Portland OR is a rather kooky town. You would need to experience it for a while to believe the insanity that passes for reasoned thought here.
This is quite typical of the ideas floating through the sandlewood incense smoke and love beads the has-been hippies in politics here, and touchie feelie encounter group huggers that populate the place promote.
I stopped watching Televison as a medium over a decade ago. All TV. Try not watching it for a brief period. During that time, amuse yourself by reading all those books you "Never have the time for". Then, after a month or so, turn on the babble box again and pay attention to what is said. See? Yes, that tripe, that bilge, that total insult to an inteligent thinking being is what you had been mistaking for "quality entertainment". Now, turn it back off, cancel your cable subscription, and use the resultant savings to purchase more books.
Think of the Constitution and all subsequent case law as a so-so design for an initial release, then patch after patch being applied with never once a trace of a major upgrade:
US Law version 1.99999999999a Alpha
and a lettre de cachet warrant was issued when you don't know the name but you believe you do have sufficient other information to identify the person. looks liek a duck, quacks like a duck. Its a duck.
I seem to recal from history classes that nameless warrants or as they were called: "lettre de cachet" was one of the major complaints the Founding Fathers had. I also recall that around 1776 this injustice was somewhat...remedied...
> I don't see why these people are getting "quietly arrested". Is it not obvious? Spammers are all being shipped to a secret government location. At these secure sites, Chairs, tables, projectors, and Powerpoint presentations are being prepared even as we speak. Clueless bureaucrats are covertly stepping out of their dreary cubicles to attend these highly classified seminars Within a year, "W3 R the G0vernment and R H3re 2 hep U" will be flooding the inboxes of the land.
Largest ever non-nuclear blast has already occured. It happend in 1947 in Texas City Texas. Read about it here: http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
We all owe a debt to Cray and especially to Seymor. The Cray 1, Cray 2, YMP, were in their day works of art. Back in the day, I briefly did some support for a shop that had these beasts. The archetecture of the Cray was, back then, in a word: revolutionary. I seem to recall that recently on eBay, the Cray that Apple used in developing the Macintosh was up for sale (probably made few hundred bucks). Also recently there was an article in Wired in which fashionable Geeks were purchasing old Cray casings to use as furniture in their ultimate in posh digs. The old Crays looked like a round love seat married to a round refrigerator. Just the thing to sit on while playing Xaxon on your Atari.
Another similar case to this was the evening a TV sitcom was first aired in South Korea. The Sitcom: Joanie Loves Chachi. I have heard that this one night had the greatest single viewership in all of Korean television history. You see, in Korean, "Chachi" means........penis.
200 yers ago men with horse buckboards and hacksaws went out on the lake, cut up massive blocks of ice, hauled these back to underground brick lined cellars and packed them in straw. All summer this ice was used to cool those who could afford it. This pumping tech just strikes me as an extension of the earlier tech.
Dorty Sayers, the Author of the Lord Peter Whimsey series of murder mysteries is also a noted translator of the Divine Comedy. Highly recomended. The mystery novels are also a ripping good read!
For a stand alone PC, 98SE is a FAR superior choice to XP. Less bloat, stable drivers, and, on a modern box it SCREAMS. Also on a network, with a proper firewall, good NAT, or other precautions, it can also work fine. Now, jacking your cable modem directly to a Win 95 box (honest, I talked to a guy last week with this) is not a real good idea
Ok: A G type yellow dwarf star. A narrow band of radiation and thermal emissions. Planetary body with a core that generates enough of a magnetic field to create an ionization field around the planet capable of stopping most (but not all) of the hard radiation. A prevalence of carbon in the chemistry, and a temperature gradient in the narrow band between the solid and gaseous state of hydrogen ash when held at a pressure in also a very narrow range. NOW. Find that combination, see if life arises, then in the billions of years of its existence barring a mass extinction event, find if INTELLIGENT life arises. Odds of all this are pretty slim but the difference between pretty slim and not at all is a lot. and the universe is made up of just that: "a lot".
So...If I were a Google employee/ contractor/ friend of the CEO's secretary, etc and was handed 1000 shares back int he day...Years later, I run into some (really it is a minor thing) gambling trouble and used those shares as colleral to Guido and his burly boys... Now the IPO Gestapo wants them back. What is to do? or alternately: I sell them back 999 and refuse to part with 1 share. again, what's to do?
I ran into Mark and his crew at Applefest 1982 in Anahiem. Fun show that... I may even still have a floppy or two around. Between the current Katie.com issue and this one, I do know one thing: In an average year I spend a good thousand dollars or better on books. Yes, I read quite a bit. Hence forward, I will be reviewing the publisher information on the spine and if it says Penguin, it goes right back on the shelf. I trust the publisher enjoys the company of their lawyers because they just lost the a customer forever.
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When law is not the answer, yet law is passed to address it. the law, and all laws, looses respect.
I rememebr years ago the strident arguments on IRC: "No No! this is NOT some AOL 'room'. This is a CHANNEL!"
We need a new word that denotes a good or cool hack, or hacker. I propose "mugwump" but am open to reasonable suggestions...
Portland OR is a rather kooky town. You would need to experience it for a while to believe the insanity that passes for reasoned thought here. This is quite typical of the ideas floating through the sandlewood incense smoke and love beads the has-been hippies in politics here, and touchie feelie encounter group huggers that populate the place promote.
Next time I date Deja Thoris I will ask her. Barsoom is a state of mind...
Indeed. But what we REALLY need is a moderate case of Anthrax Leprosy Delta Mu...
This just in: The Demonstration was actually conducted on a spare computer at a Kinkos in Abeline Texas.
proc options (main);
/* caps not used due to slashdot bottage */
put list (" whaz wrong with PL/1?");
end;
I stopped watching Televison as a medium over a decade ago. All TV. Try not watching it for a brief period. During that time, amuse yourself by reading all those books you "Never have the time for". Then, after a month or so, turn on the babble box again and pay attention to what is said. See? Yes, that tripe, that bilge, that total insult to an inteligent thinking being is what you had been mistaking for "quality entertainment". Now, turn it back off, cancel your cable subscription, and use the resultant savings to purchase more books.
In honor of this the "landing site" has been renamed Grovers Mill New Jersey
And, to this day we say "Ring you" or "answer your phone, it is ringing" or the like. When was the last time you heard an actual telephone BELL?
Think of the Constitution and all subsequent case law as a so-so design for an initial release, then patch after patch being applied with never once a trace of a major upgrade: US Law version 1.99999999999a Alpha
and a lettre de cachet warrant was issued when you don't know the name but you believe you do have sufficient other information to identify the person. looks liek a duck, quacks like a duck. Its a duck.
I seem to recal from history classes that nameless warrants or as they were called: "lettre de cachet" was one of the major complaints the Founding Fathers had. I also recall that around 1776 this injustice was somewhat...remedied...
Mars? I thought we were exploring Barsoom...
Deleting a Petabyte or two....humm How many burned Libraries of Alexandria would that be?
> I don't see why these people are getting "quietly arrested".
Is it not obvious? Spammers are all being shipped to a secret government location.
At these secure sites, Chairs, tables, projectors, and Powerpoint presentations are being prepared even as we speak.
Clueless bureaucrats are covertly stepping out of their dreary cubicles to attend these highly classified seminars
Within a year, "W3 R the G0vernment and R H3re 2 hep U" will be flooding the inboxes of the land.
Largest ever non-nuclear blast has already occured. It happend in 1947 in Texas City Texas. Read about it here: http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
We all owe a debt to Cray and especially to Seymor. The Cray 1, Cray 2, YMP, were in their day works of art. Back in the day, I briefly did some support for a shop that had these beasts. The archetecture of the Cray was, back then, in a word: revolutionary. I seem to recall that recently on eBay, the Cray that Apple used in developing the Macintosh was up for sale (probably made few hundred bucks). Also recently there was an article in Wired in which fashionable Geeks were purchasing old Cray casings to use as furniture in their ultimate in posh digs. The old Crays looked like a round love seat married to a round refrigerator. Just the thing to sit on while playing Xaxon on your Atari.
Another similar case to this was the evening a TV sitcom was first aired in South Korea. The Sitcom: Joanie Loves Chachi. I have heard that this one night had the greatest single viewership in all of Korean television history. You see, in Korean, "Chachi" means ........penis.
200 yers ago men with horse buckboards and hacksaws went out on the lake, cut up massive blocks of ice, hauled these back to underground brick lined cellars and packed them in straw. All summer this ice was used to cool those who could afford it. This pumping tech just strikes me as an extension of the earlier tech.
Dorty Sayers, the Author of the Lord Peter Whimsey series of murder mysteries is also a noted translator of the Divine Comedy. Highly recomended. The mystery novels are also a ripping good read!
For a stand alone PC, 98SE is a FAR superior choice to XP. Less bloat, stable drivers, and, on a modern box it SCREAMS. Also on a network, with a proper firewall, good NAT, or other precautions, it can also work fine. Now, jacking your cable modem directly to a Win 95 box (honest, I talked to a guy last week with this) is not a real good idea
Ok:
A G type yellow dwarf star. A narrow band of radiation and thermal emissions. Planetary body with a core that generates enough of a magnetic field to create an ionization field around the planet capable of stopping most (but not all) of the hard radiation. A prevalence of carbon in the chemistry, and a temperature gradient in the narrow band between the solid and gaseous state of hydrogen ash when held at a pressure in also a very narrow range. NOW. Find that combination, see if life arises, then in the billions of years of its existence barring a mass extinction event, find if INTELLIGENT life arises. Odds of all this are pretty slim but the difference between pretty slim and not at all is a lot. and the universe is made up of just that: "a lot".
So...If I were a Google employee/ contractor/ friend of the CEO's secretary, etc and was handed 1000 shares back int he day...Years later, I run into some (really it is a minor thing) gambling trouble and used those shares as colleral to Guido and his burly boys... Now the IPO Gestapo wants them back. What is to do?
or alternately: I sell them back 999 and refuse to part with 1 share. again, what's to do?
I ran into Mark and his crew at Applefest 1982 in Anahiem. Fun show that...
I may even still have a floppy or two around. Between the current Katie.com issue and this one, I do know one thing: In an average year I spend a good thousand dollars or better on books. Yes, I read quite a bit. Hence forward, I will be reviewing the publisher information on the spine and if it says Penguin, it goes right back on the shelf. I trust the publisher enjoys the company of their lawyers because they just lost the a customer forever.