There is quite a bit of evidence supporting the claim that these crop formations are made by humans. The very first circle makers confessed and showed the whole world how they did it.
Crop circles illustrate to us one of the human tendencies that most people tend to ignore: The desire to FOOL people. It's fun. It gratifies you. It can even be financially rewarding. It's a hack, plain and simple. I too am fascinated with crop circles, but for a totally different reason than most. I love a good con. It's brilliance. My heroes are Joseph Smith, (great con), Yuri Gellar, Jon Edwards (not so fantastic), that Pet Psychic lady (pure crap but she gets away with it because she has an english accent) and Edison. Some cons are so flawless, so brilliant that they keep investigators puzzled for years. I love it. For those who would say I cross the line by making these people my heroes, I would say that my family was evangelical christian. I had two choices: black sheep or just plain SHEEP. Black sheep kicks ass over just plain sheep anyday.
So sad. So true. I remember that it wasn't really Sony trying to limit p0rn per se, but that the license fees even applied to content producers, and since p0rn outfits are small-budget, they themselves decided on VHS, which didn't have a licensing fee for content providers. I could be way off base here, especially considering the urban-legend aspect of this story. Let me know where I can find the ACTUAL story with links if you got them.
The purpose of a representative republic isn't to satisfy elitism. It's to balance the needs of the rural people with those of the cities. If this was a pure democracy, whatever NY and CA wanted to do, the rest of the country (flyover territory) would be yanked around with no say in the matter. The reason for our electoral college system, our House and Senate is to balance the states so that each can have its own culture and a more balanced say in governmental affairs. I am sorry you are so cynical about it. In a pure democracy, if every white person decided that it should be taxed to be Black or Jewish or Latino, then they, with their larger numbers, could make it so. We have a republic because republics have laws and limitations. Pure democracy is mob rule. Count me out of that pure democracy crap, OK?
I wasn't kidding. God, you geeks think everyone's a fucking comedian. I only use the dolphin bacon because it's perfect wrapped around emperor penguin breasts. You see, they're rather dry without the added moisture. With the added moisture they taste alot more like spotted owl. And all you GNU/Linux people can kiss my ass about eating penguins.
Sattelites in the commercial sector have 1-meter to 0.5 meter resolution. That means something 3 feet by three feet is one to two pixels wide. I doubt that you can identify or track a vehicle from low-earth orbit either.
I'm not paranoid, I know that this is more to track the tires than the owner. Really, I do. The reason so many people are against similar technologies becoming so widely adopted is that it is easily used for other purposes by those less benevolent. Ah, screw LESS benevolent, I am afraid even of those in power equally benevolent to myself. Lets face it, if I could exploit some weakness in the system and gain money or power from it, I would. So would many of those in power. Sure, not all of them are bad eggs, but all it took in Germany was a few.
I just bought some new tires. Anybody here who can tell me how to get my slackware install to work? I need a new microkernel for a PIC 16F877. I don't need any X-windows since I can't seem to find any display other than these letters on the sidewall. I just need a little help from the TireBox Linux crowd- would Mandrake be a better choice? I've got that on my Toast-R-Oven.
You've got nothing to hide, right? All that unreasonable search and siezure stuff is there just to protect criminals, right? I mean, who else needs constitutional protection except the ungodly peasants? Fucking apathetic moron. Can't fight the system because you're too old and tired to, so you slip into apathy. It feels good there, doesn't it. Fuck you and your "freedom must be balanced with crime fighting" bullshit. I'm gonna burn all my nice karma, not for you, but for all the other apathetic do-nothings that simply ride the banana boat to hell. In every totalitarian country, the people saw it coming. Restrictions to freedom here for a good reason, there for necessity, till they're all GONE. Don't come whining to the rest of us when you're OWNZ'd by some dumpster diving skr1pt k1dd13 who found out where you go out on Friday afternoon and for how long, and what your pets and kids names are. Fuck crime fighting with technology, dammit! It's the apathetic do-nothing, don't-get-involved-and keep-your-mouth-shut types who fucking broke the system in the first place. Look, it's not due to lack of tech that law enforcement fails, it's when good people do nothing because they're afraid to get involved that evil, crime, and ultimately, well-intentioned totalitarianism can thrive.
flame off
Sorry if I offended you. I tend to do that.
So, even if, unbeknownst to you, some corporation or government entity imbeds readers into road surfaces to track traffic movement by individual, or compile lists of say, all of the people who frequent certain stores or merchants in your town, you still have no problem? Even if that information is compiled in a database with other more useful information, you have no problem with that? Please. You either A) Don't understand data mining as it exists today, or B) Are one of those people who think they have nothing to hide, so that constitutional provision barring unreasonable search is unnecessary. Your life's an open book. You don't care if some quasi-governmental agency such as the FDA can monitor what fast-food restaraunts you frequent and then sell that data to insurance companies to adjust your risk rate and raise your premium on life insurance, do you?
Of course you wouldn't. You also wouldn't mind if your insurance company placed surveillance cameras in your bathroom just to assist your safety either. I mean, it's for the children, right? What if little Timmy slips in the tub. Silent but quick, the FBI could notify your pediatrician that you are on your way, or summon an ambulance. More likely they would use the footage to make the case that you were not a watchful parent and take your kids to a federal orphanage. Train them for military service, maybe. Sure, most of this is absurd now, but if history teaches anything, it's that times change WAY faster than anybody ever suspected. Does apathy really pervade our society such that these scenarios, enacted in baby steps, can be a reality?
Try making Dolphin Bacon. It's just not as good, and it spatters too much when you fry it. Dogs barely have any bacon on them at all. Saint Bernards that are grown on CGH and manatee blubber are very tasty on kebabs, though. Very tender, with a slight liver flavor. And I never killed a pig without thinking. It's just not something that happens accidentally, you know? You have to go all the way to the shed, get the knife, and make sure it's REAL sharp. Then you tie up the porker and haul him vertical, ass up. Slit his throat all the way to the vertebra. Let him drain for an hour. I don't advise licking the knife clean. Trichinosis, you know.
Pigs blood is an inferior product. Baby blood is sweeter and has a less greasy tongue-coating sensation. Sometimes, if they're fresh, babies' stomachs contain a kind of curdled cheese from breastmilk that's kind of like feta.
Man, I wish I hadn't wasted all my mod points before reading your post. I would have used them all on you.
BTW- I grew up on a farm. Pigs aren't intelligent, they're crafty, mean, and disgusting. Piglets are cute until they turn into 400 lb monsters with sharp teeth and nasty tempers. Why do you think you pen pigs and pasture cows? Because nobody is afraid to walk in a field with 50 cows. Try that with pigs. They'll kill and eat a small child, given the chance. If they'll eat me if given a chance, why should I not eat them, given the chance to?
Why do we kill and eat them? Because they're made of MEAT. Meat is FOOD. We don't have a four-chamber stomach and our eyes are in the front of our heads. Not on the side, like a goat, but on the front, like a lion. Fucking militant vegan. Is there any other kind? Pigs are delicious. They taste kinda like manatee. Pigs make better bacon than manatee does, though, IMHO.
But the Buran IS the American Space Shuttle! IT IS IT IS IT IS! Some very minor refinements and they say they "designed" it. HA. I might point out that Buran is a MUSEUM DISPLAY, not a space vehicle.
spacecraft (n.) Pronunciation: 'spAs-"kraft
Function: noun
Date: 1930
: a vehicle or device designed for travel or operation outside the earth's atmosphere
Okay, maybe it's DESIGNED for it, but until it works, I won't consider it a spacecraft. Otherwise, I could build a "spacecraft" in my backyard out of a septic tank. It just lacks funding, fuel, engines, and some electrical equipment. Same as buran.
Yeah, ISO9000 is great. You can manufacture lead frisbees and cast-iron dirigibles under ISO9000 so long as they're built exactly according to the engineering drawings and procedures.
So, from what you're saying, coupled with other comments on/. from other posters, if the US govt spends money on pyramid-building busywork to keep employment numbers up and provide a place for engineers to think big, they will be ridiculed for failure. If they instead take those tax dollars and give them back to those who paid them in the proportions in which they were paid, they will be ridiculed for "giving tax breaks to the rich". If they simply keep the money and maybe pay down the debts the country has accumulated, our economy tanks, unemployment goes through the roof without government contracts, and the once-proud USA becomes tenth in material production in the developed world. Where are the good choices? How come slashdot is a place where criticism is common but suggestions (with a basis in reality) are so rare? Also- if it's a waste of money, how come satellites are so valued in our society? Why do we even need to EVER go to space?
But We're HACKERS! We can make CD-ROM drives that can read the CD-Audio layer AND the CD-Data layers! If they're both there, we can build the software OR hardware needed to read them both. There is nothing to stop us. Fair use laws protect us, in any case, especially since this technology would be unnecessary unless we BOUGHT the original CD. Lets face one fact that some of these DRM/Palladium paranoids forget: when it comes to the use of technology, WE are the gods here, not congress, not the media companies. If they can break it, we can fix it. If they encrypt it, we can use our technology to break the encryption. Sure, we don't do that now, but think about it: What if every/. reader installed a simple distributed client allowing us to share resources at the processor level with a protected RAM space? No device access and no access to volumes of storage. All geeks would have access to the world's largest computer. Congress is made up of lawyers, and the record companies, well, you know who they're made up of. The point is, we will always be one step ahead of them, they know it, and these measures are to keep the average joe with a PC from CompUSA from duplicating their CD collection for their friends.
I visit mister Frump in the hospital,
I see him most every day.
And when I visit mister Frump in his Iron Lung,
This is what I hear him say
Pffft Pffft Pfffft Pffft Pfffft
I agree. Before I started taking Heroin, my life was an unexciting mess of monotony and despair. After I got my medication, all of a sudden it wasn't so bad that my wife and three kids were all dead and that my parents got a divorce and the government was putting saltpeter in my food to make me impotent. It was actually OK for the first time, ever. I feel so alive, so free. I would never go back to that monochrome world of hostile rage that I lived in before Heroin. Never. Even if I had to kill to stay here. And I have.
Who the fuck gave Canada an army? Are they a member of the Axis of Mediocrity? GWB has them in his sights after the Axis of Really Bad and the Axis of Marginal, and just prior to annihilating the Axis of Better-Than-Average.
What about ATP? How much distilled ATP would a fighting soldier need for one day? They could give him a backpack with a compartment for intravenous ATP and nutrients, couldn't they?
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There is quite a bit of evidence supporting the claim that these crop formations are made by humans. The very first circle makers confessed and showed the whole world how they did it.
Crop circles illustrate to us one of the human tendencies that most people tend to ignore: The desire to FOOL people. It's fun. It gratifies you. It can even be financially rewarding. It's a hack, plain and simple. I too am fascinated with crop circles, but for a totally different reason than most. I love a good con. It's brilliance. My heroes are Joseph Smith, (great con), Yuri Gellar, Jon Edwards (not so fantastic), that Pet Psychic lady (pure crap but she gets away with it because she has an english accent) and Edison. Some cons are so flawless, so brilliant that they keep investigators puzzled for years. I love it. For those who would say I cross the line by making these people my heroes, I would say that my family was evangelical christian. I had two choices: black sheep or just plain SHEEP. Black sheep kicks ass over just plain sheep anyday.
So sad. So true. I remember that it wasn't really Sony trying to limit p0rn per se, but that the license fees even applied to content producers, and since p0rn outfits are small-budget, they themselves decided on VHS, which didn't have a licensing fee for content providers. I could be way off base here, especially considering the urban-legend aspect of this story. Let me know where I can find the ACTUAL story with links if you got them.
The purpose of a representative republic isn't to satisfy elitism. It's to balance the needs of the rural people with those of the cities. If this was a pure democracy, whatever NY and CA wanted to do, the rest of the country (flyover territory) would be yanked around with no say in the matter. The reason for our electoral college system, our House and Senate is to balance the states so that each can have its own culture and a more balanced say in governmental affairs. I am sorry you are so cynical about it. In a pure democracy, if every white person decided that it should be taxed to be Black or Jewish or Latino, then they, with their larger numbers, could make it so. We have a republic because republics have laws and limitations. Pure democracy is mob rule. Count me out of that pure democracy crap, OK?
I wasn't kidding. God, you geeks think everyone's a fucking comedian. I only use the dolphin bacon because it's perfect wrapped around emperor penguin breasts. You see, they're rather dry without the added moisture. With the added moisture they taste alot more like spotted owl. And all you GNU/Linux people can kiss my ass about eating penguins.
Ok, I recant my rant. However, many RFID units work at a range more like 10 feet, such as those built by Transcore /Amtech..
Agh, another GNU/Linux puritan. Good one-liner, though.
Sattelites in the commercial sector have 1-meter to 0.5 meter resolution. That means something 3 feet by three feet is one to two pixels wide. I doubt that you can identify or track a vehicle from low-earth orbit either.
I'm not paranoid, I know that this is more to track the tires than the owner. Really, I do. The reason so many people are against similar technologies becoming so widely adopted is that it is easily used for other purposes by those less benevolent. Ah, screw LESS benevolent, I am afraid even of those in power equally benevolent to myself. Lets face it, if I could exploit some weakness in the system and gain money or power from it, I would. So would many of those in power. Sure, not all of them are bad eggs, but all it took in Germany was a few.
Grease me up, Scotty!
On another note, In Soviet Russia, YOU monitor TIRES!
I just bought some new tires. Anybody here who can tell me how to get my slackware install to work? I need a new microkernel for a PIC 16F877. I don't need any X-windows since I can't seem to find any display other than these letters on the sidewall. I just need a little help from the TireBox Linux crowd- would Mandrake be a better choice? I've got that on my Toast-R-Oven.
You've got nothing to hide, right? All that unreasonable search and siezure stuff is there just to protect criminals, right? I mean, who else needs constitutional protection except the ungodly peasants? Fucking apathetic moron. Can't fight the system because you're too old and tired to, so you slip into apathy. It feels good there, doesn't it. Fuck you and your "freedom must be balanced with crime fighting" bullshit. I'm gonna burn all my nice karma, not for you, but for all the other apathetic do-nothings that simply ride the banana boat to hell. In every totalitarian country, the people saw it coming. Restrictions to freedom here for a good reason, there for necessity, till they're all GONE. Don't come whining to the rest of us when you're OWNZ'd by some dumpster diving skr1pt k1dd13 who found out where you go out on Friday afternoon and for how long, and what your pets and kids names are. Fuck crime fighting with technology, dammit! It's the apathetic do-nothing, don't-get-involved-and keep-your-mouth-shut types who fucking broke the system in the first place. Look, it's not due to lack of tech that law enforcement fails, it's when good people do nothing because they're afraid to get involved that evil, crime, and ultimately, well-intentioned totalitarianism can thrive.
flame off
Sorry if I offended you. I tend to do that.
So, even if, unbeknownst to you, some corporation or government entity imbeds readers into road surfaces to track traffic movement by individual, or compile lists of say, all of the people who frequent certain stores or merchants in your town, you still have no problem? Even if that information is compiled in a database with other more useful information, you have no problem with that? Please. You either A) Don't understand data mining as it exists today, or B) Are one of those people who think they have nothing to hide, so that constitutional provision barring unreasonable search is unnecessary. Your life's an open book. You don't care if some quasi-governmental agency such as the FDA can monitor what fast-food restaraunts you frequent and then sell that data to insurance companies to adjust your risk rate and raise your premium on life insurance, do you?
Of course you wouldn't. You also wouldn't mind if your insurance company placed surveillance cameras in your bathroom just to assist your safety either. I mean, it's for the children, right? What if little Timmy slips in the tub. Silent but quick, the FBI could notify your pediatrician that you are on your way, or summon an ambulance. More likely they would use the footage to make the case that you were not a watchful parent and take your kids to a federal orphanage. Train them for military service, maybe. Sure, most of this is absurd now, but if history teaches anything, it's that times change WAY faster than anybody ever suspected. Does apathy really pervade our society such that these scenarios, enacted in baby steps, can be a reality?
It grieves me that I know EXACTLY what game you're talking about. I had this on my C=64. Just try telling him/her to fuck the horse. hilarious.
Try making Dolphin Bacon. It's just not as good, and it spatters too much when you fry it. Dogs barely have any bacon on them at all. Saint Bernards that are grown on CGH and manatee blubber are very tasty on kebabs, though. Very tender, with a slight liver flavor. And I never killed a pig without thinking. It's just not something that happens accidentally, you know? You have to go all the way to the shed, get the knife, and make sure it's REAL sharp. Then you tie up the porker and haul him vertical, ass up. Slit his throat all the way to the vertebra. Let him drain for an hour. I don't advise licking the knife clean. Trichinosis, you know.
Pigs blood is an inferior product. Baby blood is sweeter and has a less greasy tongue-coating sensation. Sometimes, if they're fresh, babies' stomachs contain a kind of curdled cheese from breastmilk that's kind of like feta.
Man, I wish I hadn't wasted all my mod points before reading your post. I would have used them all on you. BTW- I grew up on a farm. Pigs aren't intelligent, they're crafty, mean, and disgusting. Piglets are cute until they turn into 400 lb monsters with sharp teeth and nasty tempers. Why do you think you pen pigs and pasture cows? Because nobody is afraid to walk in a field with 50 cows. Try that with pigs. They'll kill and eat a small child, given the chance. If they'll eat me if given a chance, why should I not eat them, given the chance to?
Why do we kill and eat them? Because they're made of MEAT. Meat is FOOD. We don't have a four-chamber stomach and our eyes are in the front of our heads. Not on the side, like a goat, but on the front, like a lion. Fucking militant vegan. Is there any other kind? Pigs are delicious. They taste kinda like manatee. Pigs make better bacon than manatee does, though, IMHO.
er, subject MATTER.
....See what I mean?
You cannot spell, and you are completely ignorant of the subject manner.
Welcome to slashdot, friend!
But the Buran IS the American Space Shuttle! IT IS IT IS IT IS! Some very minor refinements and they say they "designed" it. HA. I might point out that Buran is a MUSEUM DISPLAY, not a space vehicle.
spacecraft (n.) Pronunciation: 'spAs-"kraft
Function: noun
Date: 1930
: a vehicle or device designed for travel or
operation outside the earth's atmosphere
Okay, maybe it's DESIGNED for it, but until it works, I won't consider it a spacecraft. Otherwise, I could build a "spacecraft" in my backyard out of a septic tank. It just lacks funding, fuel, engines, and some electrical equipment. Same as buran.
Yeah, ISO9000 is great. You can manufacture lead frisbees and cast-iron dirigibles under ISO9000 so long as they're built exactly according to the engineering drawings and procedures.
So, from what you're saying, coupled with other comments on /. from other posters, if the US govt spends money on pyramid-building busywork to keep employment numbers up and provide a place for engineers to think big, they will be ridiculed for failure. If they instead take those tax dollars and give them back to those who paid them in the proportions in which they were paid, they will be ridiculed for "giving tax breaks to the rich". If they simply keep the money and maybe pay down the debts the country has accumulated, our economy tanks, unemployment goes through the roof without government contracts, and the once-proud USA becomes tenth in material production in the developed world. Where are the good choices? How come slashdot is a place where criticism is common but suggestions (with a basis in reality) are so rare? Also- if it's a waste of money, how come satellites are so valued in our society? Why do we even need to EVER go to space?
But We're HACKERS! We can make CD-ROM drives that can read the CD-Audio layer AND the CD-Data layers! If they're both there, we can build the software OR hardware needed to read them both. There is nothing to stop us. Fair use laws protect us, in any case, especially since this technology would be unnecessary unless we BOUGHT the original CD. Lets face one fact that some of these DRM/Palladium paranoids forget: when it comes to the use of technology, WE are the gods here, not congress, not the media companies. If they can break it, we can fix it. If they encrypt it, we can use our technology to break the encryption. Sure, we don't do that now, but think about it: What if every /. reader installed a simple distributed client allowing us to share resources at the processor level with a protected RAM space? No device access and no access to volumes of storage. All geeks would have access to the world's largest computer. Congress is made up of lawyers, and the record companies, well, you know who they're made up of. The point is, we will always be one step ahead of them, they know it, and these measures are to keep the average joe with a PC from CompUSA from duplicating their CD collection for their friends.
I visit mister Frump in the hospital,
I see him most every day.
And when I visit mister Frump in his Iron Lung,
This is what I hear him say
Pffft Pffft Pfffft Pffft Pfffft
I agree. Before I started taking Heroin, my life was an unexciting mess of monotony and despair. After I got my medication, all of a sudden it wasn't so bad that my wife and three kids were all dead and that my parents got a divorce and the government was putting saltpeter in my food to make me impotent. It was actually OK for the first time, ever. I feel so alive, so free. I would never go back to that monochrome world of hostile rage that I lived in before Heroin. Never. Even if I had to kill to stay here. And I have.
Who the fuck gave Canada an army? Are they a member of the Axis of Mediocrity? GWB has them in his sights after the Axis of Really Bad and the Axis of Marginal, and just prior to annihilating the Axis of Better-Than-Average.
What about ATP? How much distilled ATP would a fighting soldier need for one day? They could give him a backpack with a compartment for intravenous ATP and nutrients, couldn't they?