All you need is a TBC and strip all the digital crap out, and re-route it back into the computer.
Loss in the digital/Analog conversion? Sure - but are you goign to be able to notice after GooTube reduces the image to 190x240 and compresses the living fsck out of it, and then blow it up to 240x320?
Personally, I think that if the media conglomerates succeed in destroying Web 2.0, people should simply abandon computers and IT. Slashdot will be remembered as a realm of relatively free speech. People will talk about "the good old days" of viewing video online on those "computers" while they raise vegetables and do the laundry. People should buy art made by their neighbours and relatives. IT'll be crap, at first, but as people practice, the work will improve. Neighbourhood live theatre. Let the cities turn to dust.
twas said:It takes more energy to find, drill for, pump, process, and ship oil, than you ever get out of it. That ain't the point, either.
That is completely untrue. By orders of magnitude. The ER/EI of oil in the 1920s was around 100:1. Nowadays it's down to a bout 20 - 30:1. Tar sands suck they're down around 2:1, at best.
The POINT is to have a MOBILE fuel (or energy transfer medium, or whatever you want to call it; it's semantics at this point). Energy you can use to move your butt from one place to another in a vehicle.
No, dumbass. The point is transportation, regardless of whether it uses transportable fuel, a la, the automobile, or connected energy, a la the electric train.
Hydrogen is a non-starter, even with this technology. Why? Simple physics: it takes more energy to unbond water than you get back from burning the hydrogen and thusly re-bonding it back into water. Period, end of story. It's a little thing called the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Deal.
Hydrogen is a Really Bad Idea.
Nothing can contain it, storing it (as a supercold liquid) takes enormous amounts of energy, and, at root, it's got negative ER/EI. I don't care if it's in a portable form - IT'S NOT A SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY. PERIOD.
Jeepers - that website for Vista really is awful. Yuk! And it looks like yet another triumph for Microsoft's chronic case of cranio-rectal inversion.
However, I guess we'll all just have to "get used to it". It's like getting Herpes. It's ugly, uncomfortable, and won't go away. I hope it comes with a "classic" option so I can tone down the "we hired our OS designers from AOL" style and get it back to a standard, innocuous, and useful Win95-esque style.
The average slashdot user, as a fan of digital technology, will weep and moan, accuse me of being Flamebait or a Troll, but the fact is, YES, it will disappear. Our digital technology is completely predicated on a vast and complex array of technologies - some super advanced like lasers, others more prosaic such as mining rare and precious metals as well as petroleum out of the ground.
The question isn't IF it will disappear, the question is really WHEN and HOW. Printing to paper-based hardcopy helps for a few hundred years. It can be recopied from paper to paper easily - it's a very low context solution: ink on paper followed by ink on paper. So, important information about our society can be transferred across generations, even if the generations have no electricity at all. This is how we know Shakespeare, for instance.
Many people say "Oh, but we'll have some NEW technology that will take care of it". This assumes that the resource base for a new technology will be as generous and dense as our present resource base provides. This is a VERY unwise presumption, as there is categorically no proof that such will be the case. In fact, there are a variety of intense warning signs that suggest quite the contrary.
From the evidence I have found, and, oddly, I've studied this for a number of years now, I am fairly well convinced that industrial civilisation will simply erase itself from the human record as little more than a horribly polluted stain that destroyed itself through overpopulation and environmental stupidity. All the music you hear, all the shows you watch, all the films you cried at, it will all go away. Poof. This also means that self-absorbed hucksters like Madonna, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, and their supporting technology of TV, Radio, DVD/CD, etc will also disappear - just the flotsam of "entertainment" culture.
The long term future will be people chasing bison/cows across the prairie or living in small agrarian villages bound by localised population bursts and die-offs. But it will take several centuries to get their. In the meantime we've got our MTV and Orange Crush. The most important thing to remember is this: not getting to that Star Trek future IS NOT A BAD THING. We pissed away the globe's resources on our Xbox's, SUVs, jetset vacationlands, and all the other minutae and ephemera that makes a society "civilised" and provides "leisure activity". All societies have that, to varying degrees. We just had more of it, thanks to our insane and unrelenting exploitation of resources, petroleum, and electrical generation. But it will all go away, and THAT'S OK.
3. We are NOT going to send PEOPLE to a fucking asteroid.
Why?
It's all very simple: money, energy, and need.
1. The only thing on the moon that's worth a flying fuck is He3. However, even with all the possibilities of enormous electricity provided from He3 reactors here on terra firma, building and decommissioning the reactors, AND mining the crap out of the moon's regolith will pretty much blow it's ER/EI ratio to pieces. Also, putting people on the moon is foolish - it's extremely radioactive up there. So, you'll need to send robots. you will also need to send HUGE self-repairing mining machines up there, so they can chew up the regolith. We can't get the political will to fix the freakin' Hubble, and someone wants to send enormous mining machines to chew up the He3 so some fat ass retard can sit and watch American Idol on his 53 inch plasma? I don't think so...
2. Mars is not going to happen - too far, too dangerous. We'll continue to send little probes and stuff, but that's about it. Terraforming? No way. We can't muster the brains and skills to build a rockin OS and you want to terraform a planet? We. don't. think. so.
3. We will send probes to asteroids. IT is much more efficient. If one is coming at us, we will sned probes to deal with it, not some space cowboy.
All you gotta do is kill them. Once the first few heads roll, the rest of 'em will knock it off.
If they are overseas, hire the Israelis. They'll track the fuckers down and take 'em out. Once you pump a bag of bullets into the first few dozen, spam will go away.
They have an entire website dedicated to the problem of peak oil.
Peak Oil is a simple FACT. It's not a question of IF, it's merely a matter of WHEN and HOW.
Also, putting off the oil peak a few decades only dumps the problem on someone else's shoulders. go tell some three year old -
"Hey kid - your life is going to SUCK because I'm too fucking fat, stupid, and lazy to get off my ass and deal with the inconvenience of living without petroleum. So rather than tighten my belt and clean up the mess, I'd rather let you and your kids die of starvation in some transit camp in eastern Oregon in 2070. don't like it? Tough shit. I'm fat and lazy and I don't car. Now, get the fuck out of the way of my SUV so I can drive three blocks for some soda pop and a pack of smokes and get home in time for American Idol on my 50 inch plasma screen in my McMansion. And if I have to murder half of the thrid world for the sake of my convenience, I'll do it, just like I'm going to flood your grand kid's cities in 2150 from all the CO2 my SUV is shitting into the atmosphere."
If Chevron - FUCKING CHEVRON is clued into it, I humbly suggest people get on the stick and ignore the FUD from these cornucopian retards.
and if it is determined that the sunshade is a BAD idea? Who's going to go up there and clean up the mess? Nobody. It's just going to hang there in orbit, while the Humans Die Off.
and your argument against the argument is such an obvious blowjob for the fascists it's laughable.
Okay, so we have a story on a political website ("Friends of Liberty") with a link only to published comments by another political website ("PapersPlease.org") concerning a proposal where the original RFP was posted July 14 of this year. Where was the outrage then, where was the irate Slashdot article then?
1. whining about the source of the info (political website) doesn't discredit the data.
2. Asking "where was the outrage then" is irrelevant - the point is the outrage is here, now. And rightly so.
Could it possibly be that this regulation would not have the effect that the far left claims that it would have?
could it possibly be true? Now, if it isn't true, what are the consequences? If it IS true, what are the consequences? Obviously, the difference is dramatic and any half-wit with the least bit of concern for basic human rights (as outlined in both the US constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) would and should be deeply concerned about such an obviously evil law.
If you read the regulation proposal, what this regulation change would actually do is require manifests to be transmitted to US Customs before the aircraft pushes back from the gate, rather than 15 minutes after takeoff (which is the current regulation), so that DHS can have do-not-fly list passengers removed from the flight before it takes off rather than causing a possible situation in the air.
And if you had the slightest idea about how that works, you would know that people are routinely prevented from even getting into the terminal due to no-fly lists. All of this is done electronically long before anyone even gets on board. This regulation is just another aspect of the fascism that has taken hold in the USA, and cheerleading fluffers like you keep it all going. Stupid fuck.
that's all we need - more mouths to feed. More people. crowd the planet until it is one giant city running on empty.
Stupid humans - running to the cliff. Consuming resources like yeast in a bottle of grape juice. Eventually we will die in our own shit. Leaving behind an intoxicating stew of death.
die you stupid fucks. make more babies. watch them die. "BUT I JUST GOTTA HAVE A BABY!" she cried. "I gotta have a pile of young'ns to inherit my world!" he yelped. DIE YOU STUPID FUCKS! And take your SUVs WITH YOU! Jesus AIN'T comin' for your sorry behind. Just gonna let you STARVE! And SHIVER! The natural gas will be gone soon enough so you won't be cookin' jackshit anyway. Stupid fucks! DIE! and you think nuclear fission will come to the rescue? Sorry, no - it's a finite resource too. And you think solar power's gonna save you? Think again, stupid fucks. Die stupid fucks. If solar power doubled in output year over year, it'll take decades before it even approachs half your needs, and by then, you're screwed.
Right around the time the fish run out. And you'll think you'll burn soybean oil for your cars? No way, stupid fucks. You'll be starving for that oil. you think you're going to finance your way out of it? Haha - jokes on you - stupid fucks. The USA is down by 9 trillion bucks - at a million a day it'll be sometime after the next ice age you stupid fucks pay that off. die you stupid fucks. you and your stupid babies - put your ear to rail and hear what's coming.
In the twenty-first century - you'll do the ghost dance.
die you stupid fucks. Die. Starve and freeze and murder each other for the few remaining resources - like a bunch of lemmings, like a bunch of yeast - you will over populate and DIE you stupid fucks DIE. you'll fry each other's cities with nuclear weapons, you'll be back in the stone age before you can say "four gigabytes of RAM", you'll be eating your neighbour's food after you kill him and dismantle his McMansion for the firewood.
you'll be crying like a bunch of babies because there's no energy for your playstation or xbox. Wah wah wah - I can't play my games! No world of Warcraft, because it will be a world OF WAR all around you, and you will weep like the spoiled rotten retarded bunch of fat whiners you are. die you stupid fucks. die.
Die you stupid fucks. Die.
RS
Stupid fucks will mod me a troll - the wise will listen to the last prophecy that ever mattered, and will make their plans accordingly.
Tell them to get a fucking Macintosh. Tell them if they don't get a Macintosh, you won't help them. If they don't like it, tough - DON'T HELP THEM. Don't enable them.
They have to put down the Microsoft crack pipe. tough love.
Your average Mac has lots and lots of software that ma and pa Kettle can make use of - iLife, safari, etc. it's all happy.
If they won't behave responsibly, then give them toys they can't hurt themselves with.
steal the next election and then send in federal troops to slaughter the protesters (after all, they got rid of posse comitatus) and then send the rest to prison camps forever (since they got rid of habeus corpus), will Microsoft consider pulling out of the American Market?
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The loss of the intelligensia. When the smart people start leaving to "do research abroad" for some open ended amount of time, then you know it's time to stick a fork in America.
This will primarily benefit other English speaking countries, especially Canada, but look for a number of very smart people moving to Ireland, the UK, Australia, or "retiring" to New Zealand. If you have any sense, you'll start making inquiries NOW, while you can...
Atmosphere
Put the weather on your desktop.A virtual window to the outdoors for your desktop. View a virtual representation of your area's weather when too busy to go outside.
Too bust to go outside? WTF? Look out the window you lazy sow! NOT a killer app - more of a stupid idea, along the lines of Segway
Blossom
A virtual plant that responds to productivity, not sunlight and water. Had a good session in Excel? Your plant will thrive. Play too much Warcraft? Expect some withering.
Suck great steaming tourdes out of the boss's ass? Instant rainforest. Write 3000 lines of code? A garden of flowers? But what if all the code is crap? Does Blossom do QA? A REALLY bad idea, and impossible to properly implement. Blossom is fascism with a happy face - "here come the suede denim secret police!... California! Uber Alles!"
Whistler
Music creation has never been this easy or fun. Ever had the urge to create a song until you realized it was harder than it was worth? With Whistler, just whistle, hum, or tap out your creation into music app importable form.
Now THIS is a cool thing - a REAL application that empowers people to do something they never could before. Albeit, if you're a tone deaf couch potato with no sense of rhythm, you will have a somewhat tougher time. But basically, this idea has actual use value compared to the previous ideas.
Cookbook
The ultimate cookbook application, with online grocery shopping, thousands of recipes, Leopard voiceover technology integration, shopping list sharing, and more.
This is a sort-of-cool idea. I don't think it has quite the scope and brilliant of Whistler, but this is something I could actually almost use... IF I were stupid enough to put a computer in the kitchen... DOH!
Portal
File syncing from the future. Sync folders and documents between Macs effortlessly and watch transfer progress through a cool, highly visual wormhole user interface.
If I needed to sync a bunch of macs together, I guess this would be useful. However, most Mac owners I know have ONE (perhaps 2) macs. Heck - I have two. But I also have three or four PCs floating around chez Spoilsport. If it could co-ordinate them too, then I'd be impressed... as it is, this comes under "A Really Good Idea" but not "Killer App".
so, I would rank them as follows:
1. Whistler - good stuff! A - A-
2. Portal - not bad - useful! B+
3. Cookbook - Pretty good, as soon as I get the olive oil cleaned out of my powerbook. B-
4. Atmosphere - stupid idea with marginal use for quadraplegics who wonder what they're missing. C
5. Blossom - an actively Bad Idea. F
A number of years ago, I read some books on legal theory. One stood out, by John Rawls. He had a point on how to determine whether a law was a good law or not. By extension one can use his criteria to all manner of policy decisions.
Is it Fair, Just, and Reasonable?
IS this policy by Bush FAIR? No.
IS it just? No.
IS it reasonable? No.
Therefore, it is bad law and bad policy.
The other question is: WHO are the OTHER guys? And why do we need to spend them into oblivion? If you look at the evidence, it seems that quite the opposite has happened: the rest of the world is watching the USA spend itself into oblivion.
I respect rocket science, but for your own health and future welfare - do yourself a BIG favour: learn to grow a food garden. And get your neighbours to do the same...
Basically, it says the USA can act in anyway it chooses in space, and others can't. It basically says no one can fuck with our space toys, but we can fuck with anyone else's space toys. It basically says that "Rules Don't Apply to Us".
It is, very simply, typical fascist horseshit that the Bush Junta has been coughing up for years, only this time it affects satellites. nice.
I'm not going to cough up line item to line item -/. It's not THAT much to read, and it's all there in black and white. DIY.
Now, I'll propose that 90% of the responses to THIS will be from pink neocon dupes of the conspiracy, and yes, Bush DOES deserve demonisation for this, as it is part and parcel of his evil Evil EVIL neocon agenda. And for that, the pink neocon dupes of the conspiracy will likely mod me "Flamebait" or "Overrated" and anyone with half an ounce of sense will mod me "Interesting" or "Insightful".
Imagine if the Bush Junta said "the laws of the sea no longer apply to us." Imagine what kind of a row that would make. It's just the same thing, only in orbit in the vacuum of space.
After all, we know that liberalism is 99% of time correct, while conservatism is 99% of the time wrong.
(circa 750,000 bce)
Liberal Caveman: Ugh. Look. Fire. Roast bunny. Bunny taste good roasted. Keeps longer, too. Feed more people.
Conservative Caveman: Ugh. We have always eaten raw meat. Cooked meat bad for you. Only fags eat cooked meat. Real men eat raw meat.
(circa 9000 bce)
Liberal Pastoralist: Caves are cramped - let's live indoors!
Conservative Pastoralist: We have always lived in caves. Caves are strong. Caves are good.
(circa 1650)
Conservative King Asshole: Divine right of Kings - my gluttony has been blessed BY GOD!
Liberal Secular Philosopher: a government is only legitimate if it receives the consent of the governed through a social contract and protects the natural rights of life, liberty, and estate. If such consent is not given, citizens have a right to rebellion.
(circa 1776)
Conservative Loyalist: Remain subjects of the Crown!
Liberal Patriots: Rebel Against the Crown - NOW!
(circa 1860)
Conservative Southerner: ENSLAVE THE NEGROES!
Liberal Northerner: Free the Blacks. Now.
(circa 1960)
Conservative Southerner: BEAT THE NEGROES! Keep them disenfranchised and ignorant!
Liberal Northerner: Let Blacks Vote and Be Educated.
(circa 1980, S. Africa)
Conservative: "Your misery shall endure forever."
Liberal: "Apartheid must end NOW."
The list goes on and on. The fact is, the liberal position of increased liberty and justice for ALL eventually wins out. Always. The micro measurements might be back and forth, but the march of the human project is in one direction, and it is not one that favours the conservative position. Ever.
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Loss in the digital/Analog conversion? Sure - but are you goign to be able to notice after GooTube reduces the image to 190x240 and compresses the living fsck out of it, and then blow it up to 240x320?
Personally, I think that if the media conglomerates succeed in destroying Web 2.0, people should simply abandon computers and IT. Slashdot will be remembered as a realm of relatively free speech. People will talk about "the good old days" of viewing video online on those "computers" while they raise vegetables and do the laundry. People should buy art made by their neighbours and relatives. IT'll be crap, at first, but as people practice, the work will improve. Neighbourhood live theatre. Let the cities turn to dust.
RS
That is completely untrue. By orders of magnitude. The ER/EI of oil in the 1920s was around 100:1. Nowadays it's down to a bout 20 - 30:1. Tar sands suck they're down around 2:1, at best.
The POINT is to have a MOBILE fuel (or energy transfer medium, or whatever you want to call it; it's semantics at this point). Energy you can use to move your butt from one place to another in a vehicle.
No, dumbass. The point is transportation, regardless of whether it uses transportable fuel, a la, the automobile, or connected energy, a la the electric train.
Hydrogen is a non-starter, even with this technology. Why? Simple physics: it takes more energy to unbond water than you get back from burning the hydrogen and thusly re-bonding it back into water. Period, end of story. It's a little thing called the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Deal.
Hydrogen is a Really Bad Idea.
Nothing can contain it, storing it (as a supercold liquid) takes enormous amounts of energy, and, at root, it's got negative ER/EI. I don't care if it's in a portable form - IT'S NOT A SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY. PERIOD.
I suggest bicycles.
RS
However, I guess we'll all just have to "get used to it". It's like getting Herpes. It's ugly, uncomfortable, and won't go away. I hope it comes with a "classic" option so I can tone down the "we hired our OS designers from AOL" style and get it back to a standard, innocuous, and useful Win95-esque style.
RS
RS
The question isn't IF it will disappear, the question is really WHEN and HOW. Printing to paper-based hardcopy helps for a few hundred years. It can be recopied from paper to paper easily - it's a very low context solution: ink on paper followed by ink on paper. So, important information about our society can be transferred across generations, even if the generations have no electricity at all. This is how we know Shakespeare, for instance.
Many people say "Oh, but we'll have some NEW technology that will take care of it". This assumes that the resource base for a new technology will be as generous and dense as our present resource base provides. This is a VERY unwise presumption, as there is categorically no proof that such will be the case. In fact, there are a variety of intense warning signs that suggest quite the contrary.
From the evidence I have found, and, oddly, I've studied this for a number of years now, I am fairly well convinced that industrial civilisation will simply erase itself from the human record as little more than a horribly polluted stain that destroyed itself through overpopulation and environmental stupidity. All the music you hear, all the shows you watch, all the films you cried at, it will all go away. Poof. This also means that self-absorbed hucksters like Madonna, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, and their supporting technology of TV, Radio, DVD/CD, etc will also disappear - just the flotsam of "entertainment" culture.
The long term future will be people chasing bison/cows across the prairie or living in small agrarian villages bound by localised population bursts and die-offs. But it will take several centuries to get their. In the meantime we've got our MTV and Orange Crush. The most important thing to remember is this: not getting to that Star Trek future IS NOT A BAD THING. We pissed away the globe's resources on our Xbox's, SUVs, jetset vacationlands, and all the other minutae and ephemera that makes a society "civilised" and provides "leisure activity". All societies have that, to varying degrees. We just had more of it, thanks to our insane and unrelenting exploitation of resources, petroleum, and electrical generation. But it will all go away, and THAT'S OK.
We will disappear. We Are Atlantis.
RS
2. We are NOT going to go to Mars.
3. We are NOT going to send PEOPLE to a fucking asteroid.
Why?
It's all very simple: money, energy, and need.
1. The only thing on the moon that's worth a flying fuck is He3. However, even with all the possibilities of enormous electricity provided from He3 reactors here on terra firma, building and decommissioning the reactors, AND mining the crap out of the moon's regolith will pretty much blow it's ER/EI ratio to pieces. Also, putting people on the moon is foolish - it's extremely radioactive up there. So, you'll need to send robots. you will also need to send HUGE self-repairing mining machines up there, so they can chew up the regolith. We can't get the political will to fix the freakin' Hubble, and someone wants to send enormous mining machines to chew up the He3 so some fat ass retard can sit and watch American Idol on his 53 inch plasma? I don't think so...
2. Mars is not going to happen - too far, too dangerous. We'll continue to send little probes and stuff, but that's about it. Terraforming? No way. We can't muster the brains and skills to build a rockin OS and you want to terraform a planet? We. don't. think. so.
3. We will send probes to asteroids. IT is much more efficient. If one is coming at us, we will sned probes to deal with it, not some space cowboy.
Sorry to pop some dreams, but thems' the facts.
RS
If they are overseas, hire the Israelis. They'll track the fuckers down and take 'em out. Once you pump a bag of bullets into the first few dozen, spam will go away.
RS
Yeah - approximately 0 degrees celsius, IIRC.
RS
Peak Oil is a simple FACT. It's not a question of IF, it's merely a matter of WHEN and HOW.
Also, putting off the oil peak a few decades only dumps the problem on someone else's shoulders. go tell some three year old -
"Hey kid - your life is going to SUCK because I'm too fucking fat, stupid, and lazy to get off my ass and deal with the inconvenience of living without petroleum. So rather than tighten my belt and clean up the mess, I'd rather let you and your kids die of starvation in some transit camp in eastern Oregon in 2070. don't like it? Tough shit. I'm fat and lazy and I don't car. Now, get the fuck out of the way of my SUV so I can drive three blocks for some soda pop and a pack of smokes and get home in time for American Idol on my 50 inch plasma screen in my McMansion. And if I have to murder half of the thrid world for the sake of my convenience, I'll do it, just like I'm going to flood your grand kid's cities in 2150 from all the CO2 my SUV is shitting into the atmosphere."
If Chevron - FUCKING CHEVRON is clued into it, I humbly suggest people get on the stick and ignore the FUD from these cornucopian retards.
RS
Yum.
RS
Go on - go ahead - do it - inject yourself with a snootful of HIV. I dare ya. Naaaa- I DOUBLE DOG DARE YA!
RS
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and if it is determined that the sunshade is a BAD idea? Who's going to go up there and clean up the mess? Nobody. It's just going to hang there in orbit, while the Humans Die Off.
RS
Okay, so we have a story on a political website ("Friends of Liberty") with a link only to published comments by another political website ("PapersPlease.org") concerning a proposal where the original RFP was posted July 14 of this year. Where was the outrage then, where was the irate Slashdot article then?
1. whining about the source of the info (political website) doesn't discredit the data.
2. Asking "where was the outrage then" is irrelevant - the point is the outrage is here, now. And rightly so.
Could it possibly be that this regulation would not have the effect that the far left claims that it would have?
could it possibly be true? Now, if it isn't true, what are the consequences? If it IS true, what are the consequences? Obviously, the difference is dramatic and any half-wit with the least bit of concern for basic human rights (as outlined in both the US constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) would and should be deeply concerned about such an obviously evil law.
If you read the regulation proposal, what this regulation change would actually do is require manifests to be transmitted to US Customs before the aircraft pushes back from the gate, rather than 15 minutes after takeoff (which is the current regulation), so that DHS can have do-not-fly list passengers removed from the flight before it takes off rather than causing a possible situation in the air.
And if you had the slightest idea about how that works, you would know that people are routinely prevented from even getting into the terminal due to no-fly lists. All of this is done electronically long before anyone even gets on board. This regulation is just another aspect of the fascism that has taken hold in the USA, and cheerleading fluffers like you keep it all going. Stupid fuck.
RS
Stupid humans - running to the cliff. Consuming resources like yeast in a bottle of grape juice. Eventually we will die in our own shit. Leaving behind an intoxicating stew of death.
die you stupid fucks. make more babies. watch them die. "BUT I JUST GOTTA HAVE A BABY!" she cried. "I gotta have a pile of young'ns to inherit my world!" he yelped. DIE YOU STUPID FUCKS! And take your SUVs WITH YOU! Jesus AIN'T comin' for your sorry behind. Just gonna let you STARVE! And SHIVER! The natural gas will be gone soon enough so you won't be cookin' jackshit anyway. Stupid fucks! DIE! and you think nuclear fission will come to the rescue? Sorry, no - it's a finite resource too. And you think solar power's gonna save you? Think again, stupid fucks. Die stupid fucks. If solar power doubled in output year over year, it'll take decades before it even approachs half your needs, and by then, you're screwed.
Right around the time the fish run out. And you'll think you'll burn soybean oil for your cars? No way, stupid fucks. You'll be starving for that oil. you think you're going to finance your way out of it? Haha - jokes on you - stupid fucks. The USA is down by 9 trillion bucks - at a million a day it'll be sometime after the next ice age you stupid fucks pay that off. die you stupid fucks. you and your stupid babies - put your ear to rail and hear what's coming.
In the twenty-first century - you'll do the ghost dance.
die you stupid fucks. Die. Starve and freeze and murder each other for the few remaining resources - like a bunch of lemmings, like a bunch of yeast - you will over populate and DIE you stupid fucks DIE. you'll fry each other's cities with nuclear weapons, you'll be back in the stone age before you can say "four gigabytes of RAM", you'll be eating your neighbour's food after you kill him and dismantle his McMansion for the firewood.
you'll be crying like a bunch of babies because there's no energy for your playstation or xbox. Wah wah wah - I can't play my games! No world of Warcraft, because it will be a world OF WAR all around you, and you will weep like the spoiled rotten retarded bunch of fat whiners you are. die you stupid fucks. die.
Die you stupid fucks. Die.
RS
Stupid fucks will mod me a troll - the wise will listen to the last prophecy that ever mattered, and will make their plans accordingly.
They have to put down the Microsoft crack pipe. tough love.
Your average Mac has lots and lots of software that ma and pa Kettle can make use of - iLife, safari, etc. it's all happy.
If they won't behave responsibly, then give them toys they can't hurt themselves with.
RS
I don't think so.
Mr Pot - I'd like you to meet Mr Kettle...
RS
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This will primarily benefit other English speaking countries, especially Canada, but look for a number of very smart people moving to Ireland, the UK, Australia, or "retiring" to New Zealand. If you have any sense, you'll start making inquiries NOW, while you can...
RS
It's one of the most Orwellian concepts I've come across in the software industry. It's a genuine DISadvantage.
Software Ownership doubleplusungood. Rectify: Microsoft ownership by minitrue goodthink: "Genuine Advantage".
I hate MS when they pull this kind of crap. They need to go down.
RS
Put the weather on your desktop.A virtual window to the outdoors for your desktop. View a virtual representation of your area's weather when too busy to go outside.
Too bust to go outside? WTF? Look out the window you lazy sow! NOT a killer app - more of a stupid idea, along the lines of Segway
Blossom
A virtual plant that responds to productivity, not sunlight and water. Had a good session in Excel? Your plant will thrive. Play too much Warcraft? Expect some withering.
Suck great steaming tourdes out of the boss's ass? Instant rainforest. Write 3000 lines of code? A garden of flowers? But what if all the code is crap? Does Blossom do QA? A REALLY bad idea, and impossible to properly implement. Blossom is fascism with a happy face - "here come the suede denim secret police! ... California! Uber Alles!"
Whistler
Music creation has never been this easy or fun. Ever had the urge to create a song until you realized it was harder than it was worth? With Whistler, just whistle, hum, or tap out your creation into music app importable form.
Now THIS is a cool thing - a REAL application that empowers people to do something they never could before. Albeit, if you're a tone deaf couch potato with no sense of rhythm, you will have a somewhat tougher time. But basically, this idea has actual use value compared to the previous ideas.
Cookbook
The ultimate cookbook application, with online grocery shopping, thousands of recipes, Leopard voiceover technology integration, shopping list sharing, and more.
This is a sort-of-cool idea. I don't think it has quite the scope and brilliant of Whistler, but this is something I could actually almost use... IF I were stupid enough to put a computer in the kitchen... DOH!
Portal
File syncing from the future. Sync folders and documents between Macs effortlessly and watch transfer progress through a cool, highly visual wormhole user interface.
If I needed to sync a bunch of macs together, I guess this would be useful. However, most Mac owners I know have ONE (perhaps 2) macs. Heck - I have two. But I also have three or four PCs floating around chez Spoilsport. If it could co-ordinate them too, then I'd be impressed... as it is, this comes under "A Really Good Idea" but not "Killer App".
so, I would rank them as follows:
1. Whistler - good stuff! A - A-
2. Portal - not bad - useful! B+
3. Cookbook - Pretty good, as soon as I get the olive oil cleaned out of my powerbook. B-
4. Atmosphere - stupid idea with marginal use for quadraplegics who wonder what they're missing. C
5. Blossom - an actively Bad Idea. F
RS
A number of years ago, I read some books on legal theory. One stood out, by John Rawls. He had a point on how to determine whether a law was a good law or not. By extension one can use his criteria to all manner of policy decisions.
Is it Fair, Just, and Reasonable?
IS this policy by Bush FAIR? No.
IS it just? No.
IS it reasonable? No.
Therefore, it is bad law and bad policy.
The other question is: WHO are the OTHER guys? And why do we need to spend them into oblivion? If you look at the evidence, it seems that quite the opposite has happened: the rest of the world is watching the USA spend itself into oblivion.
I respect rocket science, but for your own health and future welfare - do yourself a BIG favour: learn to grow a food garden. And get your neighbours to do the same...
best,
RS
Basically, it says the USA can act in anyway it chooses in space, and others can't. It basically says no one can fuck with our space toys, but we can fuck with anyone else's space toys. It basically says that "Rules Don't Apply to Us".
It is, very simply, typical fascist horseshit that the Bush Junta has been coughing up for years, only this time it affects satellites. nice.
I'm not going to cough up line item to line item - /. It's not THAT much to read, and it's all there in black and white. DIY.
Now, I'll propose that 90% of the responses to THIS will be from pink neocon dupes of the conspiracy, and yes, Bush DOES deserve demonisation for this, as it is part and parcel of his evil Evil EVIL neocon agenda. And for that, the pink neocon dupes of the conspiracy will likely mod me "Flamebait" or "Overrated" and anyone with half an ounce of sense will mod me "Interesting" or "Insightful".
Imagine if the Bush Junta said "the laws of the sea no longer apply to us." Imagine what kind of a row that would make. It's just the same thing, only in orbit in the vacuum of space.
RS
(circa 750,000 bce)
Liberal Caveman: Ugh. Look. Fire. Roast bunny. Bunny taste good roasted. Keeps longer, too. Feed more people.
Conservative Caveman: Ugh. We have always eaten raw meat. Cooked meat bad for you. Only fags eat cooked meat. Real men eat raw meat.
(circa 9000 bce)
Liberal Pastoralist: Caves are cramped - let's live indoors!
Conservative Pastoralist: We have always lived in caves. Caves are strong. Caves are good.
(circa 1650)
Conservative King Asshole: Divine right of Kings - my gluttony has been blessed BY GOD!
Liberal Secular Philosopher: a government is only legitimate if it receives the consent of the governed through a social contract and protects the natural rights of life, liberty, and estate. If such consent is not given, citizens have a right to rebellion.
(circa 1776)
Conservative Loyalist: Remain subjects of the Crown!
Liberal Patriots: Rebel Against the Crown - NOW!
(circa 1860)
Conservative Southerner: ENSLAVE THE NEGROES!
Liberal Northerner: Free the Blacks. Now.
(circa 1960)
Conservative Southerner: BEAT THE NEGROES! Keep them disenfranchised and ignorant!
Liberal Northerner: Let Blacks Vote and Be Educated.
(circa 1980, S. Africa)
Conservative: "Your misery shall endure forever." Liberal: "Apartheid must end NOW."
The list goes on and on. The fact is, the liberal position of increased liberty and justice for ALL eventually wins out. Always. The micro measurements might be back and forth, but the march of the human project is in one direction, and it is not one that favours the conservative position. Ever.
The Parent is a TROLL.
RS
since when is SPAM spicy?
RS