Maybe it was just my vantage point then. I saw it at a real theatre, and not a multiplex, so I was further from the screen then I'd normally have been.
(that, and 20/300 vision before correction doesn't help you much, either.)
Okay, now I'm bothered more that I _didn't_ see the dots.
They said that Bill Gates wanted to help third world countries, and cure diseases. Diseases are nature's way of thinning out the weak.
However, you don't reach epidemic proportions until you get too great of a population. So it's system of checks and balances.
By helping people live, we're killing off their entire civilization.
Let's take some generic civ, and we'll say that the average woman in that civ has 6 kids. Because of disease, only 2 of these kids will live to an age where they can reproduce. (so, on average, one more female). Which means, we're at replacement value.
We go and vaccinate all of the kids against Polio and whatever else, and suddenly, 4-6 of those six kids might live to reproduce. That's 2 or 3 females. Another generation, and what should have been 1 kid is now 4 to 9. One more, and it's 8 to 27.
And we're not talking American generations, with maybe 35-40 years before they have kids, we're talking about having kids at 15-20, because they'd be dead by the time they're 50.
But now that the kids live, the parents can't feed that many kids. So what happens? In most societies, the motherly instict is so strong that the mother gives her share to the children, so she's too weak to do anything productive. The kids aren't doing much better, and chances are, neither is the father.
In 30-50 years, we can make a population completely dependant upon us for survival. All because of a little humanitarian effort.
Damned people, thinking they're helping out. Oh, we're going to be good little catholics, and go over there, and vaccinate all of these people, and convert them to catholicism, so they'll be saved when they die.
They're killing them! Nature works on a system of checks and balances. If it weren't for people being the ignorant bastards that they are, the entire population of these third world countries might not be starving. (hmm....what happens when you halve the death rate in an area with an average of 5-7 children per family? Population boom. And can the local agriculture support it? Hell no.) And it's even better when it's the Catholics doing it, as they're opposed to contraceptives, also.
Personally, I think Star Trek had one thing right -- the prime directive. Don't mess with other civilizations. They'll evolve on their own. (well, assuming greedy bastards don't go in there to exploit their resources, like in Brazil, or end up daming up the rivers, and crap like that.)
I didn't notice the tarp thing, but I definately know what you're talking about. The whole scene with them losing the map seemed a bit too blatant. I mean, I'd much rather have a compass over a map, anyday. I couldn't care less if I lost my map. My compass, on the other hand, could easily freak me out.
(and the one liners were good ['haven't you seen Deliverance?], but not yet up to par with Army of Darkness. It come out well as a comedy.)
Was it just me, or did the resolution of the color camera seem just a little bit too good for some off-the-shelf NTSC video camera? (I mean, south park was 1110 lines of resolution, at the correct aspect ratio. If they crop to the aspect ratio on NTSC, we're under 400 lines.)
Oh...and I think there may have been an editing mistake in the last few minutes...(I haven't seen it a second time to verify, however). It seemed to me that the cameras switched hands when they were in the cabin (as one had the color, one had the black & white). I was working off of audio clues, though [assumed that the girl screaming so much wouldn't have been able to keep the camera still, and so, person holding the camera at the time was the guy, but that fit, as he was the one running down the stairs.]
I would guess that as it was trying to be in real time _every_ scene change should have been a change in camera, and so, should have changed from/to color.
Actually, it's not the internic.net domains that have been spamming. It's from the NSI-only domains. (netsol.com, etc).
I don't know all of what the MAPS RBL is proposing blocking, but I have seen some procmail scripts for stripping out from NSI that's not from internic.net.
I don't know how this one is handled, but if it's similar to Sun's SparcStorage arrays, yes, you can. (depends on your OS how much swap is actually useful, however)
Proximity may be a factor, as it was connected through fibre channel, and I've heard of people storing arrays in other rooms/buildings, as part of disaster recovery programs.
In the age of 13 year olds getting pregnant, what happen if the parent is under 17? Also, as children aren't required to carry identification with them, (unless you're a military brat, and over 10), who is to say that you're not their parent?
Well, okay, if you're fairly close in age, sure, but you still might be their legal guardian. (ie, like Party of Five)
Some certification does mean something. Novell certification is actually challenging, and I think we've all heard the horror stories of Cisco training.
Unfortunately, there are too many people out there that try to 'teach the test', which is what generates these paper CNAs and the like. The problem is, testing is meant to check your knowledge by sampling a subset of what you should know, and by that, infering the larger part.
Unfortunately, with a paper , there's a chance that the subset being tested is actually the whole of their knowledge, and so, should something go wrong that's outside their factory sterile problems (ie, multiple parts break at once, someone 'reseated' a cable and broke a pin off, etc.), they might have no clue as where to begin.
The key is to find someone with good analytical skills, and a mind for problem solving. Even if you've never seen a particular problem before, in most cases, you should be able to figure out what parts aren't broken, and from process of elimination, find out what is.
(okay, I admit. I had a bent pin on a SCSI cable when I was installing a new scanner for someone, and it still acted up when I swapped out the cable, because my spare must've been bad, and I forgot to look for the obvious bent-pin connection, as someone else had plugged it in.)
There's qute a few things out there that just seem 'nicer' as a real letter, and I doubt they'll ever really take off as e-mail. Just a short list to get you started:
Formal Invitations. (graduation, wedding, etc.)
Christmas Cards. (and not those annoying e-cards that your parents think are cool, because they show they're 'with it', but in reality, fill up/var/mail )
Birthday Cards. (the cool ones, from the grandparents who put the $20 in there when you were little)
Get-Well Cards. (and they cheer you up a hell of a lot more that someone took the time, over some quick, crappy e-mail)
Thank-you Notes. (same reason as above)
okay, so most of 'em are cards and the like, but you get the idea. Also, there's the nice advantage that fraud through the mail is illegal, whereas there aren't those laws on the internet. (Watch the nice coverage on the 'sweepstakes' stuff going on these days with congress.)
Well, the problem with teleportation is that it won't be allowed/admitted to until there was a sure-fire way to block it.
I mean, you don't want someone just going ahead and teleporting out the contents of a bank, or some store.
Teleportation will be locked down even further than encryption laws, but I'd say there'd be good reason for it, even if it would make it rather inconvenient.
Now, on the other hand, if they could just go and put those cool vaccuum things like at the drive through at the bank everywhere, with some sort of a routing system, I could see some definate uses for that.
This reminds me of the history timeline in CarWars by Steve Jackson Games (the company that got raided by the FBI a few years back).
Their timeline had a change from the two-party system, and listed a "Technocratic" party who believed in the advancement of education technology to better society.
I'm working from memory here, it's been a few years since I've found anyone who plays the game, much less read the rule book, but I would think that a political party would fit more into the ideals of geeks than would a union, where we could give our time and resources to 'em, and not just cash.
Actually, I haven't yet found any dish service in the US that runs Red Dwarf. There are a few that run 'BBCA' which is 'BBC America', which although it doesn't have Red Dwarf, does have other British comedy.
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Maybe it was just my vantage point then. I saw it at a real theatre, and not a multiplex, so I was further from the screen then I'd normally have been.
(that, and 20/300 vision before correction doesn't help you much, either.)
Okay, now I'm bothered more that I _didn't_ see the dots.
They said that Bill Gates wanted to help third world countries, and cure diseases. Diseases are nature's way of thinning out the weak.
However, you don't reach epidemic proportions until you get too great of a population. So it's system of checks and balances.
By helping people live, we're killing off their entire civilization.
Let's take some generic civ, and we'll say that the average woman in that civ has 6 kids. Because of disease, only 2 of these kids will live to an age where they can reproduce. (so, on average, one more female). Which means, we're at replacement value.
We go and vaccinate all of the kids against Polio and whatever else, and suddenly, 4-6 of those six kids might live to reproduce. That's 2 or 3 females. Another generation, and what should have been 1 kid is now 4 to 9. One more, and it's 8 to 27.
And we're not talking American generations, with maybe 35-40 years before they have kids, we're talking about having kids at 15-20, because they'd be dead by the time they're 50.
But now that the kids live, the parents can't feed that many kids. So what happens? In most societies, the motherly instict is so strong that the mother gives her share to the children, so she's too weak to do anything productive. The kids aren't doing much better, and chances are, neither is the father.
In 30-50 years, we can make a population completely dependant upon us for survival. All because of a little humanitarian effort.
Damned people, thinking they're helping out. Oh, we're going to be good little catholics, and go over there, and vaccinate all of these people, and convert them to catholicism, so they'll be saved when they die.
They're killing them! Nature works on a system of checks and balances. If it weren't for people being the ignorant bastards that they are, the entire population of these third world countries might not be starving. (hmm....what happens when you halve the death rate in an area with an average of 5-7 children per family? Population boom. And can the local agriculture support it? Hell no.) And it's even better when it's the Catholics doing it, as they're opposed to contraceptives, also.
Personally, I think Star Trek had one thing right -- the prime directive. Don't mess with other civilizations. They'll evolve on their own. (well, assuming greedy bastards don't go in there to exploit their resources, like in Brazil, or end up daming up the rivers, and crap like that.)
Sure looked an awful lot like a nose to me.
(I personally, was expecting a finger or an ear.)
And I'm quite certain that it was Mike standing in the corner. The figure had his build, not Josh's.
I didn't notice the tarp thing, but I definately know what you're talking about. The whole scene with them losing the map seemed a bit too blatant. I mean, I'd much rather have a compass over a map, anyday. I couldn't care less if I lost my map. My compass, on the other hand, could easily freak me out.
(and the one liners were good ['haven't you seen Deliverance?], but not yet up to par with Army of Darkness. It come out well as a comedy.)
Was it just me, or did the resolution of the color camera seem just a little bit too good for some off-the-shelf NTSC video camera? (I mean, south park was 1110 lines of resolution, at the correct aspect ratio. If they crop to the aspect ratio on NTSC, we're under 400 lines.)
Oh...and I think there may have been an editing mistake in the last few minutes...(I haven't seen it a second time to verify, however). It seemed to me that the cameras switched hands when they were in the cabin (as one had the color, one had the black & white). I was working off of audio clues, though [assumed that the girl screaming so much wouldn't have been able to keep the camera still, and so, person holding the camera at the time was the guy, but that fit, as he was the one running down the stairs.]
I would guess that as it was trying to be in real time _every_ scene change should have been a change in camera, and so, should have changed from/to color.
Actually, it's not the internic.net domains that have been spamming. It's from the NSI-only domains. (netsol.com, etc).
I don't know all of what the MAPS RBL is proposing blocking, but I have seen some procmail scripts for stripping out from NSI that's not from internic.net.
(check the mailing list archive at abuse.net)
2 terabytes, 216 gigabytes/hr.
Not cheap, but if you have the money for a disk array, you most likely have the money for a tape library, too.
I don't know how this one is handled, but if it's similar to Sun's SparcStorage arrays, yes, you can. (depends on your OS how much swap is actually useful, however)
Proximity may be a factor, as it was connected through fibre channel, and I've heard of people storing arrays in other rooms/buildings, as part of disaster recovery programs.
I've always wondered this one myself.
In the age of 13 year olds getting pregnant, what happen if the parent is under 17? Also, as children aren't required to carry identification with them, (unless you're a military brat, and over 10), who is to say that you're not their parent?
Well, okay, if you're fairly close in age, sure, but you still might be their legal guardian. (ie, like Party of Five)
You might try taking a look at the following:
Some certification does mean something. Novell certification is actually challenging, and I think we've all heard the horror stories of Cisco training.
Unfortunately, there are too many people out there that try to 'teach the test', which is what generates these paper CNAs and the like. The problem is, testing is meant to check your knowledge by sampling a subset of what you should know, and by that, infering the larger part.
Unfortunately, with a paper , there's a chance that the subset being tested is actually the whole of their knowledge, and so, should something go wrong that's outside their factory sterile problems (ie, multiple parts break at once, someone 'reseated' a cable and broke a pin off, etc.), they might have no clue as where to begin.
The key is to find someone with good analytical skills, and a mind for problem solving. Even if you've never seen a particular problem before, in most cases, you should be able to figure out what parts aren't broken, and from process of elimination, find out what is.
(okay, I admit. I had a bent pin on a SCSI cable when I was installing a new scanner for someone, and it still acted up when I swapped out the cable, because my spare must've been bad, and I forgot to look for the obvious bent-pin connection, as someone else had plugged it in.)
- Formal Invitations. (graduation, wedding, etc.)
- Christmas Cards. (and not those annoying e-cards that your parents think are cool, because they show they're 'with it', but in reality, fill up
/var/mail ) - Birthday Cards. (the cool ones, from the grandparents who put the $20 in there when you were little)
- Get-Well Cards. (and they cheer you up a hell of a lot more that someone took the time, over some quick, crappy e-mail)
- Thank-you Notes. (same reason as above)
okay, so most of 'em are cards and the like, but you get the idea. Also, there's the nice advantage that fraud through the mail is illegal, whereas there aren't those laws on the internet. (Watch the nice coverage on the 'sweepstakes' stuff going on these days with congress.)Well, the problem with teleportation is that it won't be allowed/admitted to until there was a sure-fire way to block it.
I mean, you don't want someone just going ahead and teleporting out the contents of a bank, or some store.
Teleportation will be locked down even further than encryption laws, but I'd say there'd be good reason for it, even if it would make it rather inconvenient.
Now, on the other hand, if they could just go and put those cool vaccuum things like at the drive through at the bank everywhere, with some sort of a routing system, I could see some definate uses for that.
This reminds me of the history timeline in CarWars by Steve Jackson Games (the company that got raided by the FBI a few years back).
Their timeline had a change from the two-party system, and listed a "Technocratic" party who believed in the advancement of education technology to better society.
I'm working from memory here, it's been a few years since I've found anyone who plays the game, much less read the rule book, but I would think that a political party would fit more into the ideals of geeks than would a union, where we could give our time and resources to 'em, and not just cash.
Actually, I haven't yet found any dish service in the US that runs Red Dwarf. There are a few that run 'BBCA' which is 'BBC America', which although it doesn't have Red Dwarf, does have other British comedy.
See http://www.bbcamerica.com/genre/britc oms.html for more information. Also, for a list of the PBS stations in the US that have Red Dwarf season 8, see http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/march99/