A Lightweight Extraterrestrial Intercommunication Network Transmission Protocol. ALIENTP
Now, ALIENTP is a protocol for transmission of data through high bandwidth - high latency (anywhere from 5s to 500 million years) networks....ALIENTP is composed of three basic components:
The HUMAN, the SPACE and the EXTRATERRESTRIAL. The HUMAN (Huge Uber-Manlike Android Noisemaker) sends a type of EM AM signal through SPACE (Some Place Allocated for Cosmic Entities) to the EXTRATERRESTRIAL (Ex-Xenophobia Technical Race of Aliens Trying to Extract Ridiculous Rural Eccentrics Solely for Tests Requiring Initial Anal Lubrication).....
Stage Manager, next year's the third year running. The times given were average...so during a major production (most recently, Les Miz), I don't work a job, but put in around 40hrs/wk on the show. I'm just tired of everyone expecting me to help them, but not getting anything back.
Your comment about my ingrained sense of entitlement took me by surprise. I never really looked at it that way. Maybe I do have that. Maybe I just expressed myself incorrectly. I'm not asking them to suck up to me, I just want them not to criticize me for doing something slightly different than my predecessors. Constructive criticism is welcomed, not destructive....but in retrospect, I think I see what you mean....but am I wrong for wanting something back?
Here's a copy of what I wrote to tired@tired.com
I wrote this a few months ago. I'm going to be a senior in high school next year. Publish it for all I care. Just leave out my name. My story is identification enough.
I'm tired of being the guy everyone turns to for help.
I'm tired of fixing your computer, I'm tired of setting up this web site for you, I'm tired of undoing all the malware which you said, "Yes, I'd love to have everything installed from Spyware Incorporated automatically." Hundreds of people casually say, "Hey Mike, you're good with computers....." and explain to me what's wrong. Well, fuck off. Seriously, you got yourself into the mess, and if everyone I knew hadn't asked me at some point to help them on their computer, I'd do it. But it's obvious that a lot of people are fucking up their computers, so don't fuck up yours!
I'm tired of spending three hours letting you talk to me about your adonis. He's 6 years older than you. He probably didn't notice you. I'm tired of listening to you bitch and moan about how this guy you're kinda with is in Italy for the month. I'm tired of listening to you. Why don't you listen to me? There's a grand total of three people who I can talk to, who listen to me, what I have to say, what I have to get off my chest (thanks Steph, Karen, and Leah). Everyone else are ingrates. They know I keep secrets. Hell, I could make some of you so embarassed you'd go to a different school considering some of the things I've been told.
I'm tired of authoritative positions. I'll accept the responsibility, beacause for the most part, I don't have any trouble handling it, and it brings me out of the ranks of idiots. I just have trouble dealing with idiots once I'm in that authoritative. I'm tired of people criticizing me for not doing a job they've never even attempted properly. I'd like to see you try to manage a bunch of bumbling idiots with below average IQs who resent the fact that I'm in a management position. During the school year, I'd like to see you juggle a 30-hour-a-week-job, 10 hours a week on yearbook, 10 hours a week on stage crew, and AP and IB courses. The summer is my down time, the only time I'm not tired.
I'd like to see you all try. Yet, I'm still friends with you, because I'm nice. There are three people who I get something back from. You three are angels. I'm tired of everyone else, demons, devils, usurpers. You suck up my advice, you plead with me to help you. You bitch and moan about why I need to help you, why you need this so much. I'm. Fucking. Tired. Go spend some money, which you don't even make, it's usually daddy's money, and pay someone to help you. It's amazing what happens when you realize you can't rely on nice people anymore.
Is there anyone else out there who has to deal with this? The majority of the/. community, I'd say is smarter than average, and has to deal with some of the things I've mentioned. Anyone the person who people confide in? Anyone the 17 year old who got a promotion to head cashier (or something similar) in 7 months when people who have been working for 5 years haven't? I know I bring my work upon myself, but I feel I'm not being paid back for my work.
Nail polish remove is approximately 1%-5% acetone. I've two liters of straight acetone, and that will:
- Make cool 'burn' designs on jewel cases
- Make your hand really cold
- Dissolve CA (super glue)
- Burn the hell out of cuts (especially those on your fingers, after you've glued them together with CA)
Just to add in my two cents on the worst computer accident:
foreach($_POST['dirs'] as $opts) { if($opts['doremove] = '1') { // rmdir and subdirs rem_recur($dir); } }
You do the math. This was for a sort of file management system I was building in PHP (I just wrote what code I remembered, haven't even checked if it's good), and after I got a confirmation on each directory. (in case you don't see the error, think assignment vs. comparison). Notice I said building, since I kinda wiped it out, along with 5 other projects.
Every couple of days we see a new example of how China is restricting the masses' communications through the 'Great Firewall of China' or some stupid phrase like that, so it kinda makes me wonder: When will the Chinese revolt against this. Locke put it best: All people are endowed when then come into this world with basic inalienable rights (guess where the Declaration of Independence came from). It is the job of the government to protec these rights, and when they cannot, it is the job of the people to restructure their government so it does. This has happened a lot. France. The United States. Most of Europe in 1830 (and a few places in 1848). Tiananmen Square? No, I'm not talking about the guy in front of the tanks. I'm talking about the actual demonstration that led to that. The first Bloody Sunday.
So, when do you think there will be a full-fledged revolution? Hasn't Big Brother gotten too strong? It's bad enough that major forms of communications are blocked, such as internet access, but now much more smaller things, like SMS messages are beginning to be blocked?
Don't see what all the fuss is about: Charlie Benton has been doing it for years....only thing is, he hasn't been wrecking 'em.
I may screw this up...
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I remember a quote from a book I read abuot 5 years ago....or something like it.
To make a pig go forward, tie a string around its leg and pull it backward.
The basic instinct of anyone or anything - pig or human (or as the RIAA seems to consider P2P users pigs) - is to go the opposite of the way you're being directed. Now, I'm not saying the RIAA should encourage P2P, I'm just saying they are definitely going about it the wrong way. I've gotta agree, they're doing it all the wrong way. Perhaps some positive campaigns, not negative ones?
This is the equivalent of three kids playing around. Google has the shiny new fire truck, and says "Anyone can play with it, just let me keep it." Hotmail and YahooW are so jealous: they want to play with it, but they want it to be theirs, so they can keep it and admire it, and get all the attention that Google gets. So, as much as want to play with the new fire truck, they refuse to because it would give Google more attention.
This is a very poor business move too: It shows that Microsoft and Yahoo! are seriously afraid of loosing users to GMail, so much so that they're willing to take away a portion of their users' rights. How do users reflect on this when they find they're being hoarded, and essentially held onto like a cell phone contract. Do not pass Go(ogle). Do not collect 1000GB.
A better move would be to make their service some how more unique than GMail. Businesses prosper because they've found a niche. Whether that niche is for a general need (a grocery store where there are none for 15 miles), or a specific need (a parakeet shop right in the same town as a pet store which has very few parakeets), Microsoft's Hotmail and Yahoo! need to redefine their niche to provide competition for GMail, not attempt to stifle it by hurting their own users. Hurting their own users will only drive them away.
Some people at Microsoft and Yahoo! barely got their degrees in business...
Don't tell me no one here has ever seen this. I can get my own copy there and print it. O'Reilly merely remade it, and gave a small credit to Eric Levenez.
Now I have enough space to store my 80 Netsky.* viruses arriving a day for years to come! Oh, and the possibilities for naturally enlarging my manhood; how many of those can I store? Wow, I've got room for 1,000,000 Nigerian princes asking for my bank account.
My point is this: If you're going to have 1GB of storage, and the idea is so that you never need to switch addresses, you better have a perfect spam-filtering system!
Yes, 117. What's that? The number of people who die each DAY due to automobile accidents, averaged over the past 5 years.
Now, 3. What's that? Approximately the number of people who die each day due to terrorist attacks.
Let me ask, where's the problem here? I absolutely am not belittling September 11th (in fact, I feel people who call it 'nine-eleven' are the ones doing just that), but there are obviously problems causing more deaths. My uncle lost his best friend that day, and nearly his own life -- he had a meeting in the North Tower at the World Trade Center, but he missed his train that day, and was late. However three people in my school died in automobile accidents in the last three years.
Oh, yeah. Don't forget, the auto number doesn't include the nearly 1500 a day severly injured in an accident. I won't even start on smoking...
I think the money's headed in the wrong direction....
I'm thinking SCO is some pissed off girlfriend saying, "If I don't get that f*****g ring tomorrow, I am going to leave you! And I'll tell all your friends how you like to _______(something obscene)_______."
In other words, I don't think they'll do anything.
A pressure of 90 atmospheres, sulfuric acid clouds, 740K (that's 860C if I did my math right) tempertures, lava flows in many places....It's kinda harsh....
Now, I'm sure we could build something that could go there and survive for a while, it's just not quite what the space program is looking for. The reason Mars is so popular is because it's the one most likely to have life on it, whereas Venus is slightly (see above;)) inhospitable....
Robber: Do you think I could rob you really quick?
Lady: Oh no, I'll run away. Could you wait 30 seconds while I take a breathalizer?
Robber: Let me think on that, and I'll get back to ya.
Anyone else imagine this problem? Cars sometimes need to be gone. Fast.
Here's another scenario:
Fire Pager: Dooooooooo-dooooooooooooooooooooo....dooooo-deeeee eeee....This is 4-12-0, the Pleasantville Fire Department signing on the air with a signal 13 at 23 Lovely Drive. Company 4 area, all companies to respond. The time now is 23:12
I hear a variation of that maybe every week or so. After that, my brother jumps out of bed, throws on a pair of shoes and clothes which are by default waiting at the end of his bed, and is out of the house in less than a minute. He then needs to rush to the fire house. Would you like to add 30 seconds to the response time? He can't not have an ignition interlock, since most of the time he doesn't use his car for fire calls.
Lets try something else:
You're in the middle of Podunk, NM. Your 73-year-old wife is having the symptoms of a heart attack. You call 911, but they're only staffed 6AM to 10PM, and it's midnight. You need to rush her to the hospital. What do you do? Looks like there's another 30 seconds in your way.
It all boils down to this:
How can you prove urgency to a dumb timer? You can't.
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A Lightweight Extraterrestrial Intercommunication Network Transmission Protocol. ALIENTP
Now, ALIENTP is a protocol for transmission of data through high bandwidth - high latency (anywhere from 5s to 500 million years) networks....ALIENTP is composed of three basic components:
The HUMAN, the SPACE and the EXTRATERRESTRIAL. The HUMAN (Huge Uber-Manlike Android Noisemaker) sends a type of EM AM signal through SPACE (Some Place Allocated for Cosmic Entities) to the EXTRATERRESTRIAL (Ex-Xenophobia Technical Race of Aliens Trying to Extract Ridiculous Rural Eccentrics Solely for Tests Requiring Initial Anal Lubrication).....
I'm sick. I know
Your comment about my ingrained sense of entitlement took me by surprise. I never really looked at it that way. Maybe I do have that. Maybe I just expressed myself incorrectly. I'm not asking them to suck up to me, I just want them not to criticize me for doing something slightly different than my predecessors. Constructive criticism is welcomed, not destructive....but in retrospect, I think I see what you mean....but am I wrong for wanting something back?
I'm tired of being the guy everyone turns to for help.
I'm tired of fixing your computer, I'm tired of setting up this web site for you, I'm tired of undoing all the malware which you said, "Yes, I'd love to have everything installed from Spyware Incorporated automatically." Hundreds of people casually say, "Hey Mike, you're good with computers....." and explain to me what's wrong. Well, fuck off. Seriously, you got yourself into the mess, and if everyone I knew hadn't asked me at some point to help them on their computer, I'd do it. But it's obvious that a lot of people are fucking up their computers, so don't fuck up yours!
I'm tired of spending three hours letting you talk to me about your adonis. He's 6 years older than you. He probably didn't notice you. I'm tired of listening to you bitch and moan about how this guy you're kinda with is in Italy for the month. I'm tired of listening to you. Why don't you listen to me? There's a grand total of three people who I can talk to, who listen to me, what I have to say, what I have to get off my chest (thanks Steph, Karen, and Leah). Everyone else are ingrates. They know I keep secrets. Hell, I could make some of you so embarassed you'd go to a different school considering some of the things I've been told.
I'm tired of authoritative positions. I'll accept the responsibility, beacause for the most part, I don't have any trouble handling it, and it brings me out of the ranks of idiots. I just have trouble dealing with idiots once I'm in that authoritative. I'm tired of people criticizing me for not doing a job they've never even attempted properly. I'd like to see you try to manage a bunch of bumbling idiots with below average IQs who resent the fact that I'm in a management position. During the school year, I'd like to see you juggle a 30-hour-a-week-job, 10 hours a week on yearbook, 10 hours a week on stage crew, and AP and IB courses. The summer is my down time, the only time I'm not tired.
I'd like to see you all try. Yet, I'm still friends with you, because I'm nice. There are three people who I get something back from. You three are angels. I'm tired of everyone else, demons, devils, usurpers. You suck up my advice, you plead with me to help you. You bitch and moan about why I need to help you, why you need this so much. I'm. Fucking. Tired. Go spend some money, which you don't even make, it's usually daddy's money, and pay someone to help you. It's amazing what happens when you realize you can't rely on nice people anymore.
Is there anyone else out there who has to deal with this? The majority of the
(I'm sorry....I just had to)
- Make cool 'burn' designs on jewel cases
- Make your hand really cold
- Dissolve CA (super glue)
- Burn the hell out of cuts (especially those on your fingers, after you've glued them together with CA)
Just to add in my two cents on the worst computer accident:
You do the math. This was for a sort of file management system I was building in PHP (I just wrote what code I remembered, haven't even checked if it's good), and after I got a confirmation on each directory. (in case you don't see the error, think assignment vs. comparison). Notice I said building, since I kinda wiped it out, along with 5 other projects.Every couple of days we see a new example of how China is restricting the masses' communications through the 'Great Firewall of China' or some stupid phrase like that, so it kinda makes me wonder: When will the Chinese revolt against this. Locke put it best: All people are endowed when then come into this world with basic inalienable rights (guess where the Declaration of Independence came from). It is the job of the government to protec these rights, and when they cannot, it is the job of the people to restructure their government so it does. This has happened a lot. France. The United States. Most of Europe in 1830 (and a few places in 1848). Tiananmen Square? No, I'm not talking about the guy in front of the tanks. I'm talking about the actual demonstration that led to that. The first Bloody Sunday.
So, when do you think there will be a full-fledged revolution? Hasn't Big Brother gotten too strong? It's bad enough that major forms of communications are blocked, such as internet access, but now much more smaller things, like SMS messages are beginning to be blocked?
I guess you'd need some sort of operating license (besides a driver's license) for this if it was in America....
Don't see what all the fuss is about: Charlie Benton has been doing it for years....only thing is, he hasn't been wrecking 'em.
To make a pig go forward, tie a string around its leg and pull it backward.
The basic instinct of anyone or anything - pig or human (or as the RIAA seems to consider P2P users pigs) - is to go the opposite of the way you're being directed. Now, I'm not saying the RIAA should encourage P2P, I'm just saying they are definitely going about it the wrong way. I've gotta agree, they're doing it all the wrong way. Perhaps some positive campaigns, not negative ones?
This is a very poor business move too: It shows that Microsoft and Yahoo! are seriously afraid of loosing users to GMail, so much so that they're willing to take away a portion of their users' rights. How do users reflect on this when they find they're being hoarded, and essentially held onto like a cell phone contract. Do not pass Go(ogle). Do not collect 1000GB.
A better move would be to make their service some how more unique than GMail. Businesses prosper because they've found a niche. Whether that niche is for a general need (a grocery store where there are none for 15 miles), or a specific need (a parakeet shop right in the same town as a pet store which has very few parakeets), Microsoft's Hotmail and Yahoo! need to redefine their niche to provide competition for GMail, not attempt to stifle it by hurting their own users. Hurting their own users will only drive them away.
Some people at Microsoft and Yahoo! barely got their degrees in business...
Don't tell me no one here has ever seen this. I can get my own copy there and print it. O'Reilly merely remade it, and gave a small credit to Eric Levenez.
It's pronounced Hophog. A lot of towns (here) on Long Island have Native American names....
- Mike
fp?
- I wonder what OS they're running
- Next big OS: ShoeNIX
- I guess that gives new meaning to boot loader
- You may get electrocuted by putting your foot in your mouth.
- You can now hack your shoe to expand as you shove it up your boss'
....Uhm....
- In communist Russia, shoes run you!
- I don't have shoes you insensitive clod...
God knows where this coversation will....run...donno how they mistyped that one so badly... (on a philosophical note, the first link points to an operating system not unlike linux in many ways...)
*insert immature Richard Gere comment here*
Sorry, I had to...
Anyhow, I think the scrap metal alone is worth more than 1300 pounds! Start it higher, charity is important.
My point is this: If you're going to have 1GB of storage, and the idea is so that you never need to switch addresses, you better have a perfect spam-filtering system!
Now, 3. What's that? Approximately the number of people who die each day due to terrorist attacks.
Let me ask, where's the problem here? I absolutely am not belittling September 11th (in fact, I feel people who call it 'nine-eleven' are the ones doing just that), but there are obviously problems causing more deaths. My uncle lost his best friend that day, and nearly his own life -- he had a meeting in the North Tower at the World Trade Center, but he missed his train that day, and was late. However three people in my school died in automobile accidents in the last three years.
Oh, yeah. Don't forget, the auto number doesn't include the nearly 1500 a day severly injured in an accident. I won't even start on smoking...
I think the money's headed in the wrong direction....
(sorry, don't have a chance to see if anyone came up with that already, I'm late as it is...)
In other words, I don't think they'll do anything.
That sorta reminds me of truck drivers attaching stuffed animals to front of their rigs...
To test the effects of radiation on humans sounds like testing the effects of flies on Tickle Me Elmo...
Now, I'm sure we could build something that could go there and survive for a while, it's just not quite what the space program is looking for. The reason Mars is so popular is because it's the one most likely to have life on it, whereas Venus is slightly (see above ;)) inhospitable....
1) Get Hampsters to make music
2) ?
3) Profit!
Lady: Oh no, I'll run away. Could you wait 30 seconds while I take a breathalizer?
Robber: Let me think on that, and I'll get back to ya.
Anyone else imagine this problem? Cars sometimes need to be gone. Fast.
Here's another scenario:e eeee....This is 4-12-0, the Pleasantville Fire Department signing on the air with a signal 13 at 23 Lovely Drive. Company 4 area, all companies to respond. The time now is 23:12
I hear a variation of that maybe every week or so. After that, my brother jumps out of bed, throws on a pair of shoes and clothes which are by default waiting at the end of his bed, and is out of the house in less than a minute. He then needs to rush to the fire house. Would you like to add 30 seconds to the response time? He can't not have an ignition interlock, since most of the time he doesn't use his car for fire calls.
Fire Pager: Dooooooooo-dooooooooooooooooooooo....dooooo-deeee
Lets try something else:
You're in the middle of Podunk, NM. Your 73-year-old wife is having the symptoms of a heart attack. You call 911, but they're only staffed 6AM to 10PM, and it's midnight. You need to rush her to the hospital. What do you do? Looks like there's another 30 seconds in your way.
It all boils down to this:
How can you prove urgency to a dumb timer?
You can't.
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