If you really wanna scare the holy hell out of yourself, check out the ingredients in Armour Potted Meat Product.
My wife got a can of this stuff to reminisce the days when her sargeant daddy used to feed her this stuff on crackers. We...didn't like how it tasted too much. Upon looking at the ingredients, we got queasy.
There was a web site with ingredients and I recall seeing a scan of this product.
I'm still mad that I can't find Underwood Beef Spread down here, and must go "up north" to find it. Oh, the chicken and devilled ham are omnipresent, but not the tasty beef that I reminisce from my childhood.
(Oh, and to the percent per cent guy, percent is the preferred, although it is still proper to also use per cent.)
> that AOL's spam filters now block 1 billion > messages a day
One wonders. I've an AOL account left over from the dark ages of Pre-Internet (It was old and decrepit long before the September that never ended.)
I still get 5-10 a day, but it has gotten better.
Yesterday and Today's lot (which isn't over yet):
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(From: I am Godwin Emefiele, Deputy Managing Director of Union Bank of Nigeria, Lagos. regarding a will problem, no less! Evidently together we'll scam up a fake will for someone who died [and their lawyer died, too] and divide 60/40 the $10.5 million decedent's account)
3. see what the hype is about. pay off old bills now. lowest interest rates ever.
(Don't these people even waste enuf time for proper spelling and grammar?)
4. new job options with a flourishing potential!
...after you get your mail-in university degree.
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Ok, not spam. This from AOL Broadband Satellite, which hasn't worked on my computer for 2 months. (Anyone know how to solve the installation issue for Win 98 where the installer attempts to install 2 copies of the USB Satellite Modem device, and neither works and the satellite modem USB light keeps blinking? It detects it on the USB, but chokes on a double-install of the device driver for it.)
6. Northwest Airlines Weekly Deals & News
Prolly not spam, I thought I didn't check "don't send me email", or maybe I was supposed to not not check the "I don't not wish to not receive email unless I didn't not check this box."
7. CLONE YOUR DVD MOVIES TO CDs jej
Note the "jej" appendage in an attempt to block spam blockers that do simple string compares to known subject lines. Note that it worked.
> I think if we had an obvious proof of a > civilisation so "near" from us a lot of > governement woudl begin seriously of a way to > make space defense, protect Sol system,
Umm, "it would be like us going out of our way to step on an ant hill in Africa."
In the highly unlikely event that there aren't many civilizations, and that one nearby us is even remotely within technological striking distance, then a computer controlled gigantic reflective mirror to focus the sun's rays might be just about all we could do.
Emily Littela: What's all this I hear about people "folding" and "donating cycles"? It enheartens me that people are donating bikes to the poor and helping the elderly do their laundry. It's about time something like this happened, what with all the bad news we hear day to day.
> Then again, we could be just a giant computer > simulation in some huge universal mainframe
Given that the only "real" things appear to be infinitely small points, like electrons and quarks, with the properties of mass and energy, sort of, I'd say that's a pretty good bet.
I'm sure anything remotely a candidate is rerun through trusted computers.
Also, I'm sure a certain percentage of all returns are sent back out again to other computers to see if the results are duplicated. This would stop other spoofing, such as those who would fake results (fast turnarounds) to get higher rankings in the number of returns for a particular group.
Any such group caught faking even one would immediately have all their returns called into suspect and be rerun.
Anyway, that's what I'd do. This is probably among the things they won't reveal lest it help spoofers.
And what if Galactic Saddam is in our local neighborhood, and we become the 19th planet of his little despotism, and Andromeda doesn't want the United Galaxies to free Earth but they should just send inspectors to make sure he's not threatening Andromeda and The Sombrero Galaxies.
SEND IN THE UNITED GALACTIC TROOPS! FREE EARTH! God damned Andromedans.
Yeah, but god only knows what the quasi religion of unrestricted democratic socialism might yield on a galactic civilization a billion years old.
You heartless cad, you haven't paid your taxes to support the Fleeblejumbos of Qualicon 7, whose religion says you must feed them. Don't forget also to get your breathing permit. Also, all food except these machine created nutrient goops are illegal because someone somewhere finds them offensive. Also, you must have no fewer than 7 intelligent parasites surgically attached to you. We are not permitted to stop them from reproducing rapidly, so we need all the hosts we can get. You are not allowed to protest this or even talk about it, since that offends over seventy two billion species. j00 r 0wn3d!
I recall a science fiction story that takes place from the point of view of aliens who are exploring the earth just before the sun goes Nova. While looking for where all the humans went, they brag about how this guy's species has 12 pieces of artwork! This other guy says, "Yeah, but my planet only took 3000 years from the invention of radio to the invention of the rocket!"
The story ends when they find all 10 billions of humans in gigantic spaceships out around the orbit of Pluto on a very slow trip to escape. They can't comprehend such a species that could accomplish it.
The short story ends, with one alien saying to another, "Well, they'll be glad when we get to them. We'll save them a very long trip indeed. Shouldn't be a problem integrating them into galactic society, either. After all, we only outnumber them by about 20,000 to 1." The aliens laughed.
If the aliens are there, and we can glean even a tiny bit of info from them, that will rocket science ahead so quickly protein folding won't be a problem anymore.
That's right, folks. By supporting SETI, you may be solving protein folding solutions faster than by working on protein folding.
It's kinda like the way capitalism kicks the ass of socialism even though it doesn't seem like it should be.
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And many people think the moon, not having significant iron at its core, and therefore being made of the outer layers of an already existing planet, was cast off by a big whack that hit the earth a long time ago.
Thus does the Moon change its status from Planet (piece) to Moon.
Actually, the English name of the moon is the moon.
The ancients, when the came up with the word "moon" for "moon" weren't coming up with some generic name, but a specific proper name for a unique, well-known object. It probably originated as a grunt about the same time as "water", greatly preceeding things like "dog" and "ass crack".
Not really in this case. Although there is some arbitrariness here, if you were to massivly deform the earth, it would still fall back into a ball, even if frozen solid. Some of the larger asteroids do not. Thus there is a clear demarcation (given some fixed standard of material) as to how big is "planet" sized.
Where's our damned American arrogance now? Every American knows how Linus is pronounced, thanks to Charlie Brown, and therefore knows how Linux should be pronounced, whinings of it's creator notwithstanding.
Get your arrogance on! Pronounce it properly, you mewling and puking gits!
That sounds like it's comparing the gravity as if the moon and earth weren't in orbit and one wanted to see which way the moon would "roll" if "let go". Very interesting.
Even though the net effective gravity on either the earth or moon is (roughly) zero, so the orbit is more or less identical to what it would be if the earth were floating in space without the sun.
Slashdot Mirror
> You forgot the third rule
>
> 3. Spammers are stupid.
You forgot the first rule of the Ferenghi Rules of Spamming:
1. The general population is stupider.
Actually, Spam isn't so bad.
If you really wanna scare the holy hell out of yourself, check out the ingredients in Armour Potted Meat Product.
My wife got a can of this stuff to reminisce the days when her sargeant daddy used to feed her this stuff on crackers. We...didn't like how it tasted too much. Upon looking at the ingredients, we got queasy.
There was a web site with ingredients and I recall seeing a scan of this product.
I'm still mad that I can't find Underwood Beef Spread down here, and must go "up north" to find it. Oh, the chicken and devilled ham are omnipresent, but not the tasty beef that I reminisce from my childhood.
(Oh, and to the percent per cent guy, percent is the preferred, although it is still proper to also use per cent.)
> that AOL's spam filters now block 1 billion
...after you get your mail-in university degree.
...debt consolidation.
> messages a day
One wonders. I've an AOL account left over from the dark ages of Pre-Internet (It was old and decrepit long before the September that never ended.)
I still get 5-10 a day, but it has gotten better.
Yesterday and Today's lot (which isn't over yet):
1. Buy Phentermine, Viagra & more with NO PRESCRIPTION! US doctors and pharmacies! Overnight Shipping!
2. kindly read this and get back to me
(From: I am Godwin Emefiele, Deputy Managing Director of Union Bank of Nigeria, Lagos. regarding a will problem, no less! Evidently together we'll scam up a fake will for someone who died [and their lawyer died, too] and divide 60/40 the $10.5 million decedent's account)
3. see what the hype is about. pay off old bills now. lowest interest rates ever.
(Don't these people even waste enuf time for proper spelling and grammar?)
4. new job options with a flourishing potential!
5. New! CNN NewsPass, Oscar Exclusives & Much More!
Ok, not spam. This from AOL Broadband Satellite, which hasn't worked on my computer for 2 months. (Anyone know how to solve the installation issue for Win 98 where the installer attempts to install 2 copies of the USB Satellite Modem device, and neither works and the satellite modem USB light keeps blinking? It detects it on the USB, but chokes on a double-install of the device driver for it.)
6. Northwest Airlines Weekly Deals & News
Prolly not spam, I thought I didn't check "don't send me email", or maybe I was supposed to not not check the "I don't not wish to not receive email unless I didn't not check this box."
7. CLONE YOUR DVD MOVIES TO CDs jej
Note the "jej" appendage in an attempt to block spam blockers that do simple string compares to known subject lines. Note that it worked.
8. Why not try
> What about sending out our own space signals??
You mean the planetary equivalent of open-toed "fuck me" high heels?
> I think if we had an obvious proof of a
> civilisation so "near" from us a lot of
> governement woudl begin seriously of a way to
> make space defense, protect Sol system,
Umm, "it would be like us going out of our way to step on an ant hill in Africa."
In the highly unlikely event that there aren't many civilizations, and that one nearby us is even remotely within technological striking distance, then a computer controlled gigantic reflective mirror to focus the sun's rays might be just about all we could do.
Actually, heart disease/obesity kicks everything else's ass.
Then again, perhaps there are radio signals out there with the plans on how to build a transceiver to tap into the universal subspace network.
Emily Littela: What's all this I hear about people "folding" and "donating cycles"? It enheartens me that people are donating bikes to the poor and helping the elderly do their laundry. It's about time something like this happened, what with all the bad news we hear day to day.
> Then again, we could be just a giant computer
> simulation in some huge universal mainframe
Given that the only "real" things appear to be infinitely small points, like electrons and quarks, with the properties of mass and energy, sort of, I'd say that's a pretty good bet.
Alls I knows is where the hell can I buy one of those Lexx chicks.
ET: Mom, GET ME OUTTA HERE! You should've seen what this one sick guy wanted me to do with my long finger with the light on the end of it!
I'm sure anything remotely a candidate is rerun through trusted computers.
Also, I'm sure a certain percentage of all returns are sent back out again to other computers to see if the results are duplicated. This would stop other spoofing, such as those who would fake results (fast turnarounds) to get higher rankings in the number of returns for a particular group.
Any such group caught faking even one would immediately have all their returns called into suspect and be rerun.
Anyway, that's what I'd do. This is probably among the things they won't reveal lest it help spoofers.
Oops.
Not to mention being highly compressed, which would look very close to random noise.
And what if Galactic Saddam is in our local neighborhood, and we become the 19th planet of his little despotism, and Andromeda doesn't want the United Galaxies to free Earth but they should just send inspectors to make sure he's not threatening Andromeda and The Sombrero Galaxies.
SEND IN THE UNITED GALACTIC TROOPS! FREE EARTH! God damned Andromedans.
Yeah, but god only knows what the quasi religion of unrestricted democratic socialism might yield on a galactic civilization a billion years old.
You heartless cad, you haven't paid your taxes to support the Fleeblejumbos of Qualicon 7, whose religion says you must feed them. Don't forget also to get your breathing permit. Also, all food except these machine created nutrient goops are illegal because someone somewhere finds them offensive. Also, you must have no fewer than 7 intelligent parasites surgically attached to you. We are not permitted to stop them from reproducing rapidly, so we need all the hosts we can get. You are not allowed to protest this or even talk about it, since that offends over seventy two billion species. j00 r 0wn3d!
I've been tellin' 'em. I've been saying it for twenty years.
Instead of wondering whether they have souls, we should be praying they think we have souls.
I recall a science fiction story that takes place from the point of view of aliens who are exploring the earth just before the sun goes Nova. While looking for where all the humans went, they brag about how this guy's species has 12 pieces of artwork! This other guy says, "Yeah, but my planet only took 3000 years from the invention of radio to the invention of the rocket!"
The story ends when they find all 10 billions of humans in gigantic spaceships out around the orbit of Pluto on a very slow trip to escape. They can't comprehend such a species that could accomplish it.
The short story ends, with one alien saying to another, "Well, they'll be glad when we get to them. We'll save them a very long trip indeed. Shouldn't be a problem integrating them into galactic society, either. After all, we only outnumber them by about 20,000 to 1." The aliens laughed.
20 years later, it wasn't so funny.
If the aliens are there, and we can glean even a tiny bit of info from them, that will rocket science ahead so quickly protein folding won't be a problem anymore.
That's right, folks. By supporting SETI, you may be solving protein folding solutions faster than by working on protein folding.
It's kinda like the way capitalism kicks the ass of socialism even though it doesn't seem like it should be.
And many people think the moon, not having significant iron at its core, and therefore being made of the outer layers of an already existing planet, was cast off by a big whack that hit the earth a long time ago.
Thus does the Moon change its status from Planet (piece) to Moon.
Actually, the English name of the moon is the moon.
The ancients, when the came up with the word "moon" for "moon" weren't coming up with some generic name, but a specific proper name for a unique, well-known object. It probably originated as a grunt about the same time as "water", greatly preceeding things like "dog" and "ass crack".
Planets wouldn't dare file suits. Imagine all the counter suits for broken bones, drownings, earthquakes, and the like.
Not really in this case. Although there is some arbitrariness here, if you were to massivly deform the earth, it would still fall back into a ball, even if frozen solid. Some of the larger asteroids do not. Thus there is a clear demarcation (given some fixed standard of material) as to how big is "planet" sized.
Where's our damned American arrogance now? Every American knows how Linus is pronounced, thanks to Charlie Brown, and therefore knows how Linux should be pronounced, whinings of it's creator notwithstanding.
Get your arrogance on! Pronounce it properly, you mewling and puking gits!
That sounds like it's comparing the gravity as if the moon and earth weren't in orbit and one wanted to see which way the moon would "roll" if "let go". Very interesting.
Even though the net effective gravity on either the earth or moon is (roughly) zero, so the orbit is more or less identical to what it would be if the earth were floating in space without the sun.
> It wouldn't be a geosynchronous orbit, per se.
Actually, it would be. As the earth slows, the satellites in the current orbit will start advancing over their stationary longitude.