In this we have a classical example of someone trying to elevate their success by stretching the distance they had to climb. Dickens perfectly treated the development of this type of character as Josiah Bounderby in "Hard Times":
'I was to pull through it, I suppose, Mrs. Gradgrind. Whether I was to do it or not, ma'am, I did it. I pulled through it, though nobody threw me out a rope. Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. Those are the antecedents, and the culmination. Josiah Bounderby of Coketown learnt his letters from the outsides of the shops, Mrs. Gradgrind, and was first able to tell the time upon a dial-plate, from studying the steeple clock of St. Giles's Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripple, who was a convicted thief, and an incorrigible vagrant. Tell Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, of your district schools and your model schools, and your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools; and Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, tells you plainly, all right, all correct - he hadn't such advantages - but let us have hard-headed, solid-fisted people - the education that made him won't do for everybody, he knows well - such and such his education was, however, and you may force him to swallow boiling fat, but you shall never force him to suppress the facts of his life.'
Of course later we discover that Mr. Bounderby has been paying his loving mother (supposed to have placed him in a ditch as an infant and "bolted") to stay in the next town, and to never visit him.
sure they'd only sell parts, but you'd be able to get car parts, truck parts, tank parts, plane parts, train parts, crane parts, snowplower parts, tires, tracks, helicopter rotors, blueprints, jet fuel, nitrous oxide, spoilers, giant robotic arms, spray paint for the exterior, radar systems, chassis extensions, ROCKET LAUNCHERS, and reconfigurable engines.
I think I saw a Honda something like that down on Main Street the other night, but it had floater lights too.
Well then, if I had mod points, I would mod you up for saying you would mod me up if you had mod points. Actually I let about four mod points expire last week.
Good point, everyone claims "Well trying to shelter the kids is pointless, they will find out about it sooner or later and then all you have done it make it more desirable by forbidding it."
The Internet is new; most parents today, as children, did not have the level of access to such material in the home that we do now. As the poster above says, would you let your kids walk around just anywhere in your town? Think of the seediest, run-down strip in your town, yet with no age limits at the bars and video stores. Approximately half of the internet looks like that.
There's a good reason that, before the internet, you had to be a certain age before getting access to this kind of material. It's not to shelter the children, it's to prevent exposure to this kind of material until they are old enough to make mature judgements and decisions. Before learning what the dirty underbelly of the world looks like, they should at least learn respect for others and not to treat women as objects. Children absorb and form ideas very quickly, while adults have a sort of filter of past judgement and experience where they can decide to take something to heart or forget it.
Ok, if I saw someone smugly zipping down the road on their sweet new crotch rocket, then they got to a hill, stood up, and started pedaling like mad, I would die laughing.
Thanks man! I was racking my brain to figure where I'd seen that name before, hundreds of times.... Yes, the TI-85 games were top-notch. I think I'll dig out the ol' link cable and find the 85 version of Zshell or Usgard again.
How can you say that, don't you know that evil thuggish creatures have feelings too, and might not appreciate being compared to bloodthirsty lawyers? Hypocrite.
No, in this case I would equate the penguins to Linux users, who mostly just crowd up along the edge of the ice to see who falls in first and becomes orca bait. Some of the more enterprising ones might peck SCO's ankles, or send rambling emails saying that they will.
So, they try to pinch Linux where it hurts by going after the "little punks" who made it. I mean, what could some passive, nerdy, computer programmers have as a possible means of defense?
And so now, SCO stands in the middle of a jungle clearing, waving a stick and raving madly at the 800-pound gorilla of IBM. Suddenly, a rustle from the brush and SCO turns around to see a whole pack of 800-pound gorillas, all staring with steely eyes....
Whoa...dude, what a great idea for a new Linux campaign.
"End world hunger: install Linux!"
People install Linux and other open-source applications that replace Microsoft equivalents, and donate the fees they would have spent on licensing. That would really make a lot of open-source programmers happy! Finally, a tangible way for coding efforts to help the rest of the world.
You know what you want; build it! About a week ago I knew nothing about MySQL and PHP, but I'm building a site to allow hobbyists and small machine shops to link up and do custom work. Basically, say you want to laser-cut a big logo on your modded case; well, you'd submit a request and then people on the site can let you know what kinds of equipment they have, and if they want any money above materials cost etc. Already have a bunch of users and several workshops up, and the request portion of the site will be live soon. Everything from the user login system on up designed from scratch. Notice that I'm not linking to it at this point, though.
It's not hard to learn this stuff, and you as a group can actually design something that uniquely works exactly how you want it to.
I don't know, it looks like someone loaded those up in GIMP and ran a watercolor plugin. Are you sure a company could actually get away with making prints off images like that?
Are you going to blog about it? I bet if I read the blogs one hour from now, I'd see my comment linked from blog to blog, each blogger writing some heartfelt treatise on What It Means to Be a Blogger and By Gum I'll Hang in There, and other bloggers leaving gushy comments of support against this vicious attack on blog-kind.
See, you already started inflating the comment beyond what it actually said, in the traditional blog-style of having nothing to write about and therefore making stuff up. I didn't at all say they should disappear for my benefit, though if that were the case, the benefit would not be solely mine.
I thought that weblogs were pretty much dead now, only kept alive by a self-perpetuating ring of bloggers desperately trying to cling to the artificial limelight.
Nobody really cares about your motorcycle trip. If you really believe that you can work something interesting out of this, take along lots of pencils and keep a detailed notebook. When you get home, spend a few months writing a nice little travel/adventure book, and snag yourself a nice side income from royalties.
If that's the case, maybe SCO could actually start making money by selling subpoenas. What a great conversation piece, perhaps they could include a commemorative limited edition picture frame personally signed by Daryl McBride. All for three easy payments of $19.95! But wait, order now and recieve a FREE Linux license, a $700 value, yours absolutely free!
So 19,000 voters produced 144,000 votes. That's obviously an error, and was caught and corrected. What you really need to worry about are the little errors; if the votes are off by 500 or 1000 how are you going to know?
Seems to me that the Moon is awfully far away for this to work.
First of all, you'd have to get all the equipment up there. Not only is that amount of equipment extremely expensive, but putting that much equipment on the moon is mind-bogglingly expensive.
Second, you have to get the power here. Now, it's all well and good to say "Let's just beam it with microwave" but the moon is a few hundred thousand miles away. Even a concentrated laser beam will diverge to a diameter of a mile or so over that distance; microwave will be even worse. You just diluted your power density a whole lot: is it still a higher power per unit area than simply placing your solar cells directly on Earth's surface?
Don't you remember seeing the ads way back in, oh, 1995 Computer Shoppper and the like, for the "Miss Metaverse" beauty pageant? This nearly predates everything that's ever happened online.
Slashdot Mirror
I have it: "Anything is."
Ok, so maybe Schroedinger isn't happy about that, but the cat sure feels a sense of relief.
In this we have a classical example of someone trying to elevate their success by stretching the distance they had to climb. Dickens perfectly treated the development of this type of character as Josiah Bounderby in "Hard Times":
'I was to pull through it, I suppose, Mrs. Gradgrind. Whether I was to do it or not, ma'am, I did it. I pulled through it, though nobody threw me out a rope. Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. Those are the antecedents, and the culmination. Josiah Bounderby of Coketown learnt his letters from the outsides of the shops, Mrs. Gradgrind, and was first able to tell the time upon a dial-plate, from studying the steeple clock of St. Giles's Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripple, who was a convicted thief, and an incorrigible vagrant. Tell Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, of your district schools and your model schools, and your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools; and Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, tells you plainly, all right, all correct - he hadn't such advantages - but let us have hard-headed, solid-fisted people - the education that made him won't do for everybody, he knows well - such and such his education was, however, and you may force him to swallow boiling fat, but you shall never force him to suppress the facts of his life.'
Of course later we discover that Mr. Bounderby has been paying his loving mother (supposed to have placed him in a ditch as an infant and "bolted") to stay in the next town, and to never visit him.
sure they'd only sell parts, but you'd be able to get car parts, truck parts, tank parts, plane parts, train parts, crane parts, snowplower parts, tires, tracks, helicopter rotors, blueprints, jet fuel, nitrous oxide, spoilers, giant robotic arms, spray paint for the exterior, radar systems, chassis extensions, ROCKET LAUNCHERS, and reconfigurable engines.
I think I saw a Honda something like that down on Main Street the other night, but it had floater lights too.
Hybrid?
Well then, if I had mod points, I would mod you up for saying you would mod me up if you had mod points. Actually I let about four mod points expire last week.
No, I don't deserve a mod up...basically all I said was "w00t! zTetris!"
Subway freak, eh? How's the diet Jared?
Good point, everyone claims "Well trying to shelter the kids is pointless, they will find out about it sooner or later and then all you have done it make it more desirable by forbidding it."
The Internet is new; most parents today, as children, did not have the level of access to such material in the home that we do now. As the poster above says, would you let your kids walk around just anywhere in your town? Think of the seediest, run-down strip in your town, yet with no age limits at the bars and video stores. Approximately half of the internet looks like that.
There's a good reason that, before the internet, you had to be a certain age before getting access to this kind of material. It's not to shelter the children, it's to prevent exposure to this kind of material until they are old enough to make mature judgements and decisions. Before learning what the dirty underbelly of the world looks like, they should at least learn respect for others and not to treat women as objects. Children absorb and form ideas very quickly, while adults have a sort of filter of past judgement and experience where they can decide to take something to heart or forget it.
Ok, if I saw someone smugly zipping down the road on their sweet new crotch rocket, then they got to a hill, stood up, and started pedaling like mad, I would die laughing.
Thanks man! I was racking my brain to figure where I'd seen that name before, hundreds of times.... Yes, the TI-85 games were top-notch. I think I'll dig out the ol' link cable and find the 85 version of Zshell or Usgard again.
How can you say that, don't you know that evil thuggish creatures have feelings too, and might not appreciate being compared to bloodthirsty lawyers? Hypocrite.
No, in this case I would equate the penguins to Linux users, who mostly just crowd up along the edge of the ice to see who falls in first and becomes orca bait. Some of the more enterprising ones might peck SCO's ankles, or send rambling emails saying that they will.
So, they try to pinch Linux where it hurts by going after the "little punks" who made it. I mean, what could some passive, nerdy, computer programmers have as a possible means of defense?
And so now, SCO stands in the middle of a jungle clearing, waving a stick and raving madly at the 800-pound gorilla of IBM. Suddenly, a rustle from the brush and SCO turns around to see a whole pack of 800-pound gorillas, all staring with steely eyes....
Oh ho ho, and then you simply block incoming connections from your school's domain. Quite slick.
Whoa...dude, what a great idea for a new Linux campaign.
"End world hunger: install Linux!"
People install Linux and other open-source applications that replace Microsoft equivalents, and donate the fees they would have spent on licensing. That would really make a lot of open-source programmers happy! Finally, a tangible way for coding efforts to help the rest of the world.
You know what you want; build it! About a week ago I knew nothing about MySQL and PHP, but I'm building a site to allow hobbyists and small machine shops to link up and do custom work. Basically, say you want to laser-cut a big logo on your modded case; well, you'd submit a request and then people on the site can let you know what kinds of equipment they have, and if they want any money above materials cost etc. Already have a bunch of users and several workshops up, and the request portion of the site will be live soon. Everything from the user login system on up designed from scratch. Notice that I'm not linking to it at this point, though.
It's not hard to learn this stuff, and you as a group can actually design something that uniquely works exactly how you want it to.
I don't know, it looks like someone loaded those up in GIMP and ran a watercolor plugin. Are you sure a company could actually get away with making prints off images like that?
Are you going to blog about it? I bet if I read the blogs one hour from now, I'd see my comment linked from blog to blog, each blogger writing some heartfelt treatise on What It Means to Be a Blogger and By Gum I'll Hang in There, and other bloggers leaving gushy comments of support against this vicious attack on blog-kind.
See, you already started inflating the comment beyond what it actually said, in the traditional blog-style of having nothing to write about and therefore making stuff up. I didn't at all say they should disappear for my benefit, though if that were the case, the benefit would not be solely mine.
I thought that weblogs were pretty much dead now, only kept alive by a self-perpetuating ring of bloggers desperately trying to cling to the artificial limelight.
Nobody really cares about your motorcycle trip. If you really believe that you can work something interesting out of this, take along lots of pencils and keep a detailed notebook. When you get home, spend a few months writing a nice little travel/adventure book, and snag yourself a nice side income from royalties.
If that's the case, maybe SCO could actually start making money by selling subpoenas. What a great conversation piece, perhaps they could include a commemorative limited edition picture frame personally signed by Daryl McBride. All for three easy payments of $19.95! But wait, order now and recieve a FREE Linux license, a $700 value, yours absolutely free!
Not yet. I'm probably going to take that down pretty soon here, if the economy picks up some more.
So 19,000 voters produced 144,000 votes. That's obviously an error, and was caught and corrected. What you really need to worry about are the little errors; if the votes are off by 500 or 1000 how are you going to know?
Seems to me that the Moon is awfully far away for this to work.
First of all, you'd have to get all the equipment up there. Not only is that amount of equipment extremely expensive, but putting that much equipment on the moon is mind-bogglingly expensive.
Second, you have to get the power here. Now, it's all well and good to say "Let's just beam it with microwave" but the moon is a few hundred thousand miles away. Even a concentrated laser beam will diverge to a diameter of a mile or so over that distance; microwave will be even worse. You just diluted your power density a whole lot: is it still a higher power per unit area than simply placing your solar cells directly on Earth's surface?
I hope you ran a virus scan on the developer before you executed him.
http://technoculture.mira.net.au/hypermail/0033.ht ml
Don't you remember seeing the ads way back in, oh, 1995 Computer Shoppper and the like, for the "Miss Metaverse" beauty pageant? This nearly predates everything that's ever happened online.