Umm... Who was it that was upset about the whole "Earth is not the center of the Universe" thing? Tortured some guy till he recanted, and all that. Headed by some "pope" guy?
Lets take a look at those codexes (oops, sorry, all burned up, except for an astronomy text they missed).
Maybe there is some intresting inscriptions on the ancient Budda statues or in the shrines. Oops, sorry, all blowed up. Thanks Talaban.
Sorry, but formal religious institutions have done a lot of anti-science (and still do it when they think they can get away with it).
Religion isn't bad. In fact, a true religion has a lot in common with science - it's a continual proofing to make sure the belief holds. A follower of a religion should also be able to explain to others not only what they believe, but why they believe it - a study called "apologetics."
And how it actually works in practice: (Fingers stuck in ears) Laa! Laa! Laa! I'm obviously right, so you're wrong! You must now convert to my favorite religion, or I'll kill you. And I'll probably kill you even if you do! Laa! Laa! Laa! I can't hear you!
Remember the Inquisition, the Romans feeding lions, the Crusades, the Kurds in Iraq, Jews in WWII,...,...,..., etc.
For example, all those projects where ther's little to no documentation because everyone involved is coding, not documenting?
You mean, like Gnome2 programming?
Try to find consistant documentation of that mess. The documentation available, i.e. shipped with Gnome2, is a random mix of Gnome2 and obsolete Gnome1 function descriptions, with no examples. You have to guess which ones nore not obsolete.
Go to the Gnome web page, and the "documentation" there is either puff pieces (rah! rah! its soo wunderful!), Gnome1 (obsoleted), or Gtk+ (a related , but different library). Sorry, nothing on actually using Gnome2.
They do offer to sell you a Gnome2 book, which is probably why they are hiding the real documentation.
Have you tried RPG-II? Well, your name lengths are shorter (6, or 4, or 2, or whatever, depending on which field you have to enter them into), but you better not lose/gain any spaces. And don't forget to order some more coding sheets.
Prove me wrong: Write a useful compiler in RPG-II.
If you want purposefully bad languages, you have Intercal and friends (brainf***, malebolge, befunge, etc.)
I had one really idiot of a modem, don't remember the brand/model, that would respond to "+++" coming in from the computer side, but not from the terminal side.
If you had echo turned off on the computer end, you couldn't get the modem to go into command mode!
Isn't it sad that a program specifically written to stop problems of this kind, is the cause of this problem?
I personally don't like the idea of having an extra add-on software package, designed to plug holes in the operating system, instead of fixing the operating system itself. And now MicroSoft is planning on including one of these in their OS, instead of actualy fixing the problems!
I think the virus writers and the spammers are trying to drive personal computers into the same oblivion as the CB radio. Take something useful, and fill it so full of crap that nobody can actually make use of it.
Well on a serious note, how do they know that the eggs that were dormant don't have some problem with them in the first place wich is why they were dormant?
Oh my god! They've hatched into Godzilla and Mothra! Tokyo is doomed!...
They are probably dormant because they got buried in the silt. Instead of hatching into a small dirt prison, they went dormant to wait for the possibility of being brought back up to the surface.
This type of critter usually lay thousands of eggs at a time, expecting bad things to happen to most of them (remember, they are at the bottom of the food chain). They have to be able to survive a lot of nasty things happening to them. Being buried in the dirt isn't the worst thing that can happen to them (being turned into a loser like Mothra is).
Don't forget all the other equally accurate standards: about the size of a golf ball, big as a fist, smaller than a human hair, queiter than a mouse, faster than a bullet, stronger than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...
We need to help the poor guy out. He obviously cannot afford to pay regular prices for anything any more. I think we need to send him some catalogues so he can purchase items from the discount companies... Lots of catalogues.
Ok, now what Groklaw needs to do is put up modified documents. The first half is the real document, and the last half is a Brady Bunch script. They will suck it in (too lasy to scan the whole thing), and add it to their site.
In the court case, you then pull up their site, and quote from their copy of the docuemnt:
You bought a computer, so you are obviously a theif, and we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of your money as possible.
You were forced to buy Microsoft Windows on it, so you are obviously a thief trying to steal Windows, and we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of your money as possible.
You bought a third party application that was not written by/approved by my Microsoft, which makes you a theif, so you will not be allowed to use it, because we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of your money as possible.
You bought a Microsoft application, which means you (the theif) are obviously going to try to sell copies to millions of others, and we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of their money as possible.
You replaced the mouse on your computer, which makes it a completely brand new system, which means you are obviously trying to steal from Microsost, so now you now need to re-purchase all of your Microsoft products, because we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of your money as possible.
Trusted computing: we trust you are a theif trying to rip Microsoft off.
Every time we get a story like this, a bunch of people write in about how global warming isn't happening, or if they accept that, then they write about how it's not certain* that it's caused by us.
i.e. You mean that anyone who doesn't "believe" in global warming is an idiot, and should shut up.
Please PLEASE can people like this read the links, and read about the consensus. If they have specific points to rebutt with the evidence then this is interesting (especially if they have training in the area).
i.e. We all got together and took a vote. The earth IS flat. This is the same way they proved that black people were a "lesser" race during slavery.
I'm not a climate scientist myself and so I feel a bit hestitant about posting anything on these topics. It would be nice if the self-appointed 'experts' who take over these threads would behave in the same way, and let those of us who are interested in learning more read comments from people who actually know what they're talking about.
i.e. I don't know anything about it, but will those idiot scientists that say that it isn't happening shut up, and let the 'experts', like Katie Kurik, tell us what's really happening.
This does not mean you have to agree with Kyoto (it's clearly flawed in some areas), nor that you have to believe that global warming is our fault, but you should have some damn good facts and links!
i.e. I believe in global warming, and Kyoto, and you have to prove conclusively to me that it doesn't exist.
I, on the other hand, only need a single day that is slightly warmer than it was 372 years ago at a specific point I select to prove that it does.
of course nothing can ever be proven to be certain in science, only disproven, but you all know what I mean.
i.e. Even if you have the evidence, I still won't believe you.
If you send a copy of that post to the 10 names following, then add your name to the list, within 30 days you will then receive 10,000,000 emails in return.
Can you imagine the boardroom discussion on how this took place?
VP: Man, there are sure a lot of anti-spyware companies out there.
BillG: Spyware?
VP: You know, those virus that get installed because of the lax security in IE and OE.
BillG: You mean you want us to spend money to fix the holes? We can't afford to lose that much revenue; my gold-plated toilet paper alone costs me nearly $3 million a month.
VP: No. I guess not. But those anti-spyware companies sure make a lot of money retro-actively plugging the holes.
BillG: MONEY! They are making MONEY! We need to get in there quick! It will take too long to write our own code, so go out there and buy one of those companies.
VP: But with that firefox thing becomming popular, spyware may become much rarer.
BillG: Don't worry about that, we can always add something in the next version of windows we sell to those sheep, and then they will have to buy a new version of our anti-spyware software. Double income, you gotta love it!
And XBox2 is not based on an x86-chip. It is based on an ppc-chip. So than it will no longer possible to port it.
You believe that because you think that C compilers only exist for the x86?
I regretfully inform you that C compilers also exist for the PPC. All it will take to make it work will be a re-compile, with whatever changes are necessary for the surrounding support hardware, and whatever it takes to get around Micro$ofts latest "you may only run programs on your computer that pay us money" code.
Wow, a really inspiteful liberal: Bush is the cause of all problems. China is given advanced US missle technology with Clintons approval, blame Bush. Al'queda blows up a van in the World Trade Center, and comes back a couple of years later to finish the job, blaim Bush. ENRON plays fast and loose with power, and gets shut down when a new President is elected, blaim Bush.
It's now obvious to me that the evil Bush is the reason that Christ was killed, Atlantis sank, the South lost the Cival war, the Inquisition was stopped, the Salem witch trials were ended, red M&M's were pulled, and the Holy Roman Empire fell.
Those evil Republications! All they want is money, unlike Bill (Whitewater), or Hillary (Cattle futures).
Just look how the Clintons had ended terrorism (by ignoring it), solved all the Israel/Palestine problems (by making Arafat the most frequent guest at the White House), and was always 100% honest.
Well, at least he 'felt your pain' 'for the children'.
since when does a fossil fuel power plant produce radioactive waste?
If the waste from a coal fired plant were required to be handled under the same rules as the waste from a nuclear plant, it would have to be stored in the same manner as low-level radioactive waste (which it is). That means: cannisters, yucca mountain type of repository, and all that.
Coal contains a significant quantity of radioactive elements, and a coal powered plants generate a much larger volume per day of radioactive waste than a nuclear power plant would in a whole year. Burning it doesn't end it's radioactiveness, it just changes it to gas (CO2, sulpher, etc; global warming anyone), or radioactive ash (nasty, corrosive land-fill material).
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Get back to me when mainstream American christians applaud murder in their god's name.
I'll be happy to, once I'm done dealing with these heathen redmen...
Umm... Who was it that was upset about the whole "Earth is not the center of the Universe" thing? Tortured some guy till he recanted, and all that. Headed by some "pope" guy?
Lets take a look at those codexes (oops, sorry, all burned up, except for an astronomy text they missed).
Maybe there is some intresting inscriptions on the ancient Budda statues or in the shrines. Oops, sorry, all blowed up. Thanks Talaban.
Sorry, but formal religious institutions have done a lot of anti-science (and still do it when they think they can get away with it).
Religion isn't bad. In fact, a true religion has a lot in common with science - it's a continual proofing to make sure the belief holds. A follower of a religion should also be able to explain to others not only what they believe, but why they believe it - a study called "apologetics."
..., ..., ..., etc.
And how it actually works in practice: (Fingers stuck in ears) Laa! Laa! Laa! I'm obviously right, so you're wrong! You must now convert to my favorite religion, or I'll kill you. And I'll probably kill you even if you do! Laa! Laa! Laa! I can't hear you!
Remember the Inquisition, the Romans feeding lions, the Crusades, the Kurds in Iraq, Jews in WWII,
For example, all those projects where ther's little to no documentation because everyone involved is coding, not documenting?
You mean, like Gnome2 programming?
Try to find consistant documentation of that mess. The documentation available, i.e. shipped with Gnome2, is a random mix of Gnome2 and obsolete Gnome1 function descriptions, with no examples. You have to guess which ones nore not obsolete.
Go to the Gnome web page, and the "documentation" there is either puff pieces (rah! rah! its soo wunderful!), Gnome1 (obsoleted), or Gtk+ (a related , but different library). Sorry, nothing on actually using Gnome2.
They do offer to sell you a Gnome2 book, which is probably why they are hiding the real documentation.
COBOL takes the cake
Have you tried RPG-II? Well, your name lengths are shorter (6, or 4, or 2, or whatever, depending on which field you have to enter them into), but you better not lose/gain any spaces. And don't forget to order some more coding sheets.
Prove me wrong: Write a useful compiler in RPG-II.
If you want purposefully bad languages, you have Intercal and friends (brainf***, malebolge, befunge, etc.)
I had one really idiot of a modem, don't remember the brand/model, that would respond to "+++" coming in from the computer side, but not from the terminal side.
If you had echo turned off on the computer end, you couldn't get the modem to go into command mode!
Isn't it sad that a program specifically written to stop problems of this kind, is the cause of this problem?
I personally don't like the idea of having an extra add-on software package, designed to plug holes in the operating system, instead of fixing the operating system itself. And now MicroSoft is planning on including one of these in their OS, instead of actualy fixing the problems!
I think the virus writers and the spammers are trying to drive personal computers into the same oblivion as the CB radio. Take something useful, and fill it so full of crap that nobody can actually make use of it.
A beowulf cluster of these...
Would you need a cart full of tubes to run around in the cluster to keep fixing BSOD'd?
Well on a serious note, how do they know that the eggs that were dormant don't have some problem with them in the first place wich is why they were dormant?
...
Oh my god! They've hatched into Godzilla and Mothra! Tokyo is doomed!
They are probably dormant because they got buried in the silt. Instead of hatching into a small dirt prison, they went dormant to wait for the possibility of being brought back up to the surface.
This type of critter usually lay thousands of eggs at a time, expecting bad things to happen to most of them (remember, they are at the bottom of the food chain). They have to be able to survive a lot of nasty things happening to them. Being buried in the dirt isn't the worst thing that can happen to them (being turned into a loser like Mothra is).
Don't forget all the other equally accurate standards: about the size of a golf ball, big as a fist, smaller than a human hair, queiter than a mouse, faster than a bullet, stronger than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...
We need to help the poor guy out. He obviously cannot afford to pay regular prices for anything any more. I think we need to send him some catalogues so he can purchase items from the discount companies... Lots of catalogues.
Ok, now what Groklaw needs to do is put up modified documents. The first half is the real document, and the last half is a Brady Bunch script. They will suck it in (too lasy to scan the whole thing), and add it to their site.
In the court case, you then pull up their site, and quote from their copy of the docuemnt:
"Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!"
What it means is:
You bought a computer, so you are obviously a theif, and we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of your money as possible.
You were forced to buy Microsoft Windows on it, so you are obviously a thief trying to steal Windows, and we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of your money as possible.
You bought a third party application that was not written by/approved by my Microsoft, which makes you a theif, so you will not be allowed to use it, because we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of your money as possible.
You bought a Microsoft application, which means you (the theif) are obviously going to try to sell copies to millions of others, and we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of their money as possible.
You replaced the mouse on your computer, which makes it a completely brand new system, which means you are obviously trying to steal from Microsost, so now you now need to re-purchase all of your Microsoft products, because we need to make sure Microsoft gets as much of your money as possible.
Trusted computing: we trust you are a theif trying to rip Microsoft off.
Netcraft confirms it: The broadcast flag is dying, It was closely tied to the BSD operating system (which is also dying).
Every time we get a story like this, a bunch of people write in about how global warming isn't happening, or if they accept that, then they write about how it's not certain* that it's caused by us.
i.e. You mean that anyone who doesn't "believe" in global warming is an idiot, and should shut up.
Please PLEASE can people like this read the links, and read about the consensus. If they have specific points to rebutt with the evidence then this is interesting (especially if they have training in the area).
i.e. We all got together and took a vote. The earth IS flat. This is the same way they proved that black people were a "lesser" race during slavery.
I'm not a climate scientist myself and so I feel a bit hestitant about posting anything on these topics. It would be nice if the self-appointed 'experts' who take over these threads would behave in the same way, and let those of us who are interested in learning more read comments from people who actually know what they're talking about.
i.e. I don't know anything about it, but will those idiot scientists that say that it isn't happening shut up, and let the 'experts', like Katie Kurik, tell us what's really happening.
This does not mean you have to agree with Kyoto (it's clearly flawed in some areas), nor that you have to believe that global warming is our fault, but you should have some damn good facts and links!
i.e. I believe in global warming, and Kyoto, and you have to prove conclusively to me that it doesn't exist.
I, on the other hand, only need a single day that is slightly warmer than it was 372 years ago at a specific point I select to prove that it does.
of course nothing can ever be proven to be certain in science, only disproven, but you all know what I mean.
i.e. Even if you have the evidence, I still won't believe you.
Intercal! It's very hard to write viruses using it.
(It's very hard to write anything else in it either)
I'm sure IBM would be happy if linux on ppc hardware got REAL popular
Isn't the PlayStation3 being based on PPC cell technology?
If PPC cell lives up to all the hype, it might make a very intresting Linux system.
Sure downloading the dependencies might be a pane in the arse,
A window in the butt? Sure, it may sound very poetic, but I don't think I've ever heard of anyone successfuly putting a whole sheet of glass there.
If you send a copy of that post to the 10 names following, then add your name to the list, within 30 days you will then receive 10,000,000 emails in return.
...
1. abuse@localhost
2. billgates@micro$oft.com
3. cowboyneil@slashdot.org
4.
It will mellow out to moonshine.
Can you imagine the boardroom discussion on how this took place?
VP: Man, there are sure a lot of anti-spyware companies out there.
BillG: Spyware?
VP: You know, those virus that get installed because of the lax security in IE and OE.
BillG: You mean you want us to spend money to fix the holes? We can't afford to lose that much revenue; my gold-plated toilet paper alone costs me nearly $3 million a month.
VP: No. I guess not. But those anti-spyware companies sure make a lot of money retro-actively plugging the holes.
BillG: MONEY! They are making MONEY! We need to get in there quick! It will take too long to write our own code, so go out there and buy one of those companies.
VP: But with that firefox thing becomming popular, spyware may become much rarer.
BillG: Don't worry about that, we can always add something in the next version of windows we sell to those sheep, and then they will have to buy a new version of our anti-spyware software. Double income, you gotta love it!
VP: Isn't that a little unethical?
BillG: Ethics? Your fired!
And XBox2 is not based on an x86-chip. It is based on an ppc-chip. So than it will no longer possible to port it.
You believe that because you think that C compilers only exist for the x86?
I regretfully inform you that C compilers also exist for the PPC. All it will take to make it work will be a re-compile, with whatever changes are necessary for the surrounding support hardware, and whatever it takes to get around Micro$ofts latest "you may only run programs on your computer that pay us money" code.
A nuclear explosion without them having to waste the money on buying a dirty nuke....
And just think what the terrosists could do if they manage to capture a whole bottle of fusion fuel. THEY MIGHT EVEN BE ABLE TO MAKE WATER!
However, the Bush family
Wow, a really inspiteful liberal: Bush is the cause of all problems. China is given advanced US missle technology with Clintons approval, blame Bush. Al'queda blows up a van in the World Trade Center, and comes back a couple of years later to finish the job, blaim Bush. ENRON plays fast and loose with power, and gets shut down when a new President is elected, blaim Bush.
It's now obvious to me that the evil Bush is the reason that Christ was killed, Atlantis sank, the South lost the Cival war, the Inquisition was stopped, the Salem witch trials were ended, red M&M's were pulled, and the Holy Roman Empire fell.
Those evil Republications! All they want is money, unlike Bill (Whitewater), or Hillary (Cattle futures).
Just look how the Clintons had ended terrorism (by ignoring it), solved all the Israel/Palestine problems (by making Arafat the most frequent guest at the White House), and was always 100% honest.
Well, at least he 'felt your pain' 'for the children'.
since when does a fossil fuel power plant produce radioactive waste?
If the waste from a coal fired plant were required to be handled under the same rules as the waste from a nuclear plant, it would have to be stored in the same manner as low-level radioactive waste (which it is). That means: cannisters, yucca mountain type of repository, and all that.
Coal contains a significant quantity of radioactive elements, and a coal powered plants generate a much larger volume per day of radioactive waste than a nuclear power plant would in a whole year. Burning it doesn't end it's radioactiveness, it just changes it to gas (CO2, sulpher, etc; global warming anyone), or radioactive ash (nasty, corrosive land-fill material).