Maybe if the world dealt with Germany BEFORE they rebuilt their military and killed a few million innocents. Bloody fucking brilliant.
So what, you're saying this is what the UN should do to the US before it brings WAR to the World?
In that case, I agree with you.
No need to worry about Iraq. There is *NO EVIDENCE OF WoMD IN IRAQ*!!!
If there were evidence (beyond the dog-and-pony Hollywood show Powell "presented" to the UN) of Iraq's WoMD, it would have, and should have, been brought to the UN World Court years ago.
Fact is, there is no evidence. There is only oil, and Bush' hopes to be a wartime president and thus serve another term.
The alternative: his administration leaves the gutted White House in *SHAME* in a few short years because of the mess he has made of the United States of America.
IMPEACH BUSH AND HIS MINIONS NOW! Because, in this case, there *IS* evidence against him... and it's your *Constitutional* right to do so.
Oh, wait. The Homeland Security Act prevents American citizens from doing just such a thing. I see...
... they're prepared to engage in one mother of an immoral battle, and have said their prayers, kissed their girls, and balanced their books. War in Iraq is *not* going to be pretty for you guys.
The US is now what Germany was in the 30's... off to fight its merry war with 'justifiable cause'.
Don't you Americans realize that the UN was *made* to prevent countries like yours from abusing their power?
That this war is now being trivialized into some sort of 'happy meme' worthy of idle discussion by tech nerds in the context of some sci-fi-turned-reality 'cyberwar' is really disturbing.
If globalization, McDonalds, Britney and all the other wonderful machinations of The American Way didn't turn me off your crappy country, then the robotic nature of its citizens kowtowing to the propaganda machine being operated by King George Bush II definitely is...
I don't care if there are guidelines for 'cyberwar against Iraq' being published... This war is NONSENSE!!
I really like it when/. posts stuff that's "just cool". Politics and religion are one thing. Cool code that someone wrote just coz is another thing entirely. Really makes my weekend to find stuff like this!
Celestia is fantastic.
X-Plane, also (if you can get it all together and all running), is really great. I'd love to see the two merge, somehow, heh heh... great for us armchair (or, in my case, tiBook) astronauts.
Incidentally, if you like 'odd software thats just cool for being cool' then you ought to know about sweetcode.org... so many gems on this site.
Actually, I willingly paid for my mac.com address, given that its quite convenient and worth the money... and unlike some, I see no reason not to pay for something if I find it useful and productive...
Ermm... sooo yeah. These so-called 'people' you mention. You say they 'created something new without copying Acacia'... uh huh.
Please prove that your client did not ruthlessly steal my clients valuable technology and unscrupulously propagate it in an attempt to squash us out of the market.
Anyone who writes a site that takes advantage of this to deliberately make certain browsers look like shit is a shithead. ... and not to apologize for Microsoft in this situation, but has anyone considered that they were trying to simply better-support Opera with the separate stylesheet, yet - being Microsoft, caring mostly for their own standards - they ended up with bugs in it?
Where is the evidence to say this was done maliciously, in other words...
Thats really ludicrous. That the son of an astronaut could grow up to be a bureaucrat...
Still, we don't need to fear you getting bumped off any time soon do we John? You've got ample CIA-safe security, right? Oh, and off-site backups too, no?
This isn't just some 'general public'. It's someone who has made a -very public- investment into a legitimate use of such materials, and who stands to be governed by more than sufficient safety precautions in these circumstances.
What this is, is a market opportunity. H2O2 rocketry is *worth* the investment.
Where are all the pics?
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I've seen the footage that CNN et al see fit to publish regarding the Shuttle, but where are all the street-level pics being posted these days?
Surely there are sites out there for folks to upload pics of debris they've taken out in the field, etc? I'm tired of having these sorts of things filtered for me by mainstream news - so anyone got any URL's?
Pissed me off that I have to *subscribe* to CNN to see the amateur video that was taken in California of the breakup... as an avid space nerd, I want to see as much as I possibly can about this incident (save, perhaps, pics of the charred skeletal remains that were found the other day... I can leave that for stile.)
As a uClinux developer, and an avid iPod hacker ..
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... this seriously rocks!
All thats needed now is a port of libogg, and away we go! Well done Bernhard!!!
I can hardly fanthom an industry (besides scientific research) whose outputs are more valuable, per gram, than the cost of getting that gram through re-entry to planet surface. (Not to mention the raw materials and capital equipment that would have to go up there to get started)
I can: chip manufacture. Put a small chip-producing factory on the side of a high-sillicate asteroid parked in L2, and away we go. Chip-drops to anywhere on the planet, cheap!
No nasty complex hydrocarbons to pollute our streams, no nasty gases being given off into the atmosphere, and delivery is all up to Gravity!
Here's my standard argument to this question; would that I need not have mentioned it in the light of this utter tragedy:
Why keep putting humans into space?
If we can develop the technique of moving Life into Space, we can better manage the resources of this planet.
Being able to keep a Human alive in space is kinda like trying to grow massive crops of useful resources - corn, weed, etc.
If we can master this, we can stop raping Earth.
Imagine if we moved all of our heavy, dangerous, high-pollutant based industry to a place in space where super-dangerous materials of Earth magnitude are puny compared to what's natively there...
Not to mention delivery is just a drop away.
It's cheap to move shit in Space, once you get up there and work it out!
A lot cheaper than here on Earth.
Face it, Space won't happen until we make it valuable, and the intrinsic values are too numerous to imagine right now.
We get more from looking at things directly, sometimes - or at least being close to the things we're looking at - than the devices we use to look in our place.
A good way to get the tech we need to actually put Life into Space, is simply to accept the challenge - and defeat it - of putting Human Beings happily in Space, able to survive.
I, likewise, have been a musician for a long time, and currently working in this sort of industry at Access.
Personally, I totally agree with you on the performance vs. gimmick issue. I think there's no fact more telling than the mere musician statistic: there are a lot of people making music.
It's better, live. If Gibson can give a better experience - functionally, what's different about protocol types to a guitarist if he's *still* plugging a cable in, either way?
I haven't heard a better 'sound' over Gibsons magic. I only see easier recording potential, and thus: easier editing.
From my current standpoint, editing is crap. Protools gave us Britney Spears.
It's time for performance to reign supreme again. Does CAT5 give that, somehow?
"... I dispute that what we call a corporation today was the intent of the framers or is defensible by any measure other than the economic benefit to the corporate "person" itself."
Benefit which is, of course, emminently taxable.
Or, at least, it used to be.
The corporate problem can't be solved unless the tax problem is solved *first*.
One of these junkies has to stop before the other.
{Excellent post, btw. I actually felt like I *should* be reading/. for a change...}
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Maybe if the world dealt with Germany BEFORE they rebuilt their military and killed a few million innocents. Bloody fucking brilliant.
So what, you're saying this is what the UN should do to the US before it brings WAR to the World?
In that case, I agree with you.
No need to worry about Iraq. There is *NO EVIDENCE OF WoMD IN IRAQ*!!!
If there were evidence (beyond the dog-and-pony Hollywood show Powell "presented" to the UN) of Iraq's WoMD, it would have, and should have, been brought to the UN World Court years ago.
Fact is, there is no evidence. There is only oil, and Bush' hopes to be a wartime president and thus serve another term.
The alternative: his administration leaves the gutted White House in *SHAME* in a few short years because of the mess he has made of the United States of America.
IMPEACH BUSH AND HIS MINIONS NOW! Because, in this case, there *IS* evidence against him... and it's your *Constitutional* right to do so.
Oh, wait. The Homeland Security Act prevents American citizens from doing just such a thing.
I see...
You honestly think that Britney Spears is an example of your country's ability to uphold human rights for women?
Whoa. Please move to New Zealand. Their sheep will appreciate your smaller dick size, I'm sure.
... they're prepared to engage in one mother of an immoral battle, and have said their prayers, kissed their girls, and balanced their books. War in Iraq is *not* going to be pretty for you guys.
...
The US is now what Germany was in the 30's... off to fight its merry war with 'justifiable cause'.
Don't you Americans realize that the UN was *made* to prevent countries like yours from abusing their power?
That this war is now being trivialized into some sort of 'happy meme' worthy of idle discussion by tech nerds in the context of some sci-fi-turned-reality 'cyberwar' is really disturbing.
If globalization, McDonalds, Britney and all the other wonderful machinations of The American Way didn't turn me off your crappy country, then the robotic nature of its citizens kowtowing to the propaganda machine being operated by King George Bush II definitely is
I don't care if there are guidelines for 'cyberwar against Iraq' being published... This war is NONSENSE!!
I really like it when /. posts stuff that's "just cool". Politics and religion are one thing. Cool code that someone wrote just coz is another thing entirely. Really makes my weekend to find stuff like this!
... great for us armchair (or, in my case, tiBook) astronauts.
... so many gems on this site.
Celestia is fantastic.
X-Plane, also (if you can get it all together and all running), is really great. I'd love to see the two merge, somehow, heh heh
Incidentally, if you like 'odd software thats just cool for being cool' then you ought to know about sweetcode.org
Actually, I willingly paid for my mac.com address, given that its quite convenient and worth the money ... and unlike some, I see no reason not to pay for something if I find it useful and productive ...
Umm ... 'oculus' ... what part of "when a Linux distro does all of this" did you not understand?
*yawn*
I already know this can be done on my OSX box.
Ermm... sooo yeah. These so-called 'people' you mention. You say they 'created something new without copying Acacia' ... uh huh.
Please prove that your client did not ruthlessly steal my clients valuable technology and unscrupulously propagate it in an attempt to squash us out of the market.
Thank you. See you in court.
Anyone who writes a site that takes advantage of this to deliberately make certain browsers look like shit is a shithead.
... and not to apologize for Microsoft in this situation, but has anyone considered that they were trying to simply better-support Opera with the separate stylesheet, yet - being Microsoft, caring mostly for their own standards - they ended up with bugs in it?
...
Where is the evidence to say this was done maliciously, in other words
... what, about 100 years ago?
Morse? Nah, really. Probably not a strong argument for 'compression'.
Regardless, this is just one more of those 'communication should be free' fish in the barrel which someone ought to just tip over...
... when a Linux distro does all of this out of the box.
Then it'll be news.
Thats really ludicrous. That the son of an astronaut could grow up to be a bureaucrat ...
Still, we don't need to fear you getting bumped off any time soon do we John? You've got ample CIA-safe security, right? Oh, and off-site backups too, no?
Paranoid rubbish.
For starters, they'd have off-site backups.
And the rest. Well, fuck it. Some people don't eat pork.
This isn't just some 'general public'. It's someone who has made a -very public- investment into a legitimate use of such materials, and who stands to be governed by more than sufficient safety precautions in these circumstances.
What this is, is a market opportunity. H2O2 rocketry is *worth* the investment.
Damn, shutup man, don't give him any funny ideas!
I've seen the footage that CNN et al see fit to publish regarding the Shuttle, but where are all the street-level pics being posted these days?
... as an avid space nerd, I want to see as much as I possibly can about this incident (save, perhaps, pics of the charred skeletal remains that were found the other day ... I can leave that for stile.)
Surely there are sites out there for folks to upload pics of debris they've taken out in the field, etc? I'm tired of having these sorts of things filtered for me by mainstream news - so anyone got any URL's?
Pissed me off that I have to *subscribe* to CNN to see the amateur video that was taken in California of the breakup
... this seriously rocks!
All thats needed now is a port of libogg, and away we go! Well done Bernhard!!!
I can hardly fanthom an industry (besides scientific research) whose outputs are more valuable, per gram, than the cost of getting that gram through re-entry to planet surface. (Not to mention the raw materials and capital equipment that would have to go up there to get started)
...
I can: chip manufacture. Put a small chip-producing factory on the side of a high-sillicate asteroid parked in L2, and away we go. Chip-drops to anywhere on the planet, cheap!
No nasty complex hydrocarbons to pollute our streams, no nasty gases being given off into the atmosphere, and delivery is all up to Gravity!
Come on, get with the dreamy program, come on
Here's my standard argument to this question; would that I need not have mentioned it in the light of this utter tragedy:
...
Why keep putting humans into space?
If we can develop the technique of moving Life into Space, we can better manage the resources of this planet.
Being able to keep a Human alive in space is kinda like trying to grow massive crops of useful resources - corn, weed, etc.
If we can master this, we can stop raping Earth.
Imagine if we moved all of our heavy, dangerous, high-pollutant based industry to a place in space where super-dangerous materials of Earth magnitude are puny compared to what's natively there
Not to mention delivery is just a drop away.
It's cheap to move shit in Space, once you get up there and work it out!
A lot cheaper than here on Earth.
Face it, Space won't happen until we make it valuable, and the intrinsic values are too numerous to imagine right now.
We get more from looking at things directly, sometimes - or at least being close to the things we're looking at - than the devices we use to look in our place.
A good way to get the tech we need to actually put Life into Space, is simply to accept the challenge - and defeat it - of putting Human Beings happily in Space, able to survive.
Would that Gore had actually made it.
Then we'd have no problems getting Space rejuvenated.
But since its Bush, tech efforts will go to War instead.
Space vs. War. That's just the way it is right now.
shit that i can't find this right now, i'd actually be quite interested in hearing that speech.
/. to google ...
not to mention any details on how it was recorded.
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I, likewise, have been a musician for a long time, and currently working in this sort of industry at Access.
Personally, I totally agree with you on the performance vs. gimmick issue. I think there's no fact more telling than the mere musician statistic: there are a lot of people making music.
It's better, live. If Gibson can give a better experience - functionally, what's different about protocol types to a guitarist if he's *still* plugging a cable in, either way?
I haven't heard a better 'sound' over Gibsons magic. I only see easier recording potential, and thus: easier editing.
From my current standpoint, editing is crap. Protools gave us Britney Spears.
It's time for performance to reign supreme again. Does CAT5 give that, somehow?
... writes "One of the newest hacker tools out there is a homemade GPS jammer ...
Okay then. What are some of the 'other' newest hacker 'tools' out there?
" ... I dispute that what we call a corporation today was the intent of the framers or is defensible by any measure other than the economic benefit to the corporate "person" itself."
/. for a change...}
Benefit which is, of course, emminently taxable.
Or, at least, it used to be.
The corporate problem can't be solved unless the tax problem is solved *first*.
One of these junkies has to stop before the other.
{Excellent post, btw. I actually felt like I *should* be reading
Building houses is one thing.
Writing code in a way that avoids unneeded tools is another thing altogether.
Now all we need is a Feed connection to it, and we're in business!
Damn, I gotta join that Drummer cult too now.
Woohoo! Great sex for me!!