But mostly, above all, there would be determined finnish army with intention to fight off any invader.
And, if I recall my history correctly, it took about a million Russian troops to finally capture Finland in the second world war. This was a massive embarassment to Russia, as Finland was/is a small country in terms of population. Their miliary wasn't too impressive based on conventional military standards either.
I recall I read somewhere that this left an impression on the Nazis, and may have contributed to Hitler's 'Rotten House' theory ("Russia is a rotten house, just kick the door and the whole thing will come crashing down.") that ultimately lead Germany into an unwinnable conflict with Russia.
Recall that about half the country is above the arctic circle, so cell phnes and computers are great when you can hop a reindeer to visit the next village over. They probably have more net addicts than Korea, since the Internet is an easy to stay in contact with people when it's -20 out.
They also have one of the highest rates of alchoholisim in Europe, and I wonder how many people get waivers for that each year.
But really, what self-respecting Army would pass on a soldier because he spent too much time practicing his BFG9000 skills...
Ok, suppose that TIVO plays along with this little farce. It will pass on the additional expenses to the customers in some form or another. Higher expenses, higher prices. No big deal, right? (I would be pissed though. I hate pro sports, and never watch them, so why should I have to pay anything?)
UNTIL, some SE Asian company makes a Tivo clone that does everything that a tivo does, EXCEPT pay attention to broadcast flags, or pay 'protection' fees to the NFL. Now they have a product that is better, and cheaper, because it left a feature out. Basically they have built a better mousetrap by not adding something on.
Adding 'features' like CSS, Macrovision, Broadcast flags, and Trusted Computing Controls will ALWAYS fail because if you have a single company/person who decides not to play by the rules, they can build a better product by simply not doing adding in the encryption features.
preventing up to 75% of advertising from making it to web pages and surfers' eyes
That wasn't a DoS attack, it was 75% of the Internet switching to Mozilla and Firefox after the story earlier today about YAIEH. (Yet Another IE Hole. We need more acronyms on/. It's also the sound you make when hit with a drive-by installer. YAIIEEEHHH!)
Would they be correct in saying that, since I cannot code,
Hey, this guy is a NORMAL! Who let him in here? Don't we have a rule about people like this? Next thing you know, the non-coders are going to be wanting to sit at the front of the bus and marry our geekettes! HARUMPH!
(This message was sarcasim, for the humor-challenged out there. See, he's going on about elitist attitudes, and I, well- oh, forget it.)
It seems to me that Apple is falling into the sam e small minded, control-freakish attitude that many companies are these days.
Sure Real may have 'h@xx0r3d' the IPod. So what? It may set a presidence, but so what? If Real, and MS start modding your hardware to use their formats, the platform is being cemented that much more as the defacto standard. MS ofor example, would love OpenGL to die, so directX is the only option for developers, as it will keep people on their platform.
Wake up and smell the napalm, Apple. Real is doing you a favor. They could be helping out the competition.
...So, someone needs to call up the US military, and tell them to put middle eastern languages specialist up on the P2P services, and see if the 'opposition' has let anything slip.
Sure, security is probably tight in a terrorist cell, but who knows what might be found, right?
I knew that this would happen eventually, after I saw what happened to Jackie Chan in 'Cannonball Run'. Not only was that movie a good wholesome, quality film, it contatined social warnings about the dangers of future technologies.
I had a problem with my Earthlink service recently, and sent them an e-mail about it. I got the standard questionare back asking for information about the problem. (what OS do you use? What Browser? Etc.) One of the questions asked, "What kind of computer are you using? (PC, Apple, Dell, Gateway or IBM-Clone)"
Christopher Columbus is a FANTASTIC example. Many times science has been advanced when someone with modest goals embarks on an endeavour, and stumbles on something fantastic. What untold discoverys lie in the vastness of space? ("There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
--Hamlet) What important discoveries will be made when we solve the problems that space travel presents? With a universe that is 'bylluns and bylluns' of light years across, what kind of foolishness is it to say that there is nothing worth seeing or doing but that which is on our own porch?
One of Mankind's greatest abilities is to be able to envision a goal, and strive to achieve it. He would never achieve space travel, because he is ready to give up right now.
I was just shooting for a dramatic musical sting. Your suggestion of using the Dragnet theme is an excellent one, however.
Since we are being picky about the proper nuiances of humming old musical phrases, I feel obligated to point out that "DAAA-DA-DUM-DUM-DUMMMMM!" only has 2 As, but 5 Ms.
"Google" is based off the word "Googleplex", a very large number.
Googles claim to fame is that they index a large number of pages, although not quite a googleplex (yet). It is not related to the word 'Frugal' in any way I can connect. 'Froogle' seems to be a bastardization of 'Frugal' and 'Google'.
If Google really wanted the domain name gone, couldn't they make a claim of Trademark infringment?
Actually you do, and heres why. If he should slam on his breaks, you will almost instantly hit him. The force you hit him with will be minimal, as he will not have had any time to slow down. Basic physics says if you rear end someone who is doing 68mph, when you are doing 70, will produce a 2mph impact.
Now, you say, wouldn't it be better to have enough room to stop completely, and NOT hit them at all? An excellent idea, but you have to have quite a bit of space to go from 70 to 0 + plus the delta distance you travel in the two tenths of a second that is required for you to react.
Now that is a far mor ideal sutiation, but if you have driven on a freeway in any mahor city, you know that the volume of traffic during a busy period will preclude a 50 foot spacing between each car. With a 15 foot spacing, you only insure that when the person infront of you slams on the brakes, that you will hit them pretty hard.
Lesser of two evils, I'll take the 1 foot spacing.
This is the point in the converstaion where all the Spammer-hunters jump in, and post her address, home phone number, HS year book pictures and DMV records.
Any time now.
Waiting...
Awe, come on, you sick twisted stalkers, you can't keep all the nice ones to yourself!
"Friends, The legislation I propose today, will make our great country a better place. In this doccument is decisive legislation to outlaw that menace to all, Orin Hatch!
When it is passed, he will be placed in a wooden box (with plenty of food and water), and shipped to the place where he can do the most damage: North Korea. We expect the regime to be toppled within two weeks of his arrival."
One thing you might consider is calling the authorities, and filing a fraud report. The Philadelphia FBI office may be interested in this guy. IANAL, but I believe that interstate fraud is their juridiction.
One thing am though, is the son of a Postmaster. Postmasters are the people who are in charge of your local post-office. My father has worked with federal postal inspectors before, dealing with cases of mail theft, mail fraud, etc. These are people who take their jobs very seriously, and you might give them a ring and see if this guy's activites falls into their sphere of influence. Mail system related crimes don't cary light sentinces.
Didn't George Jr. announce that we were going to start getting back into the space race bisnuess again awhile back? I believe that it was a reactionary announcement made after the Chinese announced that they would take the socialist workers struggle to the moon within ten years.
While I don't really think that we need to try to compete with the Chinese in space, it seemed like a decent idea to get back to a real space exploration program again.
Someone ought to point out to JR. that space exploration isn't helped by cutting budgets. Ecenomic realitys are importan considerations, but wouldn't the administration have know that the money probably wouldn't be there?
Instead of acclaimed artists, musicians, writers, scientists, community volunteers and entrepreneurs taking the title Sir or Dame, they would become Companions of Honour.
Who would want to be called a 'Companion of Honour'? It sounds like a fancy name for a pricy hooker.
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But mostly, above all, there would be determined finnish army with intention to fight off any invader.
;-)
And, if I recall my history correctly, it took about a million Russian troops to finally capture Finland in the second world war. This was a massive embarassment to Russia, as Finland was/is a small country in terms of population. Their miliary wasn't too impressive based on conventional military standards either.
I recall I read somewhere that this left an impression on the Nazis, and may have contributed to Hitler's 'Rotten House' theory ("Russia is a rotten house, just kick the door and the whole thing will come crashing down.") that ultimately lead Germany into an unwinnable conflict with Russia.
Never mess with a Finn
Recall that about half the country is above the arctic circle, so cell phnes and computers are great when you can hop a reindeer to visit the next village over. They probably have more net addicts than Korea, since the Internet is an easy to stay in contact with people when it's -20 out.
They also have one of the highest rates of alchoholisim in Europe, and I wonder how many people get waivers for that each year.
But really, what self-respecting Army would pass on a soldier because he spent too much time practicing his BFG9000 skills...
Ok, suppose that TIVO plays along with this little farce. It will pass on the additional expenses to the customers in some form or another. Higher expenses, higher prices. No big deal, right? (I would be pissed though. I hate pro sports, and never watch them, so why should I have to pay anything?)
UNTIL, some SE Asian company makes a Tivo clone that does everything that a tivo does, EXCEPT pay attention to broadcast flags, or pay 'protection' fees to the NFL. Now they have a product that is better, and cheaper, because it left a feature out. Basically they have built a better mousetrap by not adding something on.
Adding 'features' like CSS, Macrovision, Broadcast flags, and Trusted Computing Controls will ALWAYS fail because if you have a single company/person who decides not to play by the rules, they can build a better product by simply not doing adding in the encryption features.
preventing up to 75% of advertising from making it to web pages and surfers' eyes
/. It's also the sound you make when hit with a drive-by installer. YAIIEEEHHH!)
That wasn't a DoS attack, it was 75% of the Internet switching to Mozilla and Firefox after the story earlier today about YAIEH. (Yet Another IE Hole. We need more acronyms on
The IT colorscheme still sucks.
Would they be correct in saying that, since I cannot code,
Hey, this guy is a NORMAL! Who let him in here? Don't we have a rule about people like this? Next thing you know, the non-coders are going to be wanting to sit at the front of the bus and marry our geekettes! HARUMPH!
(This message was sarcasim, for the humor-challenged out there. See, he's going on about elitist attitudes, and I, well- oh, forget it.)
It seems to me that Apple is falling into the sam e small minded, control-freakish attitude that many companies are these days. Sure Real may have 'h@xx0r3d' the IPod. So what? It may set a presidence, but so what? If Real, and MS start modding your hardware to use their formats, the platform is being cemented that much more as the defacto standard. MS ofor example, would love OpenGL to die, so directX is the only option for developers, as it will keep people on their platform.
Wake up and smell the napalm, Apple. Real is doing you a favor. They could be helping out the competition.
...So, someone needs to call up the US military, and tell them to put middle eastern languages specialist up on the P2P services, and see if the 'opposition' has let anything slip.
Sure, security is probably tight in a terrorist cell, but who knows what might be found, right?
..and I can't figure out how to get PINE to display HTML mail. What is this 'spam' you speak of?
Idiot. I didn't say we need to bast off tomorrow. Read my posting again, particularly the part about 'developing the technology needed'.
I suppose it's too much to RTFA, but try to read the comment that you are posting to, spanky.
No, not a Turing machine. That would require that I could spell worth a damn.
And, while I'm at it, how do I know that you aren't just a script?
I knew that this would happen eventually, after I saw what happened to Jackie Chan in 'Cannonball Run'. Not only was that movie a good wholesome, quality film, it contatined social warnings about the dangers of future technologies.
"CAPTAIN CHAOS! DUM-DUM-DUM!"
I had a problem with my Earthlink service recently, and sent them an e-mail about it. I got the standard questionare back asking for information about the problem. (what OS do you use? What Browser? Etc.) One of the questions asked, "What kind of computer are you using? (PC, Apple, Dell, Gateway or IBM-Clone)"
I told them I was using a Touring Machine.
Christopher Columbus is a FANTASTIC example. Many times science has been advanced when someone with modest goals embarks on an endeavour, and stumbles on something fantastic. What untold discoverys lie in the vastness of space? ("There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --Hamlet) What important discoveries will be made when we solve the problems that space travel presents? With a universe that is 'bylluns and bylluns' of light years across, what kind of foolishness is it to say that there is nothing worth seeing or doing but that which is on our own porch?
One of Mankind's greatest abilities is to be able to envision a goal, and strive to achieve it. He would never achieve space travel, because he is ready to give up right now.
I was just shooting for a dramatic musical sting. Your suggestion of using the Dragnet theme is an excellent one, however.
Since we are being picky about the proper nuiances of humming old musical phrases, I feel obligated to point out that "DAAA-DA-DUM-DUM-DUMMMMM!" only has 2 As, but 5 Ms.
"Google" is based off the word "Googleplex", a very large number.
Googles claim to fame is that they index a large number of pages, although not quite a googleplex (yet). It is not related to the word 'Frugal' in any way I can connect. 'Froogle' seems to be a bastardization of 'Frugal' and 'Google'.
If Google really wanted the domain name gone, couldn't they make a claim of Trademark infringment?
..will the car drive around all day long honking incessantly?
How will we be able to tell if there is a traffic jam ahead, or several cars filled with teenagers?
Damn teenagers.
Actually, I was just making a educated guess, to illustrate the overall point, but thanks for showing everyone the math.
Actually you do, and heres why. If he should slam on his breaks, you will almost instantly hit him. The force you hit him with will be minimal, as he will not have had any time to slow down. Basic physics says if you rear end someone who is doing 68mph, when you are doing 70, will produce a 2mph impact.
Now, you say, wouldn't it be better to have enough room to stop completely, and NOT hit them at all? An excellent idea, but you have to have quite a bit of space to go from 70 to 0 + plus the delta distance you travel in the two tenths of a second that is required for you to react.
Now that is a far mor ideal sutiation, but if you have driven on a freeway in any mahor city, you know that the volume of traffic during a busy period will preclude a 50 foot spacing between each car. With a 15 foot spacing, you only insure that when the person infront of you slams on the brakes, that you will hit them pretty hard.
Lesser of two evils, I'll take the 1 foot spacing.
This is the point in the converstaion where all the Spammer-hunters jump in, and post her address, home phone number, HS year book pictures and DMV records.
Any time now.
Waiting...
Awe, come on, you sick twisted stalkers, you can't keep all the nice ones to yourself!
"Friends, The legislation I propose today, will make our great country a better place. In this doccument is decisive legislation to outlaw that menace to all, Orin Hatch!
When it is passed, he will be placed in a wooden box (with plenty of food and water), and shipped to the place where he can do the most damage: North Korea. We expect the regime to be toppled within two weeks of his arrival."
One thing you might consider is calling the authorities, and filing a fraud report. The Philadelphia FBI office may be interested in this guy. IANAL, but I believe that interstate fraud is their juridiction.
One thing am though, is the son of a Postmaster. Postmasters are the people who are in charge of your local post-office. My father has worked with federal postal inspectors before, dealing with cases of mail theft, mail fraud, etc. These are people who take their jobs very seriously, and you might give them a ring and see if this guy's activites falls into their sphere of influence. Mail system related crimes don't cary light sentinces.
"I'm sorry teacher, but I put my homework on one of those new super DVDs, and it got MadCow disease."
Didn't George Jr. announce that we were going to start getting back into the space race bisnuess again awhile back? I believe that it was a reactionary announcement made after the Chinese announced that they would take the socialist workers struggle to the moon within ten years.
While I don't really think that we need to try to compete with the Chinese in space, it seemed like a decent idea to get back to a real space exploration program again.
Someone ought to point out to JR. that space exploration isn't helped by cutting budgets. Ecenomic realitys are importan considerations, but wouldn't the administration have know that the money probably wouldn't be there?
From the artilec in the parent post...
Instead of acclaimed artists, musicians, writers, scientists, community volunteers and entrepreneurs taking the title Sir or Dame, they would become Companions of Honour.
Who would want to be called a 'Companion of Honour'? It sounds like a fancy name for a pricy hooker.
Imagine being 10 years old and seeing a japanese bukake video and thinking that's normal.
Imagine being any age, seeing a bukake video, and thingking that's normal.