I am so sick of government's bullshit and doubletalk.
They really should come clean about the fact that they, regardless of the what party they represent, just want to control all of us down to the smallest aspect of our lives.
I have no more faith in the political system and anarchy is starting to look like the lesser of two evils.
The Saturn V was plagued with this in its early development too, since it's a problem that only shows up in flight.
I read about this in Andrew Chaiken's "A Man on the Moon" (an excellent book, by the way!) and wondered why couldn't they simulate it by building model rockets? Obviously the Saturn V engines would be far too complex to model, but the phenomenon itself should be pretty much the same in even a less complex engine.
A FOX NEWS cameraman was accosted by Pentagon Police outside the building on Tuesday -- as he was shooting pictures of an arrest being carried out by Virginia State Police on a highway that runs alongside the Pentagon but outside Pentagon property!
The FOX staffer was ordered to turn over the videotape.
When he balked, he was handcuffed.
His camera was immediately seized and the tape was confiscated.
"Is this America!?" demanded a news producer at the network's DC bureau.
MORE
"He was subsequently released with his camera but the Pentagon is refusing to return the tape," FOX's Brit Hume explained to viewers.
The nation's top-rated all-news channel is preparing to lodge a formal complaint with officials, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Hume calls the episode a "disturbing development" which may reflect on the new "restrictive information policies of the Defense Department."
A FOX Source notes: "We still don't have the tape and they haven't given us any indication of when we might expect it -- It makes you wonder who is on it?"
Just imagine: Senator Rodham-Clinton wearing a black leather corset and leather skirt and high-heel boots telling you to lick her boots and cunt good or else she's going to whip your sorry ass with a riding crop. If you do it well, she's going to reward you by fucking you in the ass with a 9" strap-on dildo.
Carly's would probably be into domination too but perhaps more interested in straight fucking, though.
The CIA got caught with a hand in the Internet cookie jar. The agency removed software from one of its Web sites this week after a private group discovered that the CIA was using banned Internet tracking technology called "cookies," said Mike Stepp, who manages the CIA's public Web site.
"It was a mistake on our part. It was not intentional," Stepp said Tuesday. "The public does not need to be concerned that the CIA is tracking them. We're a bit busy to be doing that."
Cookies are small software files often placed on computers without a person's knowledge. The files can make Internet browsing more convenient by letting sites distinguish user preferences, but they have been criticized for violating privacy because they can track Web surfing.
Uh, you really think that the big stock holders would risk something as big as this operation by not taking care that the official tally will be the right one?
"Who's going to count the votes and how much does he cost?"
Too bad Tesla's experiments you are referring to are pure nonsense when it comes to Physics.
I am quite sick of seeing Tesla being touted as some kind of a misunderstood genius repressed by the evil scientific community. Yeah, he was lucky and had some good ideas but the rest of his ideas such as getting energy out of thin air and death rays are just bollocks.
His legend still lives though because people want to believe that such groundbreaking discoveries could be made by Joe Sixpacks who pump gas for a living and have absolutely no scientific training.
Since no such thing happens in real life, of course there has to be a conspiracy. Facing the reality that studying actually pays off and some of us are smarter than the others must be too hard to face.
I do think this could actually stop some child porn
On the net, that is.
They'll just go back at snail-mailing videos and photos to each other like they've done for decades.
This will also be a boon to the sleazebags who sell the stuff.
I guess the stuff was free on the net, but this kind of witchhunt will actually promote the production and selling of child porn -- in addition to having a chilling effect on the freedom of the speech on the net (What's next? Bare breasts with which Mr. Ashcroft seems to have serious problems?). Way to go!
But if you burn a spot in your retina, it's there forever unless you can get an eye transplant
Except that for most of the time your brain can work around the damage.
I have lost around 13% of the retina in my left eye due to a retinal detatchment. So, I don't have a 20/20 vision in that particular eye and my peripheral vision is affected, but I don't have a black spot that I am aware of either.
It actually takes very specialized test equipment to detect the fault in my eye.
Prejudice, even if based on experience or education
Knowing from first hand experience that fire will burn your hand or that overdosing on prescription drugs is bad for you is OK. The fire will burn you every time and drugs will always do the same.
On the other hand, it is WRONG to judge a human being you have never met based on the experiences you have had with other humans of his/her kind. Why? Because human beings are different. You cannot generalize human behaviour without being a bigot.
Start expressing the opinion that certain things are just absolutely right and others are absolutely wrong.
Well, as far as I know there is no moral absolute. There are only cultural, learnt limits to acceptable behaviour and that changes from one culture to another.
People who really believe that THEY are Right and other people are Wrong are the dangerous ones. They will start wars (both secular and religious) and persecute people who disagree with them to the point of genocide. I, for one, am really concerned about GWB and the current White House cabinet members like Ashcroft and Cheney who see the world in a naive morally black and white fashion.
.doc-compatible Word-processor. KDE/Linux and StarOffice can provide that easily.
StarOffice, Abiword and KOffice are not.doc compatible.
I installed a Linux (Mandrake) workstation at my workplace for the people like undergrad students and lab assistants (who don't have their own offices and computers) to use.
It doesn't work. Or actually, the desktop and general usability is not a problem anymore. Reading e-mail and browsing the web was just fine.
The problem is that MS Office documents cannot be read with the free alternatives reliably enough. Fonts get fucked up, tables and formatting is wrong and whole documents won't open sometimes.
As someone who has been using Linux since 1995 but gotten tired of fiddling with the obscure config files with no proper documentation and standardization instead of getting real work done, I define usability:
Allows a non-geek (I'll admit some technical training here, though) to install the operating system by him/herself so that a manual is required only for occasional troubleshooting in the case of non-standard hardware.
RedHat and Mandrake in particular are almost there. Microsoft has been there for years.
As was pointed out in an excellent interview in the Simpson's World on BBC World, Europe used to be the arsenal of the world until the WW II but after that we finally got it. Stockpiling arms and fighting each other won't get you anywhere. You still don't get it.
A foe today is a friend tomorrow. No point in seeing the world in naive, black and white terms like GWB does. Negotiating a fat and delicious trade agreement with Iraq with enticements for democracy, for instance, would be a much better solution than the gung-ho bomb-the-shit-out-of-the-ragheads American approach.
Ok, if you really, REALLY have to fight (after being really invaded, for instance), then go ahead and fight. Just restrain from bombing the shit out of the enemy because you can do business with them later on.
The old distros like Slackware and Debian suck goat's penis when compared to something that's actually usable out-of-box like Mandrake 8.x or Red Hat 7.x.
Slashdot Mirror
From whom?
The world?
Talk about journalistic integrity.
They really should come clean about the fact that they, regardless of the what party they represent, just want to control all of us down to the smallest aspect of our lives.
I have no more faith in the political system and anarchy is starting to look like the lesser of two evils.
I read about this in Andrew Chaiken's "A Man on the Moon" (an excellent book, by the way!) and wondered why couldn't they simulate it by building model rockets? Obviously the Saturn V engines would be far too complex to model, but the phenomenon itself should be pretty much the same in even a less complex engine.
PENTAGON POLICE GRAB TAPE FROM FOX NEWSMAN
A FOX NEWS cameraman was accosted by Pentagon Police outside the building on Tuesday -- as he was shooting pictures of an arrest being carried out by Virginia State Police on a highway that runs alongside the Pentagon but outside Pentagon property!
The FOX staffer was ordered to turn over the videotape.
When he balked, he was handcuffed.
His camera was immediately seized and the tape was confiscated.
"Is this America!?" demanded a news producer at the network's DC bureau.
MORE
"He was subsequently released with his camera but the Pentagon is refusing to return the tape," FOX's Brit Hume explained to viewers.
The nation's top-rated all-news channel is preparing to lodge a formal complaint with officials, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Hume calls the episode a "disturbing development" which may reflect on the new "restrictive information policies of the Defense Department."
A FOX Source notes: "We still don't have the tape and they haven't given us any indication of when we might expect it -- It makes you wonder who is on it?"
Just imagine: Senator Rodham-Clinton wearing a black leather corset and leather skirt and high-heel boots telling you to lick her boots and cunt good or else she's going to whip your sorry ass with a riding crop. If you do it well, she's going to reward you by fucking you in the ass with a 9" strap-on dildo.
Carly's would probably be into domination too but perhaps more interested in straight fucking, though.
Well, at least the page doesn't have animations and brown text on red background graphics...
That's actually another good reason to build redundant positioning systems.
You haven't dressed him up in a day-glo orange prison outfit, chained and sensory deprived him for a transit flight to Camp X-ray, yet?!
What are you waiting for?
Something about the shape of their heads isn't right, either.
The CIA got caught with a hand in the Internet cookie jar. The agency removed software from one of its Web sites this week after a private group discovered that the CIA was using banned Internet tracking technology called "cookies," said Mike Stepp, who manages the CIA's public Web site.
"It was a mistake on our part. It was not intentional," Stepp said Tuesday. "The public does not need to be concerned that the CIA is tracking them. We're a bit busy to be doing that."
Cookies are small software files often placed on computers without a person's knowledge. The files can make Internet browsing more convenient by letting sites distinguish user preferences, but they have been criticized for violating privacy because they can track Web surfing.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/
Mmm... Carly is like Hillary Clinton. Sexy as hell but not because of her looks but because of the power she wields.
Well, I'll just get laid.
"Who's going to count the votes and how much does he cost?"
I am quite sick of seeing Tesla being touted as some kind of a misunderstood genius repressed by the evil scientific community. Yeah, he was lucky and had some good ideas but the rest of his ideas such as getting energy out of thin air and death rays are just bollocks.
His legend still lives though because people want to believe that such groundbreaking discoveries could be made by Joe Sixpacks who pump gas for a living and have absolutely no scientific training.
Since no such thing happens in real life, of course there has to be a conspiracy. Facing the reality that studying actually pays off and some of us are smarter than the others must be too hard to face.
On the net, that is.
They'll just go back at snail-mailing videos and photos to each other like they've done for decades.
This will also be a boon to the sleazebags who sell the stuff.
I guess the stuff was free on the net, but this kind of witchhunt will actually promote the production and selling of child porn -- in addition to having a chilling effect on the freedom of the speech on the net (What's next? Bare breasts with which Mr. Ashcroft seems to have serious problems?). Way to go!
Have you talked to Jon Katz or Michael Sims? Even Cowboy Neal could probably help you with your problem.
Except that for most of the time your brain can work around the damage.
I have lost around 13% of the retina in my left eye due to a retinal detatchment. So, I don't have a 20/20 vision in that particular eye and my peripheral vision is affected, but I don't have a black spot that I am aware of either.
It actually takes very specialized test equipment to detect the fault in my eye.
Knowing from first hand experience that fire will burn your hand or that overdosing on prescription drugs is bad for you is OK. The fire will burn you every time and drugs will always do the same.
On the other hand, it is WRONG to judge a human being you have never met based on the experiences you have had with other humans of his/her kind. Why? Because human beings are different. You cannot generalize human behaviour without being a bigot.
Start expressing the opinion that certain things are just absolutely right and others are absolutely wrong.
Well, as far as I know there is no moral absolute. There are only cultural, learnt limits to acceptable behaviour and that changes from one culture to another.
People who really believe that THEY are Right and other people are Wrong are the dangerous ones. They will start wars (both secular and religious) and persecute people who disagree with them to the point of genocide. I, for one, am really concerned about GWB and the current White House cabinet members like Ashcroft and Cheney who see the world in a naive morally black and white fashion.
StarOffice, Abiword and KOffice are not .doc compatible.
I installed a Linux (Mandrake) workstation at my workplace for the people like undergrad students and lab assistants (who don't have their own offices and computers) to use.
It doesn't work. Or actually, the desktop and general usability is not a problem anymore. Reading e-mail and browsing the web was just fine.
The problem is that MS Office documents cannot be read with the free alternatives reliably enough. Fonts get fucked up, tables and formatting is wrong and whole documents won't open sometimes.
Too bad Debian is hopelessly out of date for modern hardware. XFree 3.x?!
As someone who has been using Linux since 1995 but gotten tired of fiddling with the obscure config files with no proper documentation and standardization instead of getting real work done, I define usability:
Allows a non-geek (I'll admit some technical training here, though) to install the operating system by him/herself so that a manual is required only for occasional troubleshooting in the case of non-standard hardware.
RedHat and Mandrake in particular are almost there. Microsoft has been there for years.
A foe today is a friend tomorrow. No point in seeing the world in naive, black and white terms like GWB does. Negotiating a fat and delicious trade agreement with Iraq with enticements for democracy, for instance, would be a much better solution than the gung-ho bomb-the-shit-out-of-the-ragheads American approach.
Ok, if you really, REALLY have to fight (after being really invaded, for instance), then go ahead and fight. Just restrain from bombing the shit out of the enemy because you can do business with them later on.
The old distros like Slackware and Debian suck goat's penis when compared to something that's actually usable out-of-box like Mandrake 8.x or Red Hat 7.x.
But how did it all happen?