I rememeber as a kid, seeing a special on Star Wars. They talked about how they made the light saber sound. Looks like it was just waving a transducer around a transformer that picked up the hum. That made the "whoosh" hum sound. They also mentioned something about a special paint that reflected light at 100 times it's original intensity or something like that. All this Star Wars stuff is unearthing deep-seated memories...
There is nothing about copyright law that prevents this.
Except... that by the artist selling off their copyright to the publisher, they cannot publish previous works without buying the right back at exhorbitant rates. If the person who created the work reatined the copyright, we'd be better off as a society and publishers/distributors would be put in their place.
That was SUPPOSED to be "short stories". I can just feel like there will soon be a new "Stephen King's Shorts" troll arising from this in the near future. 8-O
That's where I disagree. A publisher should be no more than stepping stone for an artist. Once the artist is established, they should be able to make direct profit from their creations by starting their own publishing company. If a publisher named "Stephen King Publishing" started up and the flagship items for that company were Stephen King's latest books/shorts stories, etc... he'd make a lot more money than if he just continuted on with his publisher. Especially if he undersold the publisher. On top of that, his publishing company could then become a stepping stone for other pormising authors in the same genre. He'd be able to keep the company and the overhead small, but demand would be huge based on his name. Over time, he'd make far more money (if that really counts for anything) running his own publishing house. This is true of every art form. The only good that large publisher provided was exposure. If P2P was legitimized, that last service is obviated.
...on who is going to be reading the code after you are gone. Sadly, due to differing levels of expertise, there is no optimum method of commenting code. For some, this is a very useful comment (I'm using pound sign comment designation as an example):
# The main function starts here
or...
# This is a loop and it will run while a certain
# condition exists.
or...
# Don't forget to remove this section after
# I'm gone - Dan - 04/25/1995
...piracy is bad. Middle men (RIAA/MPAA) are good. If you believe in file sharing then you are completely opposed to copyright and probably a communist. It's all crap if you ask me.
The way I see it, (and the people who originally drew up the concept of copyright), a copyright should protect the rights of the person who CREATED the work. Not the assumed rights of the distributors. Not the guy making millions while doing nothing. If it's a song, then the people involved in the actual act of composing, performing, producing and recording the piece should be covered by copyright. Not the corporation.
(Note: the following statements do not apply 100% across the board, but they do apply in the majority of cases) The problem with our society is that we have a surplus population of useless morons who have no ability to actually do anything productive. They are the "middle men". All they do is insert themselves into the middle of a transaction and do everything they can to make it seem like they have value. But they don't. For example, take the long distance business. We used to have a system that "just worked". It was called the Bell Telephone Company. Yes, it was a monopoly. But, the level of service provided was world class. Then the great American terrorist Ronald Reagan, broke up the monopoly and created the hellball we have today. All in the name of "competition". So what do we wind up with twenty some years later? We have a handful of really big, greedy corporations who provide shitty service.
Where's the competition? Oh yeah... that's right. I almost forgot about all the "mom-n-pop" long distance RESELLING outifts. They offer you long distance at various rates differing by only a few cents here or there. And they provide even shittier service because a lot of times their tehnical people are complete bumpkin morons. (Where I work, we have a nickname for AllTel in Southern-Ohio: Fred's Phone and Feed Service [in case you can't tell, I hate country folk]) We actually had one of their "technicians" attempt to test a T1 line with a butt set. So all of these small long distance services RESELLING you long distance that they bought in bulk from the big greedy corporations offer what exactly? Their long distance service sucks. Their technical expertise sucks. And for the quality of service, their prices suck. The situation is even worse with cell phones. Just think about how many shitty places there are to buy your cell phone service from with how many millions of plans. That's NOT helpful.
So... back to the whole file sharing concept and copyright. The RIAA and the MPAA are the useless middlemen in this whole fiasco. They have realized just how irrelevant they could become if the artists took the power of distribution into their own hands. The only way to preserve their stranglehold on the business it to outlaw the technology that could get the artists wider exposure without help from the RIAA or MPAA. So they focus on the piracy instead of working to make a system that actually works for them and accepting that they may have a smaller role in the future. They want it all. But in all of this, copyright has been twisted in order to protect the "rights" of a corporation. The artists get shit upon. In most cases musicians don't get to keep a lot of the money they make because they wind up paying it back into their record label for supporting them. It's an ugly and scammy system that's basically run by thugs. They are corporate rats that are pretty much a mafia that needs to be rubbed out. All this bullshit about P2P folks not believeing in copyright is total smoke and mirrors. Copyright in it's original form was fine. As it stands right now, it's terribly broken since it protects the people who need the least protection and ensures that the original artists don't get much unless they tow the party line. It's fucked.
Every time a see a new Linux "desktop" that's better than before, it's the same old thing:
1. A pretty run of the mill Linux distro 2. With KDE preferred over GNOME 3. WINE (usually CrossOver) is included
I could build something just as nice as Xandros using Gentoo. But, of course the point to Xandros is that it's all ready to go. Sort of. The real truth is that NO Linux distro will ever be "ready to go" out of the box for regular users because all Linux distros are made of multiple projects that have varying levels of issues.
The morons here on Slashdot always rail on about how Linux sucks because the video card setup in X Window System is always a pain. But... That has ZERO to do with Linux. It's an X Window System issue and they're finally working on those issues thanks to X.org not stifling development the way that XFree86.org did. X is a truly incredible system that was and still is way ahead of it's time.
Another thing the fools on Slashdot complain about is the "lack of applications". But again, this has nothing to do with Linux. It has to do with the fact that the distros come with nearly everything you'd ever need except for some highly customized and specialized business apps and of course games. The problem here is that new users dont quite understand that when they get a Linux distro, they get EVERYTHING. They're used to the concept of buying Windows and then having to buy every piece of software they need in addition to it. To be honest, I think in a few cases, you're dealing with people who are addicted to consuming and NEED to go to a store to get something otherwise they feel like they're missing something. It's a mindset and it needs to be overcome.
Finally, the retards of Slashdot go on about how Linux is "hard to use" when compared to Windows. Never for a moment considering just how hard it was to use Windows when they first started. There is a learning curve for ANY OS. If Linux was the first OS anyone was exposed to, moving to something else would be harder. The truth is that all *nix based OSes are actually VERY WELL thought out. The file system makes abundantly more sense than the flaky Windows layout. The C origins of the OS are very orderly. In general, it's nearly the perfect OS as opposed to the nastiness and confusion of Windows.
The cable industry barely "gets" the internet. They have horrible AUPs for their internet access. They don't allow you to run your own servers. They prohibit VPN unless you pay for "business class" service. Screw that. I should be able to do whatever the hell I want to with my net connection. Period. No limits. No extra fees. No nothing.
If you look at my posting history, you'll see that I only post decent stuff 98% of the time. The other 2% of the time I'm hoping to get "Funny" mods because after all... it's only karma. I'm guessing your sense of humor sucks.
...please correct the injustice of this moderation. I was trying to post something relevant and factual, and instead it gets moderated as a troll. This serves to further prove how people are just afraid to face the truth.
Planet X will return bringing the Niburu with it as it was prophesied by Zecharaiah Sitchin. I keep telling you people, Plent X is coming and no one ever believes me. You all keep relegating it to the laughable realm of pseudoscience, but it's not and now this is obviously proof. The Niburu will return to enslave us as they did 4000 years ago (read the Bible and the stories about the giant and monstrous offspring of humans mating with "angels" in Sodom and Gomorrah. The supposed angels were the Niburu!!). Zecharaiah Sitchin is the only man on Earth who can read the ancient Sumerian texts properly. They knew about the orbit of Planet X and that it would take nearly 4000 years for it to return. The other people who are currently aware but are trying to convince you that this is all untrue are: NASA, the Bush Administration, many of the world's largest comporations. And why? Because they have been in communication with the Niburu and have been offered a deal in which their lives and the lives of their children will be spared from slavery whilst the rest of us will have to suffer. If you didn't see the X-Files movie already, watch it tonight!!! It is Chris Carter's attempt to blow the lid off of this cover up. Why did an astronomer who first noticed planet X back in the 90s have to mysteriously die alone in a desert? Because he knew too much!!! NASA wanted to cover up the revalation he had inadvertantly made. He was dangerous to the architects of the New World Order, so they saw to it that he was neutralized. Don't believe the mainstream media because they are owned and operated by the masterminds of this fiendish plot. They are Niburu operatives. Don't believe the lying christians. They continue to blame UFOs on demonic powers. There is no such thing as a demon. That's just ridiculous and unscientific superstition. Planet X and the Niburu are sound science that is being oppressed by the Niburu controlled military/political/industiral complex! I've been noticing strange goings on near my house at night lately. I believe the Niburu are going to try and silence me, but I wil fight them tooth and nail. I've had strange and inexplicable power fluctations. Sometimes I will look out of a dark window and I will see a face looking back at me then it disappears. Sometimes, there are loud banging noises on the roof or the side of the house. Other times, there is the inexplicable loud "scurrying" sound up the side of the house onto the roof. Whatever it is moves fast. From the ground to the third story in two to three seconds. It's also heavy because it sounds identical to someone walking around upstairs as heard from the celing below, except that it's the side wall of the house. Go see the Mothman Prophecies for more truth about what's really going on out there. We are being attacked by aliens from outer space and our governments and corporations know this. Do not be lied to any longer!!! Demand that you be told the truth! All of the latest terrorist attacks are examples of alien mind control. The Niburur are using it to create unrest among the populace so that they will eventually feel good about being under martial law. It will happen! Mark my words!!! Every civilized nation on the planet will be in a state of marital law within the next five years. The only people with any freedom will be the families of the highest government officals and the wealthiest people on the planet. Eveyrone else will be herded into quonset huts and be fed high doses of experimental drugs to prepare them to be docile servants for the Niburu. In exchange, the rich will recieve positions of power within the Niburu empire and access to advanced technologies. Why do you think AMD and Intel have made such strides in the past decade? Not because of better engineers or progress, but because of direct information given to them by the Niburu. Our first x86 chips were based off of the chip designs stolen from the Roswell crash site. Our scientists were only able to make so much progress which is why it took us all the
Procreation? Who cares? We've got a surplus population. Let's reduce it in a humane way by preventing procreation. I say that earth won't be livable until we're down to a total global population of 500,000 people. The only real reason to have sex these days is purely pleasure.
God created man first and then created woman from man's rib. You could argue that males were God's beta and females are the point-ohh release. So this guy has taken God's point-ohh release as a starting point and made something completely different. Since this is his beta, I would imagine that his point-ohh release will be better than human females. Women should be quaking in their boots right now because their replacement is surely at hand.
Imagine the utopia... never needing to talk things over, or develop close relationships with women. Never needing to say "I'm worry, I was wrong". Never needing to go on another shopping trip. Never needing to remember "important dates". And getting laid anytime you want to with porno starlet quality. Yes. the future is so bright, I gotta wear shades. I also think a certain Japanese professor needs to thank Realdoll.com for the body design...;P
...the best method of making sure an "appliance" doesn't get hacked to run Linux (or any other FOSS OS) is to provide relatively frequent updates that add new features that all users will be dying for. They'll gladly dump the hacks they've applied for cool new functionality that the hack doesn't provide. The second prong here is that before a new update is done, you analyze the code of the popular hacks and then insert code in the update to stop them from working. Very smooth...
...I wasn't there to see him buy it. I really would seriously love to see the death penalty world wide for spam. Kill every rat bastard spammer on the planet. That should send a strong message about just how little I care about the lives of reprehensible spammers.
But there is nothing stopping big brother from 'asking' for the privately collected data. For whatever reason.
CODE RED. CODE RED. We have a game consumer that did not watch the complete ad. Possible terrorist suspect. IP nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn has been mapped to geographic location xxxx Ave. NY, NY. Converge on suspect for "good customer" reprogramming. Additional records indicate that suspect has not use his credit card in 2.7 hours rendering him extremely dangerous to the economy.
Yay capitalism. It used to be that there were places we could be free of marketing but that time is quickly coming to a close. If these goddamned fucking marketers could stream ads into your daydreams, they'd fucking do it. I have a few things I'd like to stream into the offices of the boneheads who thought this nightmare up.
The force is strong with you.;P Who is to say that speciation hasn't occurred since there are plenty of groups of people who will never get the chance to try and reproduce due to geographic, social and political boundaries. Who is to say that an American female from New York who is very liberal can successfully reproduce with a fundamentalist of any religious affiliation from some far off land? We'll never know because those pairings are unlikely. Again, I need to clarify that this has nothing to do with race. But I do believe in the possibility that there are probably a handful of people on the planet where mating would fail because they are not genetically compatible. We just haven't found them yet.
I don't know if I can totally agree with that. There are families that have been rich for for centuries (the DuPont family of DuPont Chemical) and show no sign of falling out of their wealth. There are also many more families that have been poor for generations and will continue to be unless there are some major sociological shifts. However, getting back to my original thoughts, I remember an article about a year or so ago that connected political affiliation with brain chemistry. Which leads me to believe that, for example, American Conservatives are American Conservatives more due to genetics than free will. The same with American Liberals. If you really analyze it, there are some startling similarities between all American Liberals. The same with American Conservatives. And these similarities have less to do with environmental influence than they do with the actual affinities of the individual.
Just as a silly example, most American Conservatives tend towards a certain personality type: type A. (I can talk because I have been called type A many times) Most American Liberals tend towards more laid back personalities. Almost laid back enough that they can't get anything done. This is exemplified by the respective abilities of each political philosophy to "get things done". (Note: I'm not slamming liberals here, but face it, as a group liberals are pretty disorganized and sloppy. Conservatives are so highly organized and intensely focused that it's almost criminal to pit them against liberals.) So, I believe that the respective traits of each group indicate a clear divider of types of people that reaches down to a definite gentic difference between them.
I'm not saying that type A vs. comatose if the sole marker of genetic distinction. This is just one feature. I'm willing to bet that if we got the genetic blueprint of every human being on Earth and mapped it to every personality trait, we'd definitely find subgrouping of humans that indicate distinctively different beings. Obviously, we can't really do that right now. And if the day came that we could, we'd probably wind up having one of the groups lobbying to kill off the "lesser" groups and we'd be right back to where we are now, only with genetic science on the side of the bigots.
...the person who submitted the article made an interesting statement by saying the speciation happens regularly. I tend to agree, and so does a lot of what scientists find. So... it stand to reason that there is a lot of speciation going on within the human population. I'm not talking about races. I'm talking about actual differences between humans that result in completely different traits, abilities, etc... Why is it that this live of thought tends to eventually degenerate into some form of "superiority" when one group wants to subjugate another? Why can't we just accept that some differences are genetic and can't be overcome. (Why in the hell didn't this get submitted on Tuesday!!?)
If it wouldn't run the latest OS the it was not viable. That's why I run Linux now. I can still run FC4 on a dual PII 450 and get very comparable performance to a Pentium 4 running Windows XP Pro.
If the new models are PowerPC Macs, they may as well give them away. Who in their right mind would buy a Mac that's slated to be junked in a year's time? Oh... that's right. I forgot. Apple fanatics!
This isn't really a slam at Apple users since I used to be one myself. It's just making the point that Apple has always, and apparently still is taken with selling hardware that will only last two years at most. I point back to the original PPC Macs back in the early 90s as my example. My wife bought one in 1994 for $5000 (with a student discount no less). By 1996, it was almost worthless since there were apps that couldn't run on it that she wanted. I almost bought one myself because of the student discount. But... since I couldn't afford $5000, I was forced to go with (BLECH) an Intel box running DOS/WIN3.1. However, for $4000, I got WAY more in hardware and software than she got. And more importantly, The box lasted from 1994 to 2000. That's a little more resonable. I still think computer hardware should last ten years as a standard.
So, you won't see me considering a PPC Mac anytime soon. I was tempted by the Mac Mini a few months back because it's relatively affordable. But, in retrospect, I'm glad I didn't buy it since it would only be viable for about two or three years (to run modern software and use modern periphs that is) anyway.
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I rememeber as a kid, seeing a special on Star Wars. They talked about how they made the light saber sound. Looks like it was just waving a transducer around a transformer that picked up the hum. That made the "whoosh" hum sound. They also mentioned something about a special paint that reflected light at 100 times it's original intensity or something like that. All this Star Wars stuff is unearthing deep-seated memories...
Except... that by the artist selling off their copyright to the publisher, they cannot publish previous works without buying the right back at exhorbitant rates. If the person who created the work reatined the copyright, we'd be better off as a society and publishers/distributors would be put in their place.
That was SUPPOSED to be "short stories". I can just feel like there will soon be a new "Stephen King's Shorts" troll arising from this in the near future. 8-O
That's where I disagree. A publisher should be no more than stepping stone for an artist. Once the artist is established, they should be able to make direct profit from their creations by starting their own publishing company. If a publisher named "Stephen King Publishing" started up and the flagship items for that company were Stephen King's latest books/shorts stories, etc... he'd make a lot more money than if he just continuted on with his publisher. Especially if he undersold the publisher. On top of that, his publishing company could then become a stepping stone for other pormising authors in the same genre. He'd be able to keep the company and the overhead small, but demand would be huge based on his name. Over time, he'd make far more money (if that really counts for anything) running his own publishing house. This is true of every art form. The only good that large publisher provided was exposure. If P2P was legitimized, that last service is obviated.
# The main function starts here
or...
# This is a loop and it will run while a certain
# condition exists.
or...
# Don't forget to remove this section after
# I'm gone - Dan - 04/25/1995
Think about the children! ;P
...piracy is bad. Middle men (RIAA/MPAA) are good. If you believe in file sharing then you are completely opposed to copyright and probably a communist. It's all crap if you ask me.
The way I see it, (and the people who originally drew up the concept of copyright), a copyright should protect the rights of the person who CREATED the work. Not the assumed rights of the distributors. Not the guy making millions while doing nothing. If it's a song, then the people involved in the actual act of composing, performing, producing and recording the piece should be covered by copyright. Not the corporation.
(Note: the following statements do not apply 100% across the board, but they do apply in the majority of cases) The problem with our society is that we have a surplus population of useless morons who have no ability to actually do anything productive. They are the "middle men". All they do is insert themselves into the middle of a transaction and do everything they can to make it seem like they have value. But they don't. For example, take the long distance business. We used to have a system that "just worked". It was called the Bell Telephone Company. Yes, it was a monopoly. But, the level of service provided was world class. Then the great American terrorist Ronald Reagan, broke up the monopoly and created the hellball we have today. All in the name of "competition". So what do we wind up with twenty some years later? We have a handful of really big, greedy corporations who provide shitty service.
Where's the competition? Oh yeah... that's right. I almost forgot about all the "mom-n-pop" long distance RESELLING outifts. They offer you long distance at various rates differing by only a few cents here or there. And they provide even shittier service because a lot of times their tehnical people are complete bumpkin morons. (Where I work, we have a nickname for AllTel in Southern-Ohio: Fred's Phone and Feed Service [in case you can't tell, I hate country folk]) We actually had one of their "technicians" attempt to test a T1 line with a butt set. So all of these small long distance services RESELLING you long distance that they bought in bulk from the big greedy corporations offer what exactly? Their long distance service sucks. Their technical expertise sucks. And for the quality of service, their prices suck. The situation is even worse with cell phones. Just think about how many shitty places there are to buy your cell phone service from with how many millions of plans. That's NOT helpful.
So... back to the whole file sharing concept and copyright. The RIAA and the MPAA are the useless middlemen in this whole fiasco. They have realized just how irrelevant they could become if the artists took the power of distribution into their own hands. The only way to preserve their stranglehold on the business it to outlaw the technology that could get the artists wider exposure without help from the RIAA or MPAA. So they focus on the piracy instead of working to make a system that actually works for them and accepting that they may have a smaller role in the future. They want it all. But in all of this, copyright has been twisted in order to protect the "rights" of a corporation. The artists get shit upon. In most cases musicians don't get to keep a lot of the money they make because they wind up paying it back into their record label for supporting them. It's an ugly and scammy system that's basically run by thugs. They are corporate rats that are pretty much a mafia that needs to be rubbed out. All this bullshit about P2P folks not believeing in copyright is total smoke and mirrors. Copyright in it's original form was fine. As it stands right now, it's terribly broken since it protects the people who need the least protection and ensures that the original artists don't get much unless they tow the party line. It's fucked.
Every time a see a new Linux "desktop" that's better than before, it's the same old thing:
;)
1. A pretty run of the mill Linux distro
2. With KDE preferred over GNOME
3. WINE (usually CrossOver) is included
I could build something just as nice as Xandros using Gentoo. But, of course the point to Xandros is that it's all ready to go. Sort of. The real truth is that NO Linux distro will ever be "ready to go" out of the box for regular users because all Linux distros are made of multiple projects that have varying levels of issues.
The morons here on Slashdot always rail on about how Linux sucks because the video card setup in X Window System is always a pain. But... That has ZERO to do with Linux. It's an X Window System issue and they're finally working on those issues thanks to X.org not stifling development the way that XFree86.org did. X is a truly incredible system that was and still is way ahead of it's time.
Another thing the fools on Slashdot complain about is the "lack of applications". But again, this has nothing to do with Linux. It has to do with the fact that the distros come with nearly everything you'd ever need except for some highly customized and specialized business apps and of course games. The problem here is that new users dont quite understand that when they get a Linux distro, they get EVERYTHING. They're used to the concept of buying Windows and then having to buy every piece of software they need in addition to it. To be honest, I think in a few cases, you're dealing with people who are addicted to consuming and NEED to go to a store to get something otherwise they feel like they're missing something. It's a mindset and it needs to be overcome.
Finally, the retards of Slashdot go on about how Linux is "hard to use" when compared to Windows. Never for a moment considering just how hard it was to use Windows when they first started. There is a learning curve for ANY OS. If Linux was the first OS anyone was exposed to, moving to something else would be harder. The truth is that all *nix based OSes are actually VERY WELL thought out. The file system makes abundantly more sense than the flaky Windows layout. The C origins of the OS are very orderly. In general, it's nearly the perfect OS as opposed to the nastiness and confusion of Windows.
So with that, I bid you all good day.
...and I'd never need to plug into a wall socket again. Ahhh... the future's so bright I gotta wear shades. ;P
The cable industry barely "gets" the internet. They have horrible AUPs for their internet access. They don't allow you to run your own servers. They prohibit VPN unless you pay for "business class" service. Screw that. I should be able to do whatever the hell I want to with my net connection. Period. No limits. No extra fees. No nothing.
If you look at my posting history, you'll see that I only post decent stuff 98% of the time. The other 2% of the time I'm hoping to get "Funny" mods because after all... it's only karma. I'm guessing your sense of humor sucks.
...please correct the injustice of this moderation. I was trying to post something relevant and factual, and instead it gets moderated as a troll. This serves to further prove how people are just afraid to face the truth.
Planet X will return bringing the Niburu with it as it was prophesied by Zecharaiah Sitchin. I keep telling you people, Plent X is coming and no one ever believes me. You all keep relegating it to the laughable realm of pseudoscience, but it's not and now this is obviously proof. The Niburu will return to enslave us as they did 4000 years ago (read the Bible and the stories about the giant and monstrous offspring of humans mating with "angels" in Sodom and Gomorrah. The supposed angels were the Niburu!!). Zecharaiah Sitchin is the only man on Earth who can read the ancient Sumerian texts properly. They knew about the orbit of Planet X and that it would take nearly 4000 years for it to return. The other people who are currently aware but are trying to convince you that this is all untrue are: NASA, the Bush Administration, many of the world's largest comporations. And why? Because they have been in communication with the Niburu and have been offered a deal in which their lives and the lives of their children will be spared from slavery whilst the rest of us will have to suffer. If you didn't see the X-Files movie already, watch it tonight!!! It is Chris Carter's attempt to blow the lid off of this cover up. Why did an astronomer who first noticed planet X back in the 90s have to mysteriously die alone in a desert? Because he knew too much!!! NASA wanted to cover up the revalation he had inadvertantly made. He was dangerous to the architects of the New World Order, so they saw to it that he was neutralized. Don't believe the mainstream media because they are owned and operated by the masterminds of this fiendish plot. They are Niburu operatives. Don't believe the lying christians. They continue to blame UFOs on demonic powers. There is no such thing as a demon. That's just ridiculous and unscientific superstition. Planet X and the Niburu are sound science that is being oppressed by the Niburu controlled military/political/industiral complex! I've been noticing strange goings on near my house at night lately. I believe the Niburu are going to try and silence me, but I wil fight them tooth and nail. I've had strange and inexplicable power fluctations. Sometimes I will look out of a dark window and I will see a face looking back at me then it disappears. Sometimes, there are loud banging noises on the roof or the side of the house. Other times, there is the inexplicable loud "scurrying" sound up the side of the house onto the roof. Whatever it is moves fast. From the ground to the third story in two to three seconds. It's also heavy because it sounds identical to someone walking around upstairs as heard from the celing below, except that it's the side wall of the house. Go see the Mothman Prophecies for more truth about what's really going on out there. We are being attacked by aliens from outer space and our governments and corporations know this. Do not be lied to any longer!!! Demand that you be told the truth! All of the latest terrorist attacks are examples of alien mind control. The Niburur are using it to create unrest among the populace so that they will eventually feel good about being under martial law. It will happen! Mark my words!!! Every civilized nation on the planet will be in a state of marital law within the next five years. The only people with any freedom will be the families of the highest government officals and the wealthiest people on the planet. Eveyrone else will be herded into quonset huts and be fed high doses of experimental drugs to prepare them to be docile servants for the Niburu. In exchange, the rich will recieve positions of power within the Niburu empire and access to advanced technologies. Why do you think AMD and Intel have made such strides in the past decade? Not because of better engineers or progress, but because of direct information given to them by the Niburu. Our first x86 chips were based off of the chip designs stolen from the Roswell crash site. Our scientists were only able to make so much progress which is why it took us all the
Procreation? Who cares? We've got a surplus population. Let's reduce it in a humane way by preventing procreation. I say that earth won't be livable until we're down to a total global population of 500,000 people. The only real reason to have sex these days is purely pleasure.
God created man first and then created woman from man's rib. You could argue that males were God's beta and females are the point-ohh release. So this guy has taken God's point-ohh release as a starting point and made something completely different. Since this is his beta, I would imagine that his point-ohh release will be better than human females. Women should be quaking in their boots right now because their replacement is surely at hand.
;P
Imagine the utopia... never needing to talk things over, or develop close relationships with women. Never needing to say "I'm worry, I was wrong". Never needing to go on another shopping trip. Never needing to remember "important dates". And getting laid anytime you want to with porno starlet quality. Yes. the future is so bright, I gotta wear shades. I also think a certain Japanese professor needs to thank Realdoll.com for the body design...
...the best method of making sure an "appliance" doesn't get hacked to run Linux (or any other FOSS OS) is to provide relatively frequent updates that add new features that all users will be dying for. They'll gladly dump the hacks they've applied for cool new functionality that the hack doesn't provide. The second prong here is that before a new update is done, you analyze the code of the popular hacks and then insert code in the update to stop them from working. Very smooth...
...I wasn't there to see him buy it. I really would seriously love to see the death penalty world wide for spam. Kill every rat bastard spammer on the planet. That should send a strong message about just how little I care about the lives of reprehensible spammers.
CODE RED. CODE RED. We have a game consumer that did not watch the complete ad. Possible terrorist suspect. IP nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn has been mapped to geographic location xxxx Ave. NY, NY. Converge on suspect for "good customer" reprogramming. Additional records indicate that suspect has not use his credit card in 2.7 hours rendering him extremely dangerous to the economy.
Be seeing you.
Yay capitalism. It used to be that there were places we could be free of marketing but that time is quickly coming to a close. If these goddamned fucking marketers could stream ads into your daydreams, they'd fucking do it. I have a few things I'd like to stream into the offices of the boneheads who thought this nightmare up.
The force is strong with you. ;P Who is to say that speciation hasn't occurred since there are plenty of groups of people who will never get the chance to try and reproduce due to geographic, social and political boundaries. Who is to say that an American female from New York who is very liberal can successfully reproduce with a fundamentalist of any religious affiliation from some far off land? We'll never know because those pairings are unlikely. Again, I need to clarify that this has nothing to do with race. But I do believe in the possibility that there are probably a handful of people on the planet where mating would fail because they are not genetically compatible. We just haven't found them yet.
I don't know if I can totally agree with that. There are families that have been rich for for centuries (the DuPont family of DuPont Chemical) and show no sign of falling out of their wealth. There are also many more families that have been poor for generations and will continue to be unless there are some major sociological shifts. However, getting back to my original thoughts, I remember an article about a year or so ago that connected political affiliation with brain chemistry. Which leads me to believe that, for example, American Conservatives are American Conservatives more due to genetics than free will. The same with American Liberals. If you really analyze it, there are some startling similarities between all American Liberals. The same with American Conservatives. And these similarities have less to do with environmental influence than they do with the actual affinities of the individual.
Just as a silly example, most American Conservatives tend towards a certain personality type: type A. (I can talk because I have been called type A many times) Most American Liberals tend towards more laid back personalities. Almost laid back enough that they can't get anything done. This is exemplified by the respective abilities of each political philosophy to "get things done". (Note: I'm not slamming liberals here, but face it, as a group liberals are pretty disorganized and sloppy. Conservatives are so highly organized and intensely focused that it's almost criminal to pit them against liberals.) So, I believe that the respective traits of each group indicate a clear divider of types of people that reaches down to a definite gentic difference between them.
I'm not saying that type A vs. comatose if the sole marker of genetic distinction. This is just one feature. I'm willing to bet that if we got the genetic blueprint of every human being on Earth and mapped it to every personality trait, we'd definitely find subgrouping of humans that indicate distinctively different beings. Obviously, we can't really do that right now. And if the day came that we could, we'd probably wind up having one of the groups lobbying to kill off the "lesser" groups and we'd be right back to where we are now, only with genetic science on the side of the bigots.
...the person who submitted the article made an interesting statement by saying the speciation happens regularly. I tend to agree, and so does a lot of what scientists find. So... it stand to reason that there is a lot of speciation going on within the human population. I'm not talking about races. I'm talking about actual differences between humans that result in completely different traits, abilities, etc... Why is it that this live of thought tends to eventually degenerate into some form of "superiority" when one group wants to subjugate another? Why can't we just accept that some differences are genetic and can't be overcome. (Why in the hell didn't this get submitted on Tuesday!!?)
Not every problem. Just the ones that matter. Gamers can go get a dedicated console. PCs suck for gaming anyway.
If it wouldn't run the latest OS the it was not viable. That's why I run Linux now. I can still run FC4 on a dual PII 450 and get very comparable performance to a Pentium 4 running Windows XP Pro.
Linux is the OS most suited to big iron.
If the new models are PowerPC Macs, they may as well give them away. Who in their right mind would buy a Mac that's slated to be junked in a year's time? Oh... that's right. I forgot. Apple fanatics!
This isn't really a slam at Apple users since I used to be one myself. It's just making the point that Apple has always, and apparently still is taken with selling hardware that will only last two years at most. I point back to the original PPC Macs back in the early 90s as my example. My wife bought one in 1994 for $5000 (with a student discount no less). By 1996, it was almost worthless since there were apps that couldn't run on it that she wanted. I almost bought one myself because of the student discount. But... since I couldn't afford $5000, I was forced to go with (BLECH) an Intel box running DOS/WIN3.1. However, for $4000, I got WAY more in hardware and software than she got. And more importantly, The box lasted from 1994 to 2000. That's a little more resonable. I still think computer hardware should last ten years as a standard.
So, you won't see me considering a PPC Mac anytime soon. I was tempted by the Mac Mini a few months back because it's relatively affordable. But, in retrospect, I'm glad I didn't buy it since it would only be viable for about two or three years (to run modern software and use modern periphs that is) anyway.