Criminal investigations are often a very slow process. Legal processes are slow. I'm involved in a lawsuit right now, and papers were filed like 6 months ago. Nothing to speak of has happened since then, and it could be a year more before something does.
But... but... I thought that even the most complex investigations could be neatly wrapped up in under an hour!
So all those sites dedicated to the mullet rocking, Oakley blade wearing (with the pink arms) lifted Toyota minitruck driving, Coors light drinking Americans from the 80's are in big trouble!
RobertB, did you notice that your beloved Dixie Chicks were in the court today, on the side of the RIAA?
That's teh suck. After all the trouble they had with Sony screwing them around, you'd think they'd know better than to kiss the hand that slaps them. The reason the music industry is losing money is because they produce crap. Artists who don't produce crap get shuffled aside in favor of the next Brittney or Shania.
The Chicks were expected to appeal to a limited number of alt.country fans, and only got big by their willingness to tell Sony to go to hell when they needed to. What are they doing now? This is the dumbest thing since the time Natalie went up against Woody Harrelson on the topic of Marijuana on Politically Incorrect.
"Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks and other musicians are backing the major recording labels, saying their livelihoods are threatened if millions of people can obtain their songs for nothing.
"About 20 independent recording artists, including musician and producer Brian Eno, rockers Heart and rapper-activist Chuck D, support the file-sharing technology. They say it allows greater distribution of their music and limits the power of huge record companies."
This morning, National Public Radio ran a piece on the upcoming SCOTUS arguments. To my disappointment, it was a industry-friendly puff piece that didn't even attempt to find a valid use for the file-sharing technology. It could have been written by an RIAA PR rep, especially given the number of times they used the phrase "downloading copyrighted works". The only opposing view was a short whine by someone with Grokster about their business model.
Usually, NPR excels in their reporting. But on this subject (as well as the subject of low-power FM broadcasting, another place where public radio puts its own interests above those of the public) they fall way short.
Or perhaps the editors left it that way so that us whiners would have something to bi^Wcomplain about.
Or, since they've now changed it to the way Heinlein intended (for whatever that's worth), maybe they started it out with the "I" to make me look like a fool. [checks mirror] Yep, it worked.
As anyone who's read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress knows, the Loonies were schooled in survival, not proper English. "From the TINSTAAFL Dept" may be more proper, but the definition (according to the usual source) is "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Sure, it's a double negative and ain't ain't a word. But I don't think you'll ever hear a Loonie say "There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, by Jove" on their way to High Tea.
Or perhaps the editors left it that way so that us whiners would have something to bi^Wcomplain about.
DMSO widely available, and stinky!
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We have horses, so it's interesting to see two well-known horse meds mentioned (though not in Canseco's book):
I've tried a lot of other things through the years -- like butazolidin, which is what they give to horses. And D.M.S.O. -- dimethyl suloxide. Whitey Ford used that for a while. You rub it on with a plastic glove and as soon as it gets in your arm you can taste it in your mouth. It's not available anymore, though. Word is it can blind you.
Butazolidin is commonly known as Bute (byoot), and it's available in tablets (those work best if you grind them up and mix with molasses in the horse's feed) or as a paste you squirt into your horse's mouth (whether they like it or not).
DMSO is hardly "not available anymore." One informative article notes that "there is hardly a trainer's trunk that is without DMSO. It is used because it works."
But I wouldn't use it on my own horses -- it has a distinctive and somewhat nauseating odor. A fellow boarder at one stable used it on his mare, and it was hard to even walk past her stall. It's hard to see how something that smells that bad could be doing any good. If a ballplayer were using DMSO (either on its own or as a carrier for some other drug), the fans behind home plate would know as soon as he came up to bat.
I looked at the eBay feedback, and was reminded of why it would suck to be a big-time seller on eBay. What a bunch of whiners!
"It took a month to even ship, very annoyed but at least they apologised!" "Took over a MONTH to arrive!!! geez! A Neutral because of my relief it showed up" "A little slow but well worth the wait!!!!! Would buy from again!!!!" "Shipping took too long, but great item and an awesome organization - THANKS!!!"
Or maybe the fund really is kind of slow to ship. Well, there hadn't better be any complaints about shipment on this auction...
In January, as part of the USA Film Festival's KidFilm (in Dallas), the "Animation Celebration" featured 10 Wallace & Gromit shorts, back-to-back-to-back. This was noted clearly in the program, but clearly many of the attendees didn't *read* the program -- probably the ones who came for the insipid Barbie Fairytopia movie.
We saw a short introduction (featuring a typical Wallace & Gromit contraption cracking an egg), then the first episode came and went. Then the intro started again, and the murmurs started. The third round saw louder mutterings. By the fifth round, there was scattered applause and mild catcalls. At seven or eight, many of the kids could be heard saying "why are they showing that again?" By the time the tenth episode came on the screen, there was general laughter from the entire crowd. When an 11th episode failed to appear, in favor of a longer Nick Park feature (Dogs & Cats, or something like that), I believe there was applause.
Several years ago, the early Simpsons shorts (from the Tracy Ullman show, before the series even started) were sprinkled throughout the Animation Celebration program. I still wonder if the organizers put the W&G shorts back-to-back just for artistic effect.
This is like trying to kill the ghost-generator in Gauntlet, rather than just focusing on the ghosts themselves. You can lob an axe and kill a ghost with ease; It's just that there's so many of them.
I love being of the generation that can reference the generators in Gauntlet and be perfectly well-understood among my peers.
How do we know that Filipe isn't a disgruntled employee waiting to take the company down from the inside?
If he is, he's certainly established a good front. He currently owns almost all the variations of "forbes" and "sucks" (including this article's "from the X department", forbesucks.com). Though he somehow missed forbessucks.org. As interesting as it sounds, I don't think I'll bother adding it to my collection.
Actually, the tipoff that it's not just a potentially disgruntled employee comes from another whois detail, the registrar:
"With a dedicated account approach, MarkMonitor's multilingual staff registers all gTLDs (general top level domains) and over 200 ccTLDs (country code top level domains). The MarkMonitor staff has a thorough understanding of ccTLD registration and local presence requirements, taking the guesswork out of the equation."
That's an awful lot of work to hide an evil plot... but then, maybe Filipe is *really* disgruntled.
Your current sig: Yellow ribbon magnets on cars- true patriotism or just a fad? Support the troops, acknowledge the lies behind the war.
With a cousin in Regular Army (meaning that he's in for life), I opted for the blue ribbon. Its message: "Bring Home Our Troops". I only wish they'd designed it with the message in boldface instead of wimpy italics.
Tivo, struggling to keep customers and inch towards profitability as execs step down, has continued to shift focus from pure PVR functionality towards digital convergence.
Um, no, it wasn't Clinton, it was his secretary of state, Madeline Albright who went to NK.....
That was it, thanks. I wasn't able to google up details of the incident I remembered, but I did find this cool article on how the North Korean stadium displays use children as "human pixels" for their grand displays of supposed superiority... and how difficult it is to train children in other countries to do the same thing.
Since that time, as far as I know, we haven't seen ANYTHING of KJI. There have been multiple signs of his hold on power weakening, like portraits being taken down for awhile.
I have noticed some signs that the country is tipping from the bizarro to the insane. It was just a few months ago that North Korea promised to return to the negotiating table... but only if the US would quit saying such mean things about their beloved leader.
There's just no good way to deal with this country. Clinton didn't have much luck -- sure, he kept them talking, but they took advantage of him without shame. Wasn't it Clinton who visited for some big event in a NKorean stadium, only to find out later that the speeches all denounced the US as he sat there smiling? Bush tried changing course, but it did no good, either. Everyone knows -- especially the North Koreans -- that any "liberation" would result in the immediate immolation of Seoul, whether by nukes or by the effects of several hundred conventional missiles.
As far ase I can tell, North Korea is going to remain a huge insane asylum until someone gets trigger-happy and drops Da Bomb on Seoul. The scary thing is that it could actually happen.
Practically, I can see where the horned devil might make certain religious people uncomfortable.
It wouldn't be the first time an innocuous symbol was changed because some of my Christian bretheren and sisteren came up a bit short in the "discernment" department.
Here's part of my contribution (at least, I think I wrote this part) to the Wikipedia entry for US Highway 666:
In January 2003, the Governor of New Mexico declared his intent to change the designation of US 666 due to "infamy brought by the inopportune naming of the road." [1] Officials in Colorado and Utah concurred, choosing "US 393" as the route number. But since the route came nowhere near U.S. Highway 93, AASHTO suggested U.S. Highway 491, noting it as a "branch" of U.S. Highway 191 because the routes meet in Monticello, Utah. US 666 officially ceased to exist on May 31, 2003, though "New 491 - Old 666" signs would be posted for at least a year.
So you really would see scripts with "Captain, I can compensate using TECH to TECH..."
I can't help but think that the series would have been better if TECH hadn't been such a cop-out. Sci-fi is about people, not technology, but often it's about how people interact with technology. If you don't know anything about technology then it's just the way people interact with mumbo-jumbo.
I disagree, at least in part. The best episodes were the ones where the technology was secondary to the plot... part of the set, in effect. Allowing a scriptwriter to concentrate on the important things -- say, Picard's internal struggle to understand his time with the Borg -- keeps the plot from getting bogged down in the gadgets.
And it's not like it's a new concept... the term deus ex machina comes to mind...
Have you looked at the family purity laws? What is so terrible about touching your wife while she's in labour? What's so terrible about touching her only 6 days after she's had a midcyle spot? Even if she's having her period, I think that passing the salt is probably not so bad.
I read through Leviticus carefully a couple of years ago. I did some math, using modern knowledge of reproduction. One interesting observation is that the woman can't be "touched" after delivering a girl for something like six weeks, while the time for a boy is much shorter. The patriarchal society would have been able to follow this rule, since they were so damn scared of women (my opinion), but I think God (YMMV) pulled one over on them.
If a baby boy is born, and Dad decides to go for more, he can get an early start. But for one thing, mom's breastfeeding will give her natural protection from conception. And if it occurs anyway, the boy-child will be the worse for it, as mom's body works on the next one.
But if it's a girl, Dad has to stay away for quite a while. This gives the baby more time with mom for both food and bonding. There's another added benefit, too: if I remember correctly, the delay should coincide with the best time to conceive the next baby, just when Dad has been going without for an even longer time. So we have a healthier girl, plus a the best timing for the next conception.
Since I believe in God, I say he knew that his he-man-girl-haters-club followers wouldn't understand a word of the above, so he made it simple. Pure, unpure, touch, no touchie.
But overall, I'm thankful to be a New Testament follower (though I've had some disagreements there too).
Slashdot Mirror
Two words...
Goatse... and trolls.
True indeed. Some of the images I encountered during my early weeks on Slashdot are scorched indelibly into my memory (shudder).
But I wonder why they don't just let the moderation system take care of bad ASCII art? After all, there's not a message saying:
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Your comment contains a link involving goats and/or tubs.
!____"."____!
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Your comment looks too much like ascii art.
Well, I guess it does look a little like an airplane. What's wrong with ASCII art, anyway?
Criminal investigations are often a very slow process. Legal processes are slow. I'm involved in a lawsuit right now, and papers were filed like 6 months ago. Nothing to speak of has happened since then, and it could be a year more before something does.
But... but... I thought that even the most complex investigations could be neatly wrapped up in under an hour!
So all those sites dedicated to the mullet rocking, Oakley blade wearing (with the pink arms) lifted Toyota minitruck driving, Coors light drinking Americans from the 80's are in big trouble!
I'd say it's downright heinous.
You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the Reaper...
RobertB, did you notice that your beloved Dixie Chicks were in the court today, on the side of the RIAA?
That's teh suck. After all the trouble they had with Sony screwing them around, you'd think they'd know better than to kiss the hand that slaps them. The reason the music industry is losing money is because they produce crap. Artists who don't produce crap get shuffled aside in favor of the next Brittney or Shania.
The Chicks were expected to appeal to a limited number of alt.country fans, and only got big by their willingness to tell Sony to go to hell when they needed to. What are they doing now? This is the dumbest thing since the time Natalie went up against Woody Harrelson on the topic of Marijuana on Politically Incorrect.
Additional details:
Supreme Court Weighs in on File-Sharing
"The case has star power on both sides.
"Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks and other musicians are backing the major recording labels, saying their livelihoods are threatened if millions of people can obtain their songs for nothing.
"About 20 independent recording artists, including musician and producer Brian Eno, rockers Heart and rapper-activist Chuck D, support the file-sharing technology. They say it allows greater distribution of their music and limits the power of huge record companies."
For what it's worth, I'm a fan of Heart, too...
This morning, National Public Radio ran a piece on the upcoming SCOTUS arguments. To my disappointment, it was a industry-friendly puff piece that didn't even attempt to find a valid use for the file-sharing technology. It could have been written by an RIAA PR rep, especially given the number of times they used the phrase "downloading copyrighted works". The only opposing view was a short whine by someone with Grokster about their business model.
Usually, NPR excels in their reporting. But on this subject (as well as the subject of low-power FM broadcasting, another place where public radio puts its own interests above those of the public) they fall way short.
Or perhaps the editors left it that way so that us whiners would have something to bi^Wcomplain about.
Or, since they've now changed it to the way Heinlein intended (for whatever that's worth), maybe they started it out with the "I" to make me look like a fool. [checks mirror] Yep, it worked.
Please waste a point to mod this down so I can have a turn.
And me without mod points today! Darn!
As anyone who's read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress knows, the Loonies were schooled in survival, not proper English. "From the TINSTAAFL Dept" may be more proper, but the definition (according to the usual source) is "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Sure, it's a double negative and ain't ain't a word. But I don't think you'll ever hear a Loonie say "There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, by Jove" on their way to High Tea.
Or perhaps the editors left it that way so that us whiners would have something to bi^Wcomplain about.
We have horses, so it's interesting to see two well-known horse meds mentioned (though not in Canseco's book):
I've tried a lot of other things through the years -- like butazolidin, which is what they give to horses. And D.M.S.O. -- dimethyl suloxide. Whitey Ford used that for a while. You rub it on with a plastic glove and as soon as it gets in your arm you can taste it in your mouth. It's not available anymore, though. Word is it can blind you.
Butazolidin is commonly known as Bute (byoot), and it's available in tablets (those work best if you grind them up and mix with molasses in the horse's feed) or as a paste you squirt into your horse's mouth (whether they like it or not).
DMSO is hardly "not available anymore." One informative article notes that "there is hardly a trainer's trunk that is without DMSO. It is used because it works."
But I wouldn't use it on my own horses -- it has a distinctive and somewhat nauseating odor. A fellow boarder at one stable used it on his mare, and it was hard to even walk past her stall. It's hard to see how something that smells that bad could be doing any good. If a ballplayer were using DMSO (either on its own or as a carrier for some other drug), the fans behind home plate would know as soon as he came up to bat.
I looked at the eBay feedback, and was reminded of why it would suck to be a big-time seller on eBay. What a bunch of whiners!
"It took a month to even ship, very annoyed but at least they apologised!" "Took over a MONTH to arrive!!! geez! A Neutral because of my relief it showed up" "A little slow but well worth the wait!!!!! Would buy from again!!!!" "Shipping took too long, but great item and an awesome organization - THANKS!!!"
Or maybe the fund really is kind of slow to ship. Well, there hadn't better be any complaints about shipment on this auction...
In January, as part of the USA Film Festival's KidFilm (in Dallas), the "Animation Celebration" featured 10 Wallace & Gromit shorts, back-to-back-to-back. This was noted clearly in the program, but clearly many of the attendees didn't *read* the program -- probably the ones who came for the insipid Barbie Fairytopia movie.
We saw a short introduction (featuring a typical Wallace & Gromit contraption cracking an egg), then the first episode came and went. Then the intro started again, and the murmurs started. The third round saw louder mutterings. By the fifth round, there was scattered applause and mild catcalls. At seven or eight, many of the kids could be heard saying "why are they showing that again?" By the time the tenth episode came on the screen, there was general laughter from the entire crowd. When an 11th episode failed to appear, in favor of a longer Nick Park feature (Dogs & Cats, or something like that), I believe there was applause.
Several years ago, the early Simpsons shorts (from the Tracy Ullman show, before the series even started) were sprinkled throughout the Animation Celebration program. I still wonder if the organizers put the W&G shorts back-to-back just for artistic effect.
You, sir and/or madam, have the coolest UID of anyone who has ever replied to me. And thanks for the link! I may make it my next .sig.
This is like trying to kill the ghost-generator in Gauntlet, rather than just focusing on the ghosts themselves. You can lob an axe and kill a ghost with ease; It's just that there's so many of them.
I love being of the generation that can reference the generators in Gauntlet and be perfectly well-understood among my peers.
But just to be clear -- this *must* be a reference to a real 1980s Gauntlet, not to any of the 1990s pretenders.
How do we know that Filipe isn't a disgruntled employee waiting to take the company down from the inside?
If he is, he's certainly established a good front. He currently owns almost all the variations of "forbes" and "sucks" (including this article's "from the X department", forbesucks.com). Though he somehow missed forbessucks.org. As interesting as it sounds, I don't think I'll bother adding it to my collection.
Actually, the tipoff that it's not just a potentially disgruntled employee comes from another whois detail, the registrar:
"With a dedicated account approach, MarkMonitor's multilingual staff registers all gTLDs (general top level domains) and over 200 ccTLDs (country code top level domains). The MarkMonitor staff has a thorough understanding of ccTLD registration and local presence requirements, taking the guesswork out of the equation."
That's an awful lot of work to hide an evil plot... but then, maybe Filipe is *really* disgruntled.
On a side note I wonder how forbes has/would handle something like forbessucks.com.
They have/would have bought it.
Registrant:
Forbes, Inc.
(DOM-1334284)
60 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011 US
Domain Name: forbessucks.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact:
Filipe Carreira
(NIC-14324246)
Forbes, Inc.
60 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011 US
Your current sig:
Yellow ribbon magnets on cars- true patriotism or just a fad? Support the troops, acknowledge the lies behind the war.
With a cousin in Regular Army (meaning that he's in for life), I opted for the blue ribbon. Its message: "Bring Home Our Troops". I only wish they'd designed it with the message in boldface instead of wimpy italics.
My level 12 Galil with plumbum bullets strike down the level 4 suicide bomber. 100EXP and 12GP. :D
Yeah, but don't forget you have to roll 2d6 for damage from stone-throwing bystanders.
Tivo, struggling to keep customers and inch towards profitability as execs step down, has continued to shift focus from pure PVR functionality towards digital convergence.
I'm not sure Digital Convergence is the model Tivo should follow. Although I suppose it'll be alright, eventually, now that their primary product has entered the realm of open-source tinkering.
Oh, you mean the failure to capitalize Digital Convergence wasn't an editorial accident? Oops.
Um, no, it wasn't Clinton, it was his secretary of state, Madeline Albright who went to NK.....
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That was it, thanks. I wasn't able to google up details of the incident I remembered, but I did find this cool article on how the North Korean stadium displays use children as "human pixels" for their grand displays of supposed superiority... and how difficult it is to train children in other countries to do the same thing.
http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/pixel_peopl
Since that time, as far as I know, we haven't seen ANYTHING of KJI. There have been multiple signs of his hold on power weakening, like portraits being taken down for awhile.
I have noticed some signs that the country is tipping from the bizarro to the insane. It was just a few months ago that North Korea promised to return to the negotiating table... but only if the US would quit saying such mean things about their beloved leader.
There's just no good way to deal with this country. Clinton didn't have much luck -- sure, he kept them talking, but they took advantage of him without shame. Wasn't it Clinton who visited for some big event in a NKorean stadium, only to find out later that the speeches all denounced the US as he sat there smiling? Bush tried changing course, but it did no good, either. Everyone knows -- especially the North Koreans -- that any "liberation" would result in the immediate immolation of Seoul, whether by nukes or by the effects of several hundred conventional missiles.
As far ase I can tell, North Korea is going to remain a huge insane asylum until someone gets trigger-happy and drops Da Bomb on Seoul. The scary thing is that it could actually happen.
Practically, I can see where the horned devil might make certain religious people uncomfortable.
It wouldn't be the first time an innocuous symbol was changed because some of my Christian bretheren and sisteren came up a bit short in the "discernment" department.
Here's part of my contribution (at least, I think I wrote this part) to the Wikipedia entry for US Highway 666:
In January 2003, the Governor of New Mexico declared his intent to change the designation of US 666 due to "infamy brought by the inopportune naming of the road." [1] Officials in Colorado and Utah concurred, choosing "US 393" as the route number. But since the route came nowhere near U.S. Highway 93, AASHTO suggested U.S. Highway 491, noting it as a "branch" of U.S. Highway 191 because the routes meet in Monticello, Utah. US 666 officially ceased to exist on May 31, 2003, though "New 491 - Old 666" signs would be posted for at least a year.
So you really would see scripts with "Captain, I can compensate using TECH to TECH..."
I can't help but think that the series would have been better if TECH hadn't been such a cop-out. Sci-fi is about people, not technology, but often it's about how people interact with technology. If you don't know anything about technology then it's just the way people interact with mumbo-jumbo.
I disagree, at least in part. The best episodes were the ones where the technology was secondary to the plot... part of the set, in effect. Allowing a scriptwriter to concentrate on the important things -- say, Picard's internal struggle to understand his time with the Borg -- keeps the plot from getting bogged down in the gadgets.
And it's not like it's a new concept... the term deus ex machina comes to mind...
Have you looked at the family purity laws? What is so terrible about touching your wife while she's in labour? What's so terrible about touching her only 6 days after she's had a midcyle spot? Even if she's having her period, I think that passing the salt is probably not so bad.
I read through Leviticus carefully a couple of years ago. I did some math, using modern knowledge of reproduction. One interesting observation is that the woman can't be "touched" after delivering a girl for something like six weeks, while the time for a boy is much shorter. The patriarchal society would have been able to follow this rule, since they were so damn scared of women (my opinion), but I think God (YMMV) pulled one over on them.
If a baby boy is born, and Dad decides to go for more, he can get an early start. But for one thing, mom's breastfeeding will give her natural protection from conception. And if it occurs anyway, the boy-child will be the worse for it, as mom's body works on the next one.
But if it's a girl, Dad has to stay away for quite a while. This gives the baby more time with mom for both food and bonding. There's another added benefit, too: if I remember correctly, the delay should coincide with the best time to conceive the next baby, just when Dad has been going without for an even longer time. So we have a healthier girl, plus a the best timing for the next conception.
Since I believe in God, I say he knew that his he-man-girl-haters-club followers wouldn't understand a word of the above, so he made it simple. Pure, unpure, touch, no touchie.
But overall, I'm thankful to be a New Testament follower (though I've had some disagreements there too).
Anonymous Coward wrote: Good job. I bet you make your parents proud.
Anonymous, Anonymous
Smells like Hippopotamus!
nyah nyah nyah pffffft
(I feel better now)