It's good that all these fancy graphics cards are going to better use than trying to achieve a "constant 60 (fps)" in Doom III. No more will people be able to claim that they achieve optimal desktop usage with a 1MB Cirrus Logic 7440 graphics card.
There's a lot more that could be done for Linux desktops and especially Windows XP, though MacOS leads the way. Everything is like a pdf file, rendered quickly and seamlessly through OpenGL.
It's a shame, however, that third parties have to hack in extended desktop support externally for Windows, as its GUI integration was a truly pitiful idea. With Linux, the source can be modified, but unfortunately companies have little reason to do so.
As if it's not on the tip of everyone's tongue, we all know one thing: the 9/11 attacks, like every war catalyst for the past century, were allowed to happen.
9/11 is in the same category as the sinking of the Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, and the Gulf of Tonkin: the government either conspired to create or simply let happen the catastrophe to spur the public into war.
Why? Because America needs war to sustain its multinational corporations, and the Bush administration has an agenda of tyranny. We are trying to secure the next 50 years of energy through securing the middle east and central asia with dictators who represent our corporate interests, and we're losing our rights every day to Bush's schemes.
The NSA may have changed their ways, but the senior leadership obviously knew of the plot and let it happen -- the workers there were simply blindfolded to what was truly going on. The entire pdf file is full of lies, deceit, and spin to cover up what really went on at the NSA.
There are a myriad of questions that have been raised (see links below), and we may never know the answers to them.
Oh, and fix the flag.gif please -- I may hate the government, but I love this country.
Seriously, who is going to use this?
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PPC Amigas Go On Sale
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
The only possible purpose of bringing the Amiga back from the dead is NOSTALGIA.
The Amiga simply has no other practical uses -- not for games, not for desktop accessories: nada, nil, nothing. At the best, some rich geeks are going to purchase one as a novelty item, run some old demos or ancient games on it, and then let it collect dust in their closet.
Amiga emulators do the job far better than an actual machine would, with the bonus of being absolutely free.
Amiga died long ago, and it will never make a comeback. You would have to be a diehard idiot to purchase one of these.
By keeping all the code in the cache, inside the processor using self-modifying code in the most vital, inner loop areas of your program.
Modifying the code prevents the processor from reading further CPU instructions during the innermost loops through the slow bus, therefore giving a gargantuan speed boost.
Self-modifying code is just another programming tactic that we sacrificed for "ease of use" long ago, and it's been all but forgotten.
No CS student should be able to graduate with a degree without being able to write self-modifying code, but since very few can nowadays, here's a link:
I simply noticed how many CDs I had sitting around, and got sick of it -- so I plunked down around $1500 for 9 Western Digital 120GB hard drives a few months ago.
I have 140GB of OGGs and MP3s, 500GB of DivXs and VCDs (including porn), 100GB of installed games, 6 different OSes, and all kinds of other crap. I also have about 150GB free, still, that gets used for various tasks.
But if you don't need the memory, run Linux off of flash memory or one of those pocket USB drives, or some other form of solid state memory. However, the prices for it are still exorbitant.
At every job in America today, fewer workers are being used to work more hours -- often in states with no overtime laws, and/or under salaried pay -- simply for the sake of CEO's profits and short-term stock gains.
Where does management think that, by understaffing every company, outsourcing every IT job to India, exporting entire factories to neo-colonial slave labor camps in China and Mexico, understaffing the jobs that actually remain, and so forth will save their company?
They're killing the geese that lay their golden eggs by seeing wages as unnecessary expenses and firing every American worker in sight.
The MBAs of Wharton and Harvard who run the country are going to have a lot of explaining to do once the economy truly crashes and burns, as they have gutted the entire American industrial base with their selfish management.
Giving Germany's extremely liberal immigration laws, Al-Qaeda has established quite a foothold in the country.
The German police aren't trying to listen in on private phone calls -- they're trying to snatch terrorists who are plotting attacks against Americans. Al-Qaeda cells coordinating international terrorism is an everyday occurence in many German cities, and the police should do everything they can to save lives from murderous attacks.
Remember: Mohammed Atta and his crew of butchers, who murdered 3000 Americans on 9/11/01, plotted the entire scheme in Germany. The fact that the tapping showed up on the phone bills is not a good thing -- it's sloppy work, and it could mean lives lost to terrorism.
Mozilla may have more bugs than a rainforest, but at least they're open about it, whereas Microsoft quietly releases patches over windowsupdate.
Free software, like sex, is better without ESR
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Halloween VII
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· Score: 3, Insightful
According to the article, here are some interesting statistics:
64% say they like Linux because it's "Not Microsoft" -- some obvious discontent!
30% of French, 27% of German, and 23% of Brazilian respondents believe that a Linux solution offers a lower TCO than proprietary software -- obviously, they know about administration costs.
Linux favorability among the Linux familiar was 95% -- looks like it has some diehard fans:)
93% of Swedes, 84% of the French, and 75% of Germans and said that messages that rely on an abstract discussion of intellectual property rights are effective -- obviously the product of socialism, but it nevertheless shows that open source philosophy may have a chance.
Funding the "digital divide" is only a subsidy for major telecommunications companies to invade third-world countries and other places to set up their infrastructure for future profit.
Other infrastructure should be set up in poor countries first -- how about drinking water first? Most countries don't have it, and children around the world are drinking filthy water while the UN gives lip service to the "digital divide."
Even in America, the drug and crime problem should be rooted out in poor neighborhoods before we go and give away internet access to those who will never use it.
While it's great that the world's most populous nation is adopting open source, there is one problem with it: the leadership of China are some of the most brutal and flagrant abusers of human rights, and companies such are Red Hat are catering to their notion that Taiwan is a "Renegade Province" and somehow belongs to China, when the opposite is true.
Formosa (Taiwan) was never controlled by China, and China only wants to siphon off its strong capitalist economy and end the most basic freedoms in the country to exercise hegemony.
Most notably, RedHat has removed the Taiwanese Flag from RedHat 8.0 to appease China's ruling Communist Party -- this is an insult to the Taiwanese, who value their freedom and independence, and are constantly under the threat of a Chinese communist attack by China, and RedHat is disavowing their very right to exist by removing the flag.
I recall it being well over a decade ago when Weekly World News published the moon hoax theory to the public. I still didn't believe that scientists were going to blow up the moon, but I believed the moon landing was fake for awhile, too, as their article was actually very well written and raised some good points.
This was back when I was obsessed with shows like Sightings and read everything about the unexplained, the paranormal, and conspiracies as I could, even before the X-Files were around to make it cool.
When I first got an email address, I emailed NASA, and a Dr. Edwin Bell actually sent back a well-written reply to my questions. Thanks to Fox, they're probably flooded nowadays.
Fomentatious perflation hydrogenates your foetal cisterna Coagulating haemorrhage and your congenital hernia
Dehydrated soup - crumbling hygroma Pectified sludge - dank, acrid aroma Clotting uteral mucus, dissipating your foetus Melting your uterus and evaporating your cyesis
Your foetus is reconstituted by warm, molten enzymes Slowly digested in a microwaved slime Your stomach is churning, heat effervescing your succus Your innards running like hot, sticky mucus
Mangled uterogestation, your perimetrium clots Your inside cooking, steaming and hot
Back in college, in an advanced networking class, the students had to do a grueling semester-long project: one of those groups chose a wireless community.
In their group was an idealistic young man named Alan -- a man I knew, but didn't quite get along with well enough to be good friends with him -- who wanted to build a community wireless network down in the city's Martin Luther King apartment complex (aka the projects, the ghetto) in conjunction with a university program funded by a city grant that was giving away 486/Pentium I's to the poor in that section of town.
But while the group -- there were about 12 of them, I think -- was in the ghetto, surveying the area, looking for places to set up their equipment, they were approached by a group of young black men who told them something to the effect of "get tha fuck outta here, whiteboyz."
They tried to explain what they were doing to the young men, but within a minute, they were severely beaten up by the gang. Two of them, including Alan, were knocked unconscious, and when the hospital got there, the ambulance had to wait for police support because they were attacked by the same gang who smashed their windshield with baseball bats. Needless to say, the group ended up in the hospital for a week, and had to repeat all their classes the next semester, and though they got some of their money back, they chose a different project.
I'm not making this up -- though I'm sparing details for anonymity's sake, do a google search with words from the story, as it was probably published online.
The moral of the story? Don't do a wireless community project in the bad part of town without proper security.
Negro culture is not merely DIFFERENT from White culture; it is a LESS ADVANCED culture and, by practically any standard, INFERIOR. It is a culture which never advanced to the point of a written language or a civilized society. It never saw even the barest glimmerings of mathematics or the invention of the wheel. The smelting and use of metals and the quarrying and dressing of stone for architectural purposes are crafts that were taught to the Negro by members of other races. The hokum currently being served up in the schools about a centuries-old Negro "civilization" based on the ruins of stone walls found at Zimbabwe, in Rhodesia [note: at the time of this writing, the country was still called Rhodesia] is simply the product of wishful thinking by proponents of racial equality who are willing to ignore all facts which conflict with their equalitarian mania.
Negro culture inferiority is the consequence of the physical inadequacy of the Negro brain in dealing with abstract concepts. On the other hand, the Negro shows an ability approaching that of the White at mental tasks requiring only memory. That is why the Negro can be trained relatively easily to adapt to many aspects of White culture.
His verbal ability and his ability to imitate allow him, when properly motivated, to assume much of the outward appearance of "equality." In a decade of special college-admission quotas for Blacks, many thousands of Blacks have obtained college diplomas -- but only in those disciplines in which a glib tongue and a good memory suffice. There have been virtually no Black graduates in the physical sciences and very few in engineering.
Thus the Negroes inability to handle the abstract concepts required in problem-solving and technological innovation make a mockery of outward appearances. And this inability is genetic in nature, rooted in the physical structure of the Negro brain.
Until the post-World War II campaign to blend the White and Negro races began in earnest, the Negro's mental limitations were common knowledge. The 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, for example, says of the Negro, in part:
"...Other characteristics appear to be hypertrophy of the organs of excretion, a more developed venous system, and a less voluminous brain, as compared with the White races."
"In certain of the characteristics mentioned above the Negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the White man, and to be more closely related to the highest anthropoids...."
"Mentally the Negro is inferior to the White... While with the latter the volume of the brain grows with the expansion of the brainpan, in the former the growth of the brain is on the contrary arrested by the premature closing of the cranial sutures and lateral pressure of the frontal bone."
And the 1932 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana lists, among the distinguishing characteristics of the Negro race, the following:
"3. Weight of brain, 35 ounces (in gorilla 20 ounces, average Caucasian 45 ounces)...." "8. Exceedingly thick cranium, enabling him to use the head as a weapon of attack...."
"14. The cranial sutures, which close much earlier in the Negro than in other races."
As the media stepped up their flow of "equality" propaganda, later editions of these encyclopedias simply deleted the racial data on Blacks. One had to turn to specialized medical texts to learn that the associative areas of the brain, where abstract thought takes place, are less developed in the Negro than in the White.
It has been well known since the large-scale intelligence testing of U.S. Army recruits in World War I that the average Negro IQ is approximately 15 per cent below that of the average White. Apologists for the Blacks have tried to explain away the earlier test scores as being due to the effects of segregated schools and Black poverty; i.e. they claimed the tests were "culturally biased."
Later IQ tests, however, showed essentially the same degree of Black deficiency in IQ: whether Black graduates of integrated high schools were tested against White graduates of the same schools, or Blacks in a certain socio-economic category against similarly categorized Whites, the Blacks always scored substantially lower, even though standard IQ tests measure memory skills as well as purely associative ability. Tests which focus on the latter type of mental function show a much larger difference between Black and White scores.
But it is precisely the ability to associate concepts, to deal with abstractions, to mentally extrapolate the present into the future that has allowed the White race to build and maintain its civilization, and it is the Negro's deficiency in this regard which kept him in a state of savagery in his African environment and is now undermining the civilization of a racially mixed America. That is why it is vitally important for every White person to understand that there can be no such thing as "equality" between Whites and Blacks, regardless of the amount of racial mixing forced on Americans by the government.
Bill Paxon, Bob Franks, John Kasich, James Exon, Jon Christensen, Christopher Bond, Linda Smith , Michael Pappas, Thomas Manton, Gerald Solomon, Rick Lazio, Vince Snowbarger, Spencer Abraham, and especially Sonny Bono are no longer Congressmen -- and there's probably more, too.
Considering the amount of entrenched incumbency for Congressmen and Senators, that's a pretty good amount that have been kicked out of office already.
Remember this when you're at the polls, too: the remaining Congressmen are about 90% Republican.
Vote Democrat this November -- if not for them, for the poor children who are starving in the streets, the racially discriminated, the handicapped, and the gun violence victims.
We should strive to be like Sheffield
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RIP: Charles Sheffield
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Charles Sheffield was a man who did everything we all wanted to do.
He took the usual path of life, went and got a job, got married, and had children. But when he turned 40 and was in Iran doing business for a huge multinational corporation, something in him snapped -- and after reading a Sci-Fi novel, he decided to become a writer himself.
He left his high-paying job, and later his wife left him because he couldn't pay the bills. After miserable failure, he still persisted, and eventually got published and became a famous and respected Sci-Fi writer.
He's gone now, but at least he didn't go through the last years of his life a zombie like everyone else: an overworked corporate zombie with a wife for show, someone who, on the inside, is truly happy but is too afraid to challenge it.
Making any judgements from a snapshot intended for a non-interactive demo is ill advised.
So we can still keep buying all that HYPE about it and keep believing that it's somehow revolutionary, and not a cheesy Resident Evil / Half-Life ripoff?
And keep believing that all those pixel shaders and stencil shadows actually make anything besides the models look better, and that running at 20fps on a brand new machine is actually worth using all the poorly designed new graphics features?
...And go down to your local humane society and adopt a puppy instead.
For the price of the skateboard, you could have everything taken care of, including shots, and for the price of an AIBO, you would have enough money to feed it for its lifetime.
Though they probably will never be able to skateboard, a warm, loving puppy with emotions and feelings will warm your heart in ways a cheesy, overpriced piece of plastic toy cannot. We are losing our humanity with our silly toys, and we need to get back to real feelings of love and joy.
Many dogs aren't euthanized -- they are instead killed for sport by sadists who run the pound. Right now, there is a mistreated, lonely, and cold dog in your town's pound that is meant for you -- go out and adopt it.
BTW, that movie has already been made...
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Sony DRU-500A Review
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· Score: -1, Troll
Unlike CD burners, DVD drives will never catch on, much like zip drives never did.
DVDs were created to be obsolete, and within a few years, when Blu-Ray technologies are creating 30GB+ disks, a DVD burner will be one of those devices that will make someone say "You bought an expensive computer 4 years ago, and that device was overpriced crap", much like we view zip drives today.
Compared to what capacity we truly need for video and storage, DVDs are weak, and their burners and discs are too expensive, incompatible, and slow to be of any practical use in the near future.
CDs at least are dirt cheap -- almost free with rebates -- and I got my 32x burner used for $15. There are never any compatibility problems, and they're a universal format for both audio and video.
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It's good that all these fancy graphics cards are going to better use than trying to achieve a "constant 60 (fps)" in Doom III. No more will people be able to claim that they achieve optimal desktop usage with a 1MB Cirrus Logic 7440 graphics card.
There's a lot more that could be done for Linux desktops and especially Windows XP, though MacOS leads the way. Everything is like a pdf file, rendered quickly and seamlessly through OpenGL.
It's a shame, however, that third parties have to hack in extended desktop support externally for Windows, as its GUI integration was a truly pitiful idea. With Linux, the source can be modified, but unfortunately companies have little reason to do so.
As if it's not on the tip of everyone's tongue, we all know one thing: the 9/11 attacks, like every war catalyst for the past century, were allowed to happen.
9/11 is in the same category as the sinking of the Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, and the Gulf of Tonkin: the government either conspired to create or simply let happen the catastrophe to spur the public into war.
Why? Because America needs war to sustain its multinational corporations, and the Bush administration has an agenda of tyranny. We are trying to secure the next 50 years of energy through securing the middle east and central asia with dictators who represent our corporate interests, and we're losing our rights every day to Bush's schemes.
The NSA may have changed their ways, but the senior leadership obviously knew of the plot and let it happen -- the workers there were simply blindfolded to what was truly going on. The entire pdf file is full of lies, deceit, and spin to cover up what really went on at the NSA.
There are a myriad of questions that have been raised (see links below), and we may never know the answers to them.
http://www.rense.com/Datapages/bushkn.html - Bush Knew!
http://www.rense.com/Datapages/inv911.html - 911 Datapage
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm - an indictment of Rumsfeld, Myers, and Bush
Oh, and fix the flag.gif please -- I may hate the government, but I love this country.
The only possible purpose of bringing the Amiga back from the dead is NOSTALGIA.
The Amiga simply has no other practical uses -- not for games, not for desktop accessories: nada, nil, nothing. At the best, some rich geeks are going to purchase one as a novelty item, run some old demos or ancient games on it, and then let it collect dust in their closet.
Amiga emulators do the job far better than an actual machine would, with the bonus of being absolutely free.
Amiga died long ago, and it will never make a comeback. You would have to be a diehard idiot to purchase one of these.
By keeping all the code in the cache, inside the processor using self-modifying code in the most vital, inner loop areas of your program.
Modifying the code prevents the processor from reading further CPU instructions during the innermost loops through the slow bus, therefore giving a gargantuan speed boost.
Self-modifying code is just another programming tactic that we sacrificed for "ease of use" long ago, and it's been all but forgotten.
No CS student should be able to graduate with a degree without being able to write self-modifying code, but since very few can nowadays, here's a link:
http://reguly.net/alvaro/cic/linux-asm/self.html
I've posted about it before.
I simply noticed how many CDs I had sitting around, and got sick of it -- so I plunked down around $1500 for 9 Western Digital 120GB hard drives a few months ago.
I have 140GB of OGGs and MP3s, 500GB of DivXs and VCDs (including porn), 100GB of installed games, 6 different OSes, and all kinds of other crap. I also have about 150GB free, still, that gets used for various tasks.
But if you don't need the memory, run Linux off of flash memory or one of those pocket USB drives, or some other form of solid state memory. However, the prices for it are still exorbitant.
I never thought a pop Beatles-inspired band like Oasis would ever approve of a black metal band like Samael!
Perhaps they'll tour together?
At every job in America today, fewer workers are being used to work more hours -- often in states with no overtime laws, and/or under salaried pay -- simply for the sake of CEO's profits and short-term stock gains.
Where does management think that, by understaffing every company, outsourcing every IT job to India, exporting entire factories to neo-colonial slave labor camps in China and Mexico, understaffing the jobs that actually remain, and so forth will save their company?
They're killing the geese that lay their golden eggs by seeing wages as unnecessary expenses and firing every American worker in sight.
The MBAs of Wharton and Harvard who run the country are going to have a lot of explaining to do once the economy truly crashes and burns, as they have gutted the entire American industrial base with their selfish management.
Giving Germany's extremely liberal immigration laws, Al-Qaeda has established quite a foothold in the country.
The German police aren't trying to listen in on private phone calls -- they're trying to snatch terrorists who are plotting attacks against Americans. Al-Qaeda cells coordinating international terrorism is an everyday occurence in many German cities, and the police should do everything they can to save lives from murderous attacks.
Remember: Mohammed Atta and his crew of butchers, who murdered 3000 Americans on 9/11/01, plotted the entire scheme in Germany. The fact that the tapping showed up on the phone bills is not a good thing -- it's sloppy work, and it could mean lives lost to terrorism.
Mozilla may have more bugs than a rainforest, but at least they're open about it, whereas Microsoft quietly releases patches over windowsupdate.
According to the article, here are some interesting statistics:
:)
64% say they like Linux because it's "Not Microsoft" -- some obvious discontent!
30% of French, 27% of German, and 23% of Brazilian respondents believe that a Linux solution offers a lower TCO than proprietary software -- obviously, they know about administration costs.
Linux favorability among the Linux familiar was 95% -- looks like it has some diehard fans
93% of Swedes, 84% of the French, and 75% of Germans and said that messages that rely on an abstract discussion of intellectual property rights are effective -- obviously the product of socialism, but it nevertheless shows that open source philosophy may have a chance.
Funding the "digital divide" is only a subsidy for major telecommunications companies to invade third-world countries and other places to set up their infrastructure for future profit.
Other infrastructure should be set up in poor countries first -- how about drinking water first? Most countries don't have it, and children around the world are drinking filthy water while the UN gives lip service to the "digital divide."
Even in America, the drug and crime problem should be rooted out in poor neighborhoods before we go and give away internet access to those who will never use it.
While it's great that the world's most populous nation is adopting open source, there is one problem with it: the leadership of China are some of the most brutal and flagrant abusers of human rights, and companies such are Red Hat are catering to their notion that Taiwan is a "Renegade Province" and somehow belongs to China, when the opposite is true.
Formosa (Taiwan) was never controlled by China, and China only wants to siphon off its strong capitalist economy and end the most basic freedoms in the country to exercise hegemony.
Most notably, RedHat has removed the Taiwanese Flag from RedHat 8.0 to appease China's ruling Communist Party -- this is an insult to the Taiwanese, who value their freedom and independence, and are constantly under the threat of a Chinese communist attack by China, and RedHat is disavowing their very right to exist by removing the flag.
Put [The Taiwanese] National Flag Back!
I recall it being well over a decade ago when Weekly World News published the moon hoax theory to the public. I still didn't believe that scientists were going to blow up the moon,
but I believed the moon landing was fake for awhile, too, as their article was actually very well written and raised some good points.
This was back when I was obsessed with shows like Sightings and read everything about the unexplained, the paranormal, and conspiracies as I could, even before the X-Files were around to make it cool.
When I first got an email address, I emailed NASA, and a Dr. Edwin Bell actually sent back a well-written reply to my questions. Thanks to Fox, they're probably flooded nowadays.
Eat at Subway.
Fomentatious perflation hydrogenates your foetal cisterna
Coagulating haemorrhage and your congenital hernia
Dehydrated soup - crumbling hygroma
Pectified sludge - dank, acrid aroma
Clotting uteral mucus, dissipating your foetus
Melting your uterus and evaporating your cyesis
Your foetus is reconstituted by warm, molten enzymes
Slowly digested in a microwaved slime
Your stomach is churning, heat effervescing your succus
Your innards running like hot, sticky mucus
Mangled uterogestation, your perimetrium clots
Your inside cooking, steaming and hot
Back in college, in an advanced networking class, the students had to do a grueling semester-long project: one of those groups chose a wireless community.
In their group was an idealistic young man named Alan -- a man I knew, but didn't quite get along with well enough to be good friends with him -- who wanted to build a community wireless network down in the city's Martin Luther King apartment complex (aka the projects, the ghetto) in conjunction with a university program funded by a city grant that was giving away 486/Pentium I's to the poor in that section of town.
But while the group -- there were about 12 of them, I think -- was in the ghetto, surveying the area, looking for places to set up their equipment, they were approached by a group of young black men who told them something to the effect of "get tha fuck outta here, whiteboyz."
They tried to explain what they were doing to the young men, but within a minute, they were severely beaten up by the gang. Two of them, including Alan, were knocked unconscious, and when the hospital got there, the ambulance had to wait for police support because they were attacked by the same gang who smashed their windshield with baseball bats. Needless to say, the group ended up in the hospital for a week, and had to repeat all their classes the next semester, and though they got some of their money back, they chose a different project.
I'm not making this up -- though I'm sparing details for anonymity's sake, do a google search with words from the story, as it was probably published online.
The moral of the story? Don't do a wireless community project in the bad part of town without proper security.
Negro culture is not merely DIFFERENT from White culture; it is a LESS ADVANCED culture and, by practically any standard, INFERIOR. It is a culture which never advanced to the point of a written language or a civilized society. It never saw even the barest glimmerings of mathematics or the invention of the wheel. The smelting and use of metals and the quarrying and dressing of stone for architectural purposes are crafts that were taught to the Negro by members of other races. The hokum currently being served up in the schools about a centuries-old Negro "civilization" based on the ruins of stone walls found at Zimbabwe, in Rhodesia [note: at the time of this writing, the country was still called Rhodesia] is simply the product of wishful thinking by proponents of racial equality who are willing to ignore all facts which conflict with their equalitarian mania.
...."
... While with the latter the volume of the brain grows with the expansion of the brainpan, in the former the growth of the brain is on the contrary arrested by the premature closing of the cranial sutures and lateral pressure of the frontal bone."
...." ...."
Negro culture inferiority is the consequence of the physical inadequacy of the Negro brain in dealing with abstract concepts. On the other hand, the Negro shows an ability approaching that of the White at mental tasks requiring only memory. That is why the Negro can be trained relatively easily to adapt to many aspects of White culture.
His verbal ability and his ability to imitate allow him, when properly motivated, to assume much of the outward appearance of "equality." In a decade of special college-admission quotas for Blacks, many thousands of Blacks have obtained college diplomas -- but only in those disciplines in which a glib tongue and a good memory suffice. There have been virtually no Black graduates in the physical sciences and very few in engineering.
Thus the Negroes inability to handle the abstract concepts required in problem-solving and technological innovation make a mockery of outward appearances. And this inability is genetic in nature, rooted in the physical structure of the Negro brain.
Until the post-World War II campaign to blend the White and Negro races began in earnest, the Negro's mental limitations were common knowledge. The 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, for example, says of the Negro, in part:
"...Other characteristics appear to be hypertrophy of the organs of excretion, a more developed venous system, and a less voluminous brain, as compared with the White races."
"In certain of the characteristics mentioned above the Negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the White man, and to be more closely related to the highest anthropoids
"Mentally the Negro is inferior to the White
And the 1932 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana lists, among the distinguishing characteristics of the Negro race, the following:
"3. Weight of brain, 35 ounces (in gorilla 20 ounces, average Caucasian 45 ounces)
"8. Exceedingly thick cranium, enabling him to use the head as a weapon of attack
"14. The cranial sutures, which close much earlier in the Negro than in other races."
As the media stepped up their flow of "equality" propaganda, later editions of these encyclopedias simply deleted the racial data on Blacks. One had to turn to specialized medical texts to learn that the associative areas of the brain, where abstract thought takes place, are less developed in the Negro than in the White.
It has been well known since the large-scale intelligence testing of U.S. Army recruits in World War I that the average Negro IQ is approximately 15 per cent below that of the average White. Apologists for the Blacks have tried to explain away the earlier test scores as being due to the effects of segregated schools and Black poverty; i.e. they claimed the tests were "culturally biased."
Later IQ tests, however, showed essentially the same degree of Black deficiency in IQ: whether Black graduates of integrated high schools were tested against White graduates of the same schools, or Blacks in a certain socio-economic category against similarly categorized Whites, the Blacks always scored substantially lower, even though standard IQ tests measure memory skills as well as purely associative ability. Tests which focus on the latter type of mental function show a much larger difference between Black and White scores.
But it is precisely the ability to associate concepts, to deal with abstractions, to mentally extrapolate the present into the future that has allowed the White race to build and maintain its civilization, and it is the Negro's deficiency in this regard which kept him in a state of savagery in his African environment and is now undermining the civilization of a racially mixed America. That is why it is vitally important for every White person to understand that there can be no such thing as "equality" between Whites and Blacks, regardless of the amount of racial mixing forced on Americans by the government.
But I fancied myself more as a Rocket Queen, anyways.
Oh, and did you know that there's actually a metal tribute album to ABBA?
Rock on!
Bill Paxon, Bob Franks, John Kasich, James Exon, Jon Christensen, Christopher Bond, Linda Smith , Michael Pappas, Thomas Manton, Gerald Solomon, Rick Lazio, Vince Snowbarger, Spencer Abraham, and especially Sonny Bono are no longer Congressmen -- and there's probably more, too.
Considering the amount of entrenched incumbency for Congressmen and Senators, that's a pretty good amount that have been kicked out of office already.
Remember this when you're at the polls, too: the remaining Congressmen are about 90% Republican.
Vote Democrat this November -- if not for them, for the poor children who are starving in the streets, the racially discriminated, the handicapped, and the gun violence victims.
Charles Sheffield was a man who did everything we all wanted to do.
He took the usual path of life, went and got a job, got married, and had children. But when he turned 40 and was in Iran doing business for a huge multinational corporation, something in him snapped -- and after reading a Sci-Fi novel, he decided to become a writer himself.
He left his high-paying job, and later his wife left him because he couldn't pay the bills. After miserable failure, he still persisted, and eventually got published and became a famous and respected Sci-Fi writer.
He's gone now, but at least he didn't go through the last years of his life a zombie like everyone else: an overworked corporate zombie with a wife for show, someone who, on the inside, is truly happy but is too afraid to challenge it.
Making any judgements from a snapshot intended for a non-interactive demo is ill advised.
So we can still keep buying all that HYPE about it and keep believing that it's somehow revolutionary, and not a cheesy Resident Evil / Half-Life ripoff?
And keep believing that all those pixel shaders and stencil shadows actually make anything besides the models look better, and that running at 20fps on a brand new machine is actually worth using all the poorly designed new graphics features?
Right...
Ever since I replaced my RealDoll with a dog, I've been much happier.
Ever heard of fixed point math?
http://members.aol.com/form1/fixed.htm
...And go down to your local humane society and adopt a puppy instead.
For the price of the skateboard, you could have everything taken care of, including shots, and for the price of an AIBO, you would have enough money to feed it for its lifetime.
Though they probably will never be able to skateboard, a warm, loving puppy with emotions and feelings will warm your heart in ways a cheesy, overpriced piece of plastic toy cannot.
We are losing our humanity with our silly toys, and we need to get back to real feelings of love and joy.
Many dogs aren't euthanized -- they are instead killed for sport by sadists who run the pound. Right now, there is a mistreated, lonely, and cold dog in your town's pound that is meant for you -- go out and adopt it.
CmdrTaco did a movie awhile ago, and here it is: http://www.hick.org/CmdrTaco/hello.mpg
Unlike CD burners, DVD drives will never catch on, much like zip drives never did.
DVDs were created to be obsolete, and within a few years, when Blu-Ray technologies are creating 30GB+ disks, a DVD burner will be one of those devices that will make someone say "You bought an expensive computer 4 years ago, and that device was overpriced crap", much like we view zip drives today.
Compared to what capacity we truly need for video and storage, DVDs are weak, and their burners and discs are too expensive, incompatible, and slow to be of any practical use in the near future.
CDs at least are dirt cheap -- almost free with rebates -- and I got my 32x burner used for $15. There are never any compatibility problems, and they're a universal format for both audio and video.