the Chinese Government would like to express its gratitude for your support in ultimately destroying its enemies and their despicable capitalistic system. While we found it impossible to oppose their militarily forces, your self-imposed debt system emerged as the most hidden and powerful weapon ever conceived. For this special occasion we would like to offer you another free Visa card with a special "pay in 10 years" option with every lead-based toy or child clothing item you order.
With our sincerest admiration,
Dick Cheney et. al. on behalf of The Chinese Government
Yeah. From my past experience I'm going to trust *that*.
Will my custom bootloader survive?
Oh, and I found it a good idea to generally not transfer any user settings. That's like putting all the trash from your old car's back seat, trunk, etc in a large bag, and emptying it in your shiny new car. Including the crumbs (registry trash).:)
What if you are on a generic police site, and just land in there by randomly clicking on five links on the page? It is still "breaking and entering".
What if you walk down the street, and fall into an open sewer, just to find out that it is a secret underground tunnel to a high-security government building, and there is no way to climb out, other than walking down the tunnel into the secret building?
What if you are blind, and walk trough the open backdoor of a police headquarter's stolen goods storage room?
Oh, and I don't care what some jurisdictions say, because the difference between "breaking and entering" and "burglary" is that in a burglary, you took something. There. Was that so hard?? Every other definition would just be "douchebaggery".
Well, I already did persistent JavaScript-only connections in 2003-2005. I used an object tag, and then requested a page. that page did never end, and continued to include new JSON snippets which immediately executed. When it got too big, the response ended with a location.refresh(). A second object tag included a form with a "never ending" POST.
But it did not work so great, so I changed it to single "packets" (form submissions and receivings). Which also allowed them to be done in a single object tag. Then I went so far to abstract it into a network socket and lay a file system on top of it. The server was PHP. (Company requirement.) I even had a compression and a encryption module. But since the whole thing was already very slow, and there was no actual point to it, I left them out.
Yay. iPhone fanbois got mod points again. Sorry fanbois. Fact is fact is fact.
Go on. Compare to cold hard data. Take a list of features (eg from Xonio), including the quality (eg camera resolution, memory, etc.) and the freedoms (eg to install what you want, have Java, have no jail, etc). And then compare it to the latest and best from Nokia, Samsung etc. Now if the newest iPhone comes even pretty close in features, you can come here, and I pay you a couple of beers!
Then, compare their prices! Now if the iPhone is also cheaper, THEN I'll pay you a whole evening of going out and drinks.
Now do the same with the iMac PC compared to my custom built PC, and the iPod MP3 player compared to a set of MP3 players of my choice out of the local electronics store. Feature- and price-wise.
It may be hard to believe from inside the reality distortion bubble you created to be able to justify being the idiot who bought those things, but they are still a very bad deal.
The video capture and voice control. It might be out of what people in the USA know, but in Japan and even most of Europe, those features are standard features of every phone you can buy. And most of them are far better at it than the iPhone.
The only reason it gets bought is: Hype. Technically, the iPhone is a total joke compared to other phones. Just as the iPod compared to other MP3 players. Or the iMac compared to other PCs.
It's shiny. It's "cool". So the cattle buy it. Simple as that. Oh: They vote for $defaultParty too for the same reason.
No longer is a Microsoft OS an unquestionable "success". No longer will people buy every OS coming from them without thinking about it. I call that a pretty big change.:)
There is another social medium, without which the whole event's existence can't even be proven: Good old fashioned direct human-to-human communication. In other words: Does this contract rule (as opposed to a law) forbid people to memorize it and then tell it to other people (e.g. by talking to someone later)? How would they expect to enforce or even check this? They can't control it. They would have to delete the memory inside the brain every time someone steps outside. So if people can tell someone, then that other person can put in on a social medium site, because he/she never had a contract or anything with the SEC. Which makes the rule pointless and by definition ineffective.
They have to face the fact, that the time of exclusive "big media" broadcast rights is over. Besides: Who watches it on "big media" anyway nowadays? I have no TV for nearly a decade now, and many friends of mine don't have one either. Or they only switch it on, to zap for some time, find that nothing is on, and switch it off again.
If this is the best the world can do, then that's a sad thing. I mean the lack of imagination in today's stories is stunning. Yeah, the story in itself may be nice. But we have top-notch CGI today. So give me something that blasts even living spaceships, strange non-human-like aliens and the weirdest nanite-tech etc out of the water.
I wish they would make a movie out of the Hyperion Cantos. With a really crazy (army of) Shrikes and an impressive cyberspace "Ummon". ^^
How exactly did you hallucinate that uranium is not radioactive? Sure, it is only a weak alpha emitter. But that is still not "not at all". You are simply lying to make your point.
Well, they can live without a mess hall. But they won't survive very long without those electricity-requiring *air pumps*. Think Total Recall style. Oh, and I guess what makes "people's brains turn off" is that with the parts of such a reactor spread trough the colonry, you will soon have some "changes" in people there. Triple-tit-and-Kuato-twin-Total-Recall-style!
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How about installing those guns in a way, that vaporizes you right *before* you would trip that cable? Seems to make more sense to me...
Dear Sir or Madam,
the Chinese Government would like to express its gratitude for your support in ultimately destroying its enemies and their despicable capitalistic system.
While we found it impossible to oppose their militarily forces, your self-imposed debt system emerged as the most hidden and powerful weapon ever conceived.
For this special occasion we would like to offer you another free Visa card with a special "pay in 10 years" option with every lead-based toy or child clothing item you order.
With our sincerest admiration,
Dick Cheney et. al.
on behalf of
The Chinese Government
The summary reminded me of this:
http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
But I can't say that I'm not Haskell "biased". After all I tasted "her". And this resembles the experience best:
http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20070219/044101.html
Yeah. From my past experience I'm going to trust *that*.
Will my custom bootloader survive?
Oh, and I found it a good idea to generally not transfer any user settings. That's like putting all the trash from your old car's back seat, trunk, etc in a large bag, and emptying it in your shiny new car. Including the crumbs (registry trash). :)
What if you are on a generic police site, and just land in there by randomly clicking on five links on the page? It is still "breaking and entering".
What if you walk down the street, and fall into an open sewer, just to find out that it is a secret underground tunnel to a high-security government building, and there is no way to climb out, other than walking down the tunnel into the secret building?
What if you are blind, and walk trough the open backdoor of a police headquarter's stolen goods storage room?
Oh, and I don't care what some jurisdictions say, because the difference between "breaking and entering" and "burglary" is that in a burglary, you took something. There. Was that so hard?? Every other definition would just be "douchebaggery".
Well, I already did persistent JavaScript-only connections in 2003-2005. I used an object tag, and then requested a page. that page did never end, and continued to include new JSON snippets which immediately executed. When it got too big, the response ended with a location.refresh().
A second object tag included a form with a "never ending" POST.
But it did not work so great, so I changed it to single "packets" (form submissions and receivings). Which also allowed them to be done in a single object tag.
Then I went so far to abstract it into a network socket and lay a file system on top of it. The server was PHP. (Company requirement.)
I even had a compression and a encryption module. But since the whole thing was already very slow, and there was no actual point to it, I left them out.
The result was this mock "OS" including a "kernel", a widget library, and starting to get what you would expect from a OS. :)
Mind you that this is a early alpha, because the project got canceled when I left the company. Nobody else in the company understood or cared to understand how it worked.
Since the company is officially really really dead, I think it's OK to put it out there.
And so the circle closes: My grandma has a deadly pan with a handle and would like to kill Glenn Beck.
No. It may not be very radioactive. But it is still pretty TOXIC! And that is the reason that they wear gloves.
Yay. iPhone fanbois got mod points again. Sorry fanbois. Fact is fact is fact.
Go on. Compare to cold hard data.
Take a list of features (eg from Xonio), including the quality (eg camera resolution, memory, etc.) and the freedoms (eg to install what you want, have Java, have no jail, etc). And then compare it to the latest and best from Nokia, Samsung etc.
Now if the newest iPhone comes even pretty close in features, you can come here, and I pay you a couple of beers!
Then, compare their prices! Now if the iPhone is also cheaper, THEN I'll pay you a whole evening of going out and drinks.
Now do the same with the iMac PC compared to my custom built PC, and the iPod MP3 player compared to a set of MP3 players of my choice out of the local electronics store. Feature- and price-wise.
It may be hard to believe from inside the reality distortion bubble you created to be able to justify being the idiot who bought those things, but they are still a very bad deal.
And if you ignore cold hard facts, then maybe you can be persuaded by her: http://navid.radiantempire.com/pub/pix/lolcats/FactCat.png ^^
Hey moderators: Lost your humor again? Or are you just generally trolling?
My guess: Nobody, and this "article" is just another piece of marketing, to put it in people's heads, that nobody objects to it.
Maybe a certain other group would have had more success, if their motto would have been "Nobody objects to the Spanish inquisition!".
Well, I can't see a feature, that the newest Nokia phone doesn't have.
But I can see tons or features that the iPhone doesn't have.
So it's all hype, hype and hype.
The video capture and voice control. It might be out of what people in the USA know, but in Japan and even most of Europe, those features are standard features of every phone you can buy. And most of them are far better at it than the iPhone.
The only reason it gets bought is: Hype.
Technically, the iPhone is a total joke compared to other phones. Just as the iPod compared to other MP3 players. Or the iMac compared to other PCs.
It's shiny. It's "cool". So the cattle buy it. Simple as that.
Oh: They vote for $defaultParty too for the same reason.
No longer is a Microsoft OS an unquestionable "success". No longer will people buy every OS coming from them without thinking about it. :)
I call that a pretty big change.
Well, if it can form on that small comet, then it can also form on that much much bigger "comet" circling the sun, called "Earth".
I wonder if it hurts to make up such a dumb argument as the original one.
There is another social medium, without which the whole event's existence can't even be proven: Good old fashioned direct human-to-human communication.
In other words: Does this contract rule (as opposed to a law) forbid people to memorize it and then tell it to other people (e.g. by talking to someone later)?
How would they expect to enforce or even check this? They can't control it. They would have to delete the memory inside the brain every time someone steps outside.
So if people can tell someone, then that other person can put in on a social medium site, because he/she never had a contract or anything with the SEC.
Which makes the rule pointless and by definition ineffective.
They have to face the fact, that the time of exclusive "big media" broadcast rights is over. Besides: Who watches it on "big media" anyway nowadays? I have no TV for nearly a decade now, and many friends of mine don't have one either. Or they only switch it on, to zap for some time, find that nothing is on, and switch it off again.
Is TV still that big in the USA? (Germany here.)
If this is the best the world can do, then that's a sad thing. I mean the lack of imagination in today's stories is stunning. Yeah, the story in itself may be nice. But we have top-notch CGI today. So give me something that blasts even living spaceships, strange non-human-like aliens and the weirdest nanite-tech etc out of the water.
I wish they would make a movie out of the Hyperion Cantos. With a really crazy (army of) Shrikes and an impressive cyberspace "Ummon". ^^
WD40? Eww.... That would be the chrerry on top of the cake of unhealthiness. Or are you thinking of something different than I am?
How exactly did you hallucinate that uranium is not radioactive? Sure, it is only a weak alpha emitter. But that is still not "not at all". You are simply lying to make your point.
Well, they can live without a mess hall. But they won't survive very long without those electricity-requiring *air pumps*. Think Total Recall style.
Oh, and I guess what makes "people's brains turn off" is that with the parts of such a reactor spread trough the colonry, you will soon have some "changes" in people there. Triple-tit-and-Kuato-twin-Total-Recall-style!
Well, on his last birthday, the cake jumped out of HIM!
But usually, a gamma ray burst, blasting away the whole solar system will be enough.
Except of course if you got a super-massive black hole.
I call it a BFH-10000. A Big Fuckin' Hammer (weighing 10 kg).
Thor would be so proud.
See it like this: No matter which one of them gets hurt, you always win. :D
How is the displacement not a dimension? Because it clearly is.