...
(And yes, revenge - if someone else buys stolen goods, they don't know where it come from - it could have been stolen from your house)
Some receivers of stolen goods aren't aware the wares they're purchasing were stolen. Wouldn't you be pissed to buy a "used" item from a video game shop or pawn shop to find out it's broken? Or the good deal on your dream toy you find on ebay is a little too good to be true? Upon trying to return or have a manufacturer repair you get tangled up in the mess and labeled as a receiver of stolen goods?
Last I checked, sellers of stolen goods more often than not don't advertise "STOLEN GOODS SOLD HERE". Yea we need revenge on the bargain shoppers, they're obviously part of the problem.
If I were in charge, they'd be dead on the first offense, so they're getting off easy in that respect.
Maybe that's why you're not in charge? I don't really think sexual offenders are "lucky" in that respect. Sometimes a population is unlucky enough to have someone violent "in charge", but I like to think our race isn't so depraved that only a small minority are "lucky" enough not to be on the receiving end of wholesale slaughter by violent leaders for their accused indiscretions.
All crimes are disturbing to me. Not necessarily "crimes" that a legislator decides are bad things for me, but what are crimes in my opinion. Violence, theft, rape, etc.
I find true sexual crimes (rape, pedophilia, etc. But not mooning someone for christs sake.) very disturbing. However, I feel your violent suggestions and opinion just as sickening. If you are one who has never been on the receiving end of sexual misconduct, or have never been on the receiving end of true violence, I think you shouldn't speak of either because you truly don't know what you are talking about. If you have been on the receiving end of either, I think your unenlightened and crass blanket statements speak volumes of you and imply severe unresolved issues.
I would say "work on that" or "best of luck" but your opinion and words are so shallow and offensive to me that I'm almost tempted to say I hope you experience first hand what you are so callously talking about. I hope society never becomes a place that allows sick people such as yourself to live out your disgusting desires on another group of sick individuals.
I hope you realize, sexual misconduct stems from violent and aggressive tendencies, the same thing you would use to "solve the problem". That which you wish to solve you are a part of my friend.
You do know they just sent out notices to a whole bunch of people they saw sharing illegally, right? Do you expect them to go through all tens of thousands of people?
Uhm, it wasn't a company in Texas that made the breakthrough, it was a company in Taiwan, and they did it 5 months ago. I recall reading an article about it on the BBC.
I really fail to see how Microsoft's multi-processor licensing scheme falls into this. Correct me if I'm wrong, but since when has any MS OS run on a POWER chip or a Sparc?
If these were x86 chips I think the licensing question would be valid, but since they're not...
Every software company is guilty of this. A program that does general ledger and billing sounds much sexier when called a "best-of-breed integrated calculation solution, designed to drive your business into the 21st century and beyond." And a server-monitoring tool sounds better when you call it a "proactive fault-finding and troubleshooting environment, making your data center fully autonomic and self-healing."
Personally, "A program that does general ledger and billing." and "A server-monitoring tool." Sounds much better than: "best-of-breed integrated calculation solution, designed to drive you business into the 21st century and beyond." and "proactive fault-finding and troubleshooting environment, making your data center fully autonomic and self-healing."
Maybe I'm cocky, but those who may actually be interested in the products probably like the original naming convention better as well. I think the only people impressed by the "flashy" second descriptions are pointy haired managerial types.
That said, the descriptions given by the VP, which are similar to your flashy examples, appear as nothing but lame PR/Marketing that distort the hell out of something I might have had interest in. If I could first figure out what the hell it is. I think HP needs to burn a few brain cells and think about who might actually want to buy their products and services and speak to them in their own language (English works pretty good for me) instead of expecting them to decipher this bunk. Using skewed PR/Marketing fluff may work wonders if your in Fiorina's inner circle, but here in the Real World (TM), it sounds ridiculous.
Now Microsoft has a monopoly and the inertia will eventually kill them. My only question is, can I pick the stock of the next contender to the throne? That my friend is the American way.
What's interesting is IBM lost its PC monopoly because of the openness of the hardware. I think it would be rather ironic if MS loses their monopoly because the, albeit different, open architecture of OSS.
It goes to show that life can live anywhere it wants. The depth of the oceans, and the acidic worlds of a slag dump.
The slag dump in the story is not highly acidic, it's highly alkalinic. Acidic would be a ph lower than 7. Alkalinic is a ph higher than 7. The dump in the story was measured to be 12.8. If I remember correctly, highly acidic is a ph less than 3, and highly alkalinic is a ph greater than 10, thus the interest in these microbes that thrive in an environment that approaches a ph of 13.
Well, if you (or the moderator who gave you +interesting) had RTFA:
Before the Columbia accident, NASA intended eventually to have a crew of astronauts maneuver the 43-foot-long telescope into a cargo bay and bring it home for installation in the National Air and Space Museum as an inspiration for future generations. A general unwillingness to subject astronauts to such risks for a museum exhibit, among other things, eliminated that option, Weiler said.
As far as "roping it", and bringing it back being feasable, yes. Retrofit (or refurbish is more like it) and re-launch? You do realize that would be immensly more expensive than just building and launching a new one right? And the end result (for having to keep the same basic design and internals) is we would have a more expensive Hubble that is inferior to a cheaper replacement. Plus the whole 1 in 60 chance of losing a shuttle crew that NASA is operating at makes it seem like a pretty bad idea.
BYU is "spirtually themed", to be more specific it is a university that was founded and is run by the mormon church. To attend you must have church approval, live in church approved housing and even groom yourself to a specific standard.
I didn't even bother looking at his website, but I'm pretty sure your comment of "He preaches about treating woman as objects, yet his religion promotes polygamy and child brides. Get real." is flawed. I'm certain he doesn't preach about treating woman as objects, and I know his religion doesn't promote polygamy.
The article from your "child bride" link cites a reference to a child being wed at 15 in Utah by polygamists. It does *not* cite a mormon child bride being wed at 15. Surprisingly, not every person in Utah is mormon, nor is every act in the state approved by the mormon church. The practicers of those acts aren't part of the LDS church nor do they claim to be, they are an extremely small and hidden portion of the population, and by no means are claimed by the LDS church as followers. I even lived in Salt Lake at the time of the news story you cite, and if you'd think about it for two seconds, if everyone is marrying off children and practicing polygamy, why would the Salt Lake Tribune break the story as shocking and concerning news? Even more, in all my years of living in Salt Lake, I never (knowingly) met a polygamist, and I knew one person who had been married under the age of 18. Yep, a girl from Tennessee who had been knocked up at 16 and married her boyfriend after pressure from her parents, *then* moved to Utah at which point I met her.
Now, before I get labeled as a defendant of "gods chosen ones", aka members of the LDS church, I am not mormon, I hate the church and its insane ideologies and the resulting harms on my idea of a healthy society.
In response to the grandparent "Out of curiosity, are you a fanatical religious moron?" YES HE IS.
In response to hendridm's misinformed rant that distracts from the true problems caused by the organization, and his citation from the world known, respected and trusted cultnews.com, why don't you try talking about something you know about? Comments such as yours damages truly informed individuals ability to discuss the real problems created by your target, the "polygamy practicin' child marryin' mormon church". Ok?
Nothing is more annoying than someone with a shred of hearsay knowledge and a big mouth.
I'm from the Ministry of Truth and I noticed you misspelled Eurasia as "East-Asia", who we all know is, and always has been, our ally. You must correct your obvious "mistake" and insert the proper nation, Eurasia, into your comment to avoid confusion of the population. We're watching you.
the one bad turn deserves another "jerk" part of me insists I say:
1.) Acquire a fax machine.
2.) Connect to above mentioned abused phone line.
3.) Print three sheets of paper that contain the message in large obnoxious print:
Stop Faxing Me At 555-(myphonenumberhere)!
(or whatever you'd like to say)
4.) Tape the top of sheet two to the bottom of sheet one, tape the top of sheet three to the bottom of sheet two. (this order may have to be inverted depending on how your fax machine feeds and scan pages (bottom to top, top to bottom) etc. Figure out the proper order to do step 5 correctly.)
5.) Feed sheet one into your recently borrowed/acquired fax machine on the phone line. Dial and transmit to the offending non responsive party.
6.) Once page one has transmitted, and the machine is working on page two, tape the bottom of page three to the top of page one so your transmitting fax machine has a nice three page loop of your message.
7.) Leave fax machine and go to bed. By morning the offensive party will have dozens of copies of your message (as many as the number of sheets their fax paper tray contained), hopefully making enough of an impression upon them that fax spam truly is annoying, and they just might consider ceasing to do it to you.
All in all, it's an old trick and I by no means take credit for it. It's a very immature act, and pretty much a bad idea. You would be just as guilty of harassment as the offending party. However, if all else fails....
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The ground looks like it's been disturbed in the panoramic image from the website. A few locations, most notibly a little left of the "Northwest Hill 335.9 Azimuth 11.2 Kilometers" marking looks like it could've been caused by the rovers bouncing airbag landing. Anyone know for certain or can identify any terrain disturbed by the landing?
The middle east is not a continent. If Iraq is not a part of Asia, would you consider it be part of Europe or Africa?
Speak for yourself. I think my human manufacturing tool is very special.
Think the IGS SuSE partnership had anything to do with SuSE being the only qualified distro to run on p-series hardware? Ow, I think I just ate some bait.
I think IBM used SuSE instead of Redhat because IBM Global Services and SuSE have been partners for almost two years.
Maybe you should stop hmmmmm'ing about these great mysteries and start googling.
My adrenaline fix isn't what it used to be. Double the dose.
AMD me.
Introducting the AMD Athlon (TM) 64 FX processor. Take your system to extremes. Double the data path from 32- to 64-bit and you more than double the thrill factor. Uninterrupted, ear-splitting, streaming audio and rich, razor sharp video make your pad a launching pad. What's more, you get all the power you need to edit, mix, and model your own digital creations with memory to spare. Prepare to blow minds. Get a dose of the AMD Athlon 64 FX edge at www.amd.com/amdathlon64fx
The ad really annoyed me. Apparently a wider data bus doubles the computing "thrill factor". Which is good because for a while there it seemed we were approaching a "thrill factor" barrier. *Whew* glad we found away to continue the growth of the "thrill factor". I'm happy to see the computing "thrill factor" will continue to grow at an exponential rate for the foreseeable future.
It's great they're acting like you need a multi-gigahertz 64 bit processor to stream audio. Yep, this new processor will really speed up my net connection.
Lastly, because the processor is 64-bit, apparently I will have memory to spare for "editing, mixing, and modeling my own digital creations". And here I just thought I'd have the ability to address more memory, but I was wrong, nope, it will *give* me memory to spare.
Marketing sucks.
Infact, the GPL only grants additional rights for the public to use the source code in many ways that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright law. EULA's on the other hand and in my opinion, are non-binding statements that the company *hopes* you believe to be some kind of contract dealing with their distributed binaries.
It starts getting into a lot of opinion at this point, but just by the basics a GPL type license and EULA's are completely different, the only similar part is the "license" in the name. If you can argue that the GPL is non-binding and doesn't need to be adhered by, then all the code falls back onto standard copyright law, which is more restrictive. If you can argue that the standard binary EULA is non-binding and doesn't need to be adhered by, there is no legislation for it to fall back on saying MS has the rights to your first born child.
GPL == Accept the GPL or be more restrictived by copyright law, you're choice.
EULA's == Accept this agreement after purchasing our software, uhm, BECAUSE! We said so. Really. We mean it.
Rock, Paper, Scissors is outdated and has been updated. To further the "paperless society", it's just Rock, Scissors. Daryl took the scissors and is running around with them sharp end pointed up. I guess we'll just have to find a rock to throw at him. Not the same but fun none the less!
There's a world of difference between knowing how to skillfully and thoughtlessly use a weapon in a video game than in real life.
Most gamers I know wouldn't even know how to load a real gun.
In a fantasy virtual world I can race a motorcycle like no other and am a fighter pilot ace. Yet in the real world I wouldn't even know how to operate a motorcycle or how to taxi a plane let alone pilot it. If you're right maybe I should contact the military about my piloting prowess, I think they'd be very interested in my real world skills I've obtained through gaming.
I think the lines between a fantasy universe and reality are blurred in your assumption that video games teach gamers how to use weapons quickly and easily. I can understand the argument that it could desensitize an individual to violence (although I have a different opinion), but to think games skillfully train people to be soldiers? Get real. If anything a gamer would be less skillful for all the hours of sitting on their butt at a keyboard drinking mountain dew by the case. If games train anything its that weapons are weightless, automatically reload themselves, and you magically have thousands of rounds of ammunition in your pocket.
Ever considered the possibility that a violent video game may suggest how brutal the real acts can be? I think the average Joe would assume a person killed by a gunshot wound just gets a little blood on his shirt, clutches his chest and peacefully goes to sleep. Maybe gamers have a more correct image of what really happens. Bits of skull fly everywhere and a mass of brain may land on the pavement or spray on your face. I wonder which would take more consideration into actually committing the act in the Real World (TM)? I think if one is aware of how truly brutal the act can be might actually think twice before committing it. Just random thoughts.
I don't know... has he seen what the networks are showing these days???
All joking aside, no it's really not better than not watching TV at all. I'm afraid I *haven't* seen what the networks are showing these days and I don't really care to.
Uhm yea I'm sure this is exactly how they planned it. I know when I get robbed I make sure it's only my broken stuff they randomly take in a methodic heist in the middle of the night...
(And yes, revenge - if someone else buys stolen goods, they don't know where it come from - it could have been stolen from your house)
Some receivers of stolen goods aren't aware the wares they're purchasing were stolen. Wouldn't you be pissed to buy a "used" item from a video game shop or pawn shop to find out it's broken? Or the good deal on your dream toy you find on ebay is a little too good to be true? Upon trying to return or have a manufacturer repair you get tangled up in the mess and labeled as a receiver of stolen goods?
Last I checked, sellers of stolen goods more often than not don't advertise "STOLEN GOODS SOLD HERE". Yea we need revenge on the bargain shoppers, they're obviously part of the problem.
That's begging the question.
If I were in charge, they'd be dead on the first offense, so they're getting off easy in that respect.
Maybe that's why you're not in charge? I don't really think sexual offenders are "lucky" in that respect. Sometimes a population is unlucky enough to have someone violent "in charge", but I like to think our race isn't so depraved that only a small minority are "lucky" enough not to be on the receiving end of wholesale slaughter by violent leaders for their accused indiscretions.
All crimes are disturbing to me. Not necessarily "crimes" that a legislator decides are bad things for me, but what are crimes in my opinion. Violence, theft, rape, etc.
I find true sexual crimes (rape, pedophilia, etc. But not mooning someone for christs sake.) very disturbing. However, I feel your violent suggestions and opinion just as sickening. If you are one who has never been on the receiving end of sexual misconduct, or have never been on the receiving end of true violence, I think you shouldn't speak of either because you truly don't know what you are talking about. If you have been on the receiving end of either, I think your unenlightened and crass blanket statements speak volumes of you and imply severe unresolved issues.
I would say "work on that" or "best of luck" but your opinion and words are so shallow and offensive to me that I'm almost tempted to say I hope you experience first hand what you are so callously talking about. I hope society never becomes a place that allows sick people such as yourself to live out your disgusting desires on another group of sick individuals.
I hope you realize, sexual misconduct stems from violent and aggressive tendencies, the same thing you would use to "solve the problem". That which you wish to solve you are a part of my friend.
Just incase you're not being sarcastic, uh, yes?
Uhm, it wasn't a company in Texas that made the breakthrough, it was a company in Taiwan, and they did it 5 months ago. I recall reading an article about it on the BBC.
If these were x86 chips I think the licensing question would be valid, but since they're not...
Every software company is guilty of this. A program that does general ledger and billing sounds much sexier when called a "best-of-breed integrated calculation solution, designed to drive your business into the 21st century and beyond." And a server-monitoring tool sounds better when you call it a "proactive fault-finding and troubleshooting environment, making your data center fully autonomic and self-healing."
Personally, "A program that does general ledger and billing." and "A server-monitoring tool." Sounds much better than: "best-of-breed integrated calculation solution, designed to drive you business into the 21st century and beyond." and "proactive fault-finding and troubleshooting environment, making your data center fully autonomic and self-healing."
Maybe I'm cocky, but those who may actually be interested in the products probably like the original naming convention better as well. I think the only people impressed by the "flashy" second descriptions are pointy haired managerial types.
That said, the descriptions given by the VP, which are similar to your flashy examples, appear as nothing but lame PR/Marketing that distort the hell out of something I might have had interest in. If I could first figure out what the hell it is. I think HP needs to burn a few brain cells and think about who might actually want to buy their products and services and speak to them in their own language (English works pretty good for me) instead of expecting them to decipher this bunk. Using skewed PR/Marketing fluff may work wonders if your in Fiorina's inner circle, but here in the Real World (TM), it sounds ridiculous.
Now Microsoft has a monopoly and the inertia will eventually kill them. My only question is, can I pick the stock of the next contender to the throne? That my friend is the American way.
What's interesting is IBM lost its PC monopoly because of the openness of the hardware. I think it would be rather ironic if MS loses their monopoly because the, albeit different, open architecture of OSS.
It goes to show that life can live anywhere it wants. The depth of the oceans, and the acidic worlds of a slag dump.
The slag dump in the story is not highly acidic, it's highly alkalinic. Acidic would be a ph lower than 7. Alkalinic is a ph higher than 7. The dump in the story was measured to be 12.8. If I remember correctly, highly acidic is a ph less than 3, and highly alkalinic is a ph greater than 10, thus the interest in these microbes that thrive in an environment that approaches a ph of 13.
Cost of operations in Iraq so far: $85.38B and growing.
Gotta love this countries priorities.
Before the Columbia accident, NASA intended eventually to have a crew of astronauts maneuver the 43-foot-long telescope into a cargo bay and bring it home for installation in the National Air and Space Museum as an inspiration for future generations. A general unwillingness to subject astronauts to such risks for a museum exhibit, among other things, eliminated that option, Weiler said.
As far as "roping it", and bringing it back being feasable, yes. Retrofit (or refurbish is more like it) and re-launch? You do realize that would be immensly more expensive than just building and launching a new one right? And the end result (for having to keep the same basic design and internals) is we would have a more expensive Hubble that is inferior to a cheaper replacement. Plus the whole 1 in 60 chance of losing a shuttle crew that NASA is operating at makes it seem like a pretty bad idea.
I didn't even bother looking at his website, but I'm pretty sure your comment of "He preaches about treating woman as objects, yet his religion promotes polygamy and child brides. Get real." is flawed. I'm certain he doesn't preach about treating woman as objects, and I know his religion doesn't promote polygamy.
The article from your "child bride" link cites a reference to a child being wed at 15 in Utah by polygamists. It does *not* cite a mormon child bride being wed at 15. Surprisingly, not every person in Utah is mormon, nor is every act in the state approved by the mormon church. The practicers of those acts aren't part of the LDS church nor do they claim to be, they are an extremely small and hidden portion of the population, and by no means are claimed by the LDS church as followers. I even lived in Salt Lake at the time of the news story you cite, and if you'd think about it for two seconds, if everyone is marrying off children and practicing polygamy, why would the Salt Lake Tribune break the story as shocking and concerning news? Even more, in all my years of living in Salt Lake, I never (knowingly) met a polygamist, and I knew one person who had been married under the age of 18. Yep, a girl from Tennessee who had been knocked up at 16 and married her boyfriend after pressure from her parents, *then* moved to Utah at which point I met her.
Now, before I get labeled as a defendant of "gods chosen ones", aka members of the LDS church, I am not mormon, I hate the church and its insane ideologies and the resulting harms on my idea of a healthy society.
In response to the grandparent "Out of curiosity, are you a fanatical religious moron?" YES HE IS.
In response to hendridm's misinformed rant that distracts from the true problems caused by the organization, and his citation from the world known, respected and trusted cultnews.com, why don't you try talking about something you know about? Comments such as yours damages truly informed individuals ability to discuss the real problems created by your target, the "polygamy practicin' child marryin' mormon church". Ok?
Nothing is more annoying than someone with a shred of hearsay knowledge and a big mouth.
I'm from the Ministry of Truth and I noticed you misspelled Eurasia as "East-Asia", who we all know is, and always has been, our ally. You must correct your obvious "mistake" and insert the proper nation, Eurasia, into your comment to avoid confusion of the population. We're watching you.
Do you mean leaked internal memos like the Halloween Documents?
1.) Acquire a fax machine.
2.) Connect to above mentioned abused phone line.
3.) Print three sheets of paper that contain the message in large obnoxious print:
Stop Faxing Me At 555-(myphonenumberhere)!
(or whatever you'd like to say)
4.) Tape the top of sheet two to the bottom of sheet one, tape the top of sheet three to the bottom of sheet two. (this order may have to be inverted depending on how your fax machine feeds and scan pages (bottom to top, top to bottom) etc. Figure out the proper order to do step 5 correctly.)
5.) Feed sheet one into your recently borrowed/acquired fax machine on the phone line. Dial and transmit to the offending non responsive party.
6.) Once page one has transmitted, and the machine is working on page two, tape the bottom of page three to the top of page one so your transmitting fax machine has a nice three page loop of your message.
7.) Leave fax machine and go to bed. By morning the offensive party will have dozens of copies of your message (as many as the number of sheets their fax paper tray contained), hopefully making enough of an impression upon them that fax spam truly is annoying, and they just might consider ceasing to do it to you.
All in all, it's an old trick and I by no means take credit for it. It's a very immature act, and pretty much a bad idea. You would be just as guilty of harassment as the offending party. However, if all else fails....