hmm looks i'm going to be defending michael and the editors on this one..
the article text was mainly ME.. it was edited for content, and clarity, but mainly me.
i posted this for sunday just because (after being in the media for a while) i know very little happens on sundays. and so if you're going to put in something that is only marginally interesting compared to AMD launching its new 128bit chip or whatever, you have a better chance of getting it posted if you submit it for sunday.
"In anticipation of a slow news day i would like to direct the Mongol Tartars at Akiyoshi Kitaoka's Optical Illusions page at http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html The page also also has explanations on why/how they occur (in icky-poo PDF format).
the page is on a.jp uni server so they SHOULD be able to handle the herd of rhinos that is./"
it was obviously edited for clarity and content
mosty of teh changes are good, but i wish they had left the Mongol Tartar comment in though
the best and sometimes only way to fight a law like that is called "civil disobedience". made popular in the early part of the last century by people like Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, the method involves a LOT of people who believe that the law is wrong gathering and breaking the law as a protest and (here's the important bit) ACCEPTING THE CONSEQUENCES. and coming out and doing it again
Think marijuana laws are wrong?? get with a LOT of people, do it in public, and have the cops arrest you. go to PYA jail and come out and DO IT ALL AGAIN. it may even get the laws repealed
of course if you can convince the judge that you were doing it as a form of protest, and protest is covered under "freedom of expression", then you could be free. but that may still leave you with a charge of vandalism.
remember..
"if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement."
the best and sometimes only way to fight a law like that is called "civil disobedience". made popular in the early part of the last century by people like Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, the method involves a LOT of people who believe that the law is wrong gathering and breaking the law as a protest and (here's the important bit) ACCEPTING THE CONSEQUENCES. and coming out and doing it again
Think marijuana laws are wrong?? get with a LOT of people, do it in public, and have the cops arrest you. go to PYA jail and come out and DO IT ALL AGAIN. it may even get the laws repealed
of course if you can convince the judge that you were doing it as a form of protest, and protest is covered under "freedom of expression", then you could be free. but that may still leave you with a charge of vandalism.
remember..
"if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement."
good luck
Suchetha
now if (hypothetically) i were to create a website about the political situation on country A, saying that the government was being run by gangsters or other such interests and put it online. now the gubmin or the powers behind it decide that i need to be taught a lesson. so they get the whois records out of my domain name, and some Really Large Individuals pay me a visit at night and express their displeasure at my actions in extremely personal and forceful terms
or take it the other way. you see a website done by/for some gorgeous geek chixx0r, you look up her name, address, fone number on the whois and off you go.
something tells me they REALLY didn't think this through
actually it is the idea of what a "family" is that has changed in many ways, especially in the last century.
Single parent families and same-sex parents (who may both be the biological parents), families which are the joining up of two single-parent families (brady bunch anyone??) are part of the evolution of the family.
this would seem more apparent to a person from india where the extended family concept has been more prevalent (i'm from sri lanka and we have the same issues)
personally i think we would begin to see more and more variance in families. ranging from monogamies to various combinations of polygamy. as robert heinlien once said in "time enough for love", the purpose of a family is to ensure that the kids are taken care of.
so a "family" will always exist in some form or the other, but the FORM might be unrecogniseable
i would like to know. when and where did you promote it? how come you guys didn't give it the kind of promotion it deserves (media and all that).
last time i tried to join the Computer Professional's Club or whatever you call your little exclusive coterie i was told that since i don't have a degree i can't join.
i've been running a dotcom for ages, i cut my teeth on slackware in 1996, i've been spending more time on the net than i have been sleeping. and they tell me because i dropped out of uni i can't join.
am i bitter? fucking right i am. mainly because there are people like prof samaranayake trying to hold back the IT development in this country (i know all the stories and i am sure there are more) while people like us who are more dedicated to the DISTRIBUTION AND ADOPTION of foss are left in the cold.
so if you do read this post give me a holler. but as far as i know, the free software groups here are just like the rest of the organisations, full of internal politics and backstabbing
and over priced, its 200rs for a DVD, 110 for a vcd
i'll post an analysis to my journal as soon as i can get one
but in a realistic sense, we didn't have much of an IP law system, basing it on the British legal system and Roman Dutch Law. most of the precedents in use today have been set in the 1800's (yes really)
and all of a sudden we seem to be using the same level of IP law as the US. more to come
as part of the trade agreement to ensure that the sri lankan garment industry gets a good deal in the multi-fiber agreement, SLGOV signed an IP protection treaty with the US.
a friend of my father's when to meet one fo the signers of both 'agreements' and asked "you signed that agreement to save the garment industry, and did you ever stop to think what would happen to the village/smalltown kid who wants to buy a bootleg copy of windows for 100rs (1usd), do you want him to have to pay 100USD for it??"
the response was "i didn't know about that side of it"
morons
anyway as a celebration for FSD (free software day) we didn't do JACK SHIT as far as i know (despite the post on it stating that something was supposed to happen). so in order to maintain the theme, i went and shoplifted myself a free beer
Suchetha
(and i know i know, they should be getting free linux cd's instead of bootlegging windows, but frell it.. they wanna play games, they DON'T want to spend time compiling kernels, they barely speak ENGLISH for fuck's sake)
the main reason travel is so time consuming now is the roads are so crowded. bad drivers only make it worse (and being over careful is being a bad driver too.. and yes i mean YOU.. the guy who has to waith until there is absolutely NO vehicle in SIGHT before you merge with traffic... (sorry guys, long day))..
but the point is when all those morons take to the skies, it will make the roads less congested, and i can drive my car, along the ground, and not worry about anything except some bad driver causing a massive mid air accident that involves 7 vehicles falling on to me.. i can stop by the side of the road and take a piss if i want..
so you take the high road and i'll take the low road.. and i'll probably get to where i'm going afore ye.. if you ever get there at all
i have a group of friends that i made when we started off at one place of work. as time went by many of us left that company and moved to other sectors/companies/careers (not time went by, it was all in the space of ONE YEAR!!)
when i was at the first company i helped create a tradition of going out to a pub at least once a month. it was a way to ensure that we all got out, and that we all met on a fairly regular basis. not everyone makes it to all of the crawls. the crawls when we ALL get together are rare to nonexistent (hey how can i remember.. its a frelling CRAWL)
during the crawls many people who were never in teh original company have also been added, and joined the crawl. we currently number about 20 people in the crew, and at least 5 turn up for any given crawl
there are times when one subgroup or the other has gone out, or one of us has gone out and found that another of us has been in the area wondering where to go/what to do.
this kind of tool would help me meet my friends (who i rarely meet at work, or in school or any other setting other than the crawl or MSN) to meet up
until the early 50's all films were made on Cellulose Nitrate . now cellulose nitrate (or some may recognise it as nitrocellulose) has a tendency to spontaneously combust at high velocity. this tendency increases as the compound ages.
in short - the film can go boom
the studios are sitting on top of a time bomb, and its ticking
actually that MAY be bcause hotmail signs you up to a few magazines and stuff by default when you sign up. you should be able to go through your membership settings and un-sign-up. personally i have found hotmails spam catcher to be pretty good, it stops a few false positives now and then (and then i white list it) but on the whole it seems to stop spam. and i've had the account for 8 years (since early 96) with the email addy being plastered all over the internet and usenet
Business 2.0 is running a column that speculates that the negative publicity surrounding the Google IPO may be part of a Wall Street campaign to stop more companies from using the Dutch Auction system and bypassing the banks. It quotes such people as Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, who relates what happened to them when they decided to follow the dutch auction method for their IPO.
a submission i made on the 6th and was rejected follows:
A recent
American Psychological Association (APA) site has a synopsis of a study on online sexual abuse found that despite what the news organisations and various other screamers and shouters may want us to think, online sexual abuse cases are NOT characterised by deception, abduction, or force. In short most of those "abused" went consensually, knowing what was going to happen.
Also note the similarities between what was studied and what REALLY happened to Katie Tarbox
I found my way to a party at this girl's house that i didnt know the address of, only her name. so i did a whitepages search, used mobile mapquest to get there.
Did they scream GEEKS and bang the door in your face when you showed up.. "Gadget"
but i guss this can make stalking OH so much easier
Slashdot Mirror
.. in the subtitles^Wextortion^Wnotices.
Those responsible have been sacked.
.. that you DON'T see that gets you
everytime
Suchetha
hmm looks i'm going to be defending michael and the editors on this one..
the article text was mainly ME.. it was edited for content, and clarity, but mainly me.
i posted this for sunday just because (after being in the media for a while) i know very little happens on sundays. and so if you're going to put in something that is only marginally interesting compared to AMD launching its new 128bit chip or whatever, you have a better chance of getting it posted if you submit it for sunday.
atb
Suchetha
just FYI.. when i submitted this it was
.jp uni server so they SHOULD be able to handle the herd of rhinos that is ./"
"In anticipation of a slow news day i would like to direct the Mongol Tartars at Akiyoshi Kitaoka's Optical Illusions page at http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html The page also also has explanations on why/how they occur (in icky-poo PDF format).
the page is on a
it was obviously edited for clarity and content
mosty of teh changes are good, but i wish they had left the Mongol Tartar comment in though
Suchetha
(dammit previewing is GOOD)
..
,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement."
the best and sometimes only way to fight a law like that is called "civil disobedience". made popular in the early part of the last century by people like Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, the method involves a LOT of people who believe that the law is wrong gathering and breaking the law as a protest and (here's the important bit) ACCEPTING THE CONSEQUENCES. and coming out and doing it again
Think marijuana laws are wrong?? get with a LOT of people, do it in public, and have the cops arrest you. go to PYA jail and come out and DO IT ALL AGAIN. it may even get the laws repealed
of course if you can convince the judge that you were doing it as a form of protest, and protest is covered under "freedom of expression", then you could be free. but that may still leave you with a charge of vandalism.
remember
"if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are
good luck
Suchetha
the best and sometimes only way to fight a law like that is called "civil disobedience". made popular in the early part of the last century by people like Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, the method involves a LOT of people who believe that the law is wrong gathering and breaking the law as a protest and (here's the important bit) ACCEPTING THE CONSEQUENCES. and coming out and doing it again Think marijuana laws are wrong?? get with a LOT of people, do it in public, and have the cops arrest you. go to PYA jail and come out and DO IT ALL AGAIN. it may even get the laws repealed of course if you can convince the judge that you were doing it as a form of protest, and protest is covered under "freedom of expression", then you could be free. but that may still leave you with a charge of vandalism. remember ..
"if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement."
good luck
Suchetha
if they don't deny it means it must be true, and if they DO deny it, that means that they are just lying to us, and the article is true
Suchetha
now if (hypothetically) i were to create a website about the political situation on country A, saying that the government was being run by gangsters or other such interests and put it online. now the gubmin or the powers behind it decide that i need to be taught a lesson. so they get the whois records out of my domain name, and some Really Large Individuals pay me a visit at night and express their displeasure at my actions in extremely personal and forceful terms
or take it the other way. you see a website done by/for some gorgeous geek chixx0r, you look up her name, address, fone number on the whois and off you go.
something tells me they REALLY didn't think this through
Suchetha
actually it is the idea of what a "family" is that has changed in many ways, especially in the last century.
Single parent families and same-sex parents (who may both be the biological parents), families which are the joining up of two single-parent families (brady bunch anyone??) are part of the evolution of the family.
this would seem more apparent to a person from india where the extended family concept has been more prevalent (i'm from sri lanka and we have the same issues)
personally i think we would begin to see more and more variance in families. ranging from monogamies to various combinations of polygamy. as robert heinlien once said in "time enough for love", the purpose of a family is to ensure that the kids are taken care of.
so a "family" will always exist in some form or the other, but the FORM might be unrecogniseable
cheers
Suchetha
this article on autoweek from a little over a year ago (almost to the day) talks about how bill gates and other rich folkses fought to get the porsche 959 made street legal. obviously this would have cost a tad more than a bunch of segways
Suchetha
i thought it was Spock that went in after the genesis module not Data. But i'm glad to hear that he's alright (even if he WAS blown up later)
</ducks, runs, hides>
Suchetha
i would like to know. when and where did you promote it? how come you guys didn't give it the kind of promotion it deserves (media and all that).
last time i tried to join the Computer Professional's Club or whatever you call your little exclusive coterie i was told that since i don't have a degree i can't join.
i've been running a dotcom for ages, i cut my teeth on slackware in 1996, i've been spending more time on the net than i have been sleeping. and they tell me because i dropped out of uni i can't join.
am i bitter? fucking right i am. mainly because there are people like prof samaranayake trying to hold back the IT development in this country (i know all the stories and i am sure there are more) while people like us who are more dedicated to the DISTRIBUTION AND ADOPTION of foss are left in the cold.
so if you do read this post give me a holler. but as far as i know, the free software groups here are just like the rest of the organisations, full of internal politics and backstabbing
Suchetha
and over priced, its 200rs for a DVD, 110 for a vcd
i'll post an analysis to my journal as soon as i can get one
but in a realistic sense, we didn't have much of an IP law system, basing it on the British legal system and Roman Dutch Law. most of the precedents in use today have been set in the 1800's (yes really)
and all of a sudden we seem to be using the same level of IP law as the US. more to come
suchetha
as part of the trade agreement to ensure that the sri lankan garment industry gets a good deal in the multi-fiber agreement, SLGOV signed an IP protection treaty with the US.
a friend of my father's when to meet one fo the signers of both 'agreements' and asked "you signed that agreement to save the garment industry, and did you ever stop to think what would happen to the village/smalltown kid who wants to buy a bootleg copy of windows for 100rs (1usd), do you want him to have to pay 100USD for it??"
the response was "i didn't know about that side of it"
morons
anyway as a celebration for FSD (free software day) we didn't do JACK SHIT as far as i know (despite the post on it stating that something was supposed to happen). so in order to maintain the theme, i went and shoplifted myself a free beer
Suchetha
(and i know i know, they should be getting free linux cd's instead of bootlegging windows, but frell it.. they wanna play games, they DON'T want to spend time compiling kernels, they barely speak ENGLISH for fuck's sake)
a capybara is not a rodent or even a mammal.
a capybara is a fish
Suchetha
this story from snopes.com has it all. far better than i could write it
does Richard Gere know about this?
suchetha
the main reason travel is so time consuming now is the roads are so crowded. bad drivers only make it worse (and being over careful is being a bad driver too.. and yes i mean YOU.. the guy who has to waith until there is absolutely NO vehicle in SIGHT before you merge with traffic... (sorry guys, long day))..
.. and i'll probably get to where i'm going afore ye.. if you ever get there at all
but the point is when all those morons take to the skies, it will make the roads less congested, and i can drive my car, along the ground, and not worry about anything except some bad driver causing a massive mid air accident that involves 7 vehicles falling on to me.. i can stop by the side of the road and take a piss if i want..
so you take the high road and i'll take the low road
suchetha
i have a group of friends that i made when we started off at one place of work. as time went by many of us left that company and moved to other sectors/companies/careers (not time went by, it was all in the space of ONE YEAR!!)
.. its a frelling CRAWL)
when i was at the first company i helped create a tradition of going out to a pub at least once a month. it was a way to ensure that we all got out, and that we all met on a fairly regular basis. not everyone makes it to all of the crawls. the crawls when we ALL get together are rare to nonexistent (hey how can i remember
during the crawls many people who were never in teh original company have also been added, and joined the crawl. we currently number about 20 people in the crew, and at least 5 turn up for any given crawl
there are times when one subgroup or the other has gone out, or one of us has gone out and found that another of us has been in the area wondering where to go/what to do.
this kind of tool would help me meet my friends (who i rarely meet at work, or in school or any other setting other than the crawl or MSN) to meet up
Suchetha
until the early 50's all films were made on Cellulose Nitrate . now cellulose nitrate (or some may recognise it as nitrocellulose ) has a tendency to spontaneously combust at high velocity. this tendency increases as the compound ages.
in short - the film can go boom
the studios are sitting on top of a time bomb, and its ticking
Suchetha
actually that MAY be bcause hotmail signs you up to a few magazines and stuff by default when you sign up. you should be able to go through your membership settings and un-sign-up. personally i have found hotmails spam catcher to be pretty good, it stops a few false positives now and then (and then i white list it) but on the whole it seems to stop spam. and i've had the account for 8 years (since early 96) with the email addy being plastered all over the internet and usenet
Suchetha
i got 250MB in my hotmail inbox RIGHT NOW
if you email me or something i'll mail you a screenshot
cheers
Suchetha
submitted and rejected today:
Business 2.0 is running a column that speculates that the negative publicity surrounding the Google IPO may be part of a Wall Street campaign to stop more companies from using the Dutch Auction system and bypassing the banks. It quotes such people as Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com , who relates what happened to them when they decided to follow the dutch auction method for their IPO.
Suchetha
Suchetha
Did they scream GEEKS and bang the door in your face when you showed up.. "Gadget"
but i guss this can make stalking OH so much easier
Suchetha