As an airplane, it only makes sense if you want something that can turn 180 degrees, have something that can ascend and decend rather quickly, and if you're in space, have a small outline when going at fast speeds to reduce the chance of collision with small objects like rocks. Additionally, you can design a flying saucer so that it creats lift on it's own, so that in the event of a space-to-ground crash landing on a planet with an atmosphere you could theoretically glide to safe speed or landing spot, or at the very least, angle so you aren't going into the ground head first. An airplane shape is poorly poorly designed for this, although any craft with unidirectional thrust can be modified to have lots and lots of unidirectional thrust with a big engine, while a flying saucer has to somehow be able to either move their engine or something else. This is why you don't see gigantic flying saucer motherships in video games. You've got to carry a lot of ships a long distance inexpensivly. Big engine and an efficient design, coupled with lots of storage room and no need neccissarily to have craptons of manuverability and you've got the design needs for a carriar.
And all I wanted was my gap clothing, not to support slavery in africa by buying it. And I wanted to sit at home and eat steak without dealing with putting antibiotics and growth hormones into my body. I wanted to eat my steak rare but feedlots breed so much medicine resistant disease that by eating feedlot steak rare I risk catching a bug that can't be cured. I want to drink root beer without worrying about wigging out on my family becuase my head is so full of MSG that I get so irritated by their breathing I want to kill them, the same goes for about 60% of the food at the stores. I'd like to use the microwave to warm a cup of hot cocoa in the morning, but I don't want to take in carcinogens that'll make me get cancer. I'd like to goto the doctor for treatment of a bad flu and not be told to take antibiotics that don't work and make it worse, becuase the doctor thinks they are a miracle cure, but he can't tell me about the real cure; Vitamins, minerals, aromatheripy, rest, hot fluid, fruits, veggies, and time.
It boils down to this; we're all sluts to convienence. I chose not to use these conviences because I'd rather live healthily and be able to do what I want to do than live a drugged, unnatural, unhealthy and ultamatly controlled existance. I like some of the music the RIAA puts out, but because I'm supporting terrorism by buying it, I refuse to buy any of it. Money is power, and while we shouldn't have to worry about someone acquiring so much that they can break the law and do as they please. I shouldn't have to think about what the person I'm buying from is going to do with the money in our society, but unfortunatly you've got to or else things can get real ugly real fast.
So, you've got some choices. Do you buy from the RIAA and support terrorism? Do you buy from indie bands and support them? Do you go onto a p2p app and do whatever the hell you want and risk economic extortion at the hands of the RIAA or do you say "fsck it" and never listen to music again?
And for those of you who think my using the term terrorism is wrong, think again. The RIAA is a cartel who's entire economic basis for survival is extortion of it's customers in one form or another. Sure you say, it's just music. But that isn't the whole truth. It's most of the music in all of the stores and on all the radio's. Combined with Bertlsman, Disney, News Corp, AOL time warner, and the 2 others I can't remember, and you have an effective media monopoly. Views that the big wigs don't like get censored from all media, and americans become as unsuspecting as hindu cows and as blind to the fact that what they do is actually killing people in other countries and the information they are getting is designed to manipulate them. I consider that terrorism, not on par with 9/11 or the some of the slaughters that go on in africa, or what the chinese do to their people, but it is still terrorism and it's still wrong.
Our current e-mail system isn't flawed. It does it's job nicely; sending and receiving electronic e-mail. The problem is that it does this too well and without prejudice. So one or two assmunchers can fudge the entire thing up by abusing it.
The protocol can be changed, but at the end of the day I think we'll find e-mail has the same flaws as snailmail. This is why we call it an arms race; 2 sides continueously getting a bigger gun until one eventually blows the other out of the water and wins.
I may have to wade through 50 fucking advertisements from goddamn marketers, and lord knows those aren't minutes of time I'll get back and if I could get my hands on these scum I'd drop the hammer in a second. But at the end of the day, at least I get my e-mail unhindred, unfiltered, uncensored, and most importantly, unread. If I weren't so lazy, I'd setup mozilla's e-mail proggie with a bayesian filter or something else. There ARE ways to conquer advertisers, and the people already have weapons like the ones I mentioned to combat it that are far more powerful than the advertisers can think up.
My only worry at this point is how the US goverment is going to fsck up our free speech rights on the net. We've already got things like carnavore and echelon that are probably being used, I'v got a poster on my wall showing most traffic going through alternet and I know there's proof of the goverment putting taps on major lines. *gets shady eyed*
This makes me wonder. Did the ancient tribes of man know about metal instruments? Would they understand guns, or explosives, cities, or genetic engineering? Did the egyptians know why their bronze swords would break when hit by the iron swords of their invaders?
Did mideval kingdoms have running water, magic lights, gunpowder or even the understanding of this? Could all of our founding fathers known that technology would develope so rapidly in 100 years? Fuck no, but they certainly knew how the egyptians viewed iron swords, how samarai viewed gunpowder and how the indians viewed cities. Because of this, they were wise, and from this wisdom they were able to draft a bill of rights. When a goverment begins to go downhill, it's because these rights have been violated.
It's not hippie rhetoric, it's no fundementalist anarchism or socialism, and it isn't a fools game. Because we have the internet and access to more books and media than ever before, we can become, and some are, smarter than they are. You can view a political debate 2 ways; a logical system much like any router or electrical equipment that must be balanced and mouled to certan rules, or you can view it as 2 gods fighting over a bunch of ants. If you believe the ladder is going on, you are an idiot. If you can understand the former, you have a brain and you use it. There's your litmus paper test.
No freggin duh. The 1990's were filled with a bunch of "faster, bigger, better, smarter, k3wler. Brownnose browwnose brownnose" then oop, outta buisness. We hit a mini-depression, companies got a bit tighter, started questioning weither or not spending all that money was neccisary and many who were frugal before decided that their systems are just find and work allright now. When and if they've got the money later on, they'll upgrade and they'll do it right. The critics and wall street fanatical idiots are in their high chairs rattling their books getting all exited over a boom that'll never happen because if corperate america learned anything in the 1990's, it's that a good technician is hard to find, and that spending copious amounts of money on IT equipment that you don't need will put you out of buisness.
Eventually, computers will break down and die or get too slow for their owners needs, or finally drive them insane, and that's where I'm seeing the majority of the market coming from in the coming years; upgrades and repairs. We've got the infastructure, now we've got to maintain it. Few if anyone is going to go for bleeding edge stuff, they want perfected, mature hardware and software. We're also going to see a lot of old people working, since the baby boomers who make up a large percentage of our economy are going to go into retirement and the companies they're going to be getting pension checks from are probably going to go under.
I'v also noticed a trend in the computer industry; MS's software has been getting more expensive. In 1998, a copy of win95 went for about $99, upgrade ed of win98 $99 and full ver of win98 $149. Now, in 2003, winxp home ed costs a whopping $199, and the corp edition costs $299 which for some computers is half the price of the machine. Is longhorn going to cost $499? I MS wants to know why sales of their latest OS is dismal in the corperate and goverment enviroment, mabye it's because it's too expensive to justify.
Or is the network just for works acquired by monopolies?
The standard looks like a big bad advertising service, it's funny that they even call this a P2P network. What about sharing other legitimate files too?
At this point with all the lies and marketspeak you're believing anything that comes out of SCO's corperate orifice? I wouldn't be the least suprised if the net admin running the show at the SCO building needed to unplug the net connection for a few hours for routine maintainance, or if the "ddos" attack a few months ago was really a switch blowing and them having to overnight ship a new one pronto while everything was jurry rigged to barely work. You're talking about people who have such a distorted view of reality that they'll say open source software is illegal because it's too free without offering a clear, concise explination and then expect reality to revolve around them.
I don't recognize the copy right of monopolistic publishers. Copy right was invented to give artists the ability to make a living off of their works. Then monopolies got involved by acquiring copy rights and then lobbying for them to be forever. By doing this, they established a perminant monopoly with which they could pay artists a measly pittance for their work and therefore, bypass the copy right system's original intent and cut off the access to art we had prior to copy right laws, as well as being able to censor that music for whatever goverment or group happened to be involved with the monopoly. This is why p2p systems are wonderful, they bypass copy right and publishers altogether and give people the ability to promote and distribute their work all in one fell swoop. The day the RIAA/MPAA is done away with and I can go down to the music store and find uncensored music made by local and national bands is the day I'll be a very very happy camper because I don't have to deal with these monopolies.
I like law, it makes life simpler and makes sure I can rest in my bed at night even though I don't know who's sleeping a mere 20 feet from me. I just don't like how it's used and when I don't like how it's used, it's my duty to stand up for it and to educate myself and others, hence the reason I'm posting on slashdot.
As for the RIAA hiring someone from the ATF to do their dirty work, this both puts me into roaring fits of laughter at it's rediculousness and rage/fear. If they do put together armed enforcement squads, I'm going to first of all shit my pants, and second of all wait to see if congress says "ya know, this is taking it way to far". If they don't, I'm seriously going to consider my allegance to this country. Sure, I shouldn't have anything to fear from the RIAA if I'm not doing illegal things, but on the other hand, they did prosecute a 12 year old girl and an 80 year old dude who didn't even own a computer. So why wouldn't they make a mistake, break into my house for the heck of it and slaughter my family even though I'm innocent?
First of all, information doesn't want to be free, it must be free. If it isn't free, then we've got 1984.
Secondly, dumass and dumbass are slang terms. The proper english term would be dumb ass. If noone dared to speak any slang and coin new words to evolve our language where'd we be today?
Finally, listening to, creating, and distributing music is an inalieble human right. The ONLY reason copy right was put into place was to allow artists to make money off of their music so they would be able to make a living off of it and make more. It worked until publishers decided that they wanted their acquired copy rights to last forever and wanted to have control over the copy rights of others. They established publishing monopolies in the market due to this and then forced artists to take as small a pittance as possible to make their music. That is the truth, believe it or don't believe it, it happened in the early 1500's, it happened in the early 1900's, and it's been happening for the past 50 years.
P2P represents a radical shift of this model; now everyone can publish at a price that's so negligable that it's free. With a dial-up connetion I can host music I'v made and share it with people who've plugged into a network. A garage band, if they're good, can get a start by word-of-mouth on a p2p app and sell CD's directly off of their website, another negligable thing that's happened. The RIAA doesn't like this, nor does any publisher because it represents competition they can't compete with.
Got some pesky book like "You are being lied to" or "Media monopoly" by Ben Bagdikian, or hell, why stop there? Something written by John Taylor Gatto or recordings of Jello Biafra on burned CD donated to the library.
History is written by the victor. A library is used to combat this, and the internet is the ultamate library.
It'll tell you to worship satan, and steal music. Quickly, to the music mobile darl! We must shut down these "steriograhophonicalwhazitmakallits" before they destroy our nation's families by making them all into crack smoking criminals!
I'm sure I'm stating the obvious here, but aren't you a complete dumass for stating p2p is mostly made up of illegal traffic without even having the slightest amount of proof? Do you have a big bad ol' map of everything that's shared, at every point of every day? I know what I use p2p apps for, and that's mainly getting legally shareable books, legally shareable music (from bands that actually want their stuff shared and haven't sold their souls to the riaa). I get material that you can't find in mainstream media because it's all be censored. I can get any linux distro off of bittorrent, do you have any idea how fucking useful THAT is? I can get mandrake, suse, redhat, debian, BSD, you name it. And all that is completly legal. I can even go on there and find a copy of Windows 98 when I'v completly lost or destroyed my cd. Do you have any idea how many windows xp users don't have windows cd's because they were shafted when they baught their brand name prebuild? They paid for windows, they should have a copy, and P2P provides that copy.
P2P is a distrobution tool, it's incensored and unregulated, and this makes it powerful. Someone took the internet and refined it into something far more powerful than your puny mind can comprehend. It's a very powerful distrobution tool. I can find almost any kind of information I want between the local library, google, and a p2p app. I'm studying for a cert right now, and I can't tell you how useful a p2p app is in finding relevant information to help that.
As for the "illegality" of p2p, I don't recognize that. If the RIAA recaps it's investment in an artist, and the artist gets compensated enough they aren't starving, then I consider their stuff shareable. Why don't I share it? Because I think it all sucks with the acception of a few bands. All the emotion get's censored out of the music for horrible lyrics and hypnotic music or they add in a couple filler songs of drumbeats. Gimme my funker vogt, porn on beta, banjo death kult, de/vision, 16volt, good tekno. I could care less about buting briteny spears, n'synch or even snoop dog's albums.
I'd rather talk about the illegality of the RIAA and MPAA before I talk about the illegality of P2P. Break up the RIAA and MPAA under monopolistic trade laws and use hefty fines so that the companies that make the riaa up are near bankruptsy so that the major music stores have to go for indie and independant bands, revoke the incorperation lisences of the disney, bertlsman, time warner, viacom, news corp and vivendi and watch magically as things correct themselves.
I oftentimes find that people like you don't spend time thinking about weither or not it's a good thing that they do what they are doing. "It's orwellian is an excuse!" is what you say, only to find 50 years later you're in a slave labor, er, reeducation camp.
Giving them GPS will do 2 things; it'll complicate a already relativally simple job, and it'll allow the state legislature to nitpick where they don't need to be nitpicking. Whenever someone says "it'll save money" when talking about someone elses work, they're really talking about paying them less to get them to do more work. How about paying them more to do more work?
3 Voice over IP applications that a lot of online multiplayer clans use to communicate during matches. The clan I'm part of is from all over the usa. I can also use the same apps to call crosscountry to relaties who also have it setup. The total cost? $50.00 a month, which is my internet bill.
They aren't afraid of the technology itself, they're afraid of losing revenue. In time, the internet will become the de-facto transmission medium for everything; television, voice, music, any kind of media or data. Because of the internet, they can't charge me $30 to call cross country for a few hours. The quality is actually better than the phones too. The baby bells on the old system are dinosaurs; old, slow, can't adapt when a meteor hits and they know it. Besides, I'v been hearing this BS for the past 5 or so years, they aren't going to do anything.
And even if they did, I really can't see how they'll regulate this without opening a can of worms. You can say "voice transmission over ip" but defining it in stricter terms is difficult You can moniter network traffic, but the problem is figuring out how to read the data fields in the packets so that you know it's voice. one set of 1's and 0's can be construed as information for a game while another packet is music, whilst another is a download. Sure, you can identify certain IP addresses and tax based on that, but you're still limited. One company is going to decide it's going to use a completly different protocol based on IP, such as proprietary IP and fool with the regulation that way. After the cat and mouse game has played it's cards, you'll be taxing free speech in order to trap the mouse that is voip.
The whole point of a prison is to isolate bad people from society. An american prison punishes people by isolating them from society and putting them in relativally decent place and rehabilitate them so that when they become part of a society again, they can function properly.
The major problem with our legal system is to assume everyone is feeble minded sheeple and to assume that they'll fear this punishment, and what happens in this system is that as time goes on, the feeble will conform while the smart people won't. You aren't s slave afterwall, and there are things the goverment could do that'd make a lot of people think twice about fallowing them. Fallowing a goverment is a choice, not a requirement.
As time goes on, punishment increases for stupider and stupider offenses because people don't fallow the law or because there's a crime problem that's hyped up that people buy because they're so detached from the real world that they don't know any better and the only way to solve it harsher punishment. Pretty soon, you're getting executed because too many people were getting life for stealing a loaf of bread and it was too expensive to put them in jail.
All this will do is label the sorry scum for the rest of their lives as a pedophile so they can't get jobs, can't live in housing complexes or communities with normal people, and get beaten up by crazy people who think they should die. I should be the one making the decision of weither or not to trust this individual and trust the goverment in their rehabilitation of them but on the other hand, they have a right after rehabilitation to live in our society without being presecuted for their past.
High prices creat piracy. It can be plotted on a cartesian coord plane. The price on the y axis, and the number of people buying on the x axis. As the price goes down, more people will be able to afford and therefore, buy stuff. This is what the idea of a sale is; you normally sell your pants at $100, if you sell them for $90 demand will increase and if it's during a busy season, you'll move more merchandise and therefore, creat a higher profit than you could before.
When prices are high, piracy/theft/ect are going to be high aswell. When prices are low, the same things are going to be low. Why do you think the p2p networks are so huge? Because people's opinions differ from buisnesses and the goverments , just about every one of them infact.
The really sad part about this is that if the trend continues with people thinking that piracy is ok, xyz gaming corp will creat an awesome game and nobody will buy it, and they'll go out of buisness instead of making new games. After the RIAA and MPAA are deceased, cd's are cheaply baught at $2 and $3 a cd with extra's and a movie is around $5 opening night. Will piracy decrease or will it continue to rise?
As for software, I'll agree as much with the next guy that when I go into a store and buy a software package and it sucks, I'm pissed and can't return it. As for games, there's a lot of cookie-cutting going on as there always has been in the computer industry. Doom came out, and then you got blake stone, duke nukem, etc. BF1942 came out, and now we've got mohaa and it's expansions, ET, call of duty. All of them are based off of the same engine (afaik) and all of them have similar gameplay.
My worries aren't the monumental failures when corperations spend millions building a cookie cutter game and loose millions. My worries are when xyz corp creats the super ultra neato game and puts it out and the overall reputation and respect for gaming softare is so low that nobody will buy it for fear that, even though there's hype in the magazines, hype in the stores, hype in the forums and hype in the news and even a good playable demo (which everyone knows is bribed because they'v been burned before) will xyz corp be able to make any money for making a truely excellent game? Will xyz corp go out of buisness?
Cartels like the riaa make a bad name for companies like xyz corp. The major reason people go out and buy anything is because they think it is good, well, if they're a thinking consumer.
What's keeping a computer from booting up, posting, then instead of reading from ffff in memory, it goes straight to an OS on disk?
Bios's are almost identical, to the point that you can probably marginalize them into the driver category of most OS's these days. In a few years BIOS won't exist or if it does, it'll exist in some convoluted fashon or version of what it is today. I personally like the idea of having a bios on the hardware; something to tell me what's broken, give me error codes, etc. I see it as something that, due to being inexpensive will gain features such as full text error code outputs or if persay some obscure component on the motherboard died, instead of outputing moorse code it can give you a voice readout "Motherboard component 74x0x06 is dead. This is a fatal failure and the motherboard is dead, please return to manufacturer".
Either way, I don't think motherboard manufacturers will go ahead and start installing distribuited computing garble on their machines so that they can only be used by microsoft systems. It'll kill their market share in other markets such as server markets and it'll also make them susseptable to future abuse.
Firstly, I'd love to meet with my congressman. Problem is, they won't meet with me.
Secondly, the measure of a goverments success is it's ability to solve conflicts between people. You can argue all you want to and bitch and moan, but that's how it works. If a goverment creats too many conflicts, people will revolt. Go read some history books, you'll see that I'm right on the nose.
to take a specific instance of an act, compare it to a specific instance of law, and decide how they relate.
Wrong. You take a specific instance of an act, compair it to a specific law, and decide how they relate, and usually you try to make the relation such that the outcome doesn't cause political unrest. If that was all judges did, then why do they rule laws unconstitutional?
The DMCA isn't a "natural extention" of copy right law. Copy right law says who has the right to copy and defines fair use copying. The DMCA extends copy right law into fair use and creats conflict with the law.
Can I still backup this CD if I baught it and not be a felon? Does fair use outweigh the DMCA or does the DMCA outweigh fair use?
The DMCA is a poorly thought out bill that has had a lot of repricussions throughout the computer industry. This bill has the effect of making it illegal for anyone to learn how locks work or test them to ensure that theifs can't get in. It allows for large corperations to hide flaws in their software that would otherwise let someone uninhibited by the law get in easily; if I buy a masterlock and want to test it before equiping all the lockers in my buisness with them, I should be able to go down to the locksmith and pay them to break the lock open for me and show me it's weaknesses. This law makes that illegal in a digital sense. If I go out and buy a copy of windows before buying a couple hundred copies, and go down to the local 2600 hacker meeting to ask the hackers to test the security on this thing, anything they do to break protection schemes on the software is breaking the law.
This is the arguement I intend to use. That by passing this law, they have made it illegal for customers of software to ensure that what they are buying is quality and moreso, to look over the programming to ensure it works right. It's no different than going down to the furnature store and inspecting a couch to see what it's made of and to make sure it's sturdy in a digital sense.
What you are basically saying here, is that the code is so shotty to begin with that if it were to be open sourced, people could take advantage of it. If google open sourced their codebase right now, there'd be all hell breaking loose (or not, depending on how they index). The fact something is open source and/or obscure doesn't mean it's secure or insecure.
Now they won't be sueing everyone under the sun, that if you can, throw it up on p2p services and help get a bittorent of the file circulating. The documents can be found on kazaa if you type in diebold, as you can with any other app. I suggest shareaza, which is a spywareless free P2P app that handles and allows for hosting and downloading from multiple network protocols (gnutella, bittorent, edonkey to name a few) and can be found at
http://www.shareaza.com
. If you're just interested in reading documents, another good read at
http://www.blackboxvoting.com
for those of you who don't want to sift through hundreds of e-mails in the archive but want the good stuff(downloads are at the right side of the page). Of course, they probably can't get slashdotted to horribly without going under, and therefore, if you can download the files and throw them on a p2p app such as shareaza you'll be doing everyone a big favor or if you can download them off of a p2p app that works well too to make sure their website's bandwidth bill isn't horrendous.
Additionally, if you do nothing else and live in the US, goto the EFF's webpage and fill out their form and fax or e-mail it to your legislature (which is all nicely automated for you).
This way, if congress gets millions of documents stating we know and we don't like the sharade, they'll have to pull it and may even throw a few congressman on the legal fire to keep us satiated.
And I, and millions of others, have written letters to congresspersons, only to get predigested letters back stating "everything is ok, please vote for me".
I could garountee you that if you sat me down infront of the senate and asked me to explain to them why the DMCA is bad I could convince them within an hour as could just about any well educated technically inclined individual could.
To put it bluntly, when your ruling body passes laws that creat more conflicts than they solve, that is a bad ruling body. Much of the time this isn't due to people saying "hahahaaa, we'll get you and your dog too!" but more along the lines of most of the people in congress being traditonally educated buisnesspeople with plenty of education in other areas who, imo, trust corperations too much.
So, what I really thing has gone on is a fundemental change since the past. Corperations began creating all the resources we had and after a few generations, the old guys who said "corperations are bad, we must regulate this tool lest it gets out of control" died off to leave new people to come in and get elected. The new people had more faith in the corperate system than they did before, and as time went on, congress simply became more corperate friendly without realizing the folly of this, which is that if you give corperations all the power they want, and let them have flawed leaders, you unbalance the power system (such as competition) that keeps the peasants happy. When this happens guys at the top get greedy, and they'll conspire with their friends to force the mark of the beast onto us as an example and force us into slavery.
Add to this bribery, er, lobbying and you've got a corrupt goverment. With every law nobody agree's with, respect for all law by this goverment will decrease until there is no law.
The measure of a goverments success, in any incarnation, is it's ability to solve conflicts between people. A good decision would solve the majority of conflicts, while a bad decision would solve the minorty of them and a really bad decision would cause even more conflicts.
The "absolute power corrups absolutely" saying is only true for stupid people. A person must realize that they are infact self-centered, self fulfilling beings no matter what other people say. The degree by which you can convince yourself that participating in society is a good thing and will be more positive for you than, say, running around with a laptop hacking ATM's is the degree of your "goodness".
People who are at the top of the chain who don't realize the reprecussions of their actions won't realize what they are doing to themselves in the long run. How many kings were hung for abusing their people? How many leaders were murdered for murdering? This is just one of the reprecussions of their actions, which is death. There are others. For example, by giving billions to top industry execuitives, you creat desperate people because that money is being cross-invested instead of being used. Desperate people are often people who are immobile in an economy, and any economy that exists to get work done obviously bases it's success on a common goal (such as the profit of everyone under it) and the amount of work towards that goal. Therefore, giving money to top execuitives who will simply invest it in other companies instead of directly investing the money in advertising campaigns and subsidising/giving money to people to start a buisness to creat more small buisnesses as well as taking down the big monopolies who serve to keep people immobile will result in a beter economy. A people happy with their leader is less likely to linch them, and more likely to worship them and moreso, a leader who is able to creat an economy where everyone can collectivly profit is more likely to themselves engauge in buisness or increase their own salaries as tax income increases.
With that said, I think it's real sad that many people would be greedy enough to go ahead and rip off a ATM. If it weren't for this bullshit consumerism movement going on right now people might have time to sit and think.
If the sun goes out, the moon turns red, the entire earth quakes and big meteors start crushing houses, Ima gonna spend a lot more time than I am right now studying the bible and preparing for shit to go down than I am right now.
which has some interesting info on it. Now, I'v been around wierdo's and crazy people all claiming to be christian since I was a widdle kid, and after reading through that stuff I'm a bit freaked. Especially since he makes it sound like the bible was written in a sensicle manner and if you've read any good cyberpunk horror novels, you'll realize the bible is the same thing with older language and more meaning.
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As an airplane, it only makes sense if you want something that can turn 180 degrees, have something that can ascend and decend rather quickly, and if you're in space, have a small outline when going at fast speeds to reduce the chance of collision with small objects like rocks. Additionally, you can design a flying saucer so that it creats lift on it's own, so that in the event of a space-to-ground crash landing on a planet with an atmosphere you could theoretically glide to safe speed or landing spot, or at the very least, angle so you aren't going into the ground head first. An airplane shape is poorly poorly designed for this, although any craft with unidirectional thrust can be modified to have lots and lots of unidirectional thrust with a big engine, while a flying saucer has to somehow be able to either move their engine or something else. This is why you don't see gigantic flying saucer motherships in video games. You've got to carry a lot of ships a long distance inexpensivly. Big engine and an efficient design, coupled with lots of storage room and no need neccissarily to have craptons of manuverability and you've got the design needs for a carriar.
And all I wanted was my gap clothing, not to support slavery in africa by buying it. And I wanted to sit at home and eat steak without dealing with putting antibiotics and growth hormones into my body. I wanted to eat my steak rare but feedlots breed so much medicine resistant disease that by eating feedlot steak rare I risk catching a bug that can't be cured. I want to drink root beer without worrying about wigging out on my family becuase my head is so full of MSG that I get so irritated by their breathing I want to kill them, the same goes for about 60% of the food at the stores. I'd like to use the microwave to warm a cup of hot cocoa in the morning, but I don't want to take in carcinogens that'll make me get cancer. I'd like to goto the doctor for treatment of a bad flu and not be told to take antibiotics that don't work and make it worse, becuase the doctor thinks they are a miracle cure, but he can't tell me about the real cure; Vitamins, minerals, aromatheripy, rest, hot fluid, fruits, veggies, and time.
It boils down to this; we're all sluts to convienence. I chose not to use these conviences because I'd rather live healthily and be able to do what I want to do than live a drugged, unnatural, unhealthy and ultamatly controlled existance. I like some of the music the RIAA puts out, but because I'm supporting terrorism by buying it, I refuse to buy any of it. Money is power, and while we shouldn't have to worry about someone acquiring so much that they can break the law and do as they please. I shouldn't have to think about what the person I'm buying from is going to do with the money in our society, but unfortunatly you've got to or else things can get real ugly real fast.
So, you've got some choices. Do you buy from the RIAA and support terrorism? Do you buy from indie bands and support them? Do you go onto a p2p app and do whatever the hell you want and risk economic extortion at the hands of the RIAA or do you say "fsck it" and never listen to music again?
And for those of you who think my using the term terrorism is wrong, think again. The RIAA is a cartel who's entire economic basis for survival is extortion of it's customers in one form or another. Sure you say, it's just music. But that isn't the whole truth. It's most of the music in all of the stores and on all the radio's. Combined with Bertlsman, Disney, News Corp, AOL time warner, and the 2 others I can't remember, and you have an effective media monopoly. Views that the big wigs don't like get censored from all media, and americans become as unsuspecting as hindu cows and as blind to the fact that what they do is actually killing people in other countries and the information they are getting is designed to manipulate them. I consider that terrorism, not on par with 9/11 or the some of the slaughters that go on in africa, or what the chinese do to their people, but it is still terrorism and it's still wrong.
Our current e-mail system isn't flawed. It does it's job nicely; sending and receiving electronic e-mail. The problem is that it does this too well and without prejudice. So one or two assmunchers can fudge the entire thing up by abusing it.
The protocol can be changed, but at the end of the day I think we'll find e-mail has the same flaws as snailmail. This is why we call it an arms race; 2 sides continueously getting a bigger gun until one eventually blows the other out of the water and wins.
I may have to wade through 50 fucking advertisements from goddamn marketers, and lord knows those aren't minutes of time I'll get back and if I could get my hands on these scum I'd drop the hammer in a second. But at the end of the day, at least I get my e-mail unhindred, unfiltered, uncensored, and most importantly, unread. If I weren't so lazy, I'd setup mozilla's e-mail proggie with a bayesian filter or something else. There ARE ways to conquer advertisers, and the people already have weapons like the ones I mentioned to combat it that are far more powerful than the advertisers can think up.
My only worry at this point is how the US goverment is going to fsck up our free speech rights on the net. We've already got things like carnavore and echelon that are probably being used, I'v got a poster on my wall showing most traffic going through alternet and I know there's proof of the goverment putting taps on major lines. *gets shady eyed*
This makes me wonder. Did the ancient tribes of man know about metal instruments? Would they understand guns, or explosives, cities, or genetic engineering? Did the egyptians know why their bronze swords would break when hit by the iron swords of their invaders?
Did mideval kingdoms have running water, magic lights, gunpowder or even the understanding of this? Could all of our founding fathers known that technology would develope so rapidly in 100 years? Fuck no, but they certainly knew how the egyptians viewed iron swords, how samarai viewed gunpowder and how the indians viewed cities. Because of this, they were wise, and from this wisdom they were able to draft a bill of rights. When a goverment begins to go downhill, it's because these rights have been violated.
It's not hippie rhetoric, it's no fundementalist anarchism or socialism, and it isn't a fools game. Because we have the internet and access to more books and media than ever before, we can become, and some are, smarter than they are. You can view a political debate 2 ways; a logical system much like any router or electrical equipment that must be balanced and mouled to certan rules, or you can view it as 2 gods fighting over a bunch of ants. If you believe the ladder is going on, you are an idiot. If you can understand the former, you have a brain and you use it. There's your litmus paper test.
No freggin duh. The 1990's were filled with a bunch of "faster, bigger, better, smarter, k3wler. Brownnose browwnose brownnose" then oop, outta buisness. We hit a mini-depression, companies got a bit tighter, started questioning weither or not spending all that money was neccisary and many who were frugal before decided that their systems are just find and work allright now. When and if they've got the money later on, they'll upgrade and they'll do it right. The critics and wall street fanatical idiots are in their high chairs rattling their books getting all exited over a boom that'll never happen because if corperate america learned anything in the 1990's, it's that a good technician is hard to find, and that spending copious amounts of money on IT equipment that you don't need will put you out of buisness.
Eventually, computers will break down and die or get too slow for their owners needs, or finally drive them insane, and that's where I'm seeing the majority of the market coming from in the coming years; upgrades and repairs. We've got the infastructure, now we've got to maintain it. Few if anyone is going to go for bleeding edge stuff, they want perfected, mature hardware and software. We're also going to see a lot of old people working, since the baby boomers who make up a large percentage of our economy are going to go into retirement and the companies they're going to be getting pension checks from are probably going to go under.
I'v also noticed a trend in the computer industry; MS's software has been getting more expensive. In 1998, a copy of win95 went for about $99, upgrade ed of win98 $99 and full ver of win98 $149. Now, in 2003, winxp home ed costs a whopping $199, and the corp edition costs $299 which for some computers is half the price of the machine. Is longhorn going to cost $499? I MS wants to know why sales of their latest OS is dismal in the corperate and goverment enviroment, mabye it's because it's too expensive to justify.
Or is the network just for works acquired by monopolies?
The standard looks like a big bad advertising service, it's funny that they even call this a P2P network. What about sharing other legitimate files too?
At this point with all the lies and marketspeak you're believing anything that comes out of SCO's corperate orifice? I wouldn't be the least suprised if the net admin running the show at the SCO building needed to unplug the net connection for a few hours for routine maintainance, or if the "ddos" attack a few months ago was really a switch blowing and them having to overnight ship a new one pronto while everything was jurry rigged to barely work. You're talking about people who have such a distorted view of reality that they'll say open source software is illegal because it's too free without offering a clear, concise explination and then expect reality to revolve around them.
I don't recognize the copy right of monopolistic publishers. Copy right was invented to give artists the ability to make a living off of their works. Then monopolies got involved by acquiring copy rights and then lobbying for them to be forever. By doing this, they established a perminant monopoly with which they could pay artists a measly pittance for their work and therefore, bypass the copy right system's original intent and cut off the access to art we had prior to copy right laws, as well as being able to censor that music for whatever goverment or group happened to be involved with the monopoly. This is why p2p systems are wonderful, they bypass copy right and publishers altogether and give people the ability to promote and distribute their work all in one fell swoop. The day the RIAA/MPAA is done away with and I can go down to the music store and find uncensored music made by local and national bands is the day I'll be a very very happy camper because I don't have to deal with these monopolies.
I like law, it makes life simpler and makes sure I can rest in my bed at night even though I don't know who's sleeping a mere 20 feet from me. I just don't like how it's used and when I don't like how it's used, it's my duty to stand up for it and to educate myself and others, hence the reason I'm posting on slashdot.
As for the RIAA hiring someone from the ATF to do their dirty work, this both puts me into roaring fits of laughter at it's rediculousness and rage/fear. If they do put together armed enforcement squads, I'm going to first of all shit my pants, and second of all wait to see if congress says "ya know, this is taking it way to far". If they don't, I'm seriously going to consider my allegance to this country. Sure, I shouldn't have anything to fear from the RIAA if I'm not doing illegal things, but on the other hand, they did prosecute a 12 year old girl and an 80 year old dude who didn't even own a computer. So why wouldn't they make a mistake, break into my house for the heck of it and slaughter my family even though I'm innocent?
First of all, information doesn't want to be free, it must be free. If it isn't free, then we've got 1984.
Secondly, dumass and dumbass are slang terms. The proper english term would be dumb ass. If noone dared to speak any slang and coin new words to evolve our language where'd we be today?
Finally, listening to, creating, and distributing music is an inalieble human right. The ONLY reason copy right was put into place was to allow artists to make money off of their music so they would be able to make a living off of it and make more. It worked until publishers decided that they wanted their acquired copy rights to last forever and wanted to have control over the copy rights of others. They established publishing monopolies in the market due to this and then forced artists to take as small a pittance as possible to make their music. That is the truth, believe it or don't believe it, it happened in the early 1500's, it happened in the early 1900's, and it's been happening for the past 50 years.
P2P represents a radical shift of this model; now everyone can publish at a price that's so negligable that it's free. With a dial-up connetion I can host music I'v made and share it with people who've plugged into a network. A garage band, if they're good, can get a start by word-of-mouth on a p2p app and sell CD's directly off of their website, another negligable thing that's happened. The RIAA doesn't like this, nor does any publisher because it represents competition they can't compete with.
"Remote-Controlled Robot Could Burn The Stacks"
Got some pesky book like "You are being lied to" or "Media monopoly" by Ben Bagdikian, or hell, why stop there? Something written by John Taylor Gatto or recordings of Jello Biafra on burned CD donated to the library.
History is written by the victor. A library is used to combat this, and the internet is the ultamate library.
It'll tell you to worship satan, and steal music. Quickly, to the music mobile darl! We must shut down these "steriograhophonicalwhazitmakallits" before they destroy our nation's families by making them all into crack smoking criminals!
I'm sure I'm stating the obvious here, but aren't you a complete dumass for stating p2p is mostly made up of illegal traffic without even having the slightest amount of proof? Do you have a big bad ol' map of everything that's shared, at every point of every day? I know what I use p2p apps for, and that's mainly getting legally shareable books, legally shareable music (from bands that actually want their stuff shared and haven't sold their souls to the riaa). I get material that you can't find in mainstream media because it's all be censored. I can get any linux distro off of bittorrent, do you have any idea how fucking useful THAT is? I can get mandrake, suse, redhat, debian, BSD, you name it. And all that is completly legal. I can even go on there and find a copy of Windows 98 when I'v completly lost or destroyed my cd. Do you have any idea how many windows xp users don't have windows cd's because they were shafted when they baught their brand name prebuild? They paid for windows, they should have a copy, and P2P provides that copy.
P2P is a distrobution tool, it's incensored and unregulated, and this makes it powerful. Someone took the internet and refined it into something far more powerful than your puny mind can comprehend. It's a very powerful distrobution tool. I can find almost any kind of information I want between the local library, google, and a p2p app. I'm studying for a cert right now, and I can't tell you how useful a p2p app is in finding relevant information to help that.
As for the "illegality" of p2p, I don't recognize that. If the RIAA recaps it's investment in an artist, and the artist gets compensated enough they aren't starving, then I consider their stuff shareable. Why don't I share it? Because I think it all sucks with the acception of a few bands. All the emotion get's censored out of the music for horrible lyrics and hypnotic music or they add in a couple filler songs of drumbeats. Gimme my funker vogt, porn on beta, banjo death kult, de/vision, 16volt, good tekno. I could care less about buting briteny spears, n'synch or even snoop dog's albums.
I'd rather talk about the illegality of the RIAA and MPAA before I talk about the illegality of P2P. Break up the RIAA and MPAA under monopolistic trade laws and use hefty fines so that the companies that make the riaa up are near bankruptsy so that the major music stores have to go for indie and independant bands, revoke the incorperation lisences of the disney, bertlsman, time warner, viacom, news corp and vivendi and watch magically as things correct themselves.
I oftentimes find that people like you don't spend time thinking about weither or not it's a good thing that they do what they are doing. "It's orwellian is an excuse!" is what you say, only to find 50 years later you're in a slave labor, er, reeducation camp.
Giving them GPS will do 2 things; it'll complicate a already relativally simple job, and it'll allow the state legislature to nitpick where they don't need to be nitpicking. Whenever someone says "it'll save money" when talking about someone elses work, they're really talking about paying them less to get them to do more work. How about paying them more to do more work?
3 Voice over IP applications that a lot of online multiplayer clans use to communicate during matches. The clan I'm part of is from all over the usa. I can also use the same apps to call crosscountry to relaties who also have it setup. The total cost? $50.00 a month, which is my internet bill.
They aren't afraid of the technology itself, they're afraid of losing revenue. In time, the internet will become the de-facto transmission medium for everything; television, voice, music, any kind of media or data. Because of the internet, they can't charge me $30 to call cross country for a few hours. The quality is actually better than the phones too. The baby bells on the old system are dinosaurs; old, slow, can't adapt when a meteor hits and they know it. Besides, I'v been hearing this BS for the past 5 or so years, they aren't going to do anything.
And even if they did, I really can't see how they'll regulate this without opening a can of worms. You can say "voice transmission over ip" but defining it in stricter terms is difficult You can moniter network traffic, but the problem is figuring out how to read the data fields in the packets so that you know it's voice. one set of 1's and 0's can be construed as information for a game while another packet is music, whilst another is a download. Sure, you can identify certain IP addresses and tax based on that, but you're still limited. One company is going to decide it's going to use a completly different protocol based on IP, such as proprietary IP and fool with the regulation that way. After the cat and mouse game has played it's cards, you'll be taxing free speech in order to trap the mouse that is voip.
The whole point of a prison is to isolate bad people from society. An american prison punishes people by isolating them from society and putting them in relativally decent place and rehabilitate them so that when they become part of a society again, they can function properly.
The major problem with our legal system is to assume everyone is feeble minded sheeple and to assume that they'll fear this punishment, and what happens in this system is that as time goes on, the feeble will conform while the smart people won't. You aren't s slave afterwall, and there are things the goverment could do that'd make a lot of people think twice about fallowing them. Fallowing a goverment is a choice, not a requirement.
As time goes on, punishment increases for stupider and stupider offenses because people don't fallow the law or because there's a crime problem that's hyped up that people buy because they're so detached from the real world that they don't know any better and the only way to solve it harsher punishment. Pretty soon, you're getting executed because too many people were getting life for stealing a loaf of bread and it was too expensive to put them in jail.
All this will do is label the sorry scum for the rest of their lives as a pedophile so they can't get jobs, can't live in housing complexes or communities with normal people, and get beaten up by crazy people who think they should die. I should be the one making the decision of weither or not to trust this individual and trust the goverment in their rehabilitation of them but on the other hand, they have a right after rehabilitation to live in our society without being presecuted for their past.
High prices creat piracy. It can be plotted on a cartesian coord plane. The price on the y axis, and the number of people buying on the x axis. As the price goes down, more people will be able to afford and therefore, buy stuff. This is what the idea of a sale is; you normally sell your pants at $100, if you sell them for $90 demand will increase and if it's during a busy season, you'll move more merchandise and therefore, creat a higher profit than you could before.
When prices are high, piracy/theft/ect are going to be high aswell. When prices are low, the same things are going to be low. Why do you think the p2p networks are so huge? Because people's opinions differ from buisnesses and the goverments , just about every one of them infact.
The really sad part about this is that if the trend continues with people thinking that piracy is ok, xyz gaming corp will creat an awesome game and nobody will buy it, and they'll go out of buisness instead of making new games. After the RIAA and MPAA are deceased, cd's are cheaply baught at $2 and $3 a cd with extra's and a movie is around $5 opening night. Will piracy decrease or will it continue to rise?
As for software, I'll agree as much with the next guy that when I go into a store and buy a software package and it sucks, I'm pissed and can't return it. As for games, there's a lot of cookie-cutting going on as there always has been in the computer industry. Doom came out, and then you got blake stone, duke nukem, etc. BF1942 came out, and now we've got mohaa and it's expansions, ET, call of duty. All of them are based off of the same engine (afaik) and all of them have similar gameplay.
My worries aren't the monumental failures when corperations spend millions building a cookie cutter game and loose millions. My worries are when xyz corp creats the super ultra neato game and puts it out and the overall reputation and respect for gaming softare is so low that nobody will buy it for fear that, even though there's hype in the magazines, hype in the stores, hype in the forums and hype in the news and even a good playable demo (which everyone knows is bribed because they'v been burned before) will xyz corp be able to make any money for making a truely excellent game? Will xyz corp go out of buisness?
Cartels like the riaa make a bad name for companies like xyz corp. The major reason people go out and buy anything is because they think it is good, well, if they're a thinking consumer.
What's keeping a computer from booting up, posting, then instead of reading from ffff in memory, it goes straight to an OS on disk?
Bios's are almost identical, to the point that you can probably marginalize them into the driver category of most OS's these days. In a few years BIOS won't exist or if it does, it'll exist in some convoluted fashon or version of what it is today. I personally like the idea of having a bios on the hardware; something to tell me what's broken, give me error codes, etc. I see it as something that, due to being inexpensive will gain features such as full text error code outputs or if persay some obscure component on the motherboard died, instead of outputing moorse code it can give you a voice readout "Motherboard component 74x0x06 is dead. This is a fatal failure and the motherboard is dead, please return to manufacturer".
Either way, I don't think motherboard manufacturers will go ahead and start installing distribuited computing garble on their machines so that they can only be used by microsoft systems. It'll kill their market share in other markets such as server markets and it'll also make them susseptable to future abuse.
Firstly, I'd love to meet with my congressman. Problem is, they won't meet with me.
Secondly, the measure of a goverments success is it's ability to solve conflicts between people. You can argue all you want to and bitch and moan, but that's how it works. If a goverment creats too many conflicts, people will revolt. Go read some history books, you'll see that I'm right on the nose.
to take a specific instance of an act, compare it to a specific instance of law, and decide how they relate.
Wrong. You take a specific instance of an act, compair it to a specific law, and decide how they relate, and usually you try to make the relation such that the outcome doesn't cause political unrest. If that was all judges did, then why do they rule laws unconstitutional?
The DMCA isn't a "natural extention" of copy right law. Copy right law says who has the right to copy and defines fair use copying. The DMCA extends copy right law into fair use and creats conflict with the law.
Can I still backup this CD if I baught it and not be a felon? Does fair use outweigh the DMCA or does the DMCA outweigh fair use?
The DMCA is a poorly thought out bill that has had a lot of repricussions throughout the computer industry. This bill has the effect of making it illegal for anyone to learn how locks work or test them to ensure that theifs can't get in. It allows for large corperations to hide flaws in their software that would otherwise let someone uninhibited by the law get in easily; if I buy a masterlock and want to test it before equiping all the lockers in my buisness with them, I should be able to go down to the locksmith and pay them to break the lock open for me and show me it's weaknesses. This law makes that illegal in a digital sense. If I go out and buy a copy of windows before buying a couple hundred copies, and go down to the local 2600 hacker meeting to ask the hackers to test the security on this thing, anything they do to break protection schemes on the software is breaking the law.
This is the arguement I intend to use. That by passing this law, they have made it illegal for customers of software to ensure that what they are buying is quality and moreso, to look over the programming to ensure it works right. It's no different than going down to the furnature store and inspecting a couch to see what it's made of and to make sure it's sturdy in a digital sense.
Exactly.
What you are basically saying here, is that the code is so shotty to begin with that if it were to be open sourced, people could take advantage of it. If google open sourced their codebase right now, there'd be all hell breaking loose (or not, depending on how they index). The fact something is open source and/or obscure doesn't mean it's secure or insecure.
Now they won't be sueing everyone under the sun, that if you can, throw it up on p2p services and help get a bittorent of the file circulating. The documents can be found on kazaa if you type in diebold, as you can with any other app. I suggest shareaza, which is a spywareless free P2P app that handles and allows for hosting and downloading from multiple network protocols (gnutella, bittorent, edonkey to name a few) and can be found at
m =2821
http://www.shareaza.com
. If you're just interested in reading documents, another good read at
http://www.blackboxvoting.com
for those of you who don't want to sift through hundreds of e-mails in the archive but want the good stuff(downloads are at the right side of the page). Of course, they probably can't get slashdotted to horribly without going under, and therefore, if you can download the files and throw them on a p2p app such as shareaza you'll be doing everyone a big favor or if you can download them off of a p2p app that works well too to make sure their website's bandwidth bill isn't horrendous.
Additionally, if you do nothing else and live in the US, goto the EFF's webpage and fill out their form and fax or e-mail it to your legislature (which is all nicely automated for you).
http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&ite
This way, if congress gets millions of documents stating we know and we don't like the sharade, they'll have to pull it and may even throw a few congressman on the legal fire to keep us satiated.
And I, and millions of others, have written letters to congresspersons, only to get predigested letters back stating "everything is ok, please vote for me".
I could garountee you that if you sat me down infront of the senate and asked me to explain to them why the DMCA is bad I could convince them within an hour as could just about any well educated technically inclined individual could.
To put it bluntly, when your ruling body passes laws that creat more conflicts than they solve, that is a bad ruling body. Much of the time this isn't due to people saying "hahahaaa, we'll get you and your dog too!" but more along the lines of most of the people in congress being traditonally educated buisnesspeople with plenty of education in other areas who, imo, trust corperations too much.
So, what I really thing has gone on is a fundemental change since the past. Corperations began creating all the resources we had and after a few generations, the old guys who said "corperations are bad, we must regulate this tool lest it gets out of control" died off to leave new people to come in and get elected. The new people had more faith in the corperate system than they did before, and as time went on, congress simply became more corperate friendly without realizing the folly of this, which is that if you give corperations all the power they want, and let them have flawed leaders, you unbalance the power system (such as competition) that keeps the peasants happy. When this happens guys at the top get greedy, and they'll conspire with their friends to force the mark of the beast onto us as an example and force us into slavery.
Add to this bribery, er, lobbying and you've got a corrupt goverment. With every law nobody agree's with, respect for all law by this goverment will decrease until there is no law.
The measure of a goverments success, in any incarnation, is it's ability to solve conflicts between people. A good decision would solve the majority of conflicts, while a bad decision would solve the minorty of them and a really bad decision would cause even more conflicts.
The "absolute power corrups absolutely" saying is only true for stupid people. A person must realize that they are infact self-centered, self fulfilling beings no matter what other people say. The degree by which you can convince yourself that participating in society is a good thing and will be more positive for you than, say, running around with a laptop hacking ATM's is the degree of your "goodness".
People who are at the top of the chain who don't realize the reprecussions of their actions won't realize what they are doing to themselves in the long run. How many kings were hung for abusing their people? How many leaders were murdered for murdering? This is just one of the reprecussions of their actions, which is death. There are others. For example, by giving billions to top industry execuitives, you creat desperate people because that money is being cross-invested instead of being used. Desperate people are often people who are immobile in an economy, and any economy that exists to get work done obviously bases it's success on a common goal (such as the profit of everyone under it) and the amount of work towards that goal. Therefore, giving money to top execuitives who will simply invest it in other companies instead of directly investing the money in advertising campaigns and subsidising/giving money to people to start a buisness to creat more small buisnesses as well as taking down the big monopolies who serve to keep people immobile will result in a beter economy. A people happy with their leader is less likely to linch them, and more likely to worship them and moreso, a leader who is able to creat an economy where everyone can collectivly profit is more likely to themselves engauge in buisness or increase their own salaries as tax income increases.
With that said, I think it's real sad that many people would be greedy enough to go ahead and rip off a ATM. If it weren't for this bullshit consumerism movement going on right now people might have time to sit and think.
If the sun goes out, the moon turns red, the entire earth quakes and big meteors start crushing houses, Ima gonna spend a lot more time than I am right now studying the bible and preparing for shit to go down than I am right now.
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I'v been also reading this website
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sbs777/prophecy/inde
which has some interesting info on it. Now, I'v been around wierdo's and crazy people all claiming to be christian since I was a widdle kid, and after reading through that stuff I'm a bit freaked. Especially since he makes it sound like the bible was written in a sensicle manner and if you've read any good cyberpunk horror novels, you'll realize the bible is the same thing with older language and more meaning.