>Ah, supply and demand. This is all natural and
>necessary of course though. We were in a period
>of rapid and unfounded growth in many areas,
>such as Metricom's attempt at building an
>infrastructure that not enough people really
>wanted or needed.
This assumeption is wrong. There is not enough people that can afford Metricom's service at that price.
If its free, I can garentee that a lot of people will want it and need it.;)
The reason you age is because the cells are unable to perform perfect dna copys when duplicating. The resulting dna is shorter and progressively more damaged.
That is why you age, and when the damage accumulated is too much, you die.
If a the cells can be made to perform perfect dna duplication always, then you would not age.
And if the dna sequence are more redudent and self-repairing, (or some other way so that damgage will not accumulate) you will have a indefinite life span.
Go into biological research if you wish to live long.
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From: "Opus the Penguin"
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Dave Wilton wrote:
>Opus the Penguin wrote:
>>Rich Clancey wrote:
>>>Since the Clintons introduced the notion of Hillary as
>>>Co-President, perhaps we could extend the idea. Let's have Gush and
>>>Bore make a joint appearance on television and admit that neither of
>>>them has a clue as to how to do the job, but that together they might
>>>be able to come up with something. Move another desk into the oval
>>>orifice and we'll have a joint presidency. They can arm wrestle for
>>>who does what on a given day. The voters will have the advantage of
>>>Bush's boyish charm and Gore's willingness actually to read government
>>>reports all the way through.
>>
>>Now *there's* a good idea for a new sitcom. What would we call it?
>
>Plot suggestion for the pilot: Al gets upset at George for using his
>stapler and paints a line down the middle of the oval office telling
>George to stay on his side. After much hilarity, they realize that
>this doesn't solve anything and Bill and George, Sr. enter and deliver
>sound advice about getting along with others.
Beauty!
It's a little late for a full season, but if we hurry up production we can
probably fit in 16 episodes.
Episode 2 - Suspicions abound when an anonymous letter describing Al and
George's situation appears in an advice column. (The writer refers to
himself only as "One of the two leaders of the free world.")
Episode 3 - Now that George and Al are in charge, Bill decides he's no
longer needed. The two presidents feign incompetence to convince him
otherwise.
Episode 4 - The Presidents have a card house building contest to decide how
to spend their free money from the taxpayers. Al's oversized ego
accidentally brushes the table and he loses. But George buys something with
the taxpayer money that they can both use.
Episode 5 - Al and George switch roles for a day to settle an argument about
whose job is the hardest.
Episode 6 - Fed up with what he believes to be Al's illicit phone calls,
George installs a pay phone in the Oval Office.
Episode 7 - George tells his buddies that he and Joe Namath are friends and
then is called on to deliver. Namath guest stars as himself.
Episode 8 - Trouble ensues when George and Al each want a White House
on-staff doctor of the same political party as himself.
Episode 9 - The two men have nightmares after telling each other they wish
the other one weren't President. They recant by episode's end.
Episode 10 - George accepts the task of preparing a recommendation on
foreign policy toward Russia but tries to talk Al into doing all his
homework.
Episode 11 - George and Al both wind up in the hospital. In the same room.
Episode 12 - After George criticizes Al's work habits on national
television, Al vows revenge.
Episode 13 - After some of his predictions come true, George believes he is
psychic.
Episode 14 - George tries to convince Al that conservatives are really good
people at heart. He gets a chance to prove his point when their car runs out
of gas during a visit to Orange County, CA.
Episode 15 - Al finds a homeless boy (Leonardo DiCaprio) sleeping in the
White House basement. His efforts to help the boy end up getting the kid
kicked out. He solves the problem by giving the boy the Lincoln bedroom.
Episode 16 (season cliffhanger) - Fearing he has lost his masculine appeal,
Al decides to prove his masculinity by doing a water ski jump over a shark.
By the way, I just thought of the perfect title for this show. Too bad it's
already taken.
Who's the Boss?
Oh well. My second choice, _Full House_, will have to do.... D'oh! _The Odd
Couple_?
All right, how about _You Can't Win 'Em All_?
Or, it's a little wordy, but _No Controlling Legal Authority_ works too. As
does _Now You Listen to Me_.
You must not forget that Taco is one that selected this for posting. The other same submissions that does not include's prolinux statements are filtered out to suit Slashdot's bias.
In some of Thompson's creations, evolution even took advantage of the personal computer that's hooked up to the system to run the genetic algorithm. The circuit somehow picked up on what the computer was doing when it was running the programs. When Thompson changed the program slightly, during a public demonstration, the circuit failed to work.
I come to the conclusion that such programs can potencially be extremely dengerous... Computational lifeforms can think much faster and respond to situations faster than any person ever could... If they emerged intellegence, and that the computer that is sustaining this lifeform is connected to a network, it has the potential to break through every security check that man has ever devised. We might not even be aware of it.
I have come to the conclusion that computational lifeforms can possese supurior intelligence and that can be grave if they turn hostile.
But of cource, it took nature a very long time to evovle intelligence, so that is a comfert. But if this denger is not noticed by the people experimenting on such design, catastrafy might be waiting to happen...
As long as Slashdot reflects the biased opinion (like MS sucks, everything about Linux is good, big buisness is bad) and that the story poster are only reflects the bias of ComdTaco and the like, Slashdot will never grow beyound its market of a few angry people.
Just go to USENET and ask for their opinion on Slashdot, you'll discover your true self there.
Slashdot Mirror
>Then suppose she's not independent, suppose
>she's a prostitute. A pimp with a dozen girls
>could make $1,200,000 per year this way.
Are you jelous that you can't make that much?
;)
"Its really sad though that these guys never caught on"
That's capitalism for you. The best product don't nessasary wins.
Actually, I find The Economist to be one of the best...
They are at http://www.economist.com
"Henry Ford initially had massive market share"
Massive market share does not equal monoploy.
>Ah, supply and demand. This is all natural and
;)
>necessary of course though. We were in a period
>of rapid and unfounded growth in many areas,
>such as Metricom's attempt at building an
>infrastructure that not enough people really
>wanted or needed.
This assumeption is wrong. There is not enough people that can afford Metricom's service at that price.
If its free, I can garentee that a lot of people will want it and need it.
Another words, a pyrimid scheme.
If you do not like the dns system run by the ICANN, then start encourage everyone to switch to the alternate dns systems.
Sure it mike make it more confusing, but the more choice, the better.
http://www.root-dns.org/ is a place to start.
The reason you age is because the cells are unable to perform perfect dna copys when duplicating. The resulting dna is shorter and progressively more damaged.
That is why you age, and when the damage accumulated is too much, you die.
If a the cells can be made to perform perfect dna duplication always, then you would not age.
And if the dna sequence are more redudent and self-repairing, (or some other way so that damgage will not accumulate) you will have a indefinite life span.
Go into biological research if you wish to live long.
The point is that man can make nature things. When matter synthesis matures, humans will be able to make objects identical to those found in nature.
Hmm, last time I checked, Judge Jackson ruled in DOJ's favorite, of course the DOJ will say he is unbias.
And the majority of the people neither thinks Microsoft is a monopoly nor do they care.
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From: "Rick B."
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Subject: Re: copresidents
From: "Opus the Penguin"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
Dave Wilton wrote:
>Opus the Penguin wrote:
>>Rich Clancey wrote:
>>>Since the Clintons introduced the notion of Hillary as
>>>Co-President, perhaps we could extend the idea. Let's have Gush and
>>>Bore make a joint appearance on television and admit that neither of
>>>them has a clue as to how to do the job, but that together they might
>>>be able to come up with something. Move another desk into the oval
>>>orifice and we'll have a joint presidency. They can arm wrestle for
>>>who does what on a given day. The voters will have the advantage of
>>>Bush's boyish charm and Gore's willingness actually to read government
>>>reports all the way through.
>>
>>Now *there's* a good idea for a new sitcom. What would we call it?
>
>Plot suggestion for the pilot: Al gets upset at George for using his
>stapler and paints a line down the middle of the oval office telling
>George to stay on his side. After much hilarity, they realize that
>this doesn't solve anything and Bill and George, Sr. enter and deliver
>sound advice about getting along with others.
Beauty!
It's a little late for a full season, but if we hurry up production we can
probably fit in 16 episodes.
Episode 2 - Suspicions abound when an anonymous letter describing Al and
George's situation appears in an advice column. (The writer refers to
himself only as "One of the two leaders of the free world.")
Episode 3 - Now that George and Al are in charge, Bill decides he's no
longer needed. The two presidents feign incompetence to convince him
otherwise.
Episode 4 - The Presidents have a card house building contest to decide how
to spend their free money from the taxpayers. Al's oversized ego
accidentally brushes the table and he loses. But George buys something with
the taxpayer money that they can both use.
Episode 5 - Al and George switch roles for a day to settle an argument about
whose job is the hardest.
Episode 6 - Fed up with what he believes to be Al's illicit phone calls,
George installs a pay phone in the Oval Office.
Episode 7 - George tells his buddies that he and Joe Namath are friends and
then is called on to deliver. Namath guest stars as himself.
Episode 8 - Trouble ensues when George and Al each want a White House
on-staff doctor of the same political party as himself.
Episode 9 - The two men have nightmares after telling each other they wish
the other one weren't President. They recant by episode's end.
Episode 10 - George accepts the task of preparing a recommendation on
foreign policy toward Russia but tries to talk Al into doing all his
homework.
Episode 11 - George and Al both wind up in the hospital. In the same room.
Episode 12 - After George criticizes Al's work habits on national
television, Al vows revenge.
Episode 13 - After some of his predictions come true, George believes he is
psychic.
Episode 14 - George tries to convince Al that conservatives are really good
people at heart. He gets a chance to prove his point when their car runs out
of gas during a visit to Orange County, CA.
Episode 15 - Al finds a homeless boy (Leonardo DiCaprio) sleeping in the
White House basement. His efforts to help the boy end up getting the kid
kicked out. He solves the problem by giving the boy the Lincoln bedroom.
Episode 16 (season cliffhanger) - Fearing he has lost his masculine appeal,
Al decides to prove his masculinity by doing a water ski jump over a shark.
By the way, I just thought of the perfect title for this show. Too bad it's
already taken.
Who's the Boss?
Oh well. My second choice, _Full House_, will have to do.... D'oh! _The Odd
Couple_?
All right, how about _You Can't Win 'Em All_?
Or, it's a little wordy, but _No Controlling Legal Authority_ works too. As
does _Now You Listen to Me_.
By your logic, Distributed.net would never have any participant, after all, distributed.net pays nil.
Guess what, they have over 10,000 participant, Seti has how many? 100,000?
Those do not pay. Process tree does.
What I'm asking is not rather it has been done before, I'm asking where this kind of authority comes from?
Is it stated in the laws or in the constitution?
Could someone explain how could a judge have this kind of authority?
You must not forget that Taco is one that selected this for posting. The other same submissions that does not include's prolinux statements are filtered out to suit Slashdot's bias.
Guilty.
Hey, what program do you use to compile it?
Well, other than the fact that he invented ethernet, who is he?
Here's the bit of gold thats from this article:
In some of Thompson's creations, evolution even took advantage of the personal computer that's hooked up to the system to run the genetic algorithm. The circuit somehow picked up on what the computer was doing when it was running the programs. When Thompson changed the program slightly, during a public demonstration, the circuit failed to work.
I come to the conclusion that such programs can potencially be extremely dengerous... Computational lifeforms can think much faster and respond to situations faster than any person ever could... If they emerged intellegence, and that the computer that is sustaining this lifeform is connected to a network, it has the potential to break through every security check that man has ever devised. We might not even be aware of it.
I have come to the conclusion that computational lifeforms can possese supurior intelligence and that can be grave if they turn hostile.
But of cource, it took nature a very long time to evovle intelligence, so that is a comfert. But if this denger is not noticed by the people experimenting on such design, catastrafy might be waiting to happen...
Wow!
5 5
http://208.245.156.153/archive/output.cfm?ID=14
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Yahoo decided to ignore the French judge and that the judge is powerless to enforce his judgment?
To discourage the use of censorwares, I put the word "porn, xxx, fuck" on every one of my page in white and size 1.
Perhaps everyone should do the same?
As long as Slashdot reflects the biased opinion (like MS sucks, everything about Linux is good, big buisness is bad) and that the story poster are only reflects the bias of ComdTaco and the like, Slashdot will never grow beyound its market of a few angry people.
Just go to USENET and ask for their opinion on Slashdot, you'll discover your true self there.
Like the link will interfer with your reading of a post, and if it does, perhaps its time to pay for a news server?
Discriminating freeloaders.
Why not have solar panel on the car so it will recharge when you park it?
Much sweeter than the alternatives....
>If Star Office is GPL'd, it could have great >trickle-down effects on AbiWord and other Linux >office software.
Yeah, by completely eliminating their profitability. This move will kill all Comercial Linux office software.