Perhaps it's fate that today, July the Fourth, we will once again fight for our freedom. Not from tyranny, persecution or oppression. But from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live, to exit. From this day on, the fourth day of July will no longer be remembered as an American holiday but as the day that all of mankind declared we will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We will live on. We will survive.
The crowd erupts into applause and cheers. The President turns and walks over to an Officer holding a bundle of clothes. General Grey confronts the President as he begins to disrobe.
A quick search on nforce.nl at least reveals what release group ended up with the movies:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World *SCREENER* - OBUS The Last Samurai (2003) *SCREENER* - OBUS Mystic River (2003) *SCREENER* - OBUS Calendar Girls (2003) *LIMITED* *SCREENER* - OBUS Thirteen (2003) *LIMITED* *SCREENER* - OBUS
Check the nfo of Thirteen for a nice description of how they recruit people.
"Do you have connections within the academy network and can you obtain academy screeners/dvd screeners during oscar season. then contact us asap."
Oh, and if any feds are reading this: Even though Cokine is the only "name" of an actual person in the nfo, it does not mean he is affiliated with the group. He is just another starving ascii artist, taking requests over IRC.
If you have a Mac with Bluetooth and the HID profile, there is no reason the MX900 shouldn't work. Of course, the you would have a spare hub you won't be able to use, but that you can sell too a Windows-geek who just wants a hub for his phone/pda/whatever:)
What "less expensive Logitech set"? There are two desktop sets, the Cordless Desktop MX for BT and the DiNovo. The first one costs about 200 Euros, the second about 300 - and both come with the same hub and a modified Widcomm stack, supporting heaps of profiles. HID of course, but also dial-up networking, LAN, ObEx, Object push, headset, sync, file transfer and several others.
If you have trouble connecting your devices, consider installing the CD (Shiny thingie, should be in all retails packs). Without the stack, it will operate as a normal USB keyboard and mouse.
If your PC is so old it won't boot from CD, MandrakeMove is not for you. KDE3 is good, but the GUI response will really suck for you.
(They might have included Blackbox or something lighter, but I doubt it)
I moved from Redhat 8 (half a year), to SuSE 8.2 (three months) to Mandrake 9.2 DL Edition, which I've been quite happy with for the last month. Both SuSE and MDK are excellent to install and maintain, but SuSE started behaving a bit strange on me after a while (Scanning for new hardware on boot locked up, some random system freezes I never could find an answer to, etc). Could've been just me, but after using 10 minutes to replace SuSE with Mandrake, I was in love. (Click to select Norwegian keyboard, click to keep/home, click to keep Win2k partition, next, next, next, FINISHED!)
Only worries with MDK: Kernel source was not included on CDs, and I have not been able to stop urpmi from complaining about that "contrib" uses an invalid list file.
I'm currently re-reading the ultimate conspiracy (and so much else) novel of all times: The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
The following quotes fit all too well:
"...When communism replaces fascism as the number one enemy, your small-town conservative will be ready for global adventures on a scale that would make the heads of poor Mr. Roosevelt's liberals spin. Trust me. We have every detail pinpointed. Let me show you where the new government will be located."
Drake stared at the plan and shook his head. "Some people will recognize what a pentagon means," he said dubiously.
"They will be dismissed as superstitious cranks. Believe me, this building will be constructeed within a few years. It will become the policeman of the world. Nobody will dare question its actions or judgements without being denounced as a traitor. Within thirty years, Mr. Drake, within thirty years, anyone who attempts to restore power to the Congress will be cursed and vilified, not by liberals but by conservatives."
(...)
"To crush the opposition, we will need a Justice Department equivalent in many ways to Hitler's Gestapo. If your scheme works - if the Mafia can be drawn into a syndicate (...) we will have a nationwide outlaw cartel. The public itself will then call for the kind of Justice Department that we need. By the mid-1960s, wiretapping of all sorts must be so common that the concept of privacy will be archaic."
I'm waiting for George W.B. to start building the pyramid-with-the-eye on the top of the White house any day now:)
The administration wasn't talking about finding actual weapons anymore. Now the rhetoric was about weapons programs, which might mean little more than sheets of paper. "I had no faith or confidence that the media would catch them on their moving of their goal," he says. "Suddenly, I could see the headline in a month where they're going to announce victory because they found programs. I flashed back on all those news conferences where they said Iraq is a danger and invoked Armageddon.
If it IS true a lot of post-9/11 stuff has been deleted, and there is a connection to the White House's changes of focus, I feel... like this must be fiction. The editing job Winston Smith had comes to mind.
Uh, yeah, but about the deleted stuff from the Wayback machine? URL?
Edit the CD to include the email address of every politician the wolrd over, along with known spammers and the editor of every media outlet. If you can, use addresses that forward a notification to their mobile phone via SMS, then sell the new CD.
We'll soon see a change in the law.
Fuck that. Changing the laws will not help. Spammers root computers to be able to spam - and they don't ssh in directly from their home computers. If laws suddenly started working against spam, I'd be worried, as that would mean we were in the middle of a lock-down of the net (If not by worldwide draconian ISP responsibility laws regarding logging, then something like, oh, say... "Trusted E-mail", courtesy of Microsoft - first four years free, then we'll tell you about the $0.05 transaction fee on every mail).
We need a new, open protocol. That is it. Stopping spam with laws is like stopping a flood by arresting water.
We'll know if the left-wing is right or if the right-wing is right.
But it's not about that! There is no "right" or "wrong", only a different point of view: How flat should the power structure in society (/world) be? Is there such a thing as "social responsibility", and should those in power (corporations) be forced to take it?
Some people think "every man for himself", others think "hey, there's enough here for everyone, let's just share everything equally". Hopefully, we'll be landing on something inbetween, both separating us from animals and rewarding those who are working a bit harder.
Ah, egg! Slightly off topic, but: A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face. The egg, looking a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet and rolls over and says "Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question!"
I walked around preaching Amiga to everyone who would - and wouldn't - listen, long after Commodore went bankrupt and the game release frequency dropped to four or five a year (including those Polish games that looked like they were produced in a barn). To anyone who asked, I would say "she is not dead, just resting!", and then I would mention that a friend of friend had been to a hotel that STILL runs Scala Multimedia for their internal tv channel, and Gateway or whoever was owning the rest of the IP at the moment "will be out with a new computer real soon now".
But now I'm a Linux cheerleader. It feels a bit the same, just with more real-world evidence supporting my views.
Many folks on this board need to realize at some point that the world is not a nice* place, being 'nice' to people who don't want to be 'nice' typically ends up with your own ass getting kicked. Diplomacy only works if *both* sides want diplomacy.
You sound like the kind of guy who would beat his children to "make them ready for the cold and heartless world out there".
And while the sluggish economy could be seen as a hindrance, Morris said it has actually helped the project.
"When you look at the vendors, their pricing has just dropped because they are hungry," he said. "We're getting incredible pricing for the equipment, the electronics, the fiber, all the things we need. Because the economy's down, interest rates are down, so that's going to help us in our financing.
And it goes on. Seems like someone did a copy, paste and remove quotes.
Actually, someone HAS taken notice. It no longer shows 404, but the following text:
The page you've requested is an excerpt from a book by Brent Scowcroft and George H. W. Bush titled A World Transformed, which appeared in the March 2, 1998, issue of TIME magazine under the title "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam". It has been removed from our site because the publisher did not grant us rights to sell the piece online through the TIME archive.
Funny, I'm pretty sure I used something like this on my Amiga about 10 years ago. Of course, the "no voice training required" step was missing, as I had to repeat things like "start dopus" ten times before the program was trained to run dh1:progs/directoryopus/dops at my command.
It usually worked, too. If not with "start dopus", "staaart dopus" or "START DOOOPUS!!!1", taking a breath and pronouncing it calmly would execute the command eventually.
Justin Frankel knew what he was doing when he made WASTE: On big, open P2P-networks, you never can be sure if happysunshine84 downloading a MP3 from you isn't someone preparing a lawsuit. A closed, WASTE-like network is therefore a better solution, also redusing the noise (spam, renames, clients modified to not upload, etc) you usually see from the typical P2P networks.
I never tried WASTE, as I never got the thing to work under Linux, but as I understand it, I can have e.g. have one network with 10 co-workers and another one with my friends. If I share the files I download from both groups, I will be a link between those two networks. Now, if also my co-workers and friends are on more than one network, fresh files will always be pouring in (If these guys are nice and share what they download).
Quality-filtered content where no-one from the outside can know what you are doing, what else can you wish for?
...and I pasted this (story I wrote for English class five years ago) into it, and got the EXACT same resulat as you. Hundred on everything except creativity (99.973).
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The crowd erupts into applause and cheers. The President turns and walks over to an Officer holding a bundle of clothes. General Grey confronts the President as he begins to disrobe.
A quick search on nforce.nl at least reveals what release group ended up with the movies:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World *SCREENER* - OBUS
The Last Samurai (2003) *SCREENER* - OBUS
Mystic River (2003) *SCREENER* - OBUS
Calendar Girls (2003) *LIMITED* *SCREENER* - OBUS
Thirteen (2003) *LIMITED* *SCREENER* - OBUS
Check the nfo of Thirteen for a nice description of how they recruit people.
"Do you have connections within the academy network and can you obtain academy screeners/dvd screeners during oscar season. then contact us asap."
Oh, and if any feds are reading this: Even though Cokine is the only "name" of an actual person in the nfo, it does not mean he is affiliated with the group. He is just another starving ascii artist, taking requests over IRC.
If you have a Mac with Bluetooth and the HID profile, there is no reason the MX900 shouldn't work. :)
Of course, the you would have a spare hub you won't be able to use, but that you can sell too a Windows-geek who just wants a hub for his phone/pda/whatever
What "less expensive Logitech set"? There are two desktop sets, the Cordless Desktop MX for BT and the DiNovo. The first one costs about 200 Euros, the second about 300 - and both come with the same hub and a modified Widcomm stack, supporting heaps of profiles. HID of course, but also dial-up networking, LAN, ObEx, Object push, headset, sync, file transfer and several others.
If you have trouble connecting your devices, consider installing the CD (Shiny thingie, should be in all retails packs). Without the stack, it will operate as a normal USB keyboard and mouse.
If your PC is so old it won't boot from CD, MandrakeMove is not for you. KDE3 is good, but the GUI response will really suck for you. (They might have included Blackbox or something lighter, but I doubt it)
I moved from Redhat 8 (half a year), to SuSE 8.2 (three months) to Mandrake 9.2 DL Edition, which I've been quite happy with for the last month. Both SuSE and MDK are excellent to install and maintain, but SuSE started behaving a bit strange on me after a while (Scanning for new hardware on boot locked up, some random system freezes I never could find an answer to, etc). Could've been just me, but after using 10 minutes to replace SuSE with Mandrake, I was in love. (Click to select Norwegian keyboard, click to keep /home, click to keep Win2k partition, next, next, next, FINISHED!)
Only worries with MDK: Kernel source was not included on CDs, and I have not been able to stop urpmi from complaining about that "contrib" uses an invalid list file.
Apart from that, two thumbs up.
I'm currently re-reading the ultimate conspiracy (and so much else) novel of all times: The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
:)
The following quotes fit all too well:
"...When communism replaces fascism as the number one enemy, your small-town conservative will be ready for global adventures on a scale that would make the heads of poor Mr. Roosevelt's liberals spin. Trust me. We have every detail pinpointed. Let me show you where the new government will be located."
Drake stared at the plan and shook his head. "Some people will recognize what a pentagon means," he said dubiously.
"They will be dismissed as superstitious cranks. Believe me, this building will be constructeed within a few years. It will become the policeman of the world. Nobody will dare question its actions or judgements without being denounced as a traitor. Within thirty years, Mr. Drake, within thirty years, anyone who attempts to restore power to the Congress will be cursed and vilified, not by liberals but by conservatives."
(...)
"To crush the opposition, we will need a Justice Department equivalent in many ways to Hitler's Gestapo. If your scheme works - if the Mafia can be drawn into a syndicate (...) we will have a nationwide outlaw cartel. The public itself will then call for the kind of Justice Department that we need. By the mid-1960s, wiretapping of all sorts must be so common that the concept of privacy will be archaic."
I'm waiting for George W.B. to start building the pyramid-with-the-eye on the top of the White house any day now
No, but he might be able to provide a link to an article or a discussion giving examples of that this has happened, as the parent post asked for.
Fuck that. Changing the laws will not help. Spammers root computers to be able to spam - and they don't ssh in directly from their home computers. If laws suddenly started working against spam, I'd be worried, as that would mean we were in the middle of a lock-down of the net (If not by worldwide draconian ISP responsibility laws regarding logging, then something like, oh, say... "Trusted E-mail", courtesy of Microsoft - first four years free, then we'll tell you about the $0.05 transaction fee on every mail).
We need a new, open protocol. That is it. Stopping spam with laws is like stopping a flood by arresting water.
Some people think "every man for himself", others think "hey, there's enough here for everyone, let's just share everything equally". Hopefully, we'll be landing on something inbetween, both separating us from animals and rewarding those who are working a bit harder.
Since Christmas are very few days away...
Check out What a crappy present (CDs make bad gifts for kids).
Ah, egg! Slightly off topic, but:
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face. The egg, looking a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet and rolls over and says "Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question!"
I walked around preaching Amiga to everyone who would - and wouldn't - listen, long after Commodore went bankrupt and the game release frequency dropped to four or five a year (including those Polish games that looked like they were produced in a barn).
But now I'm a Linux cheerleader. It feels a bit the same, just with more real-world evidence supporting my views.To anyone who asked, I would say "she is not dead, just resting!", and then I would mention that a friend of friend had been to a hotel that STILL runs Scala Multimedia for their internal tv channel, and Gateway or whoever was owning the rest of the IP at the moment "will be out with a new computer real soon now".
They have money.
Many folks on this board need to realize at some point that the world is not a nice* place, being 'nice' to people who don't want to be 'nice' typically ends up with your own ass getting kicked. Diplomacy only works if *both* sides want diplomacy.
You sound like the kind of guy who would beat his children to "make them ready for the cold and heartless world out there".And while the sluggish economy could be seen as a hindrance, Morris said it has actually helped the project.
"When you look at the vendors, their pricing has just dropped because they are hungry," he said. "We're getting incredible pricing for the equipment, the electronics, the fiber, all the things we need. Because the economy's down, interest rates are down, so that's going to help us in our financing.
And it goes on. Seems like someone did a copy, paste and remove quotes.
The page you've requested is an excerpt from a book by Brent Scowcroft and George H. W. Bush titled A World Transformed, which appeared in the March 2, 1998, issue of TIME magazine under the title "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam". It has been removed from our site because the publisher did not grant us rights to sell the piece online through the TIME archive.
No, I had an instant flash too. That last name should keep a long distance to the word "hand".
Funny, I'm pretty sure I used something like this on my Amiga about 10 years ago. Of course, the "no voice training required" step was missing, as I had to repeat things like "start dopus" ten times before the program was trained to run dh1:progs/directoryopus/dops at my command.
It usually worked, too. If not with "start dopus", "staaart dopus" or "START DOOOPUS!!!1", taking a breath and pronouncing it calmly would execute the command eventually.
The Freenet project with a client like Frost is pretty close to what you are describing.
Justin Frankel knew what he was doing when he made WASTE: On big, open P2P-networks, you never can be sure if happysunshine84 downloading a MP3 from you isn't someone preparing a lawsuit. A closed, WASTE-like network is therefore a better solution, also redusing the noise (spam, renames, clients modified to not upload, etc) you usually see from the typical P2P networks.
I never tried WASTE, as I never got the thing to work under Linux, but as I understand it, I can have e.g. have one network with 10 co-workers and another one with my friends. If I share the files I download from both groups, I will be a link between those two networks. Now, if also my co-workers and friends are on more than one network, fresh files will always be pouring in (If these guys are nice and share what they download).
Quality-filtered content where no-one from the outside can know what you are doing, what else can you wish for?That is, besides a Linux client
...and I pasted this (story I wrote for English class five years ago) into it, and got the EXACT same resulat as you. Hundred on everything except creativity (99.973).
This thing is bogus.