actually i think i use the bigger case/hdd screws on the mobo as they hold it alot better if its goign to be held upright and say holding 2 athlons with huge heatsyncs.
the small ones don't fit in the brass coloured thingys without falling out do they? also the big ones have a much tighter grip into those little dot rise dealieys that are in a metal ring around the hole.
i havent built a machine in like half a year but im pretty sure thats how i built them in the past.
of course the worst screw is the compaq mounting screw where you have to use twice the normal amount of screws just so they can have the lil rails for easy component removal. of course you have to take the rails off the drives too so its actually making more work for you but ITS COMPAQ so it has to be gh3y.
i found some picatures! and they seem to back up that 103 is supposed to be used on the mainboard. so pishaw!
the only reason i use ie, well 2 reasons, but the main one is that when i put in d: into the address bar, it automagically turns into windows explorer so i can view files and stuff.
also mozilla renders the page as its being downloaded and IE does it after its downloaded. so when i get a webpage in mozilla i have a bunch of images and shit loading. In IE i have a whole page albiet it takes a few seconds longer but it makes it alot prettier.
free. bittorent. you too can own this video. How much do you pay for cable? if that even mattered at all or had ANYTHING to do with what I said.
"There isn't a conspiracy of CBS, Budweiser, Apple, Xerox, GM, Ford, Dorritos, Pepsi, Miller Lite and the Partnership for a Drug Free America (Well, ok, maybe there) trying to distract you while the Government kills kitty cats, push grannies down stairs and tell poor people they can't have any money. It can do that quite well on its own right in front of us. No distractions needed. We just pick and choose which ones we most want to be pissed about."
Or invades countries without any reason? Or tries to make the public support bush because hes a patriotic flag waving american, and if you don't your not. You really dont understand how much 1 trillion dollars is? Or why you should be concerend about the future instead of an event that has absolutely no poisitve meanings? Why are you so complacent with your government when it wastes your money and declares war in your name? how can you afford not to care? If someone took 3 trillion dollars from me i'd be fucking pissed. unless i didnt know about it.
"Why should CBS want to bring in unneeded controversy into the Super Bowl that would distract from the game?"
yeah, i mean its not like the only reason that sports exsists is to distract the general population from politics or important social issues.
"Lets take sports. Thats another crucial example of the indoctronation system in my view. For one thing because it offers people somethign to pay attention to, thats of no importance. It keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea about doing something about.
And infact its striking to see the intelligence used by ordinary people in sports. I mean you listen to radio stations and people call in. They have the most exotic information, understanding about all kinds of arcane issues.... I remember in highschool, i suddenly asked myself, why do I care if my team wins the football game? I mean, I dont know anybody on the team, nothing to do with me, i mean why am i cheering for my team?, it doesnt make sense.
But the point is it does make sense. Its a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to athority. And you know, group cohesion behind leadership elements. Infact its training in irrational jingoism.
I think if you look closely at these things, they do have functions. Thats why money is speant supporting them, creating a base for them, advertising them and so on." -- Noam Chomsky -- Manufacturing Consent, The video Transcribed by me
this is what made me understand why people like watching sports, as I never have.
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"I guess it is now censorship when a corporation decided not to play an ad that would piss off the majority of the country"
i actually thought that the majority of americans were smarter than some of the pro bush trolls on slashdot. if there not, then why should i have any sympathy at all for your country? You really think most americans dont care that their govt is running a 1 TRILLION+ dollar deficit?
are americans stupid (by your own admission) or um what?
you can only really be ignorant, which i think is much more likely than stupidity if you are prevented from learning.
"maybe it's like those people who drive obnoxious SUVs.. overcompensation."
your analogy is a bit flawed. people who drives SUV's have small penises. If you actually have a powerhouse machine (quad xeon i think would count) then it is very fitting for it to sound like it.
however if you had say a single processor celeron that had a 6x120mm fan array which swallowed passing rodents whole, then i would be forced to redefine you.
"Personally, I'm torn between the cushy redundancy offered by decentralization, and the cushy security of having most of the servers in a stable, well-protected country."
oh i forgot, germany is such an unstable rogue state. better hurry up and invade!^H^H^H^H^H^H liberate
Ok well that makes sense but I just dont see it hurting linux really. The mainstream media of course will draw a connection but I doubt it will stick in peoples minds as "all linux users cause problems". Don't people already know that most viruses come from spammers?
A few business people i do work for are aware of this from media reports. When I said to them that spammers write viruses/backdoors/trojans to use as mailing stations, they could understand that, it makes sense. If i were to say, look theres a worm that will take this site off the internet for a period of like 15 days, and then terminte itself -- well thats alot more benigne in my opinion.
the best example of this is that there are hundreds of microsoft worms, virsuses, scams and people still use microsoft products. I am frequently reading news reports that blame microsoft for having flaws to allow these things to happen. Does the general public in any way blame microsoft? no.
the conculsion i would draw is that it will have a not proveable, unsubstantited link to a comunity -- one of many -- that dislikes what sco is doing. I guess people are stupid enough say linux == virus writers, but i would generally give people more credit than that.
ok i take that back, you have to think of the lowest common denominator i guess. I was mainly arguing that people really do support this, its just that they are not saying it becuase, as some poster said, we have to present a united front of denoucement for these activities. to disassociate ourselves.
I personally dont like lying to myself but i understand the societial good that it would do.
(forgive horrible spelling as i can not spell today)
you know i am goign to post this on my account and everything because i really want someone to read it. in the past two days the slashdot groupthink has gone from 90% "fuck sco im glad there getting hurt" to 90% "virus writers are evil i ahve to work a few extra hours to clean up my improperly administered network" . fucking hypocrites. whats the point in hating something so much, like down to your very core, if you dont turn slightly evil in the process?
sure its not "right" but its fucking sco. i seriosuly doubt weither you people really hate sco or if you can even really hate things. its part of being human to get pissed off and wish bitter death upon your enemies in any way possible.
if they slander linux, insult torvalds, insult us all - dont they deserve the same "respect" in return?
dont even bother quoting nietzsche "lest thee become the monster" because, well maybe someone who is not you should become evil. AND WE SHOULD BE THANKFULL that we didnt have to make that sacrafice. is it wrong to route for evil if its the enemy of your enemy?
i would think not, but slashdot.... seriously just fuck you all. wheres the fun in hating sco casually?
its just liek the MPAA. hate them till LOTR comes out on DVD. then youll all suck some nice MPAA cock to get a copy before the others. its almost like no one takes this shit seriously or you've all grown up and sold out. or i take it too seriously. who knows. at least the virus has some positive effect on the world, unlike most.
1) because its there. 2) because we need more land/resources for the growing number of people on earth. 3) because when i was a kid i had a preminition of my death on mars. I was sitting in a drive in watching an old movie. I was an old man, but i remmeber looking up at the little pinprick that was the earth and smiling.
im pretty sure that there will be a 50's revival of culture on mars at the time of my death.
we need projects that bring the entire world together. going to mars could do that. Also i think that americans love to spend money on 'defense'. if all that money were moved to something vaguely constructive we could teraform mars within a few generations. INAMTE (mars terraforming expert) so i'm not sure but I am sure that if governements poured as much money into trying to survive as they do trying to kill eatchother we would be alot better off.
"I work in TV where commercials pay the freight. Is this so wrong on the net? It's not what we're used to, but maybe we're asking for more than is reasonable. I just don't know.
commericals make whatever they are advertising on their "bitch". as in if you dont please the advertisers then they pull the funding that you need to keep running. this in effect, puts them in control of content that the company produces. personally i do not care as none of those sites (espn, msn) i would ever visit. i care because it sets a precident.
a good example of abuse would be one of these sites doing a "study" that concludes that advertising in this way is the best way to do it. this article could lead to wide spread adoption and thus more control.
its not very far from reality to see this happening. do you think all the companies under the GE umbrella ever speak badly about GE?
well i watched it and its all about how the media is the only source of information (pre internet of course) and how that makes people only think in certain ways. so yes i can say that even though someone made a documentary about it (i think it was more like a plug for the book IMHO), that it is ok in pirating it.
of course i pirate everything because as michael moore and southpark both say; the message is more important than profit off said message.
something tells me hes like michael moore[5meg~] and wont care if people pirate his things.
he has the exact same idea about it that I do but hes famous and im not. which is just as well because i dont want people going thru my trash any more than they already do.
"Contrary to all the dick swinging here on Slashdot- your balls don't get bigger while sitting in front of a computer- they get bigger by experiencing real-world confrontation."
my balls get bigger from having sex with women, but hey i guess if you get off on killing thats your bag. your not a psychopath at all.
also your handle "bigman2003" complements your feelings of inadequacy and overcompensation nicely!
"First, look at all the crap (in addition to Tang) that was developed as a direct result of the space program and the incredible challenges that have been overcome in the process, including computers, etc"
" see that computer you are typing on, see the cell phone you are using, see that velcro, teflon, anything small, anything modern, anything you see around you.....it has been made possable because of the work NASA did in the 60's to get men to the moon. "
" Wrong. Velcro? Swiss inventor, 1948. Teflon? Ohio researcher, 1937. Care to try a few more? Plastics, maybe? Nope, 1908! Smoke detector? Nope Computers? No. Night vision goggles? No. Cell phones? No. TV? No. Radio? No. Microwaves? NO. Tang?......NO! All of these things I have heard people mention as spinoffs, and NONE OF THEM ARE TRUE. Some even came from the 19th century! Most of the advances they have contributed have been minor improvements on existing ideas. That's not to say that they havn't contributed anything, but it isn't vital to our current state of technology. The most important things they have come up with has been in the field of treating osteoporosis, on account of having to deal with it in astronaughts who had been in space for too long... Oh, and data compression. They hold a whole whack of patents on various methods of compressing images and other data, and 40% of their funding comes from these royalties."
--- That all being said, my personal feelings are that we should definately send people all over the solar system. However I see it only happening when:
1) Countries start working together instead of getting into pissing contests.
2) MegaCorps have nothing or very little to do with it.I dont want to look up at the microsoft moon^(tm) thanks...
3) Money is diverted from Military uses which really dont do anythign to benifit mankind at all. Well except for reducing populations that one could argue... nevermind.
"Online people may spend more overall time in "social activities" - but a lot of these social activities probably don't really count. Is someone who spends 6 hours a week in a chat room socially better off than someone who spends 5 hours a week hanging out with friends at a mall?"
um yes, yes they are. Do you live in suburbia or something? who hangs out at malls?!? you like rampent consumerism, advertising, unwashed masses and zombies?
"Another point to mention: I watch TV at least as many hours as I am on my computer. Why? All of the rooms that I have computers in also have TVs in them, and I always have a TV on in the background when I'm on the computer."
isnt that great your majesty. listening to tv is not the same as watching it. the aricle is trying to make a point that the majority of internet users aren't social outcasts who sit around watching tv or hanging out at the mall.
i still dont believe they are giving hard drugs to kids like that. I have been an experimental drug user for years and ive done LOTS of types of drugs. Ritilin is speed. I have also heard this expressed as ritilin is speed after puberty hits. sadly, most people dont take their kids off of it in highschool.
YES it will get you better grades. YES it will help you focus. But i have seen people that have been on perscription ritilin for 10+years and they have some very weird issues. It makes you just as sketchy as any amphetamine, and the long term effects are down right scary. Everything from facial ticks to hyper sensitivity to constant feelings of restlessness - ive seen them all. Not to mention that the people who I know who were on perscription ritilin are VERY much more likely to drift into every other sort of chemical drug.
Chemicals are the worst way to get high and the only reason that they are considered "safe" for longterm use is that the pharmasutical industry has beat the government into submision. Its scary when i watch american TV and every 3rd ad is an ad for a drug that promises a "brave new world" of feeling good and "correct" all the time. this is the root issue. Back in the day(tm) people ACCEPTED that they were different from one another. Depression, lack of focus, listlessness and an excess of energy were just normal traits. I do not for a second buy the line that doctors just didnt know how to diagnoise and treat these things before and thats why we are only seeing them now.
To deny people to feel depressed or anxious or restless is to DENY YOURSELF HUMANITY. These unfavourable societial attitudes should be treated with societal treaments. Kids too hyper? maybe you should stop letting the blipvert TV entertain them and do some parenting.
Its so sad that what was considered a personal quirk or mannerism 100 years ago is now a disease that you have to pay 500$ a month to cure. Of course these diseases will never be cured: because they are not diseases but things that make people different from eachother.
EROWID - a solid link (and general site) on drugs.
"to search for a key is to admit that you are in prison" -mens room wall. sushi restaraunt.
"'His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.... Murder kills only the individual-and, after all, what is an individual?' With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. 'We can make a new one with the greatest ease-as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.'" -Huxley Brave New World ch.10
"Aren't there certain bacteria that can survive the long, harsh trip through space? What if they were attached since liftoff, survived the trip through space, survived the burn in the thin atmosphere, and wound up being deposited in a somewhat moist area?"
how do you think there came to be life on this planet? random chance? sure sure.
we populate mars it populates us. its just a little bit of history repeating.
i for one welcome our new martian-flu-creature overloards.
a better windows friendly way to do it is to pirate a program called netlimiter (or buy if your so inclined). ive been using it for months and got it for the purposes of easily changing the cap on the upload bandwidth of BT.
i couldnt figure out how to add that command line to the main program so when i click on a link it is always enacted as a rule. this program i highly recomend though as it allows me to cap any windows tcp/ip connection (doesnt seem to work for ipx). it has monitoring graphs as well as collecting statistics and monitoring all connections made in and out of the pc.
"The scene is closed to much of the world; would-be participants have to gain the trust of insiders and prove their worth before gaining entry. And the lifespan of groups tends to be short, at least on the Net, where players come and go."
and here we see a "nerd" or "computer insider" as they perfer to be called. see how it looks at us with quiet distain.
do the people at this paper pick technical editors based on who can send a midi file in an email? on the plus side, im a player in an international world of intrigue and mystery
that the videos use of Tflops as a mesurement (and whoever makes that top 10 supercomputer list referenced in the video) is not an acurate measure of computing power. rather the inifinity band interconnect they use for networking was why that number is so high (10.35 tflops).
anyone have any more technical info on this? i was left thinking from another article that tflops is a poor way to measure computing performance but i cant remmeber where i read that.
theres always a few words or a phrase to latch on to in unintelligent posts. i think thats the one right there. what conflict are you even talking about? the war in iraq? umm... when did iraq attack the usa? i forget.
osama bin laden? an american trained terrorist doing handywork.
please give me one example of a conflict that the usa did not start. just one
thats all i want.
oh and read your history. most of the resolutions on iraq were placed there under the strong guidance of the USA. they hurt the people and not sadam, as you can see by the jewel encrusted faucets and gold plated ak47s that were strewn about.
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"senior editor of a website that is read by about? 13,000 people a day,"
um you realize that your website is just one big image with your email underneath right?
i dont think thats considered writing.
actually i think i use the bigger case/hdd screws on the mobo as they hold it alot better if its goign to be held upright and say holding 2 athlons with huge heatsyncs.
the small ones don't fit in the brass coloured thingys without falling out do they? also the big ones have a much tighter grip into those little dot rise dealieys that are in a metal ring around the hole.
i havent built a machine in like half a year but im pretty sure thats how i built them in the past.
of course the worst screw is the compaq mounting screw where you have to use twice the normal amount of screws just so they can have the lil rails for easy component removal. of course you have to take the rails off the drives too so its actually making more work for you but ITS COMPAQ so it has to be gh3y.
i found some picatures! and they seem to back up that 103 is supposed to be used on the mainboard. so pishaw!
the only reason i use ie, well 2 reasons, but the main one is that when i put in d: into the address bar, it automagically turns into windows explorer so i can view files and stuff.
also mozilla renders the page as its being downloaded and IE does it after its downloaded. so when i get a webpage in mozilla i have a bunch of images and shit loading. In IE i have a whole page albiet it takes a few seconds longer but it makes it alot prettier.
"How much did that Chomsky video set you back?"
free. bittorent. you too can own this video. How much do you pay for cable? if that even mattered at all or had ANYTHING to do with what I said.
"There isn't a conspiracy of CBS, Budweiser, Apple, Xerox, GM, Ford, Dorritos, Pepsi, Miller Lite and the Partnership for a Drug Free America (Well, ok, maybe there) trying to distract you while the Government kills kitty cats, push grannies down stairs and tell poor people they can't have any money. It can do that quite well on its own right in front of us. No distractions needed. We just pick and choose which ones we most want to be pissed about."
Or invades countries without any reason? Or tries to make the public support bush because hes a patriotic flag waving american, and if you don't your not. You really dont understand how much 1 trillion dollars is? Or why you should be concerend about the future instead of an event that has absolutely no poisitve meanings? Why are you so complacent with your government when it wastes your money and declares war in your name?
how can you afford not to care? If someone took 3 trillion dollars from me i'd be fucking pissed. unless i didnt know about it.
yeah, i mean its not like the only reason that sports exsists is to distract the general population from politics or important social issues.
"Lets take sports. Thats another crucial example of the indoctronation system in my view. For one thing because it offers people somethign to pay attention to, thats of no importance. It keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea about doing something about.
And infact its striking to see the intelligence used by ordinary people in sports. I mean you listen to radio stations and people call in. They have the most exotic information, understanding about all kinds of arcane issues.
But the point is it does make sense. Its a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to athority. And you know, group cohesion behind leadership elements. Infact its training in irrational jingoism.
I think if you look closely at these things, they do have functions. Thats why money is speant supporting them, creating a base for them, advertising them and so on."
-- Noam Chomsky -- Manufacturing Consent, The video Transcribed by me
this is what made me understand why people like watching sports, as I never have.
i actually thought that the majority of americans were smarter than some of the pro bush trolls on slashdot. if there not, then why should i have any sympathy at all for your country? You really think most americans dont care that their govt is running a 1 TRILLION+ dollar deficit?
are americans stupid (by your own admission) or um what?
you can only really be ignorant, which i think is much more likely than stupidity if you are prevented from learning.
this is what CBS is doing.
this is why it is bad.
"maybe it's like those people who drive obnoxious SUVs.. overcompensation."
your analogy is a bit flawed. people who drives SUV's have small penises. If you actually have a powerhouse machine (quad xeon i think would count) then it is very fitting for it to sound like it.
however if you had say a single processor celeron that had a 6x120mm fan array which swallowed passing rodents whole, then i would be forced to redefine you.
um correct me if im wrong but aren't
girl 1 and girl 2 the same ebay user id with different pictures and descriptions???
also the first one is 265$ USD. wow. for that price im SURE you can buy a quality whore or about 10 cheap ones...
"Personally, I'm torn between the cushy redundancy offered by decentralization, and the cushy security of having most of the servers in a stable, well-protected country."
oh i forgot, germany is such an unstable rogue state. better hurry up and invade!^H^H^H^H^H^H liberate
Ok well that makes sense but I just dont see it hurting linux really. The mainstream media of course will draw a connection but I doubt it will stick in peoples minds as "all linux users cause problems". Don't people already know that most viruses come from spammers?
A few business people i do work for are aware of this from media reports. When I said to them that spammers write viruses/backdoors/trojans to use as mailing stations, they could understand that, it makes sense. If i were to say, look theres a worm that will take this site off the internet for a period of like 15 days, and then terminte itself -- well thats alot more benigne in my opinion.
the best example of this is that there are hundreds of microsoft worms, virsuses, scams and people still use microsoft products. I am frequently reading news reports that blame microsoft for having flaws to allow these things to happen. Does the general public in any way blame microsoft? no.
the conculsion i would draw is that it will have a not proveable, unsubstantited link to a comunity -- one of many -- that dislikes what sco is doing. I guess people are stupid enough say linux == virus writers, but i would generally give people more credit than that.
ok i take that back, you have to think of the lowest common denominator i guess. I was mainly arguing that people really do support this, its just that they are not saying it becuase, as some poster said, we have to present a united front of denoucement for these activities. to disassociate ourselves.
I personally dont like lying to myself but i understand the societial good that it would do.
(forgive horrible spelling as i can not spell today)
you know i am goign to post this on my account and everything because i really want someone to read it. in the past two days the slashdot groupthink has gone from 90% "fuck sco im glad there getting hurt" to 90% "virus writers are evil i ahve to work a few extra hours to clean up my improperly administered network" . fucking hypocrites. whats the point in hating something so much, like down to your very core, if you dont turn slightly evil in the process?
sure its not "right" but its fucking sco. i seriosuly doubt weither you people really hate sco or if you can even really hate things. its part of being human to get pissed off and wish bitter death upon your enemies in any way possible.
if they slander linux, insult torvalds, insult us all - dont they deserve the same "respect" in return?
dont even bother quoting nietzsche "lest thee become the monster" because, well maybe someone who is not you should become evil. AND WE SHOULD BE THANKFULL that we didnt have to make that sacrafice. is it wrong to route for evil if its the enemy of your enemy?
i would think not, but slashdot.... seriously just fuck you all. wheres the fun in hating sco casually?
its just liek the MPAA. hate them till LOTR comes out on DVD. then youll all suck some nice MPAA cock to get a copy before the others. its almost like no one takes this shit seriously or you've all grown up and sold out. or i take it too seriously. who knows. at least the virus has some positive effect on the world, unlike most.
excuse my freedom french.
"So what purpose does going to Mars serve?"
1) because its there. 2) because we need more land/resources for the growing number of people on earth. 3) because when i was a kid i had a preminition of my death on mars. I was sitting in a drive in watching an old movie. I was an old man, but i remmeber looking up at the little pinprick that was the earth and smiling.
im pretty sure that there will be a 50's revival of culture on mars at the time of my death.
we need projects that bring the entire world together. going to mars could do that. Also i think that americans love to spend money on 'defense'. if all that money were moved to something vaguely constructive we could teraform mars within a few generations. INAMTE (mars terraforming expert) so i'm not sure but I am sure that if governements poured as much money into trying to survive as they do trying to kill eatchother we would be alot better off.
"I work in TV where commercials pay the freight. Is this so wrong on the net? It's not what we're used to, but maybe we're asking for more than is reasonable. I just don't know.
commericals make whatever they are advertising on their "bitch". as in if you dont please the advertisers then they pull the funding that you need to keep running. this in effect, puts them in control of content that the company produces. personally i do not care as none of those sites (espn, msn) i would ever visit. i care because it sets a precident.
a good example of abuse would be one of these sites doing a "study" that concludes that advertising in this way is the best way to do it. this article could lead to wide spread adoption and thus more control.
its not very far from reality to see this happening. do you think all the companies under the GE umbrella ever speak badly about GE?
well i watched it and its all about how the media is the only source of information (pre internet of course) and how that makes people only think in certain ways. so yes i can say that even though someone made a documentary about it (i think it was more like a plug for the book IMHO), that it is ok in pirating it.
of course i pirate everything because as michael moore and southpark both say; the message is more important than profit off said message.
Manufacturing Consent [800mb~]
something tells me hes like michael moore[5meg~] and wont care if people pirate his things.
he has the exact same idea about it that I do but hes famous and im not. which is just as well because i dont want people going thru my trash any more than they already do.
"Contrary to all the dick swinging here on Slashdot- your balls don't get bigger while sitting in front of a computer- they get bigger by experiencing real-world confrontation."
my balls get bigger from having sex with women, but hey i guess if you get off on killing thats your bag. your not a psychopath at all.
also your handle "bigman2003" complements your feelings of inadequacy and overcompensation nicely!
make love not war f00
"First, look at all the crap (in addition to Tang) that was developed as a direct result of the space program and the incredible challenges that have been overcome in the process, including computers, etc"
ah look its miss information how are you today?
Quoting from Here:
" see that computer you are typing on, see the cell phone you are using, see that velcro, teflon, anything small, anything modern, anything you see around you.....it has been made possable because of the work NASA did in the 60's to get men to the moon. "
" Wrong.
Velcro? Swiss inventor, 1948.
Teflon? Ohio researcher, 1937.
Care to try a few more? Plastics, maybe? Nope, 1908!
Smoke detector? Nope
Computers? No. Night vision goggles? No. Cell phones? No. TV? No. Radio? No. Microwaves? NO. Tang?......NO! All of these things I have heard people mention as spinoffs, and NONE OF THEM ARE TRUE. Some even came from the 19th century!
Most of the advances they have contributed have been minor improvements on existing ideas. That's not to say that they havn't contributed anything, but it isn't vital to our current state of technology. The most important things they have come up with has been in the field of treating osteoporosis, on account of having to deal with it in astronaughts who had been in space for too long...
Oh, and data compression. They hold a whole whack of patents on various methods of compressing images and other data, and 40% of their funding comes from these royalties."
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That all being said, my personal feelings are that we should definately send people all over the solar system. However I see it only happening when:
1) Countries start working together instead of getting into pissing contests.
2) MegaCorps have nothing or very little to do with it.I dont want to look up at the microsoft moon^(tm) thanks...
3) Money is diverted from Military uses which really dont do anythign to benifit mankind at all. Well except for reducing populations that one could argue... nevermind.
"Online people may spend more overall time in "social activities" - but a lot of these social activities probably don't really count. Is someone who spends 6 hours a week in a chat room socially better off than someone who spends 5 hours a week hanging out with friends at a mall?"
um yes, yes they are. Do you live in suburbia or something? who hangs out at malls?!? you like rampent consumerism, advertising, unwashed masses and zombies?
"Another point to mention: I watch TV at least as many hours as I am on my computer. Why? All of the rooms that I have computers in also have TVs in them, and I always have a TV on in the background when I'm on the computer."
isnt that great your majesty. listening to tv is not the same as watching it. the aricle is trying to make a point that the majority of internet users aren't social outcasts who sit around watching tv or hanging out at the mall.
it didnt say all users so i think your safe.
so he had an Laptop with his other acount next to him and is just trying to doubble his karma!
id imagine that when you get high karma you can mod your other acount up so that the slashbots will mod it up even more because of groupthink.
bloody crafty and yet simple enough to fool a hare
*sigh*
i still dont believe they are giving hard drugs to kids like that. I have been an experimental drug user for years and ive done LOTS of types of drugs. Ritilin is speed. I have also heard this expressed as ritilin is speed after puberty hits. sadly, most people dont take their kids off of it in highschool.
YES it will get you better grades. YES it will help you focus. But i have seen people that have been on perscription ritilin for 10+years and they have some very weird issues. It makes you just as sketchy as any amphetamine, and the long term effects are down right scary. Everything from facial ticks to hyper sensitivity to constant feelings of restlessness - ive seen them all. Not to mention that the people who I know who were on perscription ritilin are VERY much more likely to drift into every other sort of chemical drug.
Chemicals are the worst way to get high and the only reason that they are considered "safe" for longterm use is that the pharmasutical industry has beat the government into submision. Its scary when i watch american TV and every 3rd ad is an ad for a drug that promises a "brave new world" of feeling good and "correct" all the time. this is the root issue. Back in the day(tm) people ACCEPTED that they were different from one another. Depression, lack of focus, listlessness and an excess of energy were just normal traits. I do not for a second buy the line that doctors just didnt know how to diagnoise and treat these things before and thats why we are only seeing them now.
To deny people to feel depressed or anxious or restless is to DENY YOURSELF HUMANITY. These unfavourable societial attitudes should be treated with societal treaments. Kids too hyper? maybe you should stop letting the blipvert TV entertain them and do some parenting.
Its so sad that what was considered a personal quirk or mannerism 100 years ago is now a disease that you have to pay 500$ a month to cure. Of course these diseases will never be cured: because they are not diseases but things that make people different from eachother.
EROWID - a solid link (and general site) on drugs.
"to search for a key is to admit that you are in prison"
-mens room wall. sushi restaraunt.
"'His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.... Murder kills only the individual-and, after all, what is an individual?' With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. 'We can make a new one with the greatest ease-as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.'"
-Huxley Brave New World ch.10
"Aren't there certain bacteria that can survive the long, harsh trip through space? What if they were attached since liftoff, survived the trip through space, survived the burn in the thin atmosphere, and wound up being deposited in a somewhat moist area?"
how do you think there came to be life on this planet? random chance? sure sure.
we populate mars it populates us. its just a little bit of history repeating.
i for one welcome our new martian-flu-creature overloards.
a better windows friendly way to do it is to pirate a program called netlimiter (or buy if your so inclined). ive been using it for months and got it for the purposes of easily changing the cap on the upload bandwidth of BT.
i couldnt figure out how to add that command line to the main program so when i click on a link it is always enacted as a rule. this program i highly recomend though as it allows me to cap any windows tcp/ip connection (doesnt seem to work for ipx). it has monitoring graphs as well as collecting statistics and monitoring all connections made in and out of the pc.
its also quite friendly on ram and cpu.
you can get it from here or buy it from netlimiter
wholly god
"The scene is closed to much of the world; would-be participants have to gain the trust of insiders and prove their worth before gaining entry. And the lifespan of groups tends to be short, at least on the Net, where players come and go."
and here we see a "nerd" or "computer insider" as they perfer to be called. see how it looks at us with quiet distain.
do the people at this paper pick technical editors based on who can send a midi file in an email?
on the plus side, im a player in an international world of intrigue and mystery
that the videos use of Tflops as a mesurement (and whoever makes that top 10 supercomputer list referenced in the video) is not an acurate measure of computing power. rather the inifinity band interconnect they use for networking was why that number is so high (10.35 tflops).
anyone have any more technical info on this? i was left thinking from another article that tflops is a poor way to measure computing performance but i cant remmeber where i read that.
"The U.S., however, didn't start this conflict."
theres always a few words or a phrase to latch on to in unintelligent posts. i think thats the one right there. what conflict are you even talking about?
the war in iraq? umm... when did iraq attack the usa? i forget.
osama bin laden? an american trained terrorist doing handywork.
please give me one example of a conflict that the usa did not start.
just one
thats all i want.
oh and read your history. most of the resolutions on iraq were placed there under the strong guidance of the USA. they hurt the people and not sadam, as you can see by the jewel encrusted faucets and gold plated ak47s that were strewn about.