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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced; Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves: Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 't would win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Whether the average woman is worse at math than the average man, or a greater percentage of women stink at math than men, is largely irrelevent. It only matters to people studying large-scale demographic trends-- people like marketers, sociologists and anthropologists. It bears zero relevence on whether, say, women should get hired as scientists/mathematicians, or whether one should respect women's scientific abilities when demonstrated (e.g. when one interacts with women who ARE good scientists/mathematicians).
In my state (Florida?), one third-- ONE THIRD!-- of black men have criminal records (or was that records of FELONIES, thus making them unable to vote?). Does this mean that it is "okay" to refuse to hire black men because they are "more likely" to steal from the company? NO.. Even if 99% of black men were convicted murderers, that wouldn't reflect on the remaining 1%.
Ditto with this. Even if, say, 70% of women stunk at science and math, that doesn't bear any relevence to the remaining 30%. And somewhere in the remaining 30%, there would be a Marie Curie.
Another un-PC example: The average black person has a significantly lower IQ than the average Jew. So what? There are still African-American geniuses and Jewish 'tards.
When you are hiring, you can't look at the relative average qualifications of the prospective employees' respective demographic groups. You have to look at the qualifications of the prospective employees themselves!
Now, I'll toss in my own personal beef. Why is it verboten to say "more black people are stupid and/or criminals, so I won't hire any black people" (this is morally wrong, as noted above), but it's considered A-OK to say "more people without degrees are clueless stupid twits, so I will only hire people with degrees"? Because "you can't change your skin color"? (Actually, you can. Read Black Like Me or look at some photos of Michael Jackson...)
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I know about it because I received this spam earlier this morning:
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:56:51 +0200
From: "donate@american-redcross.org" <donate@american-redcross.org>
Subject: YOU CAN HELP TSUNAMI VICTIMS.....PLEASE READ
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YOU CAN HELP - EVERY PENNY COUNTS. CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE
http://www.american-redcross.org/donation-form.php
And I posted about it here because, when I posted, this was basically a "brand new" story. More chance of getting the scammers taken down.
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I've tried every way possible. I've called the AP; I got all the way to their National Desk, but they don't think it's a story. I've called Akamai; they claim the box is Yahoo's, and that they can do nothing. I've called the FBI; they took a report. (Could take weeks before anything happens.) Calling the Melbourne registrar would be an exercise in futility (see the story about Panix, one story down on the front page...). I called CNN, but they just told me to talk to the newswires (which I did, and which I was planning on doing anyhow.) Calling the Alabama cops would be futile, as the person listed on the WHOIS record is probably not the real scammer anyhow (i.e. they are probably just another innocent victim).
Any other suggestions? Just sit back and relax while people get robbed and their information/identities stolen?
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I beg your pardon? Explain, precisely, how this was done? http://www.american-redcross.org/ points to the site. Sure, they could point the DNS at whatever servers they wanted (Yahoo or otherwise), but the Akamai server in question would still have to be configured (e.g. in httpd.conf or whatever) to point requests for that site to the appropriate files.
Please demonstrate how this can be done WITHOUT hacking Yahoo or Akamai.
Lawsuit-bot honeypot. Check it out. It has a huge list of randomly generated filenames (with all sorts of well-known/recent game titles, movie titles, musicians, etc.). Designed to attract lawsuit-bots and give ironclad PROOF that the files are not real (they're just long strings of zero bytes):)
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I knew it was fake the instant I saw it. The real site wouldn't have a credit card donation form on the front page.
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How hard would it be to hax0r into Yahoo's servers at Akamai? Pretty fucking hard. Also, I don't have any fucking clue who this person is, and they probably aren't the actual person responsible. They're probably just another innocent victim (or a made-up name).
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What you just said is a lot of hot air which translates to "I AM ANOTHER APATHETIC AMERICAN."
I hate your kind. I hope you die young and miserable, you asshole.
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Go fuck yourself. What kind of heartless JACKASS are you to NOT want to do everything within your power to stop these scamming assholes?
Well, probably a Republican, at the very least...
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The point is to get these guys downed _QUICKLY_. NOT slowly. I want them down _NOW_. Do you honestly think Malda (or anyone) would post a story NOW!?
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american-redcross.org is a SCAM SITE masquerading as the American Red Cross (real site: www.redcross.org. Different IP block, registered to "lovelele25@yahoo.com", registered JUST TODAY at 15-Jan-2005 21:17:18 UTC. Front page is a credit card donation form. (Compare and contrast: the REAL American Red Cross site.
Let's take these fuckers down before they can steal thousands of dollars from innocent people and steal their credit card data.
Note that the Verisign link goes to the verification for WWW.REDCROSS.ORG, the real site (not for www.AMERICAN-redcross.org, the scammers).
Am I the only one left who has no fucking clue what PeopleSoft is or what Axapta is? Is this some sort of database thing? (No, I don't want to Google; somebody give me the Cliff's Notes version... I'm a lazy stupid American;) )
Speaking of communists... A little self-satirizing parody (n.b.: This pic was made on a current-model iBook running Mac OS X, using The GIMP): http://jlb.twu.net/tmp/ThinkDifferent.png
Virtually every field nowadays seems to be ruthlessly dominated by one or two (if you're lucky, three) titanic competitors. Trying to break into an existing market is tantamount to financial suicide. Not because newcomers have bad ideas or make bad products-- but because the "mindshare" of the unwashed masses is so stuck on the existing titans..
McDonald's and Burger King for burgers.
Coke and Pepsi for cola.
Nike and Reebok for sneakers.
Microsoft and.... well, Microsoft for operating systems.
It says it'll have Airport Extreme support. That probably translates to "it has "wireless" if you need it". Just as I don't want to pay for a monitor if I already have one, I don't want to pay for a wireless adaptor for a computer that would spend its whole life plugged into a 100BT switch anyhow. However, if you would need a wireless adaptor for the thing, you could get it.
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The possessive form of "it" is "its", not "it's". (e.g.: "its dustbin")
Stupid != Flamebait.
How in the fuck is this "flamebait"? It's Interesting. It might be Funny. It is most certainly not "flamebait". The MODERATION (-1, Flamebait) is flamebait!
This isn't off-topic. It's a "zombie" joke, you slavering morons.
How the hell does it manage to do THAT? That's nifty.
IT employment to grow -50% in 2005.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced;
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves:
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 't would win me
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Whether the average woman is worse at math than the average man, or a greater percentage of women stink at math than men, is largely irrelevent. It only matters to people studying large-scale demographic trends-- people like marketers, sociologists and anthropologists. It bears zero relevence on whether, say, women should get hired as scientists/mathematicians, or whether one should respect women's scientific abilities when demonstrated (e.g. when one interacts with women who ARE good scientists/mathematicians).
In my state (Florida?), one third-- ONE THIRD!-- of black men have criminal records (or was that records of FELONIES, thus making them unable to vote?). Does this mean that it is "okay" to refuse to hire black men because they are "more likely" to steal from the company? NO.. Even if 99% of black men were convicted murderers, that wouldn't reflect on the remaining 1%.
Ditto with this. Even if, say, 70% of women stunk at science and math, that doesn't bear any relevence to the remaining 30%. And somewhere in the remaining 30%, there would be a Marie Curie.
Another un-PC example: The average black person has a significantly lower IQ than the average Jew. So what? There are still African-American geniuses and Jewish 'tards.
When you are hiring, you can't look at the relative average qualifications of the prospective employees' respective demographic groups. You have to look at the qualifications of the prospective employees themselves!
Now, I'll toss in my own personal beef. Why is it verboten to say "more black people are stupid and/or criminals, so I won't hire any black people" (this is morally wrong, as noted above), but it's considered A-OK to say "more people without degrees are clueless stupid twits, so I will only hire people with degrees"? Because "you can't change your skin color"? (Actually, you can. Read Black Like Me or look at some photos of Michael Jackson...)
I know about it because I received this spam earlier this morning:
p
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:56:51 +0200
From: "donate@american-redcross.org" <donate@american-redcross.org>
Subject: YOU CAN HELP TSUNAMI VICTIMS.....PLEASE READ
[helpmhd.jpg]
YOU CAN HELP - EVERY PENNY COUNTS. CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE
http://www.american-redcross.org/donation-form.ph
And I posted about it here because, when I posted, this was basically a "brand new" story. More chance of getting the scammers taken down.
I've tried every way possible. I've called the AP; I got all the way to their National Desk, but they don't think it's a story. I've called Akamai; they claim the box is Yahoo's, and that they can do nothing. I've called the FBI; they took a report. (Could take weeks before anything happens.) Calling the Melbourne registrar would be an exercise in futility (see the story about Panix, one story down on the front page...). I called CNN, but they just told me to talk to the newswires (which I did, and which I was planning on doing anyhow.) Calling the Alabama cops would be futile, as the person listed on the WHOIS record is probably not the real scammer anyhow (i.e. they are probably just another innocent victim).
Any other suggestions? Just sit back and relax while people get robbed and their information/identities stolen?
I beg your pardon? Explain, precisely, how this was done? http://www.american-redcross.org/ points to the site. Sure, they could point the DNS at whatever servers they wanted (Yahoo or otherwise), but the Akamai server in question would still have to be configured (e.g. in httpd.conf or whatever) to point requests for that site to the appropriate files.
Please demonstrate how this can be done WITHOUT hacking Yahoo or Akamai.
Lawsuit-bot honeypot. Check it out. It has a huge list of randomly generated filenames (with all sorts of well-known/recent game titles, movie titles, musicians, etc.). Designed to attract lawsuit-bots and give ironclad PROOF that the files are not real (they're just long strings of zero bytes) :)
I knew it was fake the instant I saw it. The real site wouldn't have a credit card donation form on the front page.
How hard would it be to hax0r into Yahoo's servers at Akamai? Pretty fucking hard. Also, I don't have any fucking clue who this person is, and they probably aren't the actual person responsible. They're probably just another innocent victim (or a made-up name).
What you just said is a lot of hot air which translates to "I AM ANOTHER APATHETIC AMERICAN."
I hate your kind. I hope you die young and miserable, you asshole.
Go fuck yourself. What kind of heartless JACKASS are you to NOT want to do everything within your power to stop these scamming assholes?
Well, probably a Republican, at the very least...
The point is to get these guys downed _QUICKLY_. NOT slowly. I want them down _NOW_. Do you honestly think Malda (or anyone) would post a story NOW!?
american-redcross.org is a SCAM SITE masquerading as the American Red Cross (real site: www.redcross.org. Different IP block, registered to "lovelele25@yahoo.com", registered JUST TODAY at 15-Jan-2005 21:17:18 UTC. Front page is a credit card donation form. (Compare and contrast: the REAL American Red Cross site.
Let's take these fuckers down before they can steal thousands of dollars from innocent people and steal their credit card data.
Note that the Verisign link goes to the verification for WWW.REDCROSS.ORG, the real site (not for www.AMERICAN-redcross.org, the scammers).
The patches they announce do.
Am I the only one left who has no fucking clue what PeopleSoft is or what Axapta is? Is this some sort of database thing? (No, I don't want to Google; somebody give me the Cliff's Notes version... I'm a lazy stupid American ;) )
Speaking of communists... A little self-satirizing parody (n.b.: This pic was made on a current-model iBook running Mac OS X, using The GIMP): http://jlb.twu.net/tmp/ThinkDifferent.png
You spail like Group X. Idioth.
Virtually every field nowadays seems to be ruthlessly dominated by one or two (if you're lucky, three) titanic competitors. Trying to break into an existing market is tantamount to financial suicide. Not because newcomers have bad ideas or make bad products-- but because the "mindshare" of the unwashed masses is so stuck on the existing titans..
.... well, Microsoft for operating systems.
McDonald's and Burger King for burgers.
Coke and Pepsi for cola.
Nike and Reebok for sneakers.
Microsoft and
Dell and HP/Compaq for x86 computers.
ATI and nVidia for graphics cards.
And... Intel and AMD for x86 CPUs...
It's spelled "llama", dammit.
It says it'll have Airport Extreme support. That probably translates to "it has "wireless" if you need it". Just as I don't want to pay for a monitor if I already have one, I don't want to pay for a wireless adaptor for a computer that would spend its whole life plugged into a 100BT switch anyhow. However, if you would need a wireless adaptor for the thing, you could get it.