you say, "You probably think the patriot act is bad... Look at what Senator Feinstein had to say about it. You are probably one of those people she is talking about who don't understand what it is and does."
from http://www.aclu-sc.org/Action/Newsletters/100599/
"Feinstein reported in a hearing on October 21 that her constituents have registered opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act by a margin of 21,434 to 6. Nonetheless, the Senator dismissed her constituents' concerns"
This may or may not be on topic, or even news, but the "box cutters" were Leatherman-type utility knives.
The 9/11 attacks were a pre-emptive strike by the Taliban against what it viewed as an imminent threat from the united states. a $$$ high-speed-navy-ship running linux wouldn't have stopped that.
The united states made a pre-emptive strike against Iraq. george bush has since admitted there was no link between Taliban and Iraq. Colin Powell has admitted the pre-invasion arguments he used at the United Nations early 2003 were based on shaky evidence.
If somebody could plz explain what the hell's going on, i'd really appreciate it. Besides the obvious slide towards a Police State, that is.
sample comment from you: "People. Never listen to anything relrelrel has to say. He is Illuminatus. Seriously... just look at his name. So symmetrical. And there's other signs too. His post has scored a five. A FIVE. The Illuminati favorite number (for the pentagram). And there is at least three number twos in this post. An obvious reference to the Illuminati duality."
and also this: "Do you not allow your users to browse the web (particularly with IE)?"
you say, "I mostly lurk. Go against the vocal minority and you get modded down"
for me, he lost credibility as a writer for missing the distinction between "it's" (contraction) and "its" (possessive), as in "dependent upon it's ability to continue distributing Linux".
i EXPECT that error in/. posts, but when someone is claiming to be a professional writer in a professional magazine, it makes him and the publication look silly.
yes it's a nitpicky sort of thing, but Ziff Davis should proofread its articles for content and grammar.
is it a coincidence that the web page in the demo picture has a Subaru WRX STi (which is faster- than- greased- lightning) on it? I only noticed this because i've been lusting after an STi for a looong time and can now smell one from a mile away, yes it's a sickness, no i don't want cured. I just wanna own one.
um, i think Prescott Bush was doing that, but since you are a "patriotic" american, you probably think that was OK.
http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?us er _action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi%20Link Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed By by John Buchanan from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 1, October 10, 2003
By John Buchanan
Exclusive to The New Hampshire Gazette
WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his "enemy national" partners.
The documents also show that Bush and his colleagues, according to reports from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and FBI, tried to conceal their financial alliance with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, a steel and coal baron who, beginning in the mid-1920s, personally funded Adolf Hitler's rise to power by the subversion of democratic principle and German law.
Furthermore, the declassified records demonstrate that Bush and his associates, who included E. Roland Harriman, younger brother of American icon W. Averell Harriman, and George Herbert Walker, President Bush's maternal great-grandfather, continued their dealings with the German industrial baron for nearly eight months after the U.S. entered the war.
it doesn't take "balls" to post as a brand-new account, "shakrai", which is why I have my/. account to display new users as -2.....Perhaps because of the 5% of them that actually post intelligent stuff? And news flash for you- you're not in that 5%.
Jargon File says, "English-speaking hackers almost never use double negatives, even if they live in a region where colloquial usage allows them. The thought of uttering something that logically ought to be an affirmative knowing it will be misparsed as a negative tends to disturb them." -http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/speech-style.htm l
The double negative in this case may not neccesarily be reduced logically to a simple affirmative. Real numbers may help illustrate my point:
dynamite ~4300 Joules/g LiIon cells ~700 joules/g
So the actual ratio is sixteen percent. Who is to say sixteen is "significant"? Personally, i feel most people would think that sixteen is NOT a "significant percent" in most situations, reserving that designation for at least 50%. OTOH, we *are* talking about dynamite here, so maybe even a small fraction of the energy of dynamite is "significant". Hence the rhetorical device of the double negative.
Does that make sense, Retro? i don't mean to be a dick, and thanks for reading my posts, but i really did mean to write what i wrote and fully understand the implications of the double negative.
It was a rhetorical device, Retro. Interesting info from http://physics.indiana.edu/~brabson/p120/hw5.html
Q: Compare the energy stored in a 100g stick of dynamite to that stored in a 100g jelly donut. The energy density of a stick of dynamite is 4.3 x 10^9 Joules/tonne and 1 tonne=1000kg. The jelly donut=374 Food Calories, or 1.57 M Joules
A: E(dynamite)=0.43 x 10^6 Joules, E(doughnut) =1.6 x 10^6 Joules.
Though the ENERGY content of the doughnut is about 4 times greater than an equivalent mass of dynamite, the POWER output of dynamite is much greater since time of release is much shorter.
Comment was not much more than an advertisement for CryptoGnome and his website.
Seriousy, though, I got a $50 CompUSA gift card from my in-laws for xmas, and yesterday blew it all on rechargeable batteries (NiMH) and a charger. It's my first set of rechargeables since the 80s, so I did a lot of reading about batteries over the weekend. One of the most interesting things I read was that Li-ion cells have a non-insignificant percentage of the power of dynamite.
At first I thought I'd be getting some high-tech toy with the gift card, but the rechargeable batteries idea grew on me and just made so much sense- economically and ecologically. And in one of those odd coincidences, when my wife came home last night, she said she was wondering on her drive home what MP3 players/digicams/cell phones would be powered with 5-10 years from now. I told her I thought fuel cells would be advanced enough to be widespread by then, and by that time the rechargeable batteries I'd just bought would be at the end of their useful lifespan.
IAAAC (I am an analytical chemist) who worked directly with testing water samples from municipal water treatment facilities, schools, and private clients. The Clean Water Drinking Act of 1976 mandates standards for community water suppliers, including standards for lead, iron, biologicals, copper, manganese, aluminum, nitrates, organics, chlorine, turbidity, etc. Your public water company has to have its water tested at a certified lab monthly, and if any of the parameters are out of whack, the EPA will hear about it faster than you can say "boo".
Saying your county won't pay for your water to be analyzed is a little untrue/misleading. Ask your water comany to send you results of the tests they have done. On the other hand, if you get your water from a private well, then the onus of testing IS on you. And as your/. analytical chemist, I *highly* reccomend you get at least the lead, aluminum, and E coli numbers on your well water.
I'm just coming home from a third shift right now, and as long as you get enough sleep, 3rd shift really isn't that bad. Having said that from personal experience, it's also true that many/most of the world's largest industrial accidents happen on the late night/overnight shifts.
I think it would be even easier to adjust to a longer Mars day since sleep studies have found that, given no time cues, the human body naturally drifts into a 25-hour cycle, or circadian rhythm. (No backing evidence in this post, go lookitup yerseff.)
going to bed now, to sleep, perchance to dream..... fred
I was writing this one great paper and the computer went, like, bloop bleep, and it was, like, gone. It was a really good paper. So I had to write it again, but it wasn't as good. It was a.....bummer.
There's some discussion over at the Forbes forum to discuss Daniel Lyons and his articles. Send feedback you may have, to expand on your misquotation, or quotation out of context.
http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webt ag =fdctech&msg=47.1
what's the stock market thing where you buy the stock knowing that it will go down in value, but you still make money? if i could put my house up as collateral, i could make a LOT of money, cuz there ain't no way SCO is gonna survive on a billion dollar lawsuit against IBM.
another good lyons quote regarding red hat's decision to go after SCO:
"So now he has gone to court asking a judge to declare that his product does not infringe on SCO's intellectual property. It's a bit like asking a judge to declare that you didn't rob a bank, even before the police have charged you with a crime."
um, i think it's more like asking a judge to tell your neighbor to stop shouting into his bullhorn that you raped his sister when you didn't.
actual quote from the desk of dan lyons regarding the SCO suits-
"Linux geeks howled a bit, but then wrote off SCO as a bunch of sleazebags and went back to playing live-action roleplaying (LARP) games in their mothers' basements, or whatever it is they do when they're not writing device drivers and complaining about clueless end users."
thanks again for the link- this lyons guy is out of control! at first i thought it looked like willful ignorance or corporate bias, but after reading his other articles, it obviously goes much deeper than that.
i too sent a reply to forbes, something i haven't done to a "news" site for a long time, but the article was so pisspoor i felt compelled to let them know how i felt about their shoddy reporting/ misunderstanding of the GPL.
since the article was mainly about the GPL and FSF, mebbe the article author could have taken three minutes to read up on the subject and get an idea of what it was they were writing about. as it stands, the piece smacks of willful ignorance at least, or even corporate bias, both of which are evil poison for "news" folks.
unless *my* understanding of Forbes is way off the mark, in which case they've become part of the machine and should be beaten with a clue stick.
chick corea? that venerable dinosaur? and your latest diahrrea of the mouth is even MORE INFORMATIVE???
frpm: http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/DA_GROOVE/:"SAM studied at Bass Collective in New York with world-renowned bassist John Pattatucci of the Chick Korea band and others, he also loves passing on the knowledge to his growing class of students" bleh what a load of shit to put on yer resume. name droppers! you say: "He might sound like MUZAK to the untrained ear" ha you even mispelled SHIT! and you went to a dave widner camp, or he came to your school, and now you've "played with him", too? ha ha.
charlie hunter owns! i had the great fortune to see him while i was in college a ways back. he was playing in a bar i also played at. probly the next time i see him he'll be playing at the 2,000-seat halls and not the tiny joints with the sawdust on the floors.
and also that is a nice link you had. your guy seems to have a good ear and some taste. unlike some other kenny g lovers around here:)
Puh-leeez. Informative my ass. Fucking ill-informed moderators.
Why not tell the poor bastard to listen to kenny G for as "modern" as you're talking? You're telling him to listen to the lawrence welks of this generation. He wanted GOOD MUSIC, and you've given him a list of MUZAK MAKERS. You want something corny? You got it! (Excepting Mr Brecker, of course, who really is pretty good.)
REAL GOOD stuff to listen to is JOHN ZORN (heavy-metal jazz) and JOHN LURIE (music to fish giant squid by). THOSE guys blow mean horns.
ANOTHER THING is, if you play with somebody, and are gonna shamelessly name-drop, at least learn to spell their NAMES correctly. John Pattatucci is almost as good as BILLY COBHAM, but i know BILLY COBHAM, and have played with BILLY COBHAM, and JP's no BILLY COBHAM:)
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you say, "You probably think the patriot act is bad... Look at what Senator Feinstein had to say about it. You are probably one of those people she is talking about who don't understand what it is and does."
from http://www.aclu-sc.org/Action/Newsletters/100599/
"Feinstein reported in a hearing on October 21 that her constituents have registered opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act by a margin of 21,434 to 6. Nonetheless, the Senator dismissed her constituents' concerns"
is that what she has to say about it? asshat.
This may or may not be on topic, or even news, but the "box cutters" were Leatherman-type utility knives.
The 9/11 attacks were a pre-emptive strike by the Taliban against what it viewed as an imminent threat from the united states. a $$$ high-speed-navy-ship running linux wouldn't have stopped that.
The united states made a pre-emptive strike against Iraq. george bush has since admitted there was no link between Taliban and Iraq. Colin Powell has admitted the pre-invasion arguments he used at the United Nations early 2003 were based on shaky evidence.
If somebody could plz explain what the hell's going on, i'd really appreciate it. Besides the obvious slide towards a Police State, that is.
fred
dude you are the definition of a troll.
sample comment from you: "People. Never listen to anything relrelrel has to say. He is Illuminatus. Seriously... just look at his name. So symmetrical. And there's other signs too. His post has scored a five. A FIVE. The Illuminati favorite number (for the pentagram). And there is at least three number twos in this post. An obvious reference to the Illuminati duality."
and also this: "Do you not allow your users to browse the web (particularly with IE)?"
you say, "I mostly lurk. Go against the vocal minority and you get modded down"
user583, mebbe you could lurk more.......
it looks for all the world like YOU are the troll, kir, user ID=583, with 210 total comments, 10% of them coming in the last month or so, including:
*Mon 23 Feb 10:08AM 0, Offtopic
Thu 19 Feb 11:50PM
Thu 19 Feb 09:40PM
Thu 19 Feb 09:32PM
*Tue 10 Feb 08:16AM 0, Troll
*Tue 10 Feb 05:43AM 0, Redundant
*Tue 10 Feb 03:47AM -1, Troll
*Tue 10 Feb 03:02AM 0, Flamebait
*Tue 10 Feb 02:41AM -1, Troll
didja hijack an account? what's up with that?
hmmmmmm..........
fred
for me, he lost credibility as a writer for missing the distinction between "it's" (contraction) and "its" (possessive), as in "dependent upon it's ability to continue distributing Linux".
/. posts, but when someone is claiming to be a professional writer in a professional magazine, it makes him and the publication look silly.
i EXPECT that error in
yes it's a nitpicky sort of thing, but Ziff Davis should proofread its articles for content and grammar.
fred
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/
is it a coincidence that the web page in the demo picture has a Subaru WRX STi (which is faster- than- greased- lightning) on it? I only noticed this because i've been lusting after an STi for a looong time and can now smell one from a mile away, yes it's a sickness, no i don't want cured. I just wanna own one.
How about bankrolling the Nazi regime
s er _action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi%20Linkh - Nazi Link Confirmed
um, i think Prescott Bush was doing that, but since you are a "patriotic" american, you probably think that was OK.
http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?u
Bus
By by John Buchanan
from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 1, October 10, 2003
By John Buchanan
Exclusive to The New Hampshire Gazette
WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his "enemy national" partners.
The documents also show that Bush and his colleagues, according to reports from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and FBI, tried to conceal their financial alliance with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, a steel and coal baron who, beginning in the mid-1920s, personally funded Adolf Hitler's rise to power by the subversion of democratic principle and German law.
Furthermore, the declassified records demonstrate that Bush and his associates, who included E. Roland Harriman, younger brother of American icon W. Averell Harriman, and George Herbert Walker, President Bush's maternal great-grandfather, continued their dealings with the German industrial baron for nearly eight months after the U.S. entered the war.
it doesn't take "balls" to post as a brand-new account, "shakrai", which is why I have my /. account to display new users as -2.....Perhaps because of the 5% of them that actually post intelligent stuff? And news flash for you- you're not in that 5%.
Jargon File says, "English-speaking hackers almost never use double negatives, even if they live in a region where colloquial usage allows them. The thought of uttering something that logically ought to be an affirmative knowing it will be misparsed as a negative tends to disturb them." -http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/speech-style.htm l
The double negative in this case may not neccesarily be reduced logically to a simple affirmative. Real numbers may help illustrate my point:
dynamite ~4300 Joules/g
LiIon cells ~700 joules/g
So the actual ratio is sixteen percent. Who is to say sixteen is "significant"? Personally, i feel most people would think that sixteen is NOT a "significant percent" in most situations, reserving that designation for at least 50%. OTOH, we *are* talking about dynamite here, so maybe even a small fraction of the energy of dynamite is "significant". Hence the rhetorical device of the double negative.
Does that make sense, Retro? i don't mean to be a dick, and thanks for reading my posts, but i really did mean to write what i wrote and fully understand the implications of the double negative.
pax,
fred
It was a rhetorical device, Retro. Interesting info from http://physics.indiana.edu/~brabson/p120/hw5.html
:)
Q: Compare the energy stored in a 100g stick of dynamite to that stored in a 100g jelly donut. The energy density of a stick of dynamite is 4.3 x 10^9 Joules/tonne and 1 tonne=1000kg. The jelly donut=374 Food Calories, or 1.57 M Joules
A: E(dynamite)=0.43 x 10^6 Joules, E(doughnut) =1.6 x 10^6 Joules.
Though the ENERGY content of the doughnut is about 4 times greater than an equivalent mass of dynamite, the POWER output of dynamite is much greater since time of release is much shorter.
"food for thought"
fred
Comment was not much more than an advertisement for CryptoGnome and his website.
Seriousy, though, I got a $50 CompUSA gift card from my in-laws for xmas, and yesterday blew it all on rechargeable batteries (NiMH) and a charger. It's my first set of rechargeables since the 80s, so I did a lot of reading about batteries over the weekend. One of the most interesting things I read was that Li-ion cells have a non-insignificant percentage of the power of dynamite.
At first I thought I'd be getting some high-tech toy with the gift card, but the rechargeable batteries idea grew on me and just made so much sense- economically and ecologically. And in one of those odd coincidences, when my wife came home last night, she said she was wondering on her drive home what MP3 players/digicams/cell phones would be powered with 5-10 years from now. I told her I thought fuel cells would be advanced enough to be widespread by then, and by that time the rechargeable batteries I'd just bought would be at the end of their useful lifespan.
pax,
fred
IAAAC (I am an analytical chemist) who worked directly with testing water samples from municipal water treatment facilities, schools, and private clients. The Clean Water Drinking Act of 1976 mandates standards for community water suppliers, including standards for lead, iron, biologicals, copper, manganese, aluminum, nitrates, organics, chlorine, turbidity, etc. Your public water company has to have its water tested at a certified lab monthly, and if any of the parameters are out of whack, the EPA will hear about it faster than you can say "boo".
/. analytical chemist, I *highly* reccomend you get at least the lead, aluminum, and E coli numbers on your well water.
Saying your county won't pay for your water to be analyzed is a little untrue/misleading. Ask your water comany to send you results of the tests they have done. On the other hand, if you get your water from a private well, then the onus of testing IS on you. And as your
pax,
fred
I'm just coming home from a third shift right now, and as long as you get enough sleep, 3rd shift really isn't that bad. Having said that from personal experience, it's also true that many/most of the world's largest industrial accidents happen on the late night/overnight shifts.
I think it would be even easier to adjust to a longer Mars day since sleep studies have found that, given no time cues, the human body naturally drifts into a 25-hour cycle, or circadian rhythm. (No backing evidence in this post, go lookitup yerseff.)
going to bed now, to sleep, perchance to dream.....
fred
I was writing this one great paper and the computer went, like, bloop bleep, and it was, like, gone. It was a really good paper. So I had to write it again, but it wasn't as good. It was a.....bummer.
apologies to ellen feiss
There's some discussion over at the Forbes forum to discuss Daniel Lyons and his articles.
t ag =fdctech&msg=47.1
Send feedback you may have, to expand on your misquotation, or quotation out of context.
http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?web
what's the stock market thing where you buy the stock knowing that it will go down in value, but you still make money? if i could put my house up as collateral, i could make a LOT of money, cuz there ain't no way SCO is gonna survive on a billion dollar lawsuit against IBM.
another good lyons quote regarding red hat's decision to go after SCO:
"So now he has gone to court asking a judge to declare that his product does not infringe on SCO's intellectual property. It's a bit like asking a judge to declare that you didn't rob a bank, even before the police have charged you with a crime."
um, i think it's more like asking a judge to tell your neighbor to stop shouting into his bullhorn that you raped his sister when you didn't.
but i don't have a column in Forbes.
actual quote from the desk of dan lyons regarding the SCO suits-
"Linux geeks howled a bit, but then wrote off SCO as a bunch of sleazebags and went back to playing live-action roleplaying (LARP) games in their mothers' basements, or whatever it is they do when they're not writing device drivers and complaining about clueless end users."
criminy!
thanks again for the link- this lyons guy is out of control! at first i thought it looked like willful ignorance or corporate bias, but after reading his other articles, it obviously goes much deeper than that.
0 26 NWBZLL
:)
http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003080602
still not sure what's going on there- the peeing in the wheaties is a good guess
fred
i too sent a reply to forbes, something i haven't done to a "news" site for a long time, but the article was so pisspoor i felt compelled to let them know how i felt about their shoddy reporting/ misunderstanding of the GPL.
since the article was mainly about the GPL and FSF, mebbe the article author could have taken three minutes to read up on the subject and get an idea of what it was they were writing about. as it stands, the piece smacks of willful ignorance at least, or even corporate bias, both of which are evil poison for "news" folks.
unless *my* understanding of Forbes is way off the mark, in which case they've become part of the machine and should be beaten with a clue stick.
fred
according to this CNN story
. ba rcodes.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/07/09/beamed
stores are going to do away with barcodes in favor of RFIDs.
seriously, this technology is too tempting to distributors and retailers for them not to implement it. it's only a matter of time.
fred
chick corea? that venerable dinosaur? and your latest diahrrea of the mouth is even MORE INFORMATIVE???
:"SAM studied at Bass Collective in New York with world-renowned bassist John Pattatucci of the Chick Korea band and others, he also loves passing on the knowledge to his growing class of students" bleh what a load of shit to put on yer resume. name droppers! you say: "He might sound like MUZAK to the untrained ear" ha you even mispelled SHIT! and you went to a dave widner camp, or he came to your school, and now you've "played with him", too? ha ha.
frpm: http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/DA_GROOVE/
i used to play saxomaphone for a living.
criminy this place is FULL of ignorant fucks.
charlie hunter owns! i had the great fortune to see him while i was in college a ways back. he was playing in a bar i also played at. probly the next time i see him he'll be playing at the 2,000-seat halls and not the tiny joints with the sawdust on the floors.
:)
and also that is a nice link you had. your guy seems to have a good ear and some taste. unlike some other kenny g lovers around here
GO GO GO CHARLIE GO!
Puh-leeez. Informative my ass. Fucking ill-informed moderators.
:)
Why not tell the poor bastard to listen to kenny G for as "modern" as you're talking? You're telling him to listen to the lawrence welks of this generation. He wanted GOOD MUSIC, and you've given him a list of MUZAK MAKERS. You want something corny? You got it! (Excepting Mr Brecker, of course, who really is pretty good.)
REAL GOOD stuff to listen to is JOHN ZORN (heavy-metal jazz) and JOHN LURIE (music to fish giant squid by). THOSE guys blow mean horns.
ANOTHER THING is, if you play with somebody, and are gonna shamelessly name-drop, at least learn to spell their NAMES correctly. John Pattatucci is almost as good as BILLY COBHAM, but i know BILLY COBHAM, and have played with BILLY COBHAM, and JP's no BILLY COBHAM
criminy,
fred
ever.