We intentionally clicked on horseteen.com as a public service! To thoroughly examine it for any sign of the filthy, deviant and perverse pornography of which the Internet must be cleansed!
Can you recommend any other sites that we might also need to examine?
(And be quick about it - we're kind of in the middle of something here.)
An electorate that's willing to fight for what little remains of democracy, and representatives unafraid to do what's right - and for this it cannot come too soon.
(Please, no comments about a possible Ben/Socrates ticket.)
Discipline Global Mobile, the record label founded by Robert Fripp of King Crimson, has this same policy for the music it publishes - the copyright remains with the artist ("with whom it rightfully resides" IIRC).
You can read more about the admirable aims of DGM here.
Here's an excerpt:
The business aims of Discipline Global Mobile are....
* to help music come into the world which would otherwise be unlikely to do so, or under conditions prejudicial to the music and/or musicians.
* to operate in the market place, while being free of the values of the market place.
* to help the artists and staff of DGM achieve what they wish for themselves.
* to find its audience.
* to be a model of ethical business in an industry founded on exploitation, oiled by deceit, riven with theft and fuelled by greed.
There's also more of Fripp's sardonic sense of humor, and one of the better explanations of "standard practice" record label-artist contracts (not for the squeamish!).
Perhaps the rate of adoption of this sort of ethical business model by the music industry will at least serve as a lower bound for those wondering about the rate of adoption in other media.
The classic "two slits experiment" isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Destructive interference between the, ahem, "wavefunctions" will take the fun right out of this one. (This is commonly known as the "Schrodinger's catfight.")
And even if you do get constructive interference, try explaining later that you really couldn't tell which of the two slits you came through! You'll end up sleeping out next to the cyclotron for a month.
Oh, that's right - San Antonio, Texas. What a coincidence!
Looks like SBC's employees in Austin are hard at work.
Having Read The Fine Amendment (the bill amends the existing Utilities Code), here are a few salient quotes:
"...all public policy must be driven by free-market principles..."
"Sec.A54.202. PROHIBITED MUNICIPAL SERVICES. A municipality or municipally owned utility may not, directly or indirectly, on its own or with another entity, offer to the public:
(1) a service for which a certificate is required;
(2) a service as a network provider; or
(3) any telecommunications or information service, without regard to the technology platform used to provide the service."
And removed from the existing code:
"It is the policy of this state to ensure that customers in all regions of this state, including low-income customers and customers in rural and high cost areas, have access to telecommunications and information services, including interexchange services, cable services, wireless services, and advanced telecommunications and information services, that are reasonably comparable to those services provided in urban areas and that are available at prices that are reasonably comparable to prices charged for similar services in urban areas."
Roughly translated:
1. Government exists to maximize corporate profits. (When we talk about "free-market" consumers, understand we mean it in the same sense as "free-range" chickens.)
2. Citizens are prevented from organizing and offering any telecommunications service that would allow them to use their economies of scale to threaten corporate profits.
3. You'll pay whatever we want to charge you for whatever service we feel like providing, and you'll like it, since you're prevented from defending yourselves by organizing your own public service to compete with us when we ream you.
If someone wants to abide by "free-market" principles, they might start by acknowledging that a group of citizens who agree to cooperate to provide a service for the public good are a part of the market.
Any truly free and fair market should allow for a balance of both public and private participation.
Government promotion of business interests over public interests has a name: fascism. (But calling it that tends to upset the chickens, so the less-upsetting alternative used these days is "reform.")
If the communications companies (SBC alone has $40B in annual revenues, $100B in assets, and over 150,00 employees) can't compete against the residents of Plano, or Amarillo, or even Dallas, well, the real free market is tough. Compete fairly and provide a better service or find another line of work.
(And we chickens better do something about this sort of "reform" other than just post to/., or our only place in the "free market" will be plucked and hanging upside down.)
Just a few observations about time that I find quite wonderful:
First, time itself is an artifact of partitioned consciousness. It's rather like the relationship of the video raster to an image which it displays. There's a stream of pixels flowing along, and each particular pixel has a moment in which from the standpoint of the stream it defines the totality of "now." But there's a different point of view that isn't limited to a pixel stream, one that experiences the entire picture at once.
These two forms of experience aren't antithetical, they exist simultaneously (though of course the pixel-stream/ego-consciousness form isn't big enough to experience or comprehend the other one, and so would argue that the holistic form is impossible or even nonsensical).
It's the limitations of ego consciousness that have us experience time.
Once we start talking about time, we can notice that time flows both forwards and backwards, again simultaneously.
There's the direction that we call forwards, where time appears to flow from the past up to a present moment, beyond which we don't have any memory. I think of this as the "push" direction of the flow of time.
There's also the other direction, the flow of time from the future into the past. I think of this as the "pull" direction of the flow.
As in the previous example, the "pull" direction is aware of the entire stream, the entire picture, while the "push" direction starts out unaware of any of it, and gradually becomes aware of more and more as its "now" moves towards the future.
There's an old proverb that says "what you are seeking is also seeking you." It's talking about our movement through time. As the past pushes forward into its unknown to discover its future, there's also a future actively desiring to be found.
We can also relate time and the resulting notions of past and future to personal psychological concepts of ego, shadow, and Self.
Things that exist in the past are the elements that were safe enough to move into ego consciousness from the unconscious or shadow (we become ego-aware of them as they move from the future/shadow to the past/ego as we progress the now). The elements about ourselves/our lives/the universe that are still too unsettling to experience remain safely hidden in the future/shadow, on the other side of the now. (And if you don't think that knowing the future might be unsettling, consider suddenly knowing everything that would happen in your entire life - all the successes, all the failures, all the deaths of everyone you care about, the wonder and excitement of every surprise. While incarnation and ego consciousness can be a horrible cage, from the standpoint of complete connectedness, separation is the most wonderful gift in the universe. To be able to not know!) The whole stream, as a complete, circular entity, is like the Self.
So time can be seen as a way that the physical universe itself has consciousness, one that is self-similar to our own.
Of course, time and space could be the universe manifesting its own mind-body split, or it could simply be our way of experiencing the universe because that's the perception that crystallizes out when our human consciousness touches it. That ego-or-Self perception effect again!
And when all the varied wheels-within-wheels streams complete their cycles, and at every scale ego consciousness is unified with the Self, the whole game starts over. (That's the "Let there be light" or "Let there be a Big Bang" or whatever you like moment. Religion and science are just remembering the same event from two different directions.)
To connect all this to the article, if it's not already obvious, the experience that the future and past can't affect each other is merely a side effect of the point of view that they can't!
If we run our experience of the world through a perceptual mechanism that is too smal
Hagel didn't resign, Victor Baird, the Chief Counsel and Director of the Senate Ethics Committee for nearly 16 years, resigned. He resigned suddenly, just after discussing with Hagel's office Hagel's continuing non-disclosure of his relationship to and beneficial ownership of ES&S, the privately-held company that counts almost all the votes in Hagel's state of Nebraska.
Hagel was Chairman and/or CEO of ES&S until the year before his election to the Senate in 1996. Hagel's victory was described as one of the biggest upsets in the 1996 election. (Nebraska, where non-machine, and hence non-ES&S, recounts of ballots are now prohibited by law, had not elected a Republican to the Senate in 24 years.)
It is not known if Baird resigned as an act of protest or to protect himself from further investigation into how Hagel was allowed to violate FEC regulations for nearly 7 years.
Not surprisingly, the new Director of the Ethics Committee quickly announced a change that relaxed the disclosure rules.
Stuff like the following story happens even in cases where the authorities don't have much to gain (other than perhaps a closed investigation). Think of what happens when you start to piss off somebody with real juice.
What terrorist act would the additional DMV information be likely to stop?
While I don't promote violence of any kind, I believe I'm far more likely to suffer at the hands of my own government than at the hands of terrorists. Rather than hope unpleasant stuff won't happen, or hope that someone else will act so I don't have to, I'm finally willing to do something about it.
Perhaps that starts by simply saying what I believe.
"What?! You don't support them communists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H terrorists, do you?"
- I love my country, but not always my country's government
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Henry Roberts was arrested, charged and convicted of murdering his nephew in 1991. Like many defendants, he professed his innocence each step of the way.
This time, though, the defendant was right.
Police reopened the case two years ago after two witnesses told them that Robert Tomczewski, 29, had admitted to shooting Henry Harrison, 21. Roberts, they said, was innocent.
Tomczewski, who has been in and out of prison since 1992, was arrested for the crime in May 2000, a day before he was to be released from prison for an unrelated crime.
Tomczewski admitted to the killing in a plea deal on Monday.
Once they believed they had the right man, prosecutors went to try and release Roberts. They were too late: The 66-year-old had died behind bars in 1996.
"I think that everybody was acting on the information that they had before them, doing the job to the best of their ability," Patricia Jessamy, Baltimore's state's attorney, said Wednesday.
Roberts, a retired steel worker, had no criminal record and was critically wounded when Harrison, 21, was murdered in front of him in his East Baltimore home on May 11, 1991.
Slashdot Mirror
Where candidates win elections by paying operatives to secretly affect the casting and counting of votes.
It is the present state of American politics, but it's not democracy.
And it's tragic that anyone could ever confuse the two.
Election results by Diebooooooold.
The bigger problem here is that /. is accepting CNN (CNN?!?) reviews of existing and well-reported technology products as news.
Guess it's time to start rearranging the deck chairs.... (Or link to a BYTE review of DECchairs!)
"I disapprove of what you f*ck, but I will defend to the death your right to post pictures of you f*cking it."
"Vidi, veni" - Caesar
The cleansing has already begun!
"What celebrity do you most resemble?"
"Mr. Ed"
We intentionally clicked on horseteen.com as a public service! To thoroughly examine it for any sign of the filthy, deviant and perverse pornography of which the Internet must be cleansed!
Can you recommend any other sites that we might also need to examine?
(And be quick about it - we're kind of in the middle of something here.)
A real couch potato doesn't waste time "thinking" about "suddenly becoming active."
"Honey, after you finish typing my Slashdot comment, will you get me a beer?"
Perhaps Gooooooo(eww!)gle will christen them "Click-to-Callgirls."
Soon guys will be swapping stories like "Ohmigod, last night this chick, her PageRank was f***ing incredible!"
"But I feel so...so....dirty."
"Don't worry, baby - using Internet Explorer is all part of the kink."
God help us all if Brad & Angelina meet Jen & Vince during a tour of some new Google office space.
"Don't cross the streams."
"Why?"
"It would be bad."
An electorate that's willing to fight for what little remains of democracy, and representatives unafraid to do what's right - and for this it cannot come too soon.
(Please, no comments about a possible Ben/Socrates ticket.)
Discipline Global Mobile, the record label founded by Robert Fripp of King Crimson, has this same policy for the music it publishes - the copyright remains with the artist ("with whom it rightfully resides" IIRC).
You can read more about the admirable aims of DGM here .
Here's an excerpt:
The business aims of Discipline Global Mobile are....
* to help music come into the world which would otherwise be unlikely to do so, or under conditions prejudicial to the music and/or musicians.
* to operate in the market place, while being free of the values of the market place.
* to help the artists and staff of DGM achieve what they wish for themselves.
* to find its audience.
* to be a model of ethical business in an industry founded on exploitation, oiled by deceit, riven with theft and fuelled by greed.
There's also more of Fripp's sardonic sense of humor, and one of the better explanations of "standard practice" record label-artist contracts (not for the squeamish!).
Perhaps the rate of adoption of this sort of ethical business model by the music industry will at least serve as a lower bound for those wondering about the rate of adoption in other media.
But you can still give the anti-gravity propulsion shield a five-star rating!
Next - Amazon offers "One-Click Patent Submission."
Use the sponsored links when searching "neck" "snap" "break."
Thanks AdSense!
I thought the headline meant that MS was shipping another "Protection Utility" that was, in reality, malware.
:->
And my response to that was "This is news?"
"Evil men obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience must be taken very seriously" - George W. Bush
The classic "two slits experiment" isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Destructive interference between the, ahem, "wavefunctions" will take the fun right out of this one. (This is commonly known as the "Schrodinger's catfight.")
And even if you do get constructive interference, try explaining later that you really couldn't tell which of the two slits you came through! You'll end up sleeping out next to the cyclotron for a month.
Looks like SBC's employees in Austin are hard at work.
Having Read The Fine Amendment (the bill amends the existing Utilities Code), here are a few salient quotes:
Roughly translated:
If someone wants to abide by "free-market" principles, they might start by acknowledging that a group of citizens who agree to cooperate to provide a service for the public good are a part of the market.
Any truly free and fair market should allow for a balance of both public and private participation.
Government promotion of business interests over public interests has a name: fascism. (But calling it that tends to upset the chickens, so the less-upsetting alternative used these days is "reform.")
If the communications companies (SBC alone has $40B in annual revenues, $100B in assets, and over 150,00 employees) can't compete against the residents of Plano, or Amarillo, or even Dallas, well, the real free market is tough. Compete fairly and provide a better service or find another line of work.
(And we chickens better do something about this sort of "reform" other than just post to
"The theory goes that at about 1 foot per second, electrical propagation between chips is causing us lots of headaches."
"Note to self: next time, upgrade from '2nd Day' to 'Next Day' for chip interconnects."
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...
In America, a railroad is more of a Finite State Touring Machine.
( Dear God, will he ever halt??? )
Would a UTM Railroad be a train of thought?
Hi Everyone,
Just a few observations about time that I find quite wonderful:
First, time itself is an artifact of partitioned consciousness. It's rather like the relationship of the video raster to an image which it displays. There's a stream of pixels flowing along, and each particular pixel has a moment in which from the standpoint of the stream it defines the totality of "now." But there's a different point of view that isn't limited to a pixel stream, one that experiences the entire picture at once.
These two forms of experience aren't antithetical, they exist simultaneously (though of course the pixel-stream/ego-consciousness form isn't big enough to experience or comprehend the other one, and so would argue that the holistic form is impossible or even nonsensical).
It's the limitations of ego consciousness that have us experience time.
Once we start talking about time, we can notice that time flows both forwards and backwards, again simultaneously.
There's the direction that we call forwards, where time appears to flow from the past up to a present moment, beyond which we don't have any memory. I think of this as the "push" direction of the flow of time.
There's also the other direction, the flow of time from the future into the past. I think of this as the "pull" direction of the flow.
As in the previous example, the "pull" direction is aware of the entire stream, the entire picture, while the "push" direction starts out unaware of any of it, and gradually becomes aware of more and more as its "now" moves towards the future.
There's an old proverb that says "what you are seeking is also seeking you." It's talking about our movement through time. As the past pushes forward into its unknown to discover its future, there's also a future actively desiring to be found.
We can also relate time and the resulting notions of past and future to personal psychological concepts of ego, shadow, and Self.
Things that exist in the past are the elements that were safe enough to move into ego consciousness from the unconscious or shadow (we become ego-aware of them as they move from the future/shadow to the past/ego as we progress the now). The elements about ourselves/our lives/the universe that are still too unsettling to experience remain safely hidden in the future/shadow, on the other side of the now. (And if you don't think that knowing the future might be unsettling, consider suddenly knowing everything that would happen in your entire life - all the successes, all the failures, all the deaths of everyone you care about, the wonder and excitement of every surprise. While incarnation and ego consciousness can be a horrible cage, from the standpoint of complete connectedness, separation is the most wonderful gift in the universe. To be able to not know!) The whole stream, as a complete, circular entity, is like the Self.
So time can be seen as a way that the physical universe itself has consciousness, one that is self-similar to our own.
Of course, time and space could be the universe manifesting its own mind-body split, or it could simply be our way of experiencing the universe because that's the perception that crystallizes out when our human consciousness touches it. That ego-or-Self perception effect again!
And when all the varied wheels-within-wheels streams complete their cycles, and at every scale ego consciousness is unified with the Self, the whole game starts over. (That's the "Let there be light" or "Let there be a Big Bang" or whatever you like moment. Religion and science are just remembering the same event from two different directions.)
To connect all this to the article, if it's not already obvious, the experience that the future and past can't affect each other is merely a side effect of the point of view that they can't!
If we run our experience of the world through a perceptual mechanism that is too smal
Lemonparty? I thought that was the Republican Party!
"Choosing between Democrat and Republican for President is like choosing between Goatse Guy and Tubgirl for national desktop image."
(Apologies for sullying this discussion of pornography, filth, and depravity with a gratuitous reference to politics.)
Hagel didn't resign, Victor Baird, the Chief Counsel and Director of the Senate Ethics Committee for nearly 16 years, resigned. He resigned suddenly, just after discussing with Hagel's office Hagel's continuing non-disclosure of his relationship to and beneficial ownership of ES&S, the privately-held company that counts almost all the votes in Hagel's state of Nebraska.
Hagel was Chairman and/or CEO of ES&S until the year before his election to the Senate in 1996. Hagel's victory was described as one of the biggest upsets in the 1996 election. (Nebraska, where non-machine, and hence non-ES&S, recounts of ballots are now prohibited by law, had not elected a Republican to the Senate in 24 years.)
It is not known if Baird resigned as an act of protest or to protect himself from further investigation into how Hagel was allowed to violate FEC regulations for nearly 7 years.
Not surprisingly, the new Director of the Ethics Committee quickly announced a change that relaxed the disclosure rules.
You can read more about it here and here.
Stuff like the following story happens even in cases where the authorities don't have much to gain (other than perhaps a closed investigation). Think of what happens when you start to piss off somebody with real juice.
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What terrorist act would the additional DMV information be likely to stop?
While I don't promote violence of any kind, I believe I'm far more likely to suffer at the hands of my own government than at the hands of terrorists. Rather than hope unpleasant stuff won't happen, or hope that someone else will act so I don't have to, I'm finally willing to do something about it.
Perhaps that starts by simply saying what I believe.
"What?! You don't support them communists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H terrorists, do you?"
- I love my country, but not always my country's government
http://www.courttv.com/news/2002/0411/innocent_ap
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Henry Roberts was arrested, charged and convicted of murdering his nephew in 1991. Like many defendants, he professed his innocence each step of the way.
This time, though, the defendant was right.
Police reopened the case two years ago after two witnesses told them that Robert Tomczewski, 29, had admitted to shooting Henry Harrison, 21. Roberts, they said, was innocent.
Tomczewski, who has been in and out of prison since 1992, was arrested for the crime in May 2000, a day before he was to be released from prison for an unrelated crime.
Tomczewski admitted to the killing in a plea deal on Monday.
Once they believed they had the right man, prosecutors went to try and release Roberts. They were too late: The 66-year-old had died behind bars in 1996.
"I think that everybody was acting on the information that they had before them, doing the job to the best of their ability," Patricia Jessamy, Baltimore's state's attorney, said Wednesday.
Roberts, a retired steel worker, had no criminal record and was critically wounded when Harrison, 21, was murdered in front of him in his East Baltimore home on May 11, 1991.
- article continues at courttv.com -