The idea that the US would just unilaterally, without warning, turn off GPS to Europe is insane. Are you guys getting that paranoid? We're your MILITARY ALLIES. We stick tight with our allies.
Like you stuck to the USSR or the Iraq/Saddam Hussein? At one time, even Osama bin Laden was an "ally" (when he was running a Taliban Group for the CIA). Not to mention Ho-Chi Min when he was still fighting the japanese occupation during WW2.
The term "US ally" has come to mean "Youe are -Temporaryly- useful for us, but we'll drop you like a hot potato when
we don't need you anymore
you try to take something we consider "ours" (like: *your* oil, and *your* land)
we get a better offer from someone else
Realizing this (and acting accordingly) is not paranoid.
... commiserating with The people who payed for all the fun the jobs were and got nothing back out of it.
No Sympathy here. Whoever buys into a scheme that is supposed to double/tripe/quadruple their money overnight deserves the "Experience" they get. Playing the stock market is like every other form of gambling: The house always wins. You lose.
And by the way: this wonderful "Video Internet" Mr. Metcalfe is fantasizing about... Who needs it? the consumers? Or could it be... Who else would be interested in a broad roll-out of DRM-locked viewers?
Expect a flurry of new, draconian laws protecting "Content Ownership" to be written and enacted during the boom phase.
And we'll be stuck with these laws, even after this particular bubble bursts.
To suggest that attorneys are evil because they benefit when people sue each other is like saying the psychologist is evil because they only benefit when there's mental illness.
Your Metaphor sucks. badly.
The pyschologist (or psychiatrist?) uses his medical knowledge to help his patient handling his own problems (and he is bound by the hippocratic oath, so his help must not hurt others in the process).
The attorney uses his knowledge of the legal system to further the cause of his client, generally at the cost of others (other persons, or the society as a whole).
The growing hordes of lawyers have turned the idealistic concept of "justice for all" into a war zone, where money buys might and might makes right (just go and try to sue a multi-billion company!).
My preferred metaphors for the scourge of lawyers (especially those specializing in "Intellectual Property") are:
Arms dealers visiting even the poorest countries: "Sure our guns aren't cheap. Sure buying them means some of your people will die from hunger. But believe me: right now your neighbors are meeting one of my colleag...eh.. competitors. You need to protect yourself, now!"
Racketeers entering your shop with the words "Eh, issa nice place you have here. T'would be a shame if something bad happened,.. no?"
Since blasting McCarthy is so popular, how about another side to the story [Link to "see, there are commie spies everywhere" story]
No. McCarthy was not right when he created the thoughtcrime of "being a sympathiser", organized his witch-hunts and lied to congress (and to the public) about having "lists of commie spies".
Criticism of McCarthy is not about "finding spies" (isn't that the job of the FBI?) but about his prosecution of innocent people, and his practice of "extracting" confessions (that is, names of other witches^W sympathisers). It is about the black lists that would block you from getting work in your profession, without legal recourse, because "no such lists exist". It is about the
very idea of "protecting freedom through tyranny".
But then, such behavior (fear-mongering, lies about "tons of evidence", prosecuting people "because we say so") is nowadays acceptable for US politicians, even presidents...
[..] but they were German rocket scientists, not Nazis. Big difference.
I hate to burst your bubble, but
Wernher von Braun was one of many german scientists the Military wanted to "import" to the US who were initially refused immigration due to the stringent requirements of Operation Paperclip (as originally authorized by President Truman, who had expressly excluded anyone found "to have been a member of the Nazi party and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Naziism or militarism.")
Nevertheless, the war department had already decided that this was an issue of National Security(TM), so they sidestepped the president:
The scientists files were passed from hand to hand until all damning evidence had been whittled away. In this particular case:
A September 18, 1947, report on the German rocket scientist stated, "Subject is regarded as a potential security threat by the Military Governor."
The following February, a new security evaluation of Von Braun said, "No derogatory information is available on the subject...It is the opinion of the Military Governor that he may not constitute a security threat to the United States."
Um, no.. that was the Dreamcast. They called it "VMU" (Visual Memory Unit?). The modules had a tiny CPU, a smallish LCD matrix display and a few buttons. Thus, you could (in Theory) run mini-games on them (Tamagotchi anyone?)
[on so-called "Depleted Uranium"] It means that the level of uranium 235 (compared to U234/U236) is reduced to below the levels found in nature.....
It is not the Uranium content that makes DU ammunitions "hot", but the assorted contaminants. Remember where the military gets the stuff? They cant afford to use "lab-grade" stuff (made from freshly-mined ore), so they buy at the other end of the nuclear fuel processing chain:
Military-grade DU is actually nuclear waste,
mamely the "everything else" part that is left over after you have extracted the few elements/isotopes that can be profitably recycled.
Sure, it is "mostly" Uranium (enough so give it the desired pyhsical properties: high density, internal structure, hardness). But on the radiological level the contaminants are very significant (e.g. lots of short-lived (=hot) decay products)
My Dad insisted there was some footage from an old disaster movie or two tossed in there
Yep. There is (among other things) footage from the movie Silent Running.
Watch for the colony ship with the Eco-Domes..
it looks a lot like the Valley Forge.
And, regrettably, there is the re-re-re-reused shot of a jettisoned dome being blown up.
Unfortunately, that particular shot isn't just "random spare footage" but one of the key scenes of Silent Running. It makes me cringe every time;-(
Actually i think the idea would be to not torture them.. .. apart from the "softening up" before/between the actual interrogations (sleep deprivation, malnourishment, sexual harassment, etc.)
.. as the second they thought of the answer to your question it would be recorded by a machine and written out to the screen
And with these machines -- probably made by Diebold and operated by "private Contractors" -- the success rate is guaranteed to be 100%..
Seriously almost like reading someones thoughts
And how long do you think it'll take be before they decide that the current judical system needs to be "Gitmo-ized" (even more than it already is) in order to "protect the Homeland"?
They are not patenting TCP/IP v4 or 6 they are simply patenting there process of self assigned IP addresses in a network with no IP addressing server (such as a DHCP server)
Bzzt! Self-assigned addresses is one of the major advantages of IPV6.
computer generates a (random) link-local adress
asks the local net "is this number taken?"
if someone answers ("yes, that's mine"): retry from start
link-local address is assigned
computer asks the local net "any gateways out there?"
all gateways (a.k.a. routers) respond, including their "global address prefix"
computer combines his local adress with each of these prefixes to get all the the "global adresses" he will be reachable under
IPv6 has been drafted that way to overcome the hassle of network setup (not to mention the risk of misconfigurations when fiddling with address, netmask, broacast, DHCP, NAT,...
With IPv6, attaching your box to the network will be as easy as "plug in the network cable".
For M$FT to try to (submarine-)patent this functionality is unethical even by todays standards.
Typically, it seems, the MSBP parent is on a misguided mission to feel "special," to garner attention from people--family, friends, and community--as the heroic caretaker of a tragically ill child.
It gives me the creeps seeing that woman rave on TV about "saving her baby". This isn't about losing her daughter (who has been in a vegetative state for 15 years, ask the doctors!), but about losing her self-aggrandizing role as her protector.
There is no need for new laws to settle this case. Just use the existing ones that are pertinent to "Desecration of corpses" and "Necrophilia".
People who believe that the earth is 6000 years old are simply deluding themselves, but at least they don't cheer when innocents die.
Problem is, their definition of "innocent" doesn't match ours. Watch them cheer whenever an abortion clinic gets bombed, or whenever a doctor performing abortions gets murdered.
And, to get back on topic (possibly dangerous religious leanings of GWB), a lot of people are unhappy about the fact that their country is ruled by someone from the "the end is near, christ is coming" end of the christian spectrum.
Not to mention the rest of the world.. No-one feels safe when the worlds biggest nuclear arsenal is in the hands of a feeble-minded kook who sees himself leading the Legions of God against the Forces of Satan and is actually yearning for The Last Battle to begin...
PS3 [..] may have a lifespan of 5-10 years. So you have to imagine that in 2017 [..] These consoles have to be armed with the best possible components in order to give them longevity and flexibility in the market to compete with Xbcube units produced by Nintendosoft in 2010.;)
Good point. But Sony has another ace up their sleeve: while the PS3 might or might not offer
internal CPU upgrades, the Cell programming model is meant to scale well for networks/clusters of Cell-enabled devices. Thus, you should be able to harness the cpu power of other Cell-devices in your home (another PS3, a settop box or even the new Sony TV).
I'd expect the "Flight Simulator-with-real-cockpit" crowd to go for a solution based on multiple PS3: every box handles part of the IO
(tons of buttons&blinkenlights) and some 2D graphics
(instrument panels, MFDs). The remaining CPU capacity is pooled towards rendering the outside
view(s).
Wouldn't the driver be on a read-only filesystem, maybe even ROM or a CompactFlash type device
ROM: Yes, CompactFlash: NO. CF modules pretend to be IDE harddisks, they are attached to the HD controller and accessed using the HD controller driver.
What you mean would be onboard flash; one or more flash parts mapped into the CPU's address space (just like ROM) which can be
"magically" written to. Reading/writing them needs "physical memory access" rights, and if you want a filesystem (as opposed to, say, a single bootimage) you'll need a filesystem driver too
(preferably one that is flash-friendly, like JFFS)
Maybe a paranoid designer of an experimental system would expect things to break often. Writing to disc A fails, buffer cache is flushed to disc B and verified, before trying to diagnose the problem with disc A.
This would require completely separate paths from userspace down to disks A and B.
And by separate, i mean hard- and software: assume that drives A and B are connected to two distinct instances of "HD controller card XYZ":
if you can't trust the XYZ-Driver, the data on B is suspect, too.
[..]suppose I were to make a game where a player plays the role of a narcotics cop. This game would have both drugs and violence. But is it really bad?[..]
Been there, done that: 1988 arcade game NARC (made by Williams). Quote:
This is a one- or two-player simultaneous side-scroller. You are a futuristic police officer arresting or obliterating drug dealers, junkies, and attack dogs using machine guns and rocket launchers. There is a horizontal driving phase. The game is very graphically violent.
Gameplay was rather uninspired: armies of visually identical thugs rushing in on you, thus you'd be firing at everything that moves.. until you run out of ammo, life points, or (finally) quarters.
Well yeah, you could actually "bust" some lonely dealers to collect money and drugs, but that would be once or twice in a whole level. And even though the "bustee" would then meekly walk offscreen, he was expected to return (remember, all of them looked exactly the same), so the game's message was more or less: "kill em all".
The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is pledging $750M to vaccinate children worldwide over the next 10 years
Guess why these children (or rather the countries they live in) cant afford vaccines? Could it be
Because vaccines and other drugs (e.g for AIDS treatment) have to be imported at high prices.
Because manufacuring these vaccines/drugs in-country (which could be quite cheap in comparison) is forbidden without licensing American "Intellectual Property".
Because the US is pressuring the rest of the world to "harmonize" IP regulations
(read up on WIPO, TRIPS,etc)
Which just happens to benefit "IP" owners
like Gates Remember his "Pinko Commie IP thieves" rant a few days ago?
Whatever part of this money is actually used to buy vaccines, it cant (and won't) be enough for everyone. Thus, it just creates a new market for the pharmaceutical industry ("See, this vaccine is real good. ask those who have been inoculated. It's a real pity we ran out of free shots, so you will have to pay in US dollars".. "Got no money? We might
accept kidneys and organs").
Plus, it could keep the developing countries from openly revolting against the IP tax. Offering a few breadcrumbs for the first to bend over is just a cheap way of keeping them divided.
Gates donating vaccines is just a strategic move to protect his IP-based income, not to be confused with actual philanthropy.
Well, in a way they already have hijacked Miyazaki's work. Miramax bought the international rights to all the classic Ghibli movies just to lock them away (nothing besides Princess Mononoke got more than a "pro-forma" run with a handful of copies). As to the why?
If they'd actually release them on the big screen, people would realize that even older Ghiblis (like "Porco Rosso" and "Laputa" are not only better-made (wrt. story, art, soundtrack) than the disney fare of their time, but also (still) better the "new-era disneys" (The Lying King, Pocahontas, Hercules, etc.)
The only good animation features released by disney in the last decade were made by pixar or, in the case of "Lilo and Stitch" by a team of dissidents that never had a chance against the dogmatic upper echelons of the mouse empire.
Face it: disney dead (if you discount the regurgitated-to-video sequel buiseness and the periodic reanimation by re-re-re-re-extending copyrights)
We'd roll in, knock off Saddam, help set up the Iraqi democracy IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, and they'd show the rest of the region how it's done.
Good grief, isnt there a law against beating a horse that dead?
"setting up a democracy" and then watch the Axis of Evil(tm) disintegrate under its own weight. Thats just the old domino-theory in reverse
(and see how well that worked in korea and 'NAM)
What do you expect from "democratic elections" in iraq? We can safely assume that the iraqui people (being mostly muslims) will elect muslim candidates, resulting in a democratically-elected AND muslim-led government.
Question: what will the US do?
A) congatulate, withdraw their troops, hand over the oil fields? or rather
B) arrest the elected leaders for being muslim insurgents, terrorists, whatever?" and
C) come up with a "temporary" regime of pro-western stooges (Chalabi and his gang)?
network load balancing clusters ("[the type..] that distributes and load balances network connections among servers, providing high availability and scalability for stateless TCP/IP applications and services."). Note the explicit restriction to "stateless".
server clusters ("[the type..] that the Cluster service implements. Server clusters are characterized by high availability.) Note they mention availability but not performance.
ObJoke: MSFT renamed "Wolfpack" to "Server Cluster API", probably because they were sick of people describing it as "two dogs fucking" (As in: two beasts stuck together, pulling in opposite directions and howling in pain).
cue to "Small Soldiers" where he plays a flaky chip designer lamenting about the Military not buying his rocket guidance chip (and just because it is a little too EM-sensitive).
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Like you stuck to the USSR or the Iraq/Saddam Hussein? At one time, even Osama bin Laden was an "ally" (when he was running a Taliban Group for the CIA). Not to mention Ho-Chi Min when he was still fighting the japanese occupation during WW2.
The term "US ally" has come to mean "Youe are -Temporaryly- useful for us, but we'll drop you like a hot potato when
Realizing this (and acting accordingly) is not paranoid.
It's not about proteins being contaminated, but about proteins from the medium ending up in (a.k.a. contaminating) the stem cells.
The original text ".. concerns about contaminating proteins in existing stem cell lines.." is somewhat ambiguous ..
No Sympathy here. Whoever buys into a scheme that is supposed to double/tripe/quadruple their money overnight deserves the "Experience" they get. Playing the stock market is like every other form of gambling: The house always wins. You lose.
And by the way: this wonderful "Video Internet" Mr. Metcalfe is fantasizing about ... Who needs it? the consumers? Or could it be ... Who else would be interested in a broad roll-out of DRM-locked viewers?
Expect a flurry of new, draconian laws protecting "Content Ownership" to be written and enacted during the boom phase. And we'll be stuck with these laws, even after this particular bubble bursts.
Your Metaphor sucks. badly.
The growing hordes of lawyers have turned the idealistic concept of "justice for all" into a war zone, where money buys might and might makes right (just go and try to sue a multi-billion company!).
My preferred metaphors for the scourge of lawyers (especially those specializing in "Intellectual Property") are:
well, maybe a bit of empathy afterwards:
Robot: Earth women who experience sexual ecstasy with mechanical assistance always tend to feel guilty!
No. McCarthy was not right when he created the thoughtcrime of "being a sympathiser", organized his witch-hunts and lied to congress (and to the public) about having "lists of commie spies".
Criticism of McCarthy is not about "finding spies" (isn't that the job of the FBI?) but about his prosecution of innocent people, and his practice of "extracting" confessions (that is, names of other witches^W sympathisers). It is about the black lists that would block you from getting work in your profession, without legal recourse, because "no such lists exist". It is about the very idea of "protecting freedom through tyranny".
But then, such behavior (fear-mongering, lies about "tons of evidence", prosecuting people "because we say so") is nowadays acceptable for US politicians, even presidents...
I hate to burst your bubble, but Wernher von Braun was one of many german scientists the Military wanted to "import" to the US who were initially refused immigration due to the stringent requirements of Operation Paperclip (as originally authorized by President Truman, who had expressly excluded anyone found "to have been a member of the Nazi party and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Naziism or militarism.")
Nevertheless, the war department had already decided that this was an issue of National Security(TM), so they sidestepped the president: The scientists files were passed from hand to hand until all damning evidence had been whittled away. In this particular case:
A September 18, 1947, report on the German rocket scientist stated, "Subject is regarded as a potential security threat by the Military Governor."
The following February, a new security evaluation of Von Braun said, "No derogatory information is available on the subject...It is the opinion of the Military Governor that he may not constitute a security threat to the United States."
But then, nobody doubts the Ministry of Truth ...
Um, no .. that was the Dreamcast. They called it "VMU" (Visual Memory Unit?). The modules had a tiny CPU, a smallish LCD matrix display and a few buttons. Thus, you could (in Theory) run mini-games on them (Tamagotchi anyone?)
It is not the Uranium content that makes DU ammunitions "hot", but the assorted contaminants. Remember where the military gets the stuff? They cant afford to use "lab-grade" stuff (made from freshly-mined ore), so they buy at the other end of the nuclear fuel processing chain:
Military-grade DU is actually nuclear waste, mamely the "everything else" part that is left over after you have extracted the few elements/isotopes that can be profitably recycled. Sure, it is "mostly" Uranium (enough so give it the desired pyhsical properties: high density, internal structure, hardness). But on the radiological level the contaminants are very significant (e.g. lots of short-lived (=hot) decay products)
Yep. There is (among other things) footage from the movie Silent Running. Watch for the colony ship with the Eco-Domes ..
it looks a lot like the Valley Forge.
And, regrettably, there is the re-re-re-reused shot of a jettisoned dome being blown up. Unfortunately, that particular shot isn't just "random spare footage" but one of the key scenes of Silent Running. It makes me cringe every time ;-(
.. apart from the "softening up" before/between the actual interrogations (sleep deprivation, malnourishment, sexual harassment, etc.)
And with these machines -- probably made by Diebold and operated by "private Contractors" -- the success rate is guaranteed to be 100%
Seriously almost like reading someones thoughts
And how long do you think it'll take be before they decide that the current judical system needs to be "Gitmo-ized" (even more than it already is) in order to "protect the Homeland"?
Bzzt! Self-assigned addresses is one of the major advantages of IPV6.
IPv6 has been drafted that way to overcome the hassle of network setup (not to mention the risk of misconfigurations when fiddling with address, netmask, broacast, DHCP, NAT, ...
With IPv6, attaching your box to the network will be as easy as "plug in the network cable".
For M$FT to try to (submarine-)patent this functionality is unethical even by todays standards.
Says who? Her mother? There is actually a name for her problem: Munchhausen syndrome by proxy:
It gives me the creeps seeing that woman rave on TV about "saving her baby". This isn't about losing her daughter (who has been in a vegetative state for 15 years, ask the doctors!), but about losing her self-aggrandizing role as her protector.
There is no need for new laws to settle this case. Just use the existing ones that are pertinent to "Desecration of corpses" and "Necrophilia".
Problem is, their definition of "innocent" doesn't match ours. Watch them cheer whenever an abortion clinic gets bombed, or whenever a doctor performing abortions gets murdered. And, to get back on topic (possibly dangerous religious leanings of GWB), a lot of people are unhappy about the fact that their country is ruled by someone from the "the end is near, christ is coming" end of the christian spectrum.
Not to mention the rest of the world .. No-one feels safe when the worlds biggest nuclear arsenal is in the hands of a feeble-minded kook who sees himself leading the Legions of God against the Forces of Satan and is actually yearning for The Last Battle to begin ...
Good point. But Sony has another ace up their sleeve: while the PS3 might or might not offer internal CPU upgrades, the Cell programming model is meant to scale well for networks/clusters of Cell-enabled devices. Thus, you should be able to harness the cpu power of other Cell-devices in your home (another PS3, a settop box or even the new Sony TV).
I'd expect the "Flight Simulator-with-real-cockpit" crowd to go for a solution based on multiple PS3: every box handles part of the IO (tons of buttons&blinkenlights) and some 2D graphics (instrument panels, MFDs). The remaining CPU capacity is pooled towards rendering the outside view(s).
ROM: Yes, CompactFlash: NO. CF modules pretend to be IDE harddisks, they are attached to the HD controller and accessed using the HD controller driver. What you mean would be onboard flash; one or more flash parts mapped into the CPU's address space (just like ROM) which can be "magically" written to. Reading/writing them needs "physical memory access" rights, and if you want a filesystem (as opposed to, say, a single bootimage) you'll need a filesystem driver too (preferably one that is flash-friendly, like JFFS)
Maybe a paranoid designer of an experimental system would expect things to break often. Writing to disc A fails, buffer cache is flushed to disc B and verified, before trying to diagnose the problem with disc A.
This would require completely separate paths from userspace down to disks A and B. And by separate, i mean hard- and software: assume that drives A and B are connected to two distinct instances of "HD controller card XYZ": if you can't trust the XYZ-Driver, the data on B is suspect, too.
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Been there, done that: 1988 arcade game NARC (made by Williams). Quote:
Gameplay was rather uninspired: armies of visually identical thugs rushing in on you, thus you'd be firing at everything that movesWell yeah, you could actually "bust" some lonely dealers to collect money and drugs, but that would be once or twice in a whole level. And even though the "bustee" would then meekly walk offscreen, he was expected to return (remember, all of them looked exactly the same), so the game's message was more or less: "kill em all".
Guess why these children (or rather the countries they live in) cant afford vaccines? Could it be
is forbidden without licensing American "Intellectual Property".
Remember his "Pinko Commie IP thieves" rant a few days ago?
Whatever part of this money is actually used to buy vaccines, it cant (and won't) be enough for everyone. Thus, it just creates a new market for the pharmaceutical industry ("See, this vaccine is real good. ask those who have been inoculated. It's a real pity we ran out of free shots, so you will have to pay in US dollars" .. "Got no money? We might
accept kidneys and organs").
Plus, it could keep the developing countries from openly revolting against the IP tax. Offering a few breadcrumbs for the first to bend over is just a cheap way of keeping them divided.
Gates donating vaccines is just a strategic move to protect his IP-based income, not to be confused with actual philanthropy.
If they'd actually release them on the big screen, people would realize that even older Ghiblis (like "Porco Rosso" and "Laputa" are not only better-made (wrt. story, art, soundtrack) than the disney fare of their time, but also (still) better the "new-era disneys" (The Lying King, Pocahontas, Hercules, etc.) The only good animation features released by disney in the last decade were made by pixar or, in the case of "Lilo and Stitch" by a team of dissidents that never had a chance against the dogmatic upper echelons of the mouse empire.
Face it: disney dead (if you discount the regurgitated-to-video sequel buiseness and the periodic reanimation by re-re-re-re-extending copyrights)
Good grief, isnt there a law against beating a horse that dead? "setting up a democracy" and then watch the Axis of Evil(tm) disintegrate under its own weight. Thats just the old domino-theory in reverse (and see how well that worked in korea and 'NAM)
What do you expect from "democratic elections" in iraq? We can safely assume that the iraqui people (being mostly muslims) will elect muslim candidates, resulting in a democratically-elected AND muslim-led government.
Question: what will the US do?
A) congatulate, withdraw their troops, hand over the oil fields? or rather B) arrest the elected leaders for being muslim insurgents, terrorists, whatever?" and C) come up with a "temporary" regime of pro-western stooges (Chalabi and his gang)?Looking at the MSFT definition or clustering, they describe two kinds of clusters:
- network load balancing clusters ("[the type
..] that distributes and load balances network connections among servers, providing high availability and scalability for stateless TCP/IP applications and services.").
- server clusters ("[the type..] that the Cluster service implements. Server clusters are characterized by high availability.)
ObJoke: MSFT renamed "Wolfpack" to "Server Cluster API", probably because they were sick of people describing it as "two dogs fucking" (As in: two beasts stuck together, pulling in opposite directions and howling in pain).Note the explicit restriction to "stateless".
Note they mention availability but not performance.
Now for an actual translation:
Und was haben deine Grosseltern im Krieg gemacht?
Say, what did your grandparents do in the war?
Hör auf, so laut in dieser nervigen Sprache zu reden. (note the Umlaut!)
Stop talking in that annyoing language!
Willst du Ärger, Grossmaul? (Umlaut again ..)
You looking for trouble, Loudmouth?
Dein Schwanz ist so klein, dass es 'ne Maus nicht merkt, wenn du sie fickst
Your d*ck is so small that a mouse wouldn't notice you f*cking her.
All in all: not really useful advice.
cue to "Small Soldiers" where he plays a flaky chip designer lamenting about the Military not buying his rocket guidance chip (and just because it is a little too EM-sensitive).
George Orwell has called: He wants his Big Brother back..