omg i'm still drunk from last night.
I guess i'll have to stick to Visual Basic until I sober up to deal with my terminal (using it drunk is like MUDing with 2400 baud--no fun!)
Go programmers, go! With most programmers working in near-factory conditions under near-war-fighting stress, what hope does the average nerd have to protect the technology of the country from the hands of closed-source-money-making corporations that forced the nerds into cubicles in the first place?
Unionize! Organize! I mean, hell, we created that king of organization himself, Mr. Networked Computer. Computer programmers should have as much political power as the computer owners themselves. In this manner, we can guarantee that no man, woman, or child will be forced to use undocumented code again! Everyone can program! Children in the streets, programming with their friends and thinking "man thank god the programmers offer their knowledge so readily and made this LISP syntax so easy to understand!" or maybe "shit if it wasn't for those programmers I'd be living in a police state".
People would love programmers, and hence not only pay them more, but also offer them more sex. C'mon nerds, you want sex, right?! Power to the people!
Actually this analogy is biased because it is based on the human cognitive structures, which can't picture things moving around in the absence of space (as in things are either P or not P). The inability of the human brain to think outside of these limitations is whats screwing us over with people looking for the Theory of Everything. The spoon after all, isn't even there.
Can someone please explain to me what the hell.NET is? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I mean, first of all, why the upgrade? Why not just stick with visual basic and visual C++ as they are? Aren't there already libraries enough for these huge expensive windows compilers? And second, why XML? Last time I tried to use XML I was typing syntax for several seconds for every data entry I wanted to do, and it seemed like a big fat waste of time to me. What's so much easier about storing database files in plain text where every entry is marked-up with extra syntax, as opposed to a traditional database, where the table is defined only once? And why bother with C# when we just heard about Sun urging its own people not to bother with Java? All these corporate-sponsored "revolutions" and languages are all smoke and mirrors.
He may be off the mark but you didn't explain anything! Can you say anything more than.NET is a "container" or a "framwork"? I mean, hell, my whole damn computer is a framework for my applications that I write. I mean, are we talking cross-platform interface, a database interface, a money-sucking purposefully confusing interface to keep us open source programmers down?!
Agreed!.NET was announced how long ago? Two years? I forget though it seems like at least one, and still, no one knows what it is?!?! That can only mean its some b.s. marketing ploy designed to keep people hitched onto the Microsoft train..NET will suck you down, bleed you dry. And in the end, you'll still have security holes!
I mean, you don't understand that the Web is the next TV, but with more money?! They're gonna rape the Web and stick it in a box and in the process make a few billion dollars. Microsoft realizes this and currently figures that pissing off a bunch of impotent computer jocks is worth the short-term flack in exchange for the long-term gain of hundreds of billions of slick new US Greenbacks.
Isn't this too slow of a shell to be useful except for, say, exploiting for backdoors? I mean hell you might as well be running a shell with the Doom3 engine.
Oh how I love the CIA! The F-B-I! If it wasn't for them, my life would be subsumed in "data torrents" from a "posse" of "memory stealers".
Seriously though, this publication is one of the most inflamatory, pro-fascist writings out there...it is sent, after all, to all the civil service workers, which is one reason the article is so lacking on technical data and spends a couple thousand words instead on attempting to simultaneously scare the shit out of whoever reads this b.s. and comfort the reader into coodling big brother as He rides in to save the day.
Hey so you think that this part of the Military's grand plan Orson Scott Card style? I mean, it would be great if they could hook up, say, a team of Special Forces soldiers to a computer in a way that some 12-year-old kid, you know, one of those kids with lightning-sharp reflexes, direct the troops. A human-warrior simulator, to be precise, and this kid, well, we all know how good little kids can be at video games, right?
"I can't remember the name of the weapon system, but they used to have a device that used microwaves to explode artillery in the air. The shrapnel generated was a problem, but it was better than taking a direct hit..."
From somewhere about 7,000km to 52,000km above the earth lies whats called the Van Allen Belts, which are basically the magnetic fields of the earth sucking in high energy particles...the Department of Defense (renamed from the War Department) after WWII began experimenting with exploding nuclear weapons up in these atmospheric belts. These experiments were also concerned with EMP bursts and the resulting loss of radio communications. They found out from these experiments (Argus in '58, Starfish '62, Russian experiments later in '62) that they could create new radiation belts around the earth, you know, really fuck with the atmosphere.
Anyway this led up to the Solar Power Satellite Project, whose purpose, among other things, was to place 60 satellites the size of Manhattan into space, collect the solar energy, and then beam it to earth with microwaves.
Following Argus and Starfish, people are noticing that by burning holes in the ionosphere , you can disrupt communications over a wide area. This led some people to review the Solar Power Satellite plan, which is the precursor to Star Wars, because the microwave beams from these satellites could of course be used as weapons, either to knock out other satellites, terrorize people on the ground, knock out ICBMs, and, yes, burn holes in the ionosphere. There were also some experiments with the space shuttle in 1981 where they dumped some gases (like chlorine) into the ionosphere and were able to "induce ionospheric holes."
In 1986 the military is still experimenting with beam weapons...they attempted to set off a hydrogen bomb in one room, and then--get this engineers!--close the door to the room so fast that only one radiation beam would enter. This could be used as beam weapon. As you can guess, it didn't work, and alot of people suffered from the fallout, mostly blamed on the Chernobyl accident.
Which leads us up to 1993, with the HAARP program in Gakona, Alaska (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program). Basically rather than use a satellite in space, they decided to build a big generator to shoot something like 3.6 GW into the atmosphere. Basically its like microwaving the atmosphere. It also has the "added benefit" of being able to shoot the beam at ICBMs, etc etc. Anyway I'm getting tired of typing, but my point is that the program you're looking for is probally HAARP. Theres plenty information available, I suggest Google.
"I can't remember the name of the weapon system, but they used to have a device that used microwaves to explode artillery in the air. The shrapnel generated was a problem, but it was better than taking a direct hit..."
From somewhere about 7,000km to 52,000km above the earth lies whats called the Van Allen Belts, which are basically the magnetic fields of the earth sucking in high energy particles...the Department of Defense (renamed from the War Department) after WWII began experimenting with exploding nuclear weapons up in these atmospheric belts. These experiments were also concerned with EMP bursts and the resulting loss of radio communications. They found out from these experiments (Argus in '58, Starfish '62, Russian experiments later in '62) that they could create new radiation belts around the earth, you know, really fuck with the atmosphere.
Anyway this led up to the Solar Power Satellite Project, whose purpose, among other things, was to place 60 satellites the size of Manhattan into space, collect the solar energy, and then beam it to earth with microwaves.
Following Argus and Starfish, people are noticing that by burning holes in the ionosphere , you can disrupt communications over a wide area. This led some people to review the Solar Power Satellite plan, which is the precursor to Star Wars, because the microwave beams from these satellites could of course be used as weapons, either to knock out other satellites, terrorize people on the ground, knock out ICBMs, and, yes, burn holes in the ionosphere. There were also some experiments with the space shuttle in 1981 where they dumped some gases (like chlorine) into the ionosphere and were able to "induce ionospheric holes."
In 1986 the military is still experimenting with beam weapons...they attempted to set off a hydrogen bomb in one room, and then--get this engineers!--close the door to the room so fast that only one radiation beam would enter. This could be used as
So, do you think you got ram-rodded by the feds? Do we live in a police state? WIll it be possible in the future to connect to the internet with a cell phone and laptop, without anyone knowing immediately where that person is?
Hey whoever killed my karma and deleted all my hard earned mod points just because I modded a troll as Funny can fucking suck it you lame ass four eyed nerd.
Heres a better analogy. Ships. Your average person couldn't buy a ship in Europe and sail to America. They had to whore themselves out for 7 years to pay off the right to travel there. It'll be the same with space travel. And you're really not thinking big enough here. Think BIG. Think, Americans can now use Airplanes (well, maybe HALF of them), and 3/4 of the rest of the world can't either. The reason that consumer products get shelved out to the "common man", or seem like they do, is only because of the rising standard of living that comes with being as ass-kicking militaristic country. You have no military, your economy will sink, and the wealth will never trickle down to the masses. Just look at Japan since 1988.
Because originally, EVERYONE paid for it (i.e. through public taxes), and if its privatized, than only the RICH people will be able to use it. That, my friends, is theft. Go ahead, look it up.
Fascists are everywhere because war is everywhere! War is everywhere because people are everywhere! People are everywhere because FOOD is everywhere! Food is everywhere because.....? Fire? Brains? Luck? Sex?! You decide! Either war, we're fucked!
Well, you're missing the point, because they do profit from it. In case you didn't know, a chief reason drugs cost so much in this country is because their importation is handled by a racket involving, among others, the CIA. You'll notice for example, that right after the drug economy of afghanistan was shut down by the Taliban, threatening the economies of Pakistan, the US, and eastern Europe, that they were removed from power. Drugs now flow out of the country at a rapid rate. There is no war on drugs. It was a war FOR drugs.
That's because in 1980 there were barely any computer games, and the people playing them were used to ignoring some of the "gliches" that sometimes came with them. Now people want a game that works out of the box, and go ahead, just try to sell a game packaged in a zip lock bag at Best Buy. It won't happen because the standards bar has risen quite a bit. Now, if it was spread around the internet for free before someone tried to sell it with a crappy manual, then sure, maybe that might work. But that's different and involves alot of luck too.
I modded it as funny, because it is.
Unfortunally some lame fag decided to not only reverse that but then proceeded to take away all my mod points. If thats how it works around here, then I hope the servers running this thing get fried tonight. Dumb ass moderators. Getting their panties all in a hitch for a story that should have never been posted. FUCKING LAME! See this.
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omg i'm still drunk from last night. I guess i'll have to stick to Visual Basic until I sober up to deal with my terminal (using it drunk is like MUDing with 2400 baud--no fun!)
is "Will your card support Doom III"©
Personally, I'm still pissed LISP machines never took off©
Unionize! Organize! I mean, hell, we created that king of organization himself, Mr. Networked Computer. Computer programmers should have as much political power as the computer owners themselves. In this manner, we can guarantee that no man, woman, or child will be forced to use undocumented code again! Everyone can program! Children in the streets, programming with their friends and thinking "man thank god the programmers offer their knowledge so readily and made this LISP syntax so easy to understand!" or maybe "shit if it wasn't for those programmers I'd be living in a police state".
People would love programmers, and hence not only pay them more, but also offer them more sex. C'mon nerds, you want sex, right?! Power to the people!
Actually this analogy is biased because it is based on the human cognitive structures, which can't picture things moving around in the absence of space (as in things are either P or not P). The inability of the human brain to think outside of these limitations is whats screwing us over with people looking for the Theory of Everything. The spoon after all, isn't even there.
Can someone please explain to me what the hell .NET is? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I mean, first of all, why the upgrade? Why not just stick with visual basic and visual C++ as they are? Aren't there already libraries enough for these huge expensive windows compilers? And second, why XML? Last time I tried to use XML I was typing syntax for several seconds for every data entry I wanted to do, and it seemed like a big fat waste of time to me. What's so much easier about storing database files in plain text where every entry is marked-up with extra syntax, as opposed to a traditional database, where the table is defined only once? And why bother with C# when we just heard about Sun urging its own people not to bother with Java? All these corporate-sponsored "revolutions" and languages are all smoke and mirrors.
He may be off the mark but you didn't explain anything! Can you say anything more than .NET is a "container" or a "framwork"? I mean, hell, my whole damn computer is a framework for my applications that I write. I mean, are we talking cross-platform interface, a database interface, a money-sucking purposefully confusing interface to keep us open source programmers down?!
Agreed! .NET was announced how long ago? Two years? I forget though it seems like at least one, and still, no one knows what it is?!?! That can only mean its some b.s. marketing ploy designed to keep people hitched onto the Microsoft train. .NET will suck you down, bleed you dry. And in the end, you'll still have security holes!
I mean, you don't understand that the Web is the next TV, but with more money?! They're gonna rape the Web and stick it in a box and in the process make a few billion dollars. Microsoft realizes this and currently figures that pissing off a bunch of impotent computer jocks is worth the short-term flack in exchange for the long-term gain of hundreds of billions of slick new US Greenbacks.
Isn't this too slow of a shell to be useful except for, say, exploiting for backdoors? I mean hell you might as well be running a shell with the Doom3 engine.
What, you haven't seen Flash-formatted porn yet?!?!
Seriously though, this publication is one of the most inflamatory, pro-fascist writings out there...it is sent, after all, to all the civil service workers, which is one reason the article is so lacking on technical data and spends a couple thousand words instead on attempting to simultaneously scare the shit out of whoever reads this b.s. and comfort the reader into coodling big brother as He rides in to save the day.
Hey so you think that this part of the Military's grand plan Orson Scott Card style? I mean, it would be great if they could hook up, say, a team of Special Forces soldiers to a computer in a way that some 12-year-old kid, you know, one of those kids with lightning-sharp reflexes, direct the troops. A human-warrior simulator, to be precise, and this kid, well, we all know how good little kids can be at video games, right?
From somewhere about 7,000km to 52,000km above the earth lies whats called the Van Allen Belts, which are basically the magnetic fields of the earth sucking in high energy particles...the Department of Defense (renamed from the War Department) after WWII began experimenting with exploding nuclear weapons up in these atmospheric belts. These experiments were also concerned with EMP bursts and the resulting loss of radio communications. They found out from these experiments (Argus in '58, Starfish '62, Russian experiments later in '62) that they could create new radiation belts around the earth, you know, really fuck with the atmosphere.
Anyway this led up to the Solar Power Satellite Project, whose purpose, among other things, was to place 60 satellites the size of Manhattan into space, collect the solar energy, and then beam it to earth with microwaves.
Following Argus and Starfish, people are noticing that by burning holes in the ionosphere , you can disrupt communications over a wide area. This led some people to review the Solar Power Satellite plan, which is the precursor to Star Wars, because the microwave beams from these satellites could of course be used as weapons, either to knock out other satellites, terrorize people on the ground, knock out ICBMs, and, yes, burn holes in the ionosphere. There were also some experiments with the space shuttle in 1981 where they dumped some gases (like chlorine) into the ionosphere and were able to "induce ionospheric holes."
In 1986 the military is still experimenting with beam weapons...they attempted to set off a hydrogen bomb in one room, and then--get this engineers!--close the door to the room so fast that only one radiation beam would enter. This could be used as beam weapon. As you can guess, it didn't work, and alot of people suffered from the fallout, mostly blamed on the Chernobyl accident.
Which leads us up to 1993, with the HAARP program in Gakona, Alaska (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program). Basically rather than use a satellite in space, they decided to build a big generator to shoot something like 3.6 GW into the atmosphere. Basically its like microwaving the atmosphere. It also has the "added benefit" of being able to shoot the beam at ICBMs, etc etc. Anyway I'm getting tired of typing, but my point is that the program you're looking for is probally HAARP. Theres plenty information available, I suggest Google.
From somewhere about 7,000km to 52,000km above the earth lies whats called the Van Allen Belts, which are basically the magnetic fields of the earth sucking in high energy particles...the Department of Defense (renamed from the War Department) after WWII began experimenting with exploding nuclear weapons up in these atmospheric belts. These experiments were also concerned with EMP bursts and the resulting loss of radio communications. They found out from these experiments (Argus in '58, Starfish '62, Russian experiments later in '62) that they could create new radiation belts around the earth, you know, really fuck with the atmosphere.
Anyway this led up to the Solar Power Satellite Project, whose purpose, among other things, was to place 60 satellites the size of Manhattan into space, collect the solar energy, and then beam it to earth with microwaves.
Following Argus and Starfish, people are noticing that by burning holes in the ionosphere , you can disrupt communications over a wide area. This led some people to review the Solar Power Satellite plan, which is the precursor to Star Wars, because the microwave beams from these satellites could of course be used as weapons, either to knock out other satellites, terrorize people on the ground, knock out ICBMs, and, yes, burn holes in the ionosphere. There were also some experiments with the space shuttle in 1981 where they dumped some gases (like chlorine) into the ionosphere and were able to "induce ionospheric holes."
In 1986 the military is still experimenting with beam weapons...they attempted to set off a hydrogen bomb in one room, and then--get this engineers!--close the door to the room so fast that only one radiation beam would enter. This could be used as
So, do you think you got ram-rodded by the feds? Do we live in a police state? WIll it be possible in the future to connect to the internet with a cell phone and laptop, without anyone knowing immediately where that person is?
We might as well just seperate the rich and the poor in one fell swoop! You can't deny poor people the right to use port 25 just because they're poor!
Hey whoever killed my karma and deleted all my hard earned mod points just because I modded a troll as Funny can fucking suck it you lame ass four eyed nerd.
Heres a better analogy. Ships. Your average person couldn't buy a ship in Europe and sail to America. They had to whore themselves out for 7 years to pay off the right to travel there. It'll be the same with space travel. And you're really not thinking big enough here. Think BIG. Think, Americans can now use Airplanes (well, maybe HALF of them), and 3/4 of the rest of the world can't either. The reason that consumer products get shelved out to the "common man", or seem like they do, is only because of the rising standard of living that comes with being as ass-kicking militaristic country. You have no military, your economy will sink, and the wealth will never trickle down to the masses. Just look at Japan since 1988.
Because originally, EVERYONE paid for it (i.e. through public taxes), and if its privatized, than only the RICH people will be able to use it. That, my friends, is theft. Go ahead, look it up.
Fascists are everywhere because war is everywhere! War is everywhere because people are everywhere! People are everywhere because FOOD is everywhere! Food is everywhere because.....? Fire? Brains? Luck? Sex?! You decide! Either war, we're fucked!
Well, you're missing the point, because they do profit from it. In case you didn't know, a chief reason drugs cost so much in this country is because their importation is handled by a racket involving, among others, the CIA. You'll notice for example, that right after the drug economy of afghanistan was shut down by the Taliban, threatening the economies of Pakistan, the US, and eastern Europe, that they were removed from power. Drugs now flow out of the country at a rapid rate. There is no war on drugs. It was a war FOR drugs.
That's because in 1980 there were barely any computer games, and the people playing them were used to ignoring some of the "gliches" that sometimes came with them. Now people want a game that works out of the box, and go ahead, just try to sell a game packaged in a zip lock bag at Best Buy. It won't happen because the standards bar has risen quite a bit. Now, if it was spread around the internet for free before someone tried to sell it with a crappy manual, then sure, maybe that might work. But that's different and involves alot of luck too.
I modded it as funny, because it is. Unfortunally some lame fag decided to not only reverse that but then proceeded to take away all my mod points. If thats how it works around here, then I hope the servers running this thing get fried tonight. Dumb ass moderators. Getting their panties all in a hitch for a story that should have never been posted. FUCKING LAME! See this.