You are, of course, forgetting that armed govt troops are sent in to stop all innovation.
If you do choose to invest in shale oil extraction, I strongly suggest that you first buy ammo and camp out with the rough necks. That's the only way I know of to deter govt interferenct (other than Tim McVeigh's way, which I've been asked not to talk about.)
I'm working on a robotics project, and have a serial (RS232C) interface to my bot's AVR Mega uController. I was looking for a serial terminal that I could interface to it, when it occurred to me that TI calculators use serial interfaces. Does anyone know of a serial term that would turn a TI calculator into a dumb term?
I've heard of FTerm running on Fargo on a TI-85, but can not find a download site.
Remember when the RIAA / MPAA sued to get VCRs banned?
Remember when they said they wanted file sharing networks banned, and then they would be happy?
(And remember when Hitler wanted one more little piece of land, and then he'd be happy?)
Remember when eBay banned all sales of s/w on "recordable media" thereby making it against their rules for me to sell Linux on CD-Rs and DVD-Rs at cost?
I suggest you read anything you can find by "Claire Wolf" - the only time I ever disagreed with her was when she said "it's not time to shoot the bastards yet." I disagree because nothing is ever going to change until we shoot the bastards.
My first hobby is a war against the MPAA / RIAA / BSA. So, if I had lived 60 years ago, I would have been fighting the NAZIs.
My hobbies in guns, reloading, and explosives probably would have put me in the Ordnance Department, but then I would have never had the privlidge of bayonetting an RIAA employee with a swastica on his uniform...that would have been a tough decision.
The cost of portable DVD players is under $200...why cann't we build Laptops with color screens for the same price?
I know...the processors, RAM, and HDDs cost money.
My first IBM compatible PC was an 8MHz 8086 with 640k of RAM & a 40MB HDD. We have 2GB SD cards now. They were putting those in wrist watches 5 years ago. Can't we use a little common sense in our choices of software, and pair down the software to, say, Palm levels?
Take out the portable DVD player, and replace it with the guts from a Palm.
We've got room to spare, so add in a pair of PCMCIA slots and a few extra media cards (CF / SD / etc.) Also add in a fully functional USB port so we can print, connect to a network, or use a real keyboard.
What you get is a cross between a palmtop and a laptop. I need one!
Andy Out!
Am I the only developer who was threatened with a lawsuit by the BSA for violating the license agreement on Office 97, which stated that you may only run Office 97 on a license Microsoft OS?
The problem, of course, was that I was playing with Wine (95) and was therefore running Office '97 on something that was NOT a licensed Microsoft OS.
I only wanted to use Power Point, which had no copmetitors that I could find in 1998. (Microsoft had a true monopoly.)
I filed a complaint under the Sherman anti-trust act for Micrsoft using one monopoly (Power-Point, which had no competitors, and did not even have a generic term like "presentation software" applied to it in 1998) to try to create another monopoly (Windows in the Operating System market.)
Maybe I'm the only one who remembers, but I'm still MILITANTLY anti-Microsoft to this day.
They comitted feolnies, and the Justice Department ignored their real wrongdoing for years. I wonder why? The DOJ seemed to do this long investigation and never found anything I thought was worth pursuing, when you only had to glance at the Office '97 license agreement to find a felony.
Anyone here recall that Bill Gates is supporting SCO with millions when they would have gone under, so they can illegally harass every Linux user?
Andy Out!
The one thing nobody has addressed is that LEDs shoot almost all thier light straing ahead. They are almost impossible to focus accruately, because bright lights need many LEDs, and each LED had it's own first lens in it's plastic end cap. These things are precision, but not up to optical precision standards. You don't get 1/2 wavelength precision for $0.10 each. Therefore, the focus is rough, and some beams are too small while others are too large.
Also, has anyone noticed that on multi-LED lights, if all the LEDs point forward, you can cover up 1/2 the lights, something strange happens? Can you tell me what? It's not like a standard flashlight. 90% of/. users who use LED lights don't understand how they work.
Finally, I can vouch for the weapon mounted LED lights. They are amazing. Look on the bright side, with the RIAA so afraid of new technology they will be using black powder muskets by torch light when they finally spark a second American civil war (next week.)
Andy Out!
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
on
EZTree Shuts Down
·
· Score: 1
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! We're all surprised every time the recording industry goes after honest content creators and distributors instead of going after pirates. It's like a German peasant in 1632 being surprised that the Spanish burned his house, raped his wife, and butchered his children, instead of burning witches at the steak. If you get in the recording industry's way, expect your 6 year old to be found partially burned, gutted, with her intestines staked to the ground 3 feet away.
There were no witches during the Spanish Inquisition, and there are no pirates that cost the RIAA / MPAA money. The Spanish Inquisition was about political power. These lawsuits are about stopping competition.
The MPAA / RIAA leaders are not stupid. They can see that when file trading goes up, so does sales. They want to stifle competition.
The goal of the recording industry is to shut down all competitors to their total monopoly on content. They tried to outlaw the VCR (See the BetaMax case before the SCOTUS.) They will try to outlaw every instrument that makes content creation possible without spending billions.
In every business textbook, it says that if you lobby Congress to pass laws (regulate your industry,) then you can increase the cost of entering your industry, and thereby create a competitive advantage for the big money people already there. That's what the RIAA / MPAA is doing. READ A BUSINESS TEXT BOOK. It's a specify example of the golden rule (he who has the gold makes the rules.)
So, you've got 1 option: (1) loose in the courts...no, no...you've got 2 options: (1) give up, or (2) loose in the courts...no, no, you've got 3 options...(1) give up, (2) loose in the courts, or (3) assassinate the CEO of the company sending nasty letters.
You can not hurt the lawyers without silver bullets and wooden stakes, so don't try it. Those suckers are nasty. If you do try to assassinate any CEOs, I suggest throwing garlic at them.
That's it, and that's what makes the RIAA & MPAA so deadly. That and the fact that they are in the mob's pocket more than the liquor industry in 1920's Chicago.
I won't buy DRM protected content - not because of my wearines sof the DRM, but because of my sheer hatred for the RIAA / MPAA. These anti-free-speech-NAZI-Bastards have attacked my free speech, shut down my political web sites, and sued me for running Linux (because "anyone who did not pay for their operating system is a pirate!)
I will never pay for software again. I run open source, and am switching several local colleges with me. (It's amazing what an aqgitating adjunct can do.) May thousands of students will graduate knowing everything about Open Office, and knowing nothing about "Microsoft Office" (whatever that is.)
I will never pay Holly-Weird to see their movies. I don't have a TV set. It's a war - and if I had a nuke, I'd gladly give my life as the world's firt nuclear suicide bomber.
Of course, to be fair, since the People's Democratic Replublic of Kalifornia (PDRK) forecd GM to so this, they should be given the responsibility of disposing of the cars and they should be charged the $1Bn.
I'll volunteer to go door-to-door and confiscate the correct amount from each and every cticzen in the PDRK.
I was distributing bomb making info before it passed, and still do.
I was devoted to the overthrow of any govt that ignores its own constitution before the Patriot Act was passed, and I still demand the overthrow of the US Govt. I hope to overthrow the govt and restore the US Constitution through electrions, but if they start executing and imprisoning my candidates, then things will get violent. (Of course, my last 2 presidential candidates were arrested - Michael Badnarik and Rick McClaren - so we're getting really close.)
Anyone want instructions on blowing something up? If so, eMail me. I've got a 4.5 Gig DVD of explosives information in PDF format that I've compiled.
An act of disobedience a day keeps the tyrant away, but if that doesn't work, there's always 7.62x39 and C4.
It's amazing that people still fall for DARPA's B.S., after last time when they changed the rules over 25 times and stil haf not admitted that they had changed the rules, after they ruled out my S-10 that was 25% race ready.
It's too bad they don't have ANY integrity, and it's worse that/. is forgetful enough to cover their B.S. "race" that rules out 99% of the teams after promising the a spot.
Registrant Contact:
iDownload.com
Domain Manager (webmaster@idownload.com)
8008445919
Fax: +1.-
1180 Avenue of the Americas
14th Floor
New York, NY 10036
US
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards!
Andy Out!
Thank you for remembering half of that book.
You are, of course, forgetting that armed govt troops are sent in to stop all innovation.
If you do choose to invest in shale oil extraction, I strongly suggest that you first buy ammo and camp out with the rough necks. That's the only way I know of to deter govt interferenct (other than Tim McVeigh's way, which I've been asked not to talk about.)
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards!
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards!
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards.
Andy Out!
I'm working on a robotics project, and have a serial (RS232C) interface to my bot's AVR Mega uController. I was looking for a serial terminal that I could interface to it, when it occurred to me that TI calculators use serial interfaces. Does anyone know of a serial term that would turn a TI calculator into a dumb term?
I've heard of FTerm running on Fargo on a TI-85, but can not find a download site.
Thanks!
Andy Out!
Remember when the RIAA / MPAA sued to get VCRs banned?
Remember when they said they wanted file sharing networks banned, and then they would be happy?
(And remember when Hitler wanted one more little piece of land, and then he'd be happy?)
Remember when eBay banned all sales of s/w on "recordable media" thereby making it against their rules for me to sell Linux on CD-Rs and DVD-Rs at cost?
I suggest you read anything you can find by "Claire Wolf" - the only time I ever disagreed with her was when she said "it's not time to shoot the bastards yet." I disagree because nothing is ever going to change until we shoot the bastards.
Andy Out!
I'm building a smaller scale copy of this.
Anyone interested in windmills should scour the used book sites for books by Hugh Piggott. His books are usable how-tos.
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards.
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards.
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards.
Andy Out!
My first hobby is a war against the MPAA / RIAA / BSA. So, if I had lived 60 years ago, I would have been fighting the NAZIs.
My hobbies in guns, reloading, and explosives probably would have put me in the Ordnance Department, but then I would have never had the privlidge of bayonetting an RIAA employee with a swastica on his uniform...that would have been a tough decision.
I'm buidling a Piggott Style Brake-Rotor Windmill (see http://www.otherpower.com/ )
Andy Out!
The cost of portable DVD players is under $200...why cann't we build Laptops with color screens for the same price? I know...the processors, RAM, and HDDs cost money. My first IBM compatible PC was an 8MHz 8086 with 640k of RAM & a 40MB HDD. We have 2GB SD cards now. They were putting those in wrist watches 5 years ago. Can't we use a little common sense in our choices of software, and pair down the software to, say, Palm levels? Take out the portable DVD player, and replace it with the guts from a Palm. We've got room to spare, so add in a pair of PCMCIA slots and a few extra media cards (CF / SD / etc.) Also add in a fully functional USB port so we can print, connect to a network, or use a real keyboard. What you get is a cross between a palmtop and a laptop. I need one! Andy Out!
Am I the only developer who was threatened with a lawsuit by the BSA for violating the license agreement on Office 97, which stated that you may only run Office 97 on a license Microsoft OS?
The problem, of course, was that I was playing with Wine (95) and was therefore running Office '97 on something that was NOT a licensed Microsoft OS.
I only wanted to use Power Point, which had no copmetitors that I could find in 1998. (Microsoft had a true monopoly.)
I filed a complaint under the Sherman anti-trust act for Micrsoft using one monopoly (Power-Point, which had no competitors, and did not even have a generic term like "presentation software" applied to it in 1998) to try to create another monopoly (Windows in the Operating System market.)
Maybe I'm the only one who remembers, but I'm still MILITANTLY anti-Microsoft to this day.
They comitted feolnies, and the Justice Department ignored their real wrongdoing for years. I wonder why? The DOJ seemed to do this long investigation and never found anything I thought was worth pursuing, when you only had to glance at the Office '97 license agreement to find a felony.
Andy Out!
This will never happen...it would enhance freed of speech...that will never happen...it's against the Communist Manifesto!
... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ...
The revolution is coming
Andy Out!
Anyone here recall that Bill Gates is supporting SCO with millions when they would have gone under, so they can illegally harass every Linux user? Andy Out!
The one thing nobody has addressed is that LEDs shoot almost all thier light straing ahead. They are almost impossible to focus accruately, because bright lights need many LEDs, and each LED had it's own first lens in it's plastic end cap. These things are precision, but not up to optical precision standards. You don't get 1/2 wavelength precision for $0.10 each. Therefore, the focus is rough, and some beams are too small while others are too large.
/. users who use LED lights don't understand how they work.
Also, has anyone noticed that on multi-LED lights, if all the LEDs point forward, you can cover up 1/2 the lights, something strange happens? Can you tell me what? It's not like a standard flashlight. 90% of
Finally, I can vouch for the weapon mounted LED lights. They are amazing. Look on the bright side, with the RIAA so afraid of new technology they will be using black powder muskets by torch light when they finally spark a second American civil war (next week.)
Andy Out!
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! We're all surprised every time the recording industry goes after honest content creators and distributors instead of going after pirates. It's like a German peasant in 1632 being surprised that the Spanish burned his house, raped his wife, and butchered his children, instead of burning witches at the steak. If you get in the recording industry's way, expect your 6 year old to be found partially burned, gutted, with her intestines staked to the ground 3 feet away.
There were no witches during the Spanish Inquisition, and there are no pirates that cost the RIAA / MPAA money. The Spanish Inquisition was about political power. These lawsuits are about stopping competition.
The MPAA / RIAA leaders are not stupid. They can see that when file trading goes up, so does sales. They want to stifle competition.
The goal of the recording industry is to shut down all competitors to their total monopoly on content. They tried to outlaw the VCR (See the BetaMax case before the SCOTUS.) They will try to outlaw every instrument that makes content creation possible without spending billions.
In every business textbook, it says that if you lobby Congress to pass laws (regulate your industry,) then you can increase the cost of entering your industry, and thereby create a competitive advantage for the big money people already there. That's what the RIAA / MPAA is doing. READ A BUSINESS TEXT BOOK. It's a specify example of the golden rule (he who has the gold makes the rules.)
So, you've got 1 option: (1) loose in the courts...no, no...you've got 2 options: (1) give up, or (2) loose in the courts...no, no, you've got 3 options...(1) give up, (2) loose in the courts, or (3) assassinate the CEO of the company sending nasty letters.
You can not hurt the lawyers without silver bullets and wooden stakes, so don't try it. Those suckers are nasty. If you do try to assassinate any CEOs, I suggest throwing garlic at them.
That's it, and that's what makes the RIAA & MPAA so deadly. That and the fact that they are in the mob's pocket more than the liquor industry in 1920's Chicago.
Andy Out!
Mars, the Grey (Goo) Plannet was once called the Red Plannet. Does anybody know why?
> We could have different "species" of
> nanobots - ones to fix nitrogen,
> another to break down CO2 into O2,
> etc etc.
We've already got those species - they are called bacteria.
Andy Out!
I won't buy DRM protected content - not because of my wearines sof the DRM, but because of my sheer hatred for the RIAA / MPAA. These anti-free-speech-NAZI-Bastards have attacked my free speech, shut down my political web sites, and sued me for running Linux (because "anyone who did not pay for their operating system is a pirate!)
I will never pay for software again. I run open source, and am switching several local colleges with me. (It's amazing what an aqgitating adjunct can do.) May thousands of students will graduate knowing everything about Open Office, and knowing nothing about "Microsoft Office" (whatever that is.)
I will never pay Holly-Weird to see their movies. I don't have a TV set. It's a war - and if I had a nuke, I'd gladly give my life as the world's firt nuclear suicide bomber.
(back to my quest to destroy the copyright NAZIs)
Andy Out!
Of course, to be fair, since the People's Democratic Replublic of Kalifornia (PDRK) forecd GM to so this, they should be given the responsibility of disposing of the cars and they should be charged the $1Bn.
I'll volunteer to go door-to-door and confiscate the correct amount from each and every cticzen in the PDRK.
Andy Out!
Who cares about the Patriot Act?
I was distributing bomb making info before it passed, and still do.
I was devoted to the overthrow of any govt that ignores its own constitution before the Patriot Act was passed, and I still demand the overthrow of the US Govt. I hope to overthrow the govt and restore the US Constitution through electrions, but if they start executing and imprisoning my candidates, then things will get violent. (Of course, my last 2 presidential candidates were arrested - Michael Badnarik and Rick McClaren - so we're getting really close.)
Anyone want instructions on blowing something up? If so, eMail me. I've got a 4.5 Gig DVD of explosives information in PDF format that I've compiled.
An act of disobedience a day keeps the tyrant away, but if that doesn't work, there's always 7.62x39 and C4.
Andy Out!
It's amazing that people still fall for DARPA's B.S., after last time when they changed the rules over 25 times and stil haf not admitted that they had changed the rules, after they ruled out my S-10 that was 25% race ready.
/. is forgetful enough to cover their B.S. "race" that rules out 99% of the teams after promising the a spot.
It's too bad they don't have ANY integrity, and it's worse that
Andy Out!
Registrant Contact: iDownload.com Domain Manager (webmaster@idownload.com) 8008445919 Fax: +1.- 1180 Avenue of the Americas 14th Floor New York, NY 10036 US