Awful places. Damp. Cold in the winter. Just awful. Just because it was "printed" with concrete won't make it better. It'll still be a concrete house. Damp. Cold in the winter. Just awful.
Fine. And when the anti-science morons come a-rumbling with their pitchforks ready to skewer Nerds for being "All smart 'n' stuff", don't say you weren't warned.
Tonight, I will want to watch a movie on netflix. So will my wife. So will my daughter. And they won't be the same movie. Now, 'splain to me how a gigabit (or multigigabit) connection is going to stand in the way of our individual entertainment needs? Oh, that's right, it won't. In fact it will foster greater consumption of digital goods. Now, explain how a gigabit or multigigabit connection is going to hinder that kind of commerce. Oh, that's right - it won't. In fact, it will do just the opposite.
When you wake up to the obvious facts of 1999, let me know, and I'll give you an invite to the 21st century. Cuz I'm k3vvL and rollz like dat.
it is also insightful. what happens when you can store perhaps not the LoC but the entire contents of a university library? And then students copy it. And copy it. And if it is all in PDF, suddenly you can search inside documents, making research trivial....
What if it's all wrong, and there's no way we can find out?
What if science is actually just "a likely story" that is "correct enough" for what we need to do (in terms of engineering) and cannot, in and of itself, tell us what the universe is?
One might come up with reasons / excuses, but if the math is broken, and there is no practicable test, leading to - basically "we're done here" - then would we be entering a new historical era of "after science"?
China has banned 100 songs from being featured on websites, barring artists ranging from Lady Gaga to the Backstreet Boys apparently for being out of tune with the country's cultural authorities. The ministry of culture said it aimed to regulate the "order" of the Internet music market, adding songs that "harm the security of state culture must be cleaned up and regulated under the law". The notice, issued on August 19 and posted on the ministry's website, included American singer Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory", "Hair", "Marry the Night" and "Bloody Mary".
Dear Chinese Leaders:
You people are about as stupid as a box of fucking hair if you think Beyonce or the Backstreet Boys or Lady Gaga is somehow going to corrupt your already corrupt crony statist capitalism. Please buy a clue: Pop garbage is the BEST way to keep your people in the dark. Look at the USA. The people there fill their lives with an endless stream of horseshit, and the closest thing these boneheads have to a viable "opposition to the system" is the astroturfed morons of the Tea Party who think that government involvement in their Medicare system is a problem, which is a bit like getting the government out of the Dept of Motor Vehicles, but I digress. You get my point. Americans are so doped up on stupid "Reality" TV, barking bullshit on twitter, maundering on what they had for lunch on Facebook, and sitting glazed in front of youtube videos of kittens playing piano, that stuff like Lady Gaga is what passes for high art in these chowderhead's minds. This is NOT subversive - it only works to keep them cowed and stupid and in front of the screen and off the streets.
You should be advocating every bit of brain drool America can send you, and pretty soon your populace will be just as dull and incurious as the Americans.
Now, cheerfully go fuck yourselves you pathetic two bit losers.
Soon enough the Arctic will be free of ice year round. Shipping by boat will be wildly cheaper and more direct. Besides, in a few hundred years, the only humans left will be living around the arctic circle or on the fringes of antarctica.
And when the Comet lands on their little pointy heads, WHAT THEN? I'll tell you - they'll be crawling to my crib begging, yes BEGGING to be my slave or minion as I will have all the food and bullets in my comfy Undisclosed Location. And then I will rule - yes RULE the world - MUUahahahaaaaaaa! So line up now, peons - the good minion jobs go fast. NEXT!
This will only drive people to offline file trading. Back in the sneakernet days, the joke was "never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon filled with floppy disks". Now, it's "never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon filled with multi-terabyte hard drives.
In your face, BITCHES.
Where there's a will, there's a won't.
Download what you can, NOW. Form networks with friends and start LAN parties. Ethernet LAN parties were cool back in the day of 14.4 modems. Now with ISPs acting like a bunch of dickwads for the fascist entertainment overlords, we need to organise around and without the net. It is no longer the resilient rhizomatic object of freedom - it is now the arboretic albatross of commerce.
On the other hand, it’s hard to think of anyone less qualified to pass judgment on America than the rating agencies. The people who rated subprime-backed securities are now declaring that they are the judges of fiscal policy? Really?
and as you can probably tell from the landscape of the computer world today, the IBM/Microsoft partnership worked out rather well indeed."
Worked out well? In what sense did it work out well? Economically for Microsoft and IBM? Perhaps. For the rest of the world that suffers working under the decrepit POS that is Windows OS? Not so much. IMNSHO, DOS was a terrific mistake and its adoption 30 years ago has directly hindered the development of the computer industry.
a lot of the blame goes to the parents. If they let their kids sit in front of the TV all the time and play video games all the time and provide them no models of discipline and interest in ideas, they will raise retards and cannon fodder.
Parents that show interest in their kids learning, sit and help them with homework, direct them at a young age to appreciate culture and to be engaged in problem solving and a creative pursuit that requires discipline, then I have found the kids may still not be the sharpest knives in the drawer, but they are much more capable, confident, and competent individuals that the tweakers stuck to the screen.
I can't seem to be able to DL the damn thing from Piratebay. Either I get a "search is frazzled come back later" message or I can only DL a tiny little file. I switched form Opera to Miro and the same problem. I was wondering if someone has a mirror on this thing. This is really important stuff. It needs to be copied and re-copied.
Slashdot Mirror
Example: my real email could be (but isn't) RalphSpoilsportMotors@gmail.com. My SPAM email could be (but isn't) RalphsSpambucket@Gmail.com.
They get their email address, I get their content sans bullshit and every one is happy.
Now, how hard is THAT?
RS
http://www.disinfo.com/2010/12/thomas-edisons-concrete-houses/
Awful places. Damp. Cold in the winter. Just awful. Just because it was "printed" with concrete won't make it better. It'll still be a concrete house. Damp. Cold in the winter. Just awful.
And the diamond star isn't going to teach people something simple like the precautionary principle, either.
Fine. And when the anti-science morons come a-rumbling with their pitchforks ready to skewer Nerds for being "All smart 'n' stuff", don't say you weren't warned.
Besides, it was only 1334 - if it was truly righteous it would have been 1337 - something cleverbot would never understand.
Cleverbot: That's because I'm avoiding it.
User: 4vo1d1ng VV47?
Cleverbot: See? Cleverbot is not so clever!
User: Can you read 1337?
Cleverbot: Yes I can read minds.
User: 1337 is a cipher not a mind.
Cleverbot: So... You mean to tell me that you're not a parson?
User: No, I'm talking about your ability to read ciphers.
Cleverbot: I don't have a wife.
User: What does wife have to do with ciphers?
Cleverbot: My chances to know her.. To spend time with her. To love her.. That's what with her means.
User: Cleverbot = epic fail.
Cleverbot: Because Cleverbot isn't even a bot.
Complete waste of time.
When you wake up to the obvious facts of 1999, let me know, and I'll give you an invite to the 21st century. Cuz I'm k3vvL and rollz like dat.
what a dumb idea - you can't float a country. Those people are fucked. In 200 years we will all be living at the Arctic circle....
Go fuck yourself.
That Art Is Dead.
it is also insightful. what happens when you can store perhaps not the LoC but the entire contents of a university library? And then students copy it. And copy it. And if it is all in PDF, suddenly you can search inside documents, making research trivial....
What if it's all wrong, and there's no way we can find out? What if science is actually just "a likely story" that is "correct enough" for what we need to do (in terms of engineering) and cannot, in and of itself, tell us what the universe is? One might come up with reasons / excuses, but if the math is broken, and there is no practicable test, leading to - basically "we're done here" - then would we be entering a new historical era of "after science"?
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China has banned 100 songs from being featured on websites, barring artists ranging from Lady Gaga to the Backstreet Boys apparently for being out of tune with the country's cultural authorities. The ministry of culture said it aimed to regulate the "order" of the Internet music market, adding songs that "harm the security of state culture must be cleaned up and regulated under the law". The notice, issued on August 19 and posted on the ministry's website, included American singer Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory", "Hair", "Marry the Night" and "Bloody Mary".
Dear Chinese Leaders:
You people are about as stupid as a box of fucking hair if you think Beyonce or the Backstreet Boys or Lady Gaga is somehow going to corrupt your already corrupt crony statist capitalism. Please buy a clue: Pop garbage is the BEST way to keep your people in the dark. Look at the USA. The people there fill their lives with an endless stream of horseshit, and the closest thing these boneheads have to a viable "opposition to the system" is the astroturfed morons of the Tea Party who think that government involvement in their Medicare system is a problem, which is a bit like getting the government out of the Dept of Motor Vehicles, but I digress. You get my point. Americans are so doped up on stupid "Reality" TV, barking bullshit on twitter, maundering on what they had for lunch on Facebook, and sitting glazed in front of youtube videos of kittens playing piano, that stuff like Lady Gaga is what passes for high art in these chowderhead's minds. This is NOT subversive - it only works to keep them cowed and stupid and in front of the screen and off the streets.
You should be advocating every bit of brain drool America can send you, and pretty soon your populace will be just as dull and incurious as the Americans.
Now, cheerfully go fuck yourselves you pathetic two bit losers.
RS
and made a difference. You should be proud. Good work.
Soon enough the Arctic will be free of ice year round. Shipping by boat will be wildly cheaper and more direct. Besides, in a few hundred years, the only humans left will be living around the arctic circle or on the fringes of antarctica.
fuck you
When I can get spotify?
And when the Comet lands on their little pointy heads, WHAT THEN? I'll tell you - they'll be crawling to my crib begging, yes BEGGING to be my slave or minion as I will have all the food and bullets in my comfy Undisclosed Location. And then I will rule - yes RULE the world - MUUahahahaaaaaaa! So line up now, peons - the good minion jobs go fast. NEXT!
In your face, BITCHES.
Where there's a will, there's a won't.
Download what you can, NOW. Form networks with friends and start LAN parties. Ethernet LAN parties were cool back in the day of 14.4 modems. Now with ISPs acting like a bunch of dickwads for the fascist entertainment overlords, we need to organise around and without the net. It is no longer the resilient rhizomatic object of freedom - it is now the arboretic albatross of commerce.
On the other hand, it’s hard to think of anyone less qualified to pass judgment on America than the rating agencies. The people who rated subprime-backed securities are now declaring that they are the judges of fiscal policy? Really?
Worked out well? In what sense did it work out well? Economically for Microsoft and IBM? Perhaps. For the rest of the world that suffers working under the decrepit POS that is Windows OS? Not so much. IMNSHO, DOS was a terrific mistake and its adoption 30 years ago has directly hindered the development of the computer industry.
It sucked. Boring. Waste of time. Save your money. You won't really remember it in five years.
Parents that show interest in their kids learning, sit and help them with homework, direct them at a young age to appreciate culture and to be engaged in problem solving and a creative pursuit that requires discipline, then I have found the kids may still not be the sharpest knives in the drawer, but they are much more capable, confident, and competent individuals that the tweakers stuck to the screen.
RS
If it is, then I'm going to copyright the number seven and fuck all you people.
I can't seem to be able to DL the damn thing from Piratebay. Either I get a "search is frazzled come back later" message or I can only DL a tiny little file. I switched form Opera to Miro and the same problem. I was wondering if someone has a mirror on this thing. This is really important stuff. It needs to be copied and re-copied.