Michael Moore tells the story of librarians saving his book "Stupid White Men" from the Harper Collins pulp factory. (Whether you agree with him or not, that Voltaire quote comes into play.) He was giving a talk and read a chapter of his book, because he didn't think it would ever see the store. One librarian in the audience takes note, gets on the librarian newsgroups.
Monday morning, Harper Collins calls MM. "What did you say to the librarians, Mike? They're really mad, and there's a lot of them." And that brought them to the table.
I don't think the "American" people would agree with you on any of these statements. Quite frankly, that makes you a PRO-TERRORIST communist. Don't you know that the cable news opinion poll has replaced the Supreme Court as the mechanism of judicial review?
I think every elected official and appointed bureaucrat should be required to recite the entire Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights on TV at least once. That way they cannot plead ignorance of fundamentals of our country, like the IX Amendment.
Too often, all the polarized political rhetoric emphasizes either the I for "liberal"s and the II for "conservative"s. There are many others, and they are not just historical artifacts or relics.
Listen, try not to believe everything the Corporate mouth-pieces spit out there. They publicize a few big and puzzling awards and exaggerate other legitimate awards to make their points. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1107 08 9 There goal is simply to get legislative action on limiting liability on corporate "persons", hamstringing the ability of juries of actual "persons" to punish negligence.
Tort reform is a fake issue, brought about solely through paid corporate propaganda.
Your article isn't bad, but this statement just spoils it:
Cell phones don't cause brain cancer. This is Limbaugh-esque arrogance.
Studies are incomplete, &c. &c. &c. Avoid sounding so self-assured with presenting any data. There are no 10 yr usage studies much less 25 or 40 yr studies.
I don't know about selling off just yet. SonicBlue stock closed at 44 cents on Thursday. It might be worth it to stay invested in order to have a stake in the inevitable lawsuit(s).
Also, when the singularity comes about, it will presumably incorporate all available entities that increase its information. The heads on ice would be a valuable source of historical data.
consumers don't want to buy sets with digital tuners. cable and satellite providers don't won't to pay to produce digital content or provide more space for add'l channels. local broadcasters don't want to pay to switch their systems.
The Federal Gov't (FCC and NAB) better force them to switch, because our uh, national security depends on HDTV.
Looks like the invisible hand becomes an invisible fist when the right pockets are lined.
P.S. I know the NAB is supposedly independent, but it is essentially an industry group. Take a look at the micro-broadcast whitewash.
You make this scheme sound so mercenary, when it's really just a couple of penniless grad students trying to make ends meet. If the STANFORD PHYSICS DEPARTMENT gave GREG TSENG and JOHANN SCHLEIER-SMITH more financial aid, then they would have to resort to spamming support to buy their kids new shoes.
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I also read that Fischer could be arrested if he returned to the U.S.A. for violating U.S. sanctions on Yugoslavia by playing Spassky there in '92.
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Bobby Fischer is still in seclusion, despite some rumors last year that he was playing grandmasters online anonymously. He is, by all reports, even more bizarre than before. Here are some transcripts of his interviews about being persecuted by some Jewish conspiracy. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?n ode_id=785448 http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1214 00 6
In re: your comments on the evolution of chess, you are probably right. Computers will become stupid fast and will be able to defeat any human (not just a specific target) through brute force. But chess will still be fun for humans, and will be an especially good tool for preparing young minds. Plus, there will be increased popularity in chess variants, such as Fischer random (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?&node_id=1102 235) and others.
I liked this one more, concerning putting the excess joules right back into the rail:
"The only problem is that when the power goes back into the rail, it is quickly eaten up by the resistance of the metal. So if other trains are not close by, to scoop up the power, the extra electricity dissipates like so many ripples in a pool."
If other trains are not close by? How close do they want trains to be?
That quip about the heat in the stations is no joke. If you go to the yellow line (N/R/Q/W) stations, it is like 110 deg F down there minimum, at 2 AM! People stagger around down there panting and sweating like they're Ozzy.
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Thank you for sharing this.
Tears literally came to my eyes as I listened to this song. But I felt a little nauseous, too.
This is also why we should do it "the old-fashioned way" and ship hardened criminals to the off-world colonies a la Botany Bay.
With all of the inertia in the criminal death process, it would probably cost just as much to execute them using explosive decompression or radiation poisoning as the present method.
Oh wait, most death-row prisoners can't read or write... A ha, give them all a simputer.
A good goalie will beat a good offensive player EVERY TIME. The goalie has way too much of an advantage.
I would modify this to say a good defense will beat a good offensive player every time. Oliver Kahn, best keeper in the world no question, got schooled by Ronaldo during defensive lapses. (Granted, Ronaldo is not bad himself, but...)
If the D does its job mugging those pansy strikers, then the goalie will look good.
The people who say advertising is about information are the same people who say campaign donations are free speech or corporations are "serving the public trust" through their stewardship of our airwaves. Watch C-Span sometime.
I respectfully disagree. The ONLY good thing about salon was that Tom Tomorrow and Tom the Dancing Bug are available on the site. The articles, reviews and discussion boards are all just different levels of lit-crit lip-flapping.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Tom Tomorrow: http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2002/0 6/24/tomo/i ndex.html
Tom the Dancing Bug: http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2002/06/27/ boll/i ndex.html
I submitted a Green Destiny article on June 10, when some guys named Linus Torvalds and Gordon Bell helped officially open it. (I think they are like dot.com millionaires or something, right?)
But since it didn't have an article from the Gray Lady associated with it, the editors passed.
I read the Times on the train, I don't have to read it again. The WWW is a big place, and the whole point of/. is to find stories that will get overlooked on the big sites.
2002-06-10 16:52:06 Green Destiny: Los Alamos Beowulf Cluster, Low Upk (articles,news) (rejected)
Motorist Dan Lowthorpe, 27, from Sheffield, who nearly prematurely terminated Gaak said: "I have visited Magna a couple of times in the past but came on this occasion especially to see the new robots."
Motorist Dan Lowthorpe had better watch his back. I mean slice up the credit cards, change his name, move off the grid, stop using an electric razor, etc. It probably won't do any good, the robo-kuza has a long memory and will have an even longer reach.
He's just lucky he didn't hurt Gaak or he would be "taken care of" already.
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So SW is essentially introducing a new tool for the analysis of existing data. But CA have been around for a long time.
So his revolutionary advance in the field (which gets him compared to Darwin!) is to suggest that scientists try using a underused tool to fill the gaps in their existing knowledge?
I must be misunderstanding, because I am a bit underwhelmed.
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Michael Moore tells the story of librarians saving his book "Stupid White Men" from the Harper Collins pulp factory. (Whether you agree with him or not, that Voltaire quote comes into play.) He was giving a talk and read a chapter of his book, because he didn't think it would ever see the store. One librarian in the audience takes note, gets on the librarian newsgroups.
Monday morning, Harper Collins calls MM. "What did you say to the librarians, Mike? They're really mad, and there's a lot of them." And that brought them to the table.
I don't think the "American" people would agree with you on any of these statements. Quite frankly, that makes you a PRO-TERRORIST communist. Don't you know that the cable news opinion poll has replaced the Supreme Court as the mechanism of judicial review?
I think every elected official and appointed bureaucrat should be required to recite the entire Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights on TV at least once. That way they cannot plead ignorance of fundamentals of our country, like the IX Amendment.
Too often, all the polarized political rhetoric emphasizes either the I for "liberal"s and the II for "conservative"s. There are many others, and they are not just historical artifacts or relics.
Word, some plane crashed in South America. The flight number hit on the lotto the next day and there were like 5k winners :(
So /.ers distrust corporations six days a week, but on Sunday, it's those damn lawyers who drive up costs.
Don't believe the tort "reform" propaganda. A corporation is not a person, and doesn't deserve our rights.
Listen, try not to believe everything the Corporate mouth-pieces spit out there. They publicize a few big and puzzling awards and exaggerate other legitimate awards to make their points.7 08 9
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=110
There goal is simply to get legislative action on limiting liability on corporate "persons", hamstringing the ability of juries of actual "persons" to punish negligence.
Tort reform is a fake issue, brought about solely through paid corporate propaganda.
Your article isn't bad, but this statement just spoils it:
Cell phones don't cause brain cancer. This is Limbaugh-esque arrogance.
Studies are incomplete, &c. &c. &c. Avoid sounding so self-assured with presenting any data. There are no 10 yr usage studies much less 25 or 40 yr studies.
Ashcroft has really been quiet about this guy. I wonder why?
I don't know about selling off just yet. SonicBlue stock closed at 44 cents on Thursday. It might be worth it to stay invested in order to have a stake in the inevitable lawsuit(s).
I doubt it. The article said SonicBlue closed at 44 cents on Thursday.
Even their office furniture must be worth more than that.
Positively stunning on the part of the directors.
Also, when the singularity comes about, it will presumably incorporate all available entities that increase its information. The heads on ice would be a valuable source of historical data.
Don't laugh.
Let's see...
consumers don't want to buy sets with digital tuners.
cable and satellite providers don't won't to pay to produce digital content or provide more space for add'l channels.
local broadcasters don't want to pay to switch their systems.
The Federal Gov't (FCC and NAB) better force them to switch, because our uh, national security depends on HDTV.
Looks like the invisible hand becomes an invisible fist when the right pockets are lined.
P.S. I know the NAB is supposedly independent, but it is essentially an industry group. Take a look at the micro-broadcast whitewash.
You make this scheme sound so mercenary, when it's really just a couple of penniless grad students trying to make ends meet. If the STANFORD PHYSICS DEPARTMENT gave GREG TSENG and JOHANN SCHLEIER-SMITH more financial aid, then they would have to resort to spamming support to buy their kids new shoes.
I also read that Fischer could be arrested if he returned to the U.S.A. for violating U.S. sanctions on Yugoslavia by playing Spassky there in '92.
Bobby Fischer is still in seclusion, despite some rumors last year that he was playing grandmasters online anonymously. He is, by all reports, even more bizarre than before. Here are some transcripts of his interviews about being persecuted by some Jewish conspiracy.n ode_id=785448 4 00 6
2 235) and others.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=121
In re: your comments on the evolution of chess, you are probably right. Computers will become stupid fast and will be able to defeat any human (not just a specific target) through brute force. But chess will still be fun for humans, and will be an especially good tool for preparing young minds. Plus, there will be increased popularity in chess variants, such as Fischer random (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?&node_id=110
"The only problem is that when the power goes back into the rail, it is quickly eaten up by the resistance of the metal. So if other trains are not close by, to scoop up the power, the extra electricity dissipates like so many ripples in a pool."
If other trains are not close by? How close do they want trains to be?
That quip about the heat in the stations is no joke. If you go to the yellow line (N/R/Q/W) stations, it is like 110 deg F down there minimum, at 2 AM! People stagger around down there panting and sweating like they're Ozzy.
Thank you for sharing this.
Tears literally came to my eyes as I listened to this song. But I felt a little nauseous, too.
This is also why we should do it "the old-fashioned way" and ship hardened criminals to the off-world colonies a la Botany Bay.
With all of the inertia in the criminal death process, it would probably cost just as much to execute them using explosive decompression or radiation poisoning as the present method.
Oh wait, most death-row prisoners can't read or write... A ha, give them all a simputer.
About a year ago, I checked the box to omit Katz' lip-flapping from my homepage.
Since then, I've stopped losing my hair, got promoted at work, and women return my phone calls now.
JonKatz ruins lives, but you can escape...
A good goalie will beat a good offensive player EVERY TIME. The goalie has way too much of an advantage.
I would modify this to say a good defense will beat a good offensive player every time. Oliver Kahn, best keeper in the world no question, got schooled by Ronaldo during defensive lapses. (Granted, Ronaldo is not bad himself, but...)
If the D does its job mugging those pansy strikers, then the goalie will look good.
The people who say advertising is about information are the same people who say campaign donations are free speech or corporations are "serving the public trust" through their stewardship of our airwaves. Watch C-Span sometime.
Pure corporate PR, courtesy of Mr. Bernays.
http://www.google.com/search?q=edward+bernays
There should be a checkbox to exclude NY Times from our homepage, just like the popular JonKatz box.
I read the Times anyway and don't need to read it again.
Let us filter our sources like we filter topics or authors!
I respectfully disagree. The ONLY good thing about salon was that Tom Tomorrow and Tom the Dancing Bug are available on the site. The articles, reviews and discussion boards are all just different levels of lit-crit lip-flapping.
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Blah blah blah blah blah.
Tom Tomorrow:
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2002/
Tom the Dancing Bug:
http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2002/06/27
I submitted a Green Destiny article on June 10, when some guys named Linus Torvalds and Gordon Bell helped officially open it. (I think they are like dot.com millionaires or something, right?)
/. is to find stories that will get overlooked on the big sites.
But since it didn't have an article from the Gray Lady associated with it, the editors passed.
I read the Times on the train, I don't have to read it again. The WWW is a big place, and the whole point of
2002-06-10 16:52:06 Green Destiny: Los Alamos Beowulf Cluster, Low Upk (articles,news) (rejected)
http://sss.lanl.gov/vance.shtml
Motorist Dan Lowthorpe, 27, from Sheffield, who nearly prematurely terminated Gaak said: "I have visited Magna a couple of times in the past but came on this occasion especially to see the new robots."
Motorist Dan Lowthorpe had better watch his back. I mean slice up the credit cards, change his name, move off the grid, stop using an electric razor, etc. It probably won't do any good, the robo-kuza has a long memory and will have an even longer reach.
He's just lucky he didn't hurt Gaak or he would be "taken care of" already.
So SW is essentially introducing a new tool for the analysis of existing data. But CA have been around for a long time.
So his revolutionary advance in the field (which gets him compared to Darwin!) is to suggest that scientists try using a underused tool to fill the gaps in their existing knowledge?
I must be misunderstanding, because I am a bit underwhelmed.