Read it. Loved it. And to be honest, some of those stories made me horrified and saddened. At one point I had to put down the book and just shake my head in utter disbelief; I'm referring to the part where the maimed german soldier was left behind in the gutter next to the airfield. That was extremely painful to read, especially since the author swayed from his ordinary, clinical penning to a more personalized composition.
As a former professional soldier myself, I can vividly picture the scenarios described in relation to military stratagems and political decisions, but I'm at a loss when it comes to the soldiers and their experiences and suffering. But "Stalingrad" excel at portraying both sides of the story, albeit a bit academic, as aforementioned by parent post.
As davejenkins states: "This is not an easy read." - I most defenitely agree. But on the other hand, if you want to know anything about WWII and it's implications and horrors, pick up a copy and behold the black, writhing chaos that is war...
With your statement of (..)I hate zealots(..) you've contradicted yourself in terms, namely: with your headline "Whatever you hippe zealots"(thereby showing disregard for peeps with an inclination for working in unison, instead of the "healthy" way of exploiting one another) and the use of a strong word such as "hate". I'm a devout zealot myself, with warm feelings for Linux as well as the GPL; and with an equal amount of feeling refuse to work with any products created by Micro-soft. Does this automatically make me an insane nutter(tautology), seeing how the job-market, although rather cramped, for the most part offers MS-related work? I believe not, I have the peculiar idea of being a man with principles; I can't silently stand behind or on the side-line watching that ugly beast called "corporatism" roaring its head within our society. And the archetypal vision of this beast, IMHO is Micro-soft.
Ranting aside, I commend you for using Linux as well as being lucid enough to stick to a more moderate ontology. I, on the other hand, will continue to be a zealot in my simple, but focused manner. And that summarieses my point of view: focus and motivation is way easier if you're a zealot, albeit I'll probably miss out on a number of Good Things(TM) in the MS-dimension. Ah, to heck with it!;)
Next week, I'll pop off and find a job in constructions or hauling garbage while continuing to learn and preach Linux - my final intent to ride off the storm...
A group of researchers made a 200mx200m enclosure in which they put a group of 30 chimpanzees, in effect a clan like those you would find in their natural habitat. All is fine and dandy. The chimps behaved according to their social position and disiplinary acts was enforced by the elders, who had formed an oligarchy. Some unruly elements were reported, but this was expected. The next thing the researchers did, was to increase the number of chimps to 300, all in the previous enclosure. And much to the researchers dismay, all hell broke loose! The chimps were raping, killing, fighting and stealing - the entire social structure had in a short timespan been completly eradicated.
Do you see where I'm heading? Living in NJ with 14 million people versus living in a small rural town in Norway makes a huge difference in quality of life. In addition, our political rule mainly consists of social democrats who aknowledges the principle of having a strong welfare and such, to help people in need or anyone caught in an unexpected distress.
Me? Misantrophic. I'd like to terminate 2/3 of the world's population and become an ubermann. Where the fuck is that red button, pray tell?
Must be some bad shit they're smoking; that crack-whore McBride has finally snapped, and regular crack won't do it no more. McBride wants to smoke your TiVo! A sledgehammer and a crack-pipe, and he's ready to roll - the machiavellian lizard king is in da house!
*sigh*. This is just sad. Feel terrible about the thought that my kids shall one day experience this ontology of greed and extortion...
anarchy != chaos (something *they* fear most of all; the state-less society. "Must...manipulate...people's...perception...of... words"
"Pain looks great on other people That's what they're for"
-Sisters of Mercy "I was wrong"
"Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree? Travel the world and the seven seas Everybody's looking for something Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to be abused"
-Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams"
Reminds me of something I saw on Discovery the other night. Hmm, what was that again...something about small critters joining for a weird purpose...was pretty stupid. Ah! Them lem....lemmin...lamas?
Life in the big city: when in doubt, act like a Lemming!
In reference to your website: we both want freedom - the difference being that you want freedom to be a true patriot, and I want freedom from extortion; as implied in anarchism.
Btw, got an USP myself - a very nice pistol. Kicks like a mule;)
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all." - John Maynard Keynes
"(maybe not in your garage, sorry)."
What an arrogant and indifferent person you are! Those words are some of the worst concealed thoughts of a deranged sociopath that I've ever seen, excluding Usenet! Granted, we are predators, but we also have an evolution to attend to; being cocky, greedy bastards won't do a friggin' shit in that respect!
And I have a T-shirt with the text/logo "open LINUX" on the front and "Linux for Business" on the back. A tiny "Caldera"-logo can be seen on the front side.
Now, wtf am I going to do with it?
These are some of my options: 1) Leave it to rot. 2) Submit to legal process as, hehe, "exhibit A". 3) Burn it using home-made napalm, while dementedly screaming the lyrics of "Angel of Death" by Slayer...
Seriously, I doubt any other sport has such resentment to employing new devices in order to advance the sport. The two latest Mr. Olympia has left no doubts as to how and with what equipment they're using to excel in this brutal sport. Especially Dorian Yates has been an advocate of using old-school methods championed by Mike Mentzer with brief sets and reps, and using only basal equipment. I prefer this as well, but include machines which surpass the dum/bar-bell routines with respect to isolation-movements.
On the other hand, when drugs are concerned, bodybuilding is on the bleeding edge; sad but true...
I tried that with the keybord which came with my crappy '96 model IBM-Aptiva. Died horribly. But then again, my trusty old Olivetti ANK27-102N survives both the dishwasher and a trip down Victoria Falls. Best of all, it has no M$-key; this key being the ultimate, in-your-face, evidence of a massive Redmondian conspiracy...
Yeah, send those rotten bastards off to space! All of them! Maybe then it'll be a tiiiiiny bit less corruption in these parts of the woods. And that italian dude, Berlusconi-whatshisname, should be entitled chief-engineer - with, get this, Steve Ballmer as the captain! "I've got 4 words for you: I...love...this...company! Developers, developers, developers, hark, cough!" Well, you see, Mr. Baldmer: In space, no one can hear you scream...
Hihihihiii....
Oh, Jebus! I'm in that lame mood tonight....hmmm, red or blue pill....
"I would annex the planets if I could. And, of course, exploit them." -Cecil Rodes
Actually, some of us do! At "Redmond Correctional Facility", they code at day and debug at night. Simple, isn't it? And while we're at it, someone should tell those imbecile debuggers never to mix mind-altering drugs with coffee; something tells me they're more conserned with squashing imaginary bugs than the "real" thing.
And BTW, for each of those fucking bugs, a hair has been pulled from my scalp - now that's what I call being a "pragmatist" in a "corporate" world(aka "consultant").
Comments like these and "It is a matter of international significance" gives me the chills. The mere thought of having "time" made exact, to the point - perfect, is useless. And why? Let me try with a modified Koan: Because we still can't tell how many matches there are within a matchbox merely by looking at it.
Roger that! Back in the old days(hark-hark), when I first attended the Gathering(I think it was the second one staged at the time) we had no friggin' CS or RvS, and to vent our geek-rage we had to blow up an Atari in the nearby soccerfield! Heh, I guess the bastard flew some 10-15 meters into the air - and the crowd went into a frenzy(you would as well; couple the jihad of Amiga vs Atari with mamut-sized coffeine-pills and things tend to get ugly;) )
Anyhow, the Gathering was indeed a demoscene-affair at the time, mostly emphasising the the C64 and the aforementioned Amiga. Those pesky sub-geeks who dared enter with their PC's and Atari's where quickly stuffed in a corner, only to sulk and cry vengance. Heh, weird how things have turned out..
This event must have been in 1991 if I recollect it correctly; I remember watching "T2 - Judgement Day", which was on those huuuuge fsck'in' CDROM's - pre-cinema as it was, I must admit the warez-scene was well and kicking in those days as well: Razor 1911 anyone! lol!
And there were babes as well! That's right, a crowd of exactly 2 females made it into the building. I guess there's more of these oddities now, but still marginal.
Anyone remember "Das Boot" by U-96(Alex Cristensen)? If I'm not mistaken, the dude was attending the Gathering when he made the finishing touch to the song - I can still feel the horror of trying to hold on to my speakers, coca-cola, pizza and joystick at the same time whilst this guy shook the air(and ground) with a criminally loud droning of bass and torpedo-drums! Who gave a shit for those eardrums anyway?
The Gathering '91 was: a week of hard techno and AC/DC, depraved of sleep, eating pizza and drinking coke, dropping caffeine-pills, the frequent lynching of unlucky bastards who accidently tripped on the power-cables and unplugged 50+ boxen, trying for hours to fix a mess of assembler-code only to end up with a psychedelic raster-line, admiring those hardcore Oslo-geeks in leather-jackets only to get punched in the face upon code-inquiring; Ah! Those were the days!
CS-fluffy wannabe-geeks can kiss my shiny pale ass!
Plenty of gasoline, dish washing soap and styrofoam. Stir until mixed. Stuff each and every box(of which I presume all run Wintendo) with this substance of joy. Fetch your Zippo(TM)(R) and let her rip!
Thor, how I love the smell of napalm in the morning!
PS. You better bring some socks as well; it's a fine remedy for nagging mouth's...
Red Hat slow? Just run a patched vanilla-kernel of your choice, compile kde with konstruct, and your set! I for one like the distro, it has a bunch of handy features and the rpm's aren't that akward to use. Yeah, I've tried Debian and loved apt, but the rest of it seems rather, eh, conservative. I need to run bleeding edge software, and RH seems to do a fine job of being the framework. Gentoo would suffice, you say? Well, maybe it will; at the moment RH rocks my boxen...
>When things go wrong, she promptly turns on her charm on the nearest nerd and thrusts the laptop into their hands... fix it! Make it work like it did >before!
Darn! Reading stuff like this make my synapses go down in flames! See them fly, wooo, what a terrible vision... To the point: am I the only one who's sick and tired of people not wanting to further themselves? I'm not speaking solely of matters concerning technology, but the entire spectrum of human knowledge, wisdom and nature. So this is how things are supposed to be: something goes wrong, use your bodily attributes to solve 'em? Seems to me the problem stems from the lack of hardship and disipline - I clearly see a growing tendecy to avoid any use of intelligence, instead paying for help or completly avoiding the problem. Sexualization, pop-culture and ultra-egoism; a nice way to soften your mind and rewind the human evolution...
Obvious flamebait, but it has to be said: The server was used to test mobile IP as stated in the article! I presume you want NASA to use wintendo to run the shuttles and operations; if they did, Cape Kennedy would be a huge crater by now....
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Merge? Are you completely insane? Imagine hordes of n00bs running around 'nading bewildered housewifes while screaming: "Enemy sub spotted!". Utter carnage, I tell you. Come to think of it, having a dune-buggy with a MG42-softmount would be "a cool thing®"...
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Read it. Loved it. And to be honest, some of those stories made me horrified and saddened. At one point I had to put down the book and just shake my head in utter disbelief; I'm referring to the part where the maimed german soldier was left behind in the gutter next to the airfield. That was extremely painful to read, especially since the author swayed from his ordinary, clinical penning to a more personalized composition.
As a former professional soldier myself, I can vividly picture the scenarios described in relation to military stratagems and political decisions, but I'm at a loss when it comes to the soldiers and their experiences and suffering. But "Stalingrad" excel at portraying both sides of the story, albeit a bit academic, as aforementioned by parent post.
As davejenkins states: "This is not an easy read." - I most defenitely agree. But on the other hand, if you want to know anything about WWII and it's implications and horrors, pick up a copy and behold the black, writhing chaos that is war...
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Googling is a lesson in quantum mechanics, me thinks...
I understand. But...
;)
With your statement of (..)I hate zealots(..) you've contradicted yourself in terms, namely: with your headline "Whatever you hippe zealots"(thereby showing disregard for peeps with an inclination for working in unison, instead of the "healthy" way of exploiting one another) and the use of a strong word such as "hate". I'm a devout zealot myself, with warm feelings for Linux as well as the GPL; and with an equal amount of feeling refuse to work with any products created by Micro-soft. Does this automatically make me an insane nutter(tautology), seeing how the job-market, although rather cramped, for the most part offers MS-related work? I believe not, I have the peculiar idea of being a man with principles; I can't silently stand behind or on the side-line watching that ugly beast called "corporatism" roaring its head within our society. And the archetypal vision of this beast, IMHO is Micro-soft.
Ranting aside, I commend you for using Linux as well as being lucid enough to stick to a more moderate ontology. I, on the other hand, will continue to be a zealot in my simple, but focused manner. And that summarieses my point of view: focus and motivation is way easier if you're a zealot, albeit I'll probably miss out on a number of Good Things(TM) in the MS-dimension. Ah, to heck with it!
Next week, I'll pop off and find a job in constructions or hauling garbage while continuing to learn and preach Linux - my final intent to ride off the storm...
Why should we?
Let me tell you a little story:
A group of researchers made a 200mx200m enclosure in which they put a group of 30 chimpanzees, in effect a clan like those you would find in their natural habitat. All is fine and dandy. The chimps behaved according to their social position and disiplinary acts was enforced by the elders, who had formed an oligarchy. Some unruly elements were reported, but this was expected.
The next thing the researchers did, was to increase the number of chimps to 300, all in the previous enclosure. And much to the researchers dismay, all hell broke loose! The chimps were raping, killing, fighting and stealing - the entire social structure had in a short timespan been completly eradicated.
Do you see where I'm heading? Living in NJ with 14 million people versus living in a small rural town in Norway makes a huge difference in quality of life. In addition, our political rule mainly consists of social democrats who aknowledges the principle of having a strong welfare and such, to help people in need or anyone caught in an unexpected distress.
Me? Misantrophic. I'd like to terminate 2/3 of the world's population and become an ubermann. Where the fuck is that red button, pray tell?
Must be some bad shit they're smoking; that crack-whore McBride has finally snapped, and regular crack won't do it no more. McBride wants to smoke your TiVo! A sledgehammer and a crack-pipe, and he's ready to roll - the machiavellian lizard king is in da house!
. words"
*sigh*. This is just sad. Feel terrible about the thought that my kids shall one day experience this ontology of greed and extortion...
anarchy != chaos (something *they* fear most of all; the state-less society. "Must...manipulate...people's...perception...of..
"Pain looks great on other people
That's what they're for"
-Sisters of Mercy "I was wrong"
"Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused"
-Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams"
'Nuff said...
Reminds me of something I saw on Discovery the other night. Hmm, what was that again...something about small critters joining for a weird purpose...was pretty stupid. Ah! Them lem....lemmin...lamas?
Life in the big city: when in doubt, act like a Lemming!
Yes sir, may I have another, sir?!
;)
In reference to your website: we both want freedom - the difference being that you want freedom to be a true patriot, and I want freedom from extortion; as implied in anarchism.
Btw, got an USP myself - a very nice pistol. Kicks like a mule
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the
nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit
of us all." - John Maynard Keynes
"(maybe not in your garage, sorry)."
What an arrogant and indifferent person you are! Those words are some of the worst concealed thoughts of a deranged sociopath that I've ever seen, excluding Usenet! Granted, we are predators, but we also have an evolution to attend to; being cocky, greedy bastards won't do a friggin' shit in that respect!
And I have a T-shirt with the text/logo "open LINUX" on the front and "Linux for Business" on the back. A tiny "Caldera"-logo can be seen on the front side.
Now, wtf am I going to do with it?
These are some of my options:
1) Leave it to rot.
2) Submit to legal process as, hehe, "exhibit A".
3) Burn it using home-made napalm, while dementedly screaming the lyrics of "Angel of Death" by Slayer...
Try Gentoo You'll have to compile the 2.5-kernel yourself, but the distro will prep the system for you, among other things ;)
Yeah! Nothing wrong with your eyes and yes, this is the *real* /.!
Since nature decided 8 years ago that conjoining a geek with bodybuilding seemed like a Good Idea©, I've been hoisting iron in Good Faith©. And a true bodybuilder sneers at the concept of "new technology"; barbells and dumbells r0xx0rs!
Seriously, I doubt any other sport has such resentment to employing new devices in order to advance the sport. The two latest Mr. Olympia has left no doubts as to how and with what equipment they're using to excel in this brutal sport. Especially Dorian Yates has been an advocate of using old-school methods championed by Mike Mentzer with brief sets and reps, and using only basal equipment. I prefer this as well, but include machines which surpass the dum/bar-bell routines with respect to isolation-movements.
On the other hand, when drugs are concerned, bodybuilding is on the bleeding edge; sad but true...
I tried that with the keybord which came with my crappy '96 model IBM-Aptiva. Died horribly. But then again, my trusty old Olivetti ANK27-102N survives both the dishwasher and a trip down Victoria Falls. Best of all, it has no M$-key; this key being the ultimate, in-your-face, evidence of a massive Redmondian conspiracy...
Yeah, send those rotten bastards off to space! All of them!
Maybe then it'll be a tiiiiiny bit less corruption in these parts of the woods. And that italian dude, Berlusconi-whatshisname, should be entitled chief-engineer - with, get this, Steve Ballmer as the captain! "I've got 4 words for you: I...love...this...company! Developers, developers, developers, hark, cough!" Well, you see, Mr. Baldmer: In space, no one can hear you scream...
Hihihihiii....
Oh, Jebus! I'm in that lame mood tonight....hmmm, red or blue pill....
"I would annex the
planets if I could. And, of course, exploit them." -Cecil Rodes
Actually, some of us do! At "Redmond Correctional Facility", they code at day and debug at night. Simple, isn't it? And while we're at it, someone should tell those imbecile debuggers never to mix mind-altering drugs with coffee; something tells me they're more conserned with squashing imaginary bugs than the "real" thing.
... sweet....
And BTW, for each of those fucking bugs, a hair has been pulled from my scalp - now that's what I call being a "pragmatist" in a "corporate" world(aka "consultant").
# emerge sync
"This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land"
(...)
"The blue bus is callin' us
The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us..."
Oh, the beauty of capitalism; the quintessential buttfscking gameshow...
Please stop it, peeps! ROTFLOL! This act drops me every time...
Sheeze, you guys... Hrmmph. LOL..
Comments like these and "It is a matter of international significance" gives me the chills. The mere thought of having "time" made exact, to the point - perfect, is useless. And why? Let me try with a modified Koan: Because we still can't tell how many matches there are within a matchbox merely by looking at it.
1984 anyone?
Roger that! Back in the old days(hark-hark), when I first attended the Gathering(I think it was the second one staged at the time) we had no friggin' CS or RvS, and to vent our geek-rage we had to blow up an Atari in the nearby soccerfield! Heh, I guess the bastard flew some 10-15 meters into the air - and the crowd went into a frenzy(you would as well; couple the jihad of Amiga vs Atari with mamut-sized coffeine-pills and things tend to get ugly ;) )
Anyhow, the Gathering was indeed a demoscene-affair at the time, mostly emphasising the the C64 and the aforementioned Amiga. Those pesky sub-geeks who dared enter with their PC's and Atari's where quickly stuffed in a corner, only to sulk and cry vengance. Heh, weird how things have turned out..
This event must have been in 1991 if I recollect it correctly; I remember watching "T2 - Judgement Day", which was on those huuuuge fsck'in' CDROM's - pre-cinema as it was, I must admit the warez-scene was well and kicking in those days as well: Razor 1911 anyone! lol!
And there were babes as well! That's right, a crowd of exactly 2 females made it into the building. I guess there's more of these oddities now, but still marginal.
Anyone remember "Das Boot" by U-96(Alex Cristensen)? If I'm not mistaken, the dude was attending the Gathering when he made the finishing touch to the song - I can still feel the horror of trying to hold on to my speakers, coca-cola, pizza and joystick at the same time whilst this guy shook the air(and ground) with a criminally loud droning of bass and torpedo-drums! Who gave a shit for those eardrums anyway?
The Gathering '91 was: a week of hard techno and AC/DC, depraved of sleep, eating pizza and drinking coke, dropping caffeine-pills, the frequent lynching of unlucky bastards who accidently tripped on the power-cables and unplugged 50+ boxen, trying for hours to fix a mess of assembler-code only to end up with a psychedelic raster-line, admiring those hardcore Oslo-geeks in leather-jackets only to get punched in the face upon code-inquiring; Ah! Those were the days!
CS-fluffy wannabe-geeks can kiss my shiny pale ass!
Plenty of gasoline, dish washing soap and styrofoam. Stir until mixed. Stuff each and every box(of which I presume all run Wintendo) with this substance of joy. Fetch your Zippo(TM)(R) and let her rip!
Thor, how I love the smell of napalm in the morning!
PS. You better bring some socks as well; it's a fine remedy for nagging mouth's...
Red Hat slow?
Just run a patched vanilla-kernel of your choice, compile kde with konstruct, and your set! I for one like the distro, it has a bunch of handy features and the rpm's aren't that akward to use. Yeah, I've tried Debian and loved apt, but the rest of it seems rather, eh, conservative. I need to run bleeding edge software, and RH seems to do a fine job of being the framework. Gentoo would suffice, you say? Well, maybe it will; at the moment RH rocks my boxen...
>When things go wrong, she promptly turns on her charm on the nearest nerd and thrusts the laptop into their hands... fix it! Make it work like it did >before!
Darn! Reading stuff like this make my synapses go down in flames! See them fly, wooo, what a terrible vision... To the point: am I the only one who's sick and tired of people not wanting to further themselves? I'm not speaking solely of matters concerning technology, but the entire spectrum of human knowledge, wisdom and nature. So this is how things are supposed to be: something goes wrong, use your bodily attributes to solve 'em? Seems to me the problem stems from the lack of hardship and disipline - I clearly see a growing tendecy to avoid any use of intelligence, instead paying for help or completly avoiding the problem.
Sexualization, pop-culture and ultra-egoism; a nice way to soften your mind and rewind the human evolution...
Obvious flamebait, but it has to be said: The server was used to test mobile IP as stated in the article! I presume you want NASA to use wintendo to run the shuttles and operations; if they did, Cape Kennedy would be a huge crater by now....
Merge? Are you completely insane? Imagine hordes of n00bs running around 'nading bewildered housewifes while screaming: "Enemy sub spotted!". Utter carnage, I tell you. Come to think of it, having a dune-buggy with a MG42-softmount would be "a cool thing®"...
And might I add:
Freedom to induce hairloss among IT-consultants in their 20's.
Spammers to the rescue!