The way recent events are going we are on the eve of our destruction. I think you are right, we don't have to think about it for a while; perhaps millions of years even.
Well said!!! I wasn't trying to say one system was better then another, only that some Canadian people aren't represented well or even hardly. I think what you wrote was excellent. The problem is especially well exemplified in the west vs. east issue.
Actually Chretien is able to bully his MP's around to a degree that destroys the democratic process. If an MP brings up an issue that his constituents feel strongly about, but the PM doesn't like; the MP can be sent to the back bench. Worse his riding can be taken away if Chretien gets too mad. Majority or not MP's can not represent their people. Representation is the name of the democratic game. Even the Soviets had elections, but big deal.
Ever hear of carnivore? The only difference is that the Chinese admit they eavesdrop and monitor internet activity. Which is better; monitored internet or spy internet? Why did those terrorists encrypt their e-mails? If they didn't they would have been found out, and not because they were under surveillance, if they had been, things would have turned out a whole lot differently. Before pointing fingers take a look around and think about what you see, not what you're fed.
The Canadian Dictator Chretien (or whatever his name is) will just do whatever he wants anyway. I've seen Canada and the people have no real voice. Some of the stupid ones think they do.
I go to games just to watch cheerleaders!! I don't find geeks nearly as interesting. Funny huh.
Jon... come on.. You're giving us weirdoes a bad name. Lets declare war on apple pie and shoot are mom's cause she lied about that Santa thing. Face facts. We like lies. If we ever told ourselves the truth, let alone were told, we would have to change our entire way of life. Now that stinks and it doesn't smell like urine either. Naw I like cheeseburgers and big cars, atomic bombs and 7-11 big gulps, oh and cheerleaders too. So leave us alone or face the fury of denial!!!
Funny... XBox and Hot Mail both run linux/unix and they work. Why wouldn't we want the same thing for our cell phones? Besides most cell phones couldn't display the "blue screen of death" properly. I hope we don't have to start upgrading our phones so they can. Maybe Microsoft is going to start building phones too. Gawed they sure is clever huh... What next, cars? I can see it now. Every stoplight will require you to restart/boot you're engine.
I would like to bring something else to everyones attention that seems relevant; a study done in England. During the 1960s doctors gave shunts to some patients with "water on the brain." These poor people didn't have much hope for a quality life as others do. When researchers went back to see how these children were doing in the 1980s, they found, astonishingly, that they had IQ's of around 120 and were all able to finish university.
After further investigation it was found that only a very small portion of their brains were functioning (a small bit in the cerebellum I believe). I am sorry to say I don't remember who did this study, but I hope someone who reads this will and post more details. I am sure I have gotten some details wrong, so please don't flame me. I just remember this as very interesting since it seemed to be a radicaly change from the way we see the brain.
Wouldn't we have had to have landed on the moon in order to bounce laser light off the "junk" left behind. Lets wait till that Japanese lunar probe verifies that we actually landed there before buying into this one. Lasers sheeeesh what next nuclear rockets? Get a grip.
I would pay for a ticket to send someone to mars. We could have a world wide lottery and the poor sap... oops I mean lucky winner could go to mars. Hey it might end the need for war trials.
Fair enough, I won't argue with someone from the front lines, but, there are other examples. A trial is underway to try and get people to store their mp3's online, so they can be charged per listen (and obviously not share with friends). Application servers are the same thing. I have just noticed a marketing trend which seems aimed at controlling and/or removing content from peoples computers. I find it funny that as our machines get faster and can hold more, the idea that they shouldn't seems to grow stronger. I don't think it's a conspiracy just sound business, that saves money and sometimes protects intellectual property. As sound as the reasons might be I still perceive a very real threat to our way of life.
I totally agree and also think this is becoming very dangerous. Very soon a push is going to start, to remove content from consumer control altogether. Our way of life is in greet peril and most of us don't even know it. Next there will be a moral debate started and then a campaign started to sway public opinion. Right now it looks silly enough. Just remember though that "silly" is one of the best tools for appearing benign.
Why? I don't mean everything I write. Sacrcasim is almost always the best way to get inteligent people to think. It takes a while but eventualy they either get it (maybe not agree) or use it themselves and then get it. I've noticed dumb people just block stuff they don't like out of thier minds. I just think thinking is good. Too much CNN is the devils plaything. I have a relative who used to be a reporter and showed me the ropes. Any (and I mean any) story I have known anything about has always had big flaws in it. After you calm down you will realize I wasn't slamming anyone except HP, big companies and XP. I was just pointing out that a mindset is slowly being developed, in the market place, bent on turning capatalism into a religeon, much like materialism. Someday soon all this will be a moral issue and good people won't complain about it.
Instead of saving rich peoples lives lets use this technology to build door bells and chimes. This is somthing, after all, that could benifit us all. When a door is opened or closed the muscle will contract, sendning a signal to a buzzer. Life will be much better with this kind of biotechnology, and rich people can just learn to eat better food to live longer.
Send stupid people. They won't think too much and the trip will be, "a little long but overall pleasent."
- send a chinese finger trap with them
- include Elvis records on the journey
- one word... Bingo (years of fun)
- send videotapes of Jerry Springer to keep the social machine running.
I think this plan will work and it will solve the open source vs proprietary OS debate too. (windows in space? Good place for it)
Obviously anyone who dosn't like the HP policy is against free enterprise. Just wait for application servers to start dishing up you're OS. You don't get software with that either. What will you do then? Switch to linux? yeah right. Lets face facts. If you're so bad with computers that you crash XP before you're next intel upgrade, you should be repairing lawnmower engines. Besides, what would you do once you upgraded, sell you're old computer? Can't have that!! Throw it out!! Waste is what made this country great.
When it comes to video game violence and movie violence we are all children. When we watch this type of "content" our behaviour becomes costly to the government. It is also dangerous for "we the people" since it teaches that a violence can be a solution for problems!! Now what kind of world would this be if we believed that! If we are ever going to construct a peaceful and amiable society it is imparative that we start feeding this kind of bull to our children. Then taxes can be raised without worry.
With open source the bugs are visible but with proprietary the bugs are swept under the carpet and ignored, less they impact the holy sales figures. The chinese are embracing open source for this reason and also they don't want the "evil empire" being able to spy on them. (bug alert!!) We should take notice of this since their IQ's are 10pts higher on average then ours. Maybe they were able to figure this out.
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Soon we can test the real thing on countries we don't like.
The way recent events are going we are on the eve of our destruction. I think you are right, we don't have to think about it for a while; perhaps millions of years even.
Well said!!! I wasn't trying to say one system was better then another, only that some Canadian people aren't represented well or even hardly. I think what you wrote was excellent. The problem is especially well exemplified in the west vs. east issue.
Actually Chretien is able to bully his MP's around to a degree that destroys the democratic process. If an MP brings up an issue that his constituents feel strongly about, but the PM doesn't like; the MP can be sent to the back bench. Worse his riding can be taken away if Chretien gets too mad. Majority or not MP's can not represent their people. Representation is the name of the democratic game. Even the Soviets had elections, but big deal.
Ok OK sheeesh I was just trying to start a fun rumor.
Ever hear of carnivore? The only difference is that the Chinese admit they eavesdrop and monitor internet activity. Which is better; monitored internet or spy internet? Why did those terrorists encrypt their e-mails? If they didn't they would have been found out, and not because they were under surveillance, if they had been, things would have turned out a whole lot differently. Before pointing fingers take a look around and think about what you see, not what you're fed.
The Canadian Dictator Chretien (or whatever his name is) will just do whatever he wants anyway. I've seen Canada and the people have no real voice. Some of the stupid ones think they do.
I go to games just to watch cheerleaders!! I don't find geeks nearly as interesting. Funny huh. Jon... come on.. You're giving us weirdoes a bad name. Lets declare war on apple pie and shoot are mom's cause she lied about that Santa thing. Face facts. We like lies. If we ever told ourselves the truth, let alone were told, we would have to change our entire way of life. Now that stinks and it doesn't smell like urine either. Naw I like cheeseburgers and big cars, atomic bombs and 7-11 big gulps, oh and cheerleaders too. So leave us alone or face the fury of denial!!!
but he never wanted to fly to mars in a disposable can - strange.
Funny... XBox and Hot Mail both run linux/unix and they work. Why wouldn't we want the same thing for our cell phones? Besides most cell phones couldn't display the "blue screen of death" properly. I hope we don't have to start upgrading our phones so they can. Maybe Microsoft is going to start building phones too. Gawed they sure is clever huh... What next, cars? I can see it now. Every stoplight will require you to restart/boot you're engine.
I would like to bring something else to everyones attention that seems relevant; a study done in England. During the 1960s doctors gave shunts to some patients with "water on the brain." These poor people didn't have much hope for a quality life as others do. When researchers went back to see how these children were doing in the 1980s, they found, astonishingly, that they had IQ's of around 120 and were all able to finish university. After further investigation it was found that only a very small portion of their brains were functioning (a small bit in the cerebellum I believe). I am sorry to say I don't remember who did this study, but I hope someone who reads this will and post more details. I am sure I have gotten some details wrong, so please don't flame me. I just remember this as very interesting since it seemed to be a radicaly change from the way we see the brain.
Wouldn't we have had to have landed on the moon in order to bounce laser light off the "junk" left behind. Lets wait till that Japanese lunar probe verifies that we actually landed there before buying into this one. Lasers sheeeesh what next nuclear rockets? Get a grip.
I would pay for a ticket to send someone to mars. We could have a world wide lottery and the poor sap... oops I mean lucky winner could go to mars. Hey it might end the need for war trials.
Fair enough, I won't argue with someone from the front lines, but, there are other examples. A trial is underway to try and get people to store their mp3's online, so they can be charged per listen (and obviously not share with friends). Application servers are the same thing. I have just noticed a marketing trend which seems aimed at controlling and/or removing content from peoples computers. I find it funny that as our machines get faster and can hold more, the idea that they shouldn't seems to grow stronger. I don't think it's a conspiracy just sound business, that saves money and sometimes protects intellectual property. As sound as the reasons might be I still perceive a very real threat to our way of life.
I totally agree and also think this is becoming very dangerous. Very soon a push is going to start, to remove content from consumer control altogether. Our way of life is in greet peril and most of us don't even know it. Next there will be a moral debate started and then a campaign started to sway public opinion. Right now it looks silly enough. Just remember though that "silly" is one of the best tools for appearing benign.
Why? I don't mean everything I write. Sacrcasim is almost always the best way to get inteligent people to think. It takes a while but eventualy they either get it (maybe not agree) or use it themselves and then get it. I've noticed dumb people just block stuff they don't like out of thier minds. I just think thinking is good. Too much CNN is the devils plaything. I have a relative who used to be a reporter and showed me the ropes. Any (and I mean any) story I have known anything about has always had big flaws in it. After you calm down you will realize I wasn't slamming anyone except HP, big companies and XP. I was just pointing out that a mindset is slowly being developed, in the market place, bent on turning capatalism into a religeon, much like materialism. Someday soon all this will be a moral issue and good people won't complain about it.
Instead of saving rich peoples lives lets use this technology to build door bells and chimes. This is somthing, after all, that could benifit us all. When a door is opened or closed the muscle will contract, sendning a signal to a buzzer. Life will be much better with this kind of biotechnology, and rich people can just learn to eat better food to live longer.
Send stupid people. They won't think too much and the trip will be, "a little long but overall pleasent." - send a chinese finger trap with them - include Elvis records on the journey - one word... Bingo (years of fun) - send videotapes of Jerry Springer to keep the social machine running. I think this plan will work and it will solve the open source vs proprietary OS debate too. (windows in space? Good place for it)
Obviously anyone who dosn't like the HP policy is against free enterprise. Just wait for application servers to start dishing up you're OS. You don't get software with that either. What will you do then? Switch to linux? yeah right. Lets face facts. If you're so bad with computers that you crash XP before you're next intel upgrade, you should be repairing lawnmower engines. Besides, what would you do once you upgraded, sell you're old computer? Can't have that!! Throw it out!! Waste is what made this country great.
When it comes to video game violence and movie violence we are all children. When we watch this type of "content" our behaviour becomes costly to the government. It is also dangerous for "we the people" since it teaches that a violence can be a solution for problems!! Now what kind of world would this be if we believed that! If we are ever going to construct a peaceful and amiable society it is imparative that we start feeding this kind of bull to our children. Then taxes can be raised without worry.
With open source the bugs are visible but with proprietary the bugs are swept under the carpet and ignored, less they impact the holy sales figures. The chinese are embracing open source for this reason and also they don't want the "evil empire" being able to spy on them. (bug alert!!) We should take notice of this since their IQ's are 10pts higher on average then ours. Maybe they were able to figure this out.