There was a point in the game where there was a bear guarding a magic mirror on a cliff. If you threw the axe at the bear it dodged and the axe struck the mirror. You could give the royal honey to the bear but you needed it to complete the game. One day, out of frustration I typed in "screw bear" and to my surprise, the bear became frightened and jumped off the cliff!
I spent years thinking that you needed to attempt to sexually assault the bear to finish the game until I found an old magazine that had the solution printed in it. To fit the whole game into the VIC-20's 3.5 KB of RAM it only looked at the first four letters of the word. The preferred solution was to scream bear. I liked mine better.
1: Most of the problems with monopolies arise from the fact that corporations have the same rights as people, but with the added benifit that they have limited liability and corperate welfare. When Nike can state to a judge that their lies about their "lack of sweatshops" are constitutionaly protected by the 1st Amendment you know something is wrong.
2. Freedom begins and ends at property laws. If your body (drugs, euthinasia and abortion) is not free to do with as you please, what is the logical extrapolation of such a condition? This is the entry point for such atrocities as eminant domain and the War on (some) Drugs. As soon as I infringe on your right to own 100% of your property, including your body, I am at fault. This is the rational behind the anti-homicide laws.
3. If they have no hope of being elected then why do they have a higher number of publicaly elected officials than all other 3rd parties combined? And what's more, why should I feel bad or guilty for voting for someone that I feel represents my views better than the other candidates? Is this not what the concept of representational democracy was built on? If I voted for either Bush or Kerry I would be compromising myself a great deal. If I write in Mickey Mouse then I'm throwing away my vote. If Mr. Badnarik gets at least 5% of the popular vote then the Libertarians are given the same amount of Federal dollars as the Republicrats for the next election cycle (if we see it), and get a chance to to appear in any national debates that might spring forth. So how is my vote wasted?
And this differs from the sorry state of affairs that we are in now how? One of the best pro-anarchist arguments that I've ever seen boiled down to the worst case scenerio being:
1. The strongest/most vicious exact control over their own particular regions.
2. The controlers extort money from the weaker/less connected individuals in their region of control as a protection racket.
3. Frequent skirmishes between the different groups.
4. Since the controling group is already stealing money from the others that live in the contested regions they might as well controle other aspects of their lives.
In other words, we end up exactly where we are now. With that being the worst case, why not give it a shot?
I used to work the phones for Maxtor's HDD tech line, and later the NAS support line. Boring ass job, and amusement had to b self provided. Some of my better ones were:
"How do I turn on my hard drive?"
"Have you tried blowing in it's ear, rubbing it's thigh? Works for me."
"Huh?"
"Nevermind"
"OK, put the phone down, rub your nipples and sing songs by the Scorpians for good luck when you reboot." About 10% of the time I used this line, they would actually do it. Customers with a sense of humor rock!
The best one I had was a NAS 6000 call. 1.4 TB of storage in a hot swapable RAID 5. The customer had filled it with data and deleted the original source. No backup (you can see where this is going). Luser decides to demonstrate hot swap drives by removing two drives and swapping them. "Is there anything I can do?" "remember that it's lengthwise, not across when you slash your wrists. Across is just a cry for help." "OK."
I drew what I thought was a fairly respectable stomach (respectable if it had been done by a 10 year old with Down's) and it found a chair, a cabinet, and a "Euro Head". Methinks there was a breakdown in communication somewhere down the line.
Have you looked into using a product like Deep Freeze? It locks the HDD down in such a manner that you can install whatever you want to but upon rebooting it returns to the state it was in when Deep Freeze was installed. Just have everybody save to removable media, a network share, or make DF ignore a particular directory and the problem is solved. I've used this as a solution in a couple of small private schools and it works like a charm.
Well, you've got me geat. AdAware found 633, and running SpyBot right afterwards found another 128 for a grand total of 761. The user was a middle-aged yuppie woman and the XP machine was bringing up hardcore pr0n popups every 5 to ten seconds. She was not amused.
As far as the wireless goes, I agree. But it also has the wired ethernet adapters on it which would come in handy. If you have a network of mainly older Pentiums or PIIs (they're still out there) that can't really handle a larger internal HDD and don't have USB 2.0 or IEEE 1394 then this would be a decent solution for large, shared storage.
Dok
$150 isn't really that bad considering that you need about $40 for a simple USB enclosure. If you're using three network adapters, one of which is wireless, and the controllers for each of those and the hard drive...it's not really that bad a deal. I can remember three years ago when Maxtor was selling 40 GB NAS units for upwards of a grand. $150 plus the drive deosn't seem that craptastic in those terms.
Dok
I just recently moved halfway across the US from my hometown. A buddy of mine who had a ton of MP3s (mostly legal BTW) had just suffered a HDD crash and his SO's car had been broken into meaning that TONS of music had been lost/toasted. Before I left, I'd copied his whole collection to my drive. Shipping him a drive with the whole contents (60 GB) of my music collection took a hell of a lot less time than letting him download it (at 20 Kb per second (Ghod I hate SBC!)) or worse yet, take the time to pick through it at human speeds, and was far cheaper unless you figure that the cost incured by me sending it overnight was in addition to my regular bills.
Yeah, the 9th has been hit pretty damned hard, but when you look at the fact that almost every single federal law on the books undermines the 10th by overriding state sovereignty, the 10th looks a little like goatse man.
Dok
The state does not even print money anymore. It's all printed by the Federal Reserve, a privately owned corporation run by 12 banks that the government can't even legally buy stocks in. It has never been audited, and does not even provide a means for paying off the principle on the National Debt. As far as the money thing is concerned we've been screwed since 1918 with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
Dok
The 10th Amendment has been ignored by the Feds for at least the last 140 years. Hell, it goes back to the Whiskey Rebellion if you want to go that far back. Even with all of the other erosions of the Bill of Rights, the 10th has been the most decimated by all three branches of the Federal Government. The state is supposed to be stronger than the federal so that we could have a diversity in laws with which to experiment. This is not the case any more.
With the way that the 4th Amendment has been positively raped over the years by no knock warrents, confiscation laws in which a person can have their house seized by the police in a drug investigation even if no drugs are found and all charges are dropped I find it as no suprise that someone finally got around to nullifying it in it's entirety.
Dok
Slashdot Mirror
'Nuff said.
I spent years thinking that you needed to attempt to sexually assault the bear to finish the game until I found an old magazine that had the solution printed in it. To fit the whole game into the VIC-20's 3.5 KB of RAM it only looked at the first four letters of the word. The preferred solution was to scream bear. I liked mine better.
Dok
The answers to your problems are:
1: Most of the problems with monopolies arise from the fact that corporations have the same rights as people, but with the added benifit that they have limited liability and corperate welfare. When Nike can state to a judge that their lies about their "lack of sweatshops" are constitutionaly protected by the 1st Amendment you know something is wrong.
2. Freedom begins and ends at property laws. If your body (drugs, euthinasia and abortion) is not free to do with as you please, what is the logical extrapolation of such a condition? This is the entry point for such atrocities as eminant domain and the War on (some) Drugs. As soon as I infringe on your right to own 100% of your property, including your body, I am at fault. This is the rational behind the anti-homicide laws.
3. If they have no hope of being elected then why do they have a higher number of publicaly elected officials than all other 3rd parties combined? And what's more, why should I feel bad or guilty for voting for someone that I feel represents my views better than the other candidates? Is this not what the concept of representational democracy was built on? If I voted for either Bush or Kerry I would be compromising myself a great deal. If I write in Mickey Mouse then I'm throwing away my vote. If Mr. Badnarik gets at least 5% of the popular vote then the Libertarians are given the same amount of Federal dollars as the Republicrats for the next election cycle (if we see it), and get a chance to to appear in any national debates that might spring forth. So how is my vote wasted?
Dok
And this differs from the sorry state of affairs that we are in now how? One of the best pro-anarchist arguments that I've ever seen boiled down to the worst case scenerio being:
1. The strongest/most vicious exact control over their own particular regions.
2. The controlers extort money from the weaker/less connected individuals in their region of control as a protection racket.
3. Frequent skirmishes between the different groups.
4. Since the controling group is already stealing money from the others that live in the contested regions they might as well controle other aspects of their lives.
In other words, we end up exactly where we are now. With that being the worst case, why not give it a shot?
Dok
I used to work the phones for Maxtor's HDD tech line, and later the NAS support line. Boring ass job, and amusement had to b self provided. Some of my better ones were:
"How do I turn on my hard drive?"
"Have you tried blowing in it's ear, rubbing it's thigh? Works for me."
"Huh?"
"Nevermind"
"OK, put the phone down, rub your nipples and sing songs by the Scorpians for good luck when you reboot." About 10% of the time I used this line, they would actually do it. Customers with a sense of humor rock!
The best one I had was a NAS 6000 call. 1.4 TB of storage in a hot swapable RAID 5. The customer had filled it with data and deleted the original source. No backup (you can see where this is going). Luser decides to demonstrate hot swap drives by removing two drives and swapping them.
"Is there anything I can do?"
"remember that it's lengthwise, not across when you slash your wrists. Across is just a cry for help."
"OK."
Dok
But won't your parents get pissed off at it then?
I drew what I thought was a fairly respectable stomach (respectable if it had been done by a 10 year old with Down's) and it found a chair, a cabinet, and a "Euro Head". Methinks there was a breakdown in communication somewhere down the line.
Dok
Frolixio always seems to do a good job!
Dok
Have you looked into using a product like Deep Freeze? It locks the HDD down in such a manner that you can install whatever you want to but upon rebooting it returns to the state it was in when Deep Freeze was installed. Just have everybody save to removable media, a network share, or make DF ignore a particular directory and the problem is solved. I've used this as a solution in a couple of small private schools and it works like a charm.
Dok
Well, you've got me geat. AdAware found 633, and running SpyBot right afterwards found another 128 for a grand total of 761. The user was a middle-aged yuppie woman and the XP machine was bringing up hardcore pr0n popups every 5 to ten seconds. She was not amused.
Dok
As far as the wireless goes, I agree. But it also has the wired ethernet adapters on it which would come in handy. If you have a network of mainly older Pentiums or PIIs (they're still out there) that can't really handle a larger internal HDD and don't have USB 2.0 or IEEE 1394 then this would be a decent solution for large, shared storage. Dok
$150 isn't really that bad considering that you need about $40 for a simple USB enclosure. If you're using three network adapters, one of which is wireless, and the controllers for each of those and the hard drive...it's not really that bad a deal. I can remember three years ago when Maxtor was selling 40 GB NAS units for upwards of a grand. $150 plus the drive deosn't seem that craptastic in those terms. Dok
I say the root of the problem is children! No kiddies, no kiddie porn. Ban children and be done with it.
Dok
I just recently moved halfway across the US from my hometown. A buddy of mine who had a ton of MP3s (mostly legal BTW) had just suffered a HDD crash and his SO's car had been broken into meaning that TONS of music had been lost/toasted. Before I left, I'd copied his whole collection to my drive. Shipping him a drive with the whole contents (60 GB) of my music collection took a hell of a lot less time than letting him download it (at 20 Kb per second (Ghod I hate SBC!)) or worse yet, take the time to pick through it at human speeds, and was far cheaper unless you figure that the cost incured by me sending it overnight was in addition to my regular bills.
Dok
Yeah, the 9th has been hit pretty damned hard, but when you look at the fact that almost every single federal law on the books undermines the 10th by overriding state sovereignty, the 10th looks a little like goatse man. Dok
The state does not even print money anymore. It's all printed by the Federal Reserve, a privately owned corporation run by 12 banks that the government can't even legally buy stocks in. It has never been audited, and does not even provide a means for paying off the principle on the National Debt. As far as the money thing is concerned we've been screwed since 1918 with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act. Dok
The 10th Amendment has been ignored by the Feds for at least the last 140 years. Hell, it goes back to the Whiskey Rebellion if you want to go that far back. Even with all of the other erosions of the Bill of Rights, the 10th has been the most decimated by all three branches of the Federal Government. The state is supposed to be stronger than the federal so that we could have a diversity in laws with which to experiment. This is not the case any more. With the way that the 4th Amendment has been positively raped over the years by no knock warrents, confiscation laws in which a person can have their house seized by the police in a drug investigation even if no drugs are found and all charges are dropped I find it as no suprise that someone finally got around to nullifying it in it's entirety. Dok