Then....
The reason why the 'Star Wars' defence missle sheild (the one that the US is trying to build) will never work is because every terrorist nation has a Hans Solo who will go in and blow up the sheild generator.
Now....
Now with the new uniforms, the terroristic Anikin Skywalkers out there can take down the droid control ship, and all the new uniforms will start malfunctioning.
...and as <insert terrorist from 'axis of evil' regime here> overrode the US military uniform network he cackled, "just try to fight with all your turnique control mechanisms ON! Hahaha...And now for a little adjustment to your GPS...hehehe....
And we wonder why the head of Kim Jong II, the current leader of N.Korea, is such a Hollywood film fan!!
Is this going to be something like the TV audience and vote or command the characters (robots) on TV to do something and interact with the other robots?
I wonder how many votes there will be for 'kiss', 'undress', or 'have sex', etc. Or maybe more intrestingly, if the audience can send in their own ideas, 'stare at thumb', 'chew on lamp cord', or 'say "All your base are belong to us" 54 times'.
After spending quite a long time reading that Max Tucker story and then looking through Katy's website, I believe I have a good picture of the mentality of this woman's life.
1. Overprotective parent (mother from what I've read) 2. Easily taken in by an agressive male 'player' 3. Because of the strict rules placed on her, she is eager to rebel and gets carried away with the sex and booze.
4a. Eventually realizes (as most people figure out later in life), that her parents might have had some good points growing up - create a website with their rules to make her parents proud and hide her past experiences. 4b. Feels that she has been taken advantage of and makes a website that can help other girls who might fall into similar situations.
Judging by the way she handles situations in the Max story, she doesn't appear to catch on quickly what's going on (polite 'dumb blond' statement). I would venture to guess it is the same with many of the guys she's dated - unable to know if they are in it for just sex and then dump aside. It seems to me that due to her personality and her position as a beauty queen, etc, that men would generally be in a relationship to take advantage of her.
I can easily understand why somebody who went through such relationship as she did with Max would try and publicize abstinence from sex and alcohol and from letting men take advantage of them. It seems like a defence mechanism to somehow correct her own mistakes.
However I feel she should seek councelling herself and come to more of a balance between her inner desires/emotions and the rules she grew up with. From looking that the two websites, it seems like it is an all-or-nothing approach from her part.
I honestly feel sorry for the woman. She is trying to help women out there - moreover, making somewhat of a career out of it. I think she would be better off to be somewhat honest with the audience of her website. Something like, I've been there, don't do it, instead of trying to hide her past with this lawsuit. Perhaps simply as Max to tone down the site, removing the profanity (i.e. "pull down my pants and eat my member for dinner"). If her website was more upfront about her own experiences, this Max guy might not have written the story to begin with. Although, I feel many of the cartoons on her site are probably somewhat auto-biographical.
Nevertheless, I'm sure some therapy would help her.
However, encryption and decryption take time, and when using VoIP, LATENCY can be a big factor. A delay time of 250ms can be somewhat annoying and the term 'real time' communication is somewhat lessened.
So the slower the en/decryption, the more delay time you would have no matter how big the pipeline between the two people is.
I haven't tried PGPfone for a number of years, and computer speeds are quite a bit faster now. Maybe en/decryption time isn't much of a problem now. Whatever the case, I imagine this will become less and less of an issue in the future as computers get faster.
"Your Honour, ever since 2003, the database is more likely to contain inaccuracies, therefore I move that this information not be submitable to this court proceeding."
It seems to me inaccuracies can only hurt the system more than help it.
Airlines are in trouble. Tourism in the states will lull. The Senate voted down the Alaskan oil reserves. Stock market has sucked for a long time now.
And now war will begin... hello?! War is expensive!
Today I have been receiving several emails and messages to to boycotting US products on the day war begins.
Mark my words: the US cannot be a superpower for ever. Take the Russian economy during the Cold War for example. The US pulled ahead because the economy could support making the massive amounts of weapons.
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The US economy is going down the tubes. I have heard many views of the US loosing its role as a superpower (on the news, talks with others, and apparently some British person from some university there wrote a paper on it).
The US has a big military and weapons for its role as a superpower. And with the current strikes on Irak, the US is clearly going against international law. I don't think most Americans realize what this is and means. Military strike without approval breaks international law. Sure the United States is powerful enough to do that right now. But the US will not be a superpower for ever. Plain and simple.
I feel that the US is not looking out for its future. While it is a superpower now, it should help define and place International Law and Order to protect itself it the future. Someday there will be another superpower and the US might have to look to International Law to help itself. And unfortunately it seems as though the US is cutting off lots of ties in this world.
Today on CNN, there is an article which seems to link raising oil prices instead with the treat of war. The supporting evidence is information from the Gulf War. Granted they mention briefly about the problem in Venezuala, the article seems to highlight Iraq as the source for high crude prices.
I thought CNN distorted the facts a little. Maybe it's because people would be more interested to hear about Iraq than Venezuala.
Sure music is mathematical, but you get completely different music from a computer or machine making the music (player piano, etc.) and somebody actually performing it. The person is able to put expression and feelings in the their work. Often the actual words sung are important to give the right expression and emotion.
Can a computer program really translate the meaning of the words sung and see if they are able to capture people emotionally?
Furthermore, when recording a song, there might be a lot of 'takes' to get a good song. Some are obviously better than others to the human ear, but I would be curious if this computer program rates these fairly or the same.
Live recording CDs change songs quite a bit also. When I play song, I try and change it a little each time, because it is a whole new experience. It keeps the audience interested because even if they have heard it before, they have not heard it quite the way I play it that time. The point is, little variations give a song the cutting edge to make it better. I know I have an album by the same band, but two different producers (Sponge - one by Chaos, the other by Work). One version is definately better than the other even though they are the same songs.
It is sort of the same for a song that was orginally lots of electric guitars and they re-did it all acoustic. Sometimes I even didn't like the electric and loved the acoustic. Can a computer program handle these extreme differences? I wouldn't think so.
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Then....
...and as <insert terrorist from 'axis of evil' regime here> overrode the US military uniform network he cackled, "just try to fight with all your turnique control mechanisms ON! Hahaha...And now for a little adjustment to your GPS...hehehe....
The reason why the 'Star Wars' defence missle sheild (the one that the US is trying to build) will never work is because every terrorist nation has a Hans Solo who will go in and blow up the sheild generator.
Now....
Now with the new uniforms, the terroristic Anikin Skywalkers out there can take down the droid control ship, and all the new uniforms will start malfunctioning.
And we wonder why the head of Kim Jong II, the current leader of N.Korea, is such a Hollywood film fan!!
Is this going to be something like the TV audience and vote or command the characters (robots) on TV to do something and interact with the other robots?
I wonder how many votes there will be for 'kiss', 'undress', or 'have sex', etc. Or maybe more intrestingly, if the audience can send in their own ideas, 'stare at thumb', 'chew on lamp cord', or 'say "All your base are belong to us" 54 times'.
Whatever...
After spending quite a long time reading that Max Tucker story and then looking through Katy's website, I believe I have a good picture of the mentality of this woman's life.
1. Overprotective parent (mother from what I've read)
2. Easily taken in by an agressive male 'player'
3. Because of the strict rules placed on her, she is eager to rebel and gets carried away with the sex and booze.
4a. Eventually realizes (as most people figure out later in life), that her parents might have had some good points growing up - create a website with their rules to make her parents proud and hide her past experiences.
4b. Feels that she has been taken advantage of and makes a website that can help other girls who might fall into similar situations.
Judging by the way she handles situations in the Max story, she doesn't appear to catch on quickly what's going on (polite 'dumb blond' statement). I would venture to guess it is the same with many of the guys she's dated - unable to know if they are in it for just sex and then dump aside. It seems to me that due to her personality and her position as a beauty queen, etc, that men would generally be in a relationship to take advantage of her.
I can easily understand why somebody who went through such relationship as she did with Max would try and publicize abstinence from sex and alcohol and from letting men take advantage of them. It seems like a defence mechanism to somehow correct her own mistakes.
However I feel she should seek councelling herself and come to more of a balance between her inner desires/emotions and the rules she grew up with. From looking that the two websites, it seems like it is an all-or-nothing approach from her part.
I honestly feel sorry for the woman. She is trying to help women out there - moreover, making somewhat of a career out of it. I think she would be better off to be somewhat honest with the audience of her website. Something like, I've been there, don't do it, instead of trying to hide her past with this lawsuit. Perhaps simply as Max to tone down the site, removing the profanity (i.e. "pull down my pants and eat my member for dinner"). If her website was more upfront about her own experiences, this Max guy might not have written the story to begin with. Although, I feel many of the cartoons on her site are probably somewhat auto-biographical.
Nevertheless, I'm sure some therapy would help her.
Sure VoIP can be encrypted.
However, encryption and decryption take time, and when using VoIP, LATENCY can be a big factor. A delay time of 250ms can be somewhat annoying and the term 'real time' communication is somewhat lessened.
So the slower the en/decryption, the more delay time you would have no matter how big the pipeline between the two people is.
I haven't tried PGPfone for a number of years, and computer speeds are quite a bit faster now. Maybe en/decryption time isn't much of a problem now. Whatever the case, I imagine this will become less and less of an issue in the future as computers get faster.
I wonder if lawyers will ever use:
"Your Honour, ever since 2003, the database is more likely to contain inaccuracies, therefore I move that this information not be submitable to this court proceeding."
It seems to me inaccuracies can only hurt the system more than help it.
Airlines are in trouble. Tourism in the states will lull. The Senate voted down the Alaskan oil reserves. Stock market has sucked for a long time now.
And now war will begin... hello?! War is expensive!
Today I have been receiving several emails and messages to to boycotting US products on the day war begins.
Mark my words: the US cannot be a superpower for ever. Take the Russian economy during the Cold War for example. The US pulled ahead because the economy could support making the massive amounts of weapons.
The US economy is going down the tubes. I have heard many views of the US loosing its role as a superpower (on the news, talks with others, and apparently some British person from some university there wrote a paper on it).
The US has a big military and weapons for its role as a superpower. And with the current strikes on Irak, the US is clearly going against international law. I don't think most Americans realize what this is and means. Military strike without approval breaks international law. Sure the United States is powerful enough to do that right now. But the US will not be a superpower for ever. Plain and simple.
I feel that the US is not looking out for its future. While it is a superpower now, it should help define and place International Law and Order to protect itself it the future. Someday there will be another superpower and the US might have to look to International Law to help itself. And unfortunately it seems as though the US is cutting off lots of ties in this world.
Today on CNN, there is an article which seems to link raising oil prices instead with the treat of war. The supporting evidence is information from the Gulf War. Granted they mention briefly about the problem in Venezuala, the article seems to highlight Iraq as the source for high crude prices.
I thought CNN distorted the facts a little. Maybe it's because people would be more interested to hear about Iraq than Venezuala.
Question everything.
Sure music is mathematical, but you get completely different music from a computer or machine making the music (player piano, etc.) and somebody actually performing it. The person is able to put expression and feelings in the their work. Often the actual words sung are important to give the right expression and emotion.
Can a computer program really translate the meaning of the words sung and see if they are able to capture people emotionally?
Furthermore, when recording a song, there might be a lot of 'takes' to get a good song. Some are obviously better than others to the human ear, but I would be curious if this computer program rates these fairly or the same.
Live recording CDs change songs quite a bit also. When I play song, I try and change it a little each time, because it is a whole new experience. It keeps the audience interested because even if they have heard it before, they have not heard it quite the way I play it that time. The point is, little variations give a song the cutting edge to make it better. I know I have an album by the same band, but two different producers (Sponge - one by Chaos, the other by Work). One version is definately better than the other even though they are the same songs.
It is sort of the same for a song that was orginally lots of electric guitars and they re-did it all acoustic. Sometimes I even didn't like the electric and loved the acoustic. Can a computer program handle these extreme differences? I wouldn't think so.