Quite an excellent program. I use it daily. It doesn't integrate quite as well with Firefox as it does with IE, but hopefully when FF hits 30% or so there will be some work done on both sides in this regard.
The nice thing with TheBrain (formerly from Natrificial) is you can link virtually anything to anything without the old file and folder hierarchical system. "Thoughts" in TheBrain can be linked as "child," "parent," "sibling," or "jump" thoughts. Since the last version, everything can be color-coded. There is a place for notes, which is especially helpful with links, where you want to specify why you saved the link--even lets you store images.
The term is "goddamned," and I fail to see what this has to do with taking the name in vain. I would think that concept would apply more to those folks who use it to promote their own personal political agendas, like our current simian president here in the US of A. Now there is someone who takes the name of God in vain.
The article referenced at the really rather pathetic website says the employees can rent a sea taxi and go to LA for recreation. I don't know how they plan on implimenting this, legal-wise, but they've obviously thought about it. I imagine the rules would be similar to someone sailing into port from the high seas on a sailboat. I'm not familiar with how that works, but I'm sure it's a well established routine and not some off-the-wall new plan.
This is precisely my approach to spelling. There are words I can spell, and there are words I know I can't spell so I look them up, and there are words I don't know I can't spell so I misspell them. Those are the ones that make you look like an idiot.
What? You mean in the past they just pretended it didn't happen or blamed it on the mailman? I am shocked! Positively shocked! How could this be?! Great big Amerikan companies that refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes? This cannot be!;-)
Just a final note. I was going to look up your record of postings to see what other drivel you had foisted on the poor denizens of this newsgroup. And then I realised you were an Anonymous Coward, which just about sums it up. You sit behind your keyboard anonymously immitating your braindead heros like Gush Limpbone and Shawwwn Trinity without even having to expose yourself to the criticism that you are helping to create the conditions that led to the takeover of post-WWI-Germany by the hollow-earth-Nazies and their smack-shooting hangers on. You don't even have the balls--you know what those are,don't you?--to post under a suitable nom de guerre but try to fade into the background and pretend you are just another common man who unfathomably dislikes those that have his best interests at heart, when in reality--you do know what that is?--you are just a poor idiot who hasn't the ability to construct his own worldview. So, psychic vampire that you are, you suck off of others who tell you what you believe on the radio. You are truly pathetic, Mr. Anonymous J. Coward. You disgust me. Go listen to your favorite idiot on the radio and stop annoying the normal folk.
I am a liberal. My parents were liberals. My grandparents were socialists. My great-grandparents were communists. Let me put this as concisely as I can. After all, I don't want to confuse your tiny little reactionary brain:
Fuck you, moron! Why don't you go back to mid-20th Century Germany where you came from?
This testing was done by the same folks who determined that mercury in vaccines was safe for infants? In fact, one wonders just how one "tests" for such things. Shine it in a rabbit's eye and then give him an eyetest? Having recently gone through a bout of facial neuralgia, I am rather sceptical of any medical type who tells me he can't "see" anything wrong. What these idiots can "see" and what exists are two entirely different matters.
Maybe you should go next door if you don't like the quality of the entertainment. In fact, maybe you should go somewhere and PAY for your entertainment, you cheap little bastard.
It is the policy of the Shrub Administration that planets should abstain from relations with black holes. Space shields are frowned upon, unless they involve terrorists.
Considering they haven't even done any experimention--this whole thing is just an idea of where their research MAY lead--one has to wonder if I can now patent any old idea that crosses my mind. Maybe I should patent a time machine in case I someday figure out how to do this...
The one difference I think you're all missing is that all these films and series take place in a universe with a mature interstellar civilization, whereas in the Original Star Trek, space was still a relatively unknown quantity ("going where no man has gone before"). That is what created the sense of awe and wonder and that is what Sci Fi (and SF) are all about--the UNKNOWN--not some spaceship tied to Starfleet Command by a subspace umbilical cord. That was why Janeway was flung halfway across the galaxy, and still they continued to act like a Washington bureaucracy when determining how to proceed.
And along the way Star Trek became more and more about the characters, whereas in the original series, the crew were basically an ensemble cast that acted out new stories every episode. I.e., they were short stories, not parts of a novel. The great thing about this kind of ensemble acting is you don't have to get to know the characters over again. You can cut right to the chase and tell a story. This is why the idea of a Star Fleet Academy series is such a horrendously bad idea. It gets even farther away from the short story format and turns the franchise into even more of a soap opera. And I, for one, cannot abide soap operas pretending to science fiction.
There's apparently so little writing ability and creativity in Hollywood that they can't get beyond Star Trek as the only possible metaphor for space-based Sci Fi. There is an incredibly large universe out there, yet it doesn't appear to have enough room for anything other than ONE plot structure based on ONE metaphor? Here's an exercise: Create a program with the dynamism of the original Star Trek with NONE of the structural baggage. Tell me, is this really an impossible challenge?
Thank you great oracle. Perhaps you also have information on who will win the lottery next Tuesday?
You are sitting in front of a computer with internet access and you want ME to give YOU references?
Just for your edification: The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (qv.) consists of those countries on the Mediterranean that are not in the EU. These include countries in North Africa and far western Asia (Syria, Israel, and the Palestine Organization). Yes, Syria is in Asia, as is Israel, as is, mostly, Turkey, which WILL join the EU within 10 years, the pope not withstanding. ALL of these EMP countries have been told they can join the EU if they meet the qualifications. Whether they will is up to them, not you. Keep in mind, they all have large populations who speak either English or French, since they were once colonies of one or the other, and they thus have cultural connections with Europe, though they are not majority Christian. Most of them do have Christians and Jews among their populations, whatever that proves.
I will not even attempt to untangle your misconceptions about NATO. Go surf. Just for HA-HAs, what national educational system are you a product of?
So is Turkey, mostly, and they're going to join. And other Mediterranean states in Africa and, yes, Western Asia have been told they can join if they meet the qualifications. They may have to change it to the Euro-Mediterranean Union (or EMU?), but what the heck. Poland is in NATO and they're not exactly on the North Atlantic. Beware of confusing terminology with knowledge.
"anyone who truly believes in free markets would have these characteristics be secondary in their preferred economic model"
Let us finally get one thing straight here, Poncho. The ONLY advantage of "free markets," and capitalism in general, is that they work relatively well despite the inadequacies of the average human animal. This does NOT somehow make those failings good in any philosophical sense, nor does this fact mean that there is something superior about the free market economic model. Capitalism is not a free ticket to do as you damned well please. Nor is it an excuse to sit on your butt and do nothing about the problems with the world. It is just a makeshift system devised in order to prevent the worst instincts of humanity from completely destroying all hope of a rational economic system. If we had ideal people, any economic system would work. The goal should be to improve the human condition and the human animal to the point where this model is no longer the only one that can possibly work, not to enshrine their current abominable state in an economic model that some seem to think actually requires human depravity in order to function.
"And who do you suppose ended up in the #1 position on that list? Who do the 'intellectually gifted' among us look up to as a hero? Who, above everyone else, does the Mensa community place on a pedestal? None other than George W. Bush, of course."
As a former member of Mensa (who does not put it on his resumes, nor the fact that I am a published author either--it just sounds too pretentious), I would just like to clarify one point:
Almost half of Mensa members are spouses of those with 98%+ IQs. You couldn't very well leave someone's husband or wife out of a primarily social organization. Hence the actual average IQ of Mensa members is a bit lower than that reputed by them, though obviously much higher than the general average. As for politics, ones attitude on this front is dictated by social class and personal knowledge as much as intelligence, though I have seen statistics that Democrats tend to be smarter than Republicans. (No troll, just the fac's, Ma'am.) And Mensans tend not to be poor, though they are not necessarily rich either.
I admit I know very little about this on the technical end, but haven't I read stories again and again of supercomputers running Linux? Do these projects get filed under something other than mainframe scalability? I really can't think of what that file would be called... And this supposedly at a price point that's subsurface relative to the big boys. Can someone clue me in here? I seem to have somehow become immersed in a fog of FUD.
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So I'm back to having my DVD watching held hostage to Microsoft and Windows crashes/glitches again? NOOOOO Thanks!
Quite an excellent program. I use it daily. It doesn't integrate quite as well with Firefox as it does with IE, but hopefully when FF hits 30% or so there will be some work done on both sides in this regard.
The nice thing with TheBrain (formerly from Natrificial) is you can link virtually anything to anything without the old file and folder hierarchical system. "Thoughts" in TheBrain can be linked as "child," "parent," "sibling," or "jump" thoughts. Since the last version, everything can be color-coded. There is a place for notes, which is especially helpful with links, where you want to specify why you saved the link--even lets you store images.
And give my regards to Satan when you get there. Tell him you know me. You may get a century or two taken off of your billion year sentence, fool.
Steve Franklin, you FUCKING FASCIST moron! See Google. I'm #2 right now. Burn in Hell, fellah.
The term is "goddamned," and I fail to see what this has to do with taking the name in vain. I would think that concept would apply more to those folks who use it to promote their own personal political agendas, like our current simian president here in the US of A. Now there is someone who takes the name of God in vain.
The article referenced at the really rather pathetic website says the employees can rent a sea taxi and go to LA for recreation. I don't know how they plan on implimenting this, legal-wise, but they've obviously thought about it. I imagine the rules would be similar to someone sailing into port from the high seas on a sailboat. I'm not familiar with how that works, but I'm sure it's a well established routine and not some off-the-wall new plan.
This is precisely my approach to spelling. There are words I can spell, and there are words I know I can't spell so I look them up, and there are words I don't know I can't spell so I misspell them. Those are the ones that make you look like an idiot.
What? You mean in the past they just pretended it didn't happen or blamed it on the mailman? I am shocked! Positively shocked! How could this be?! Great big Amerikan companies that refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes? This cannot be! ;-)
Just a final note. I was going to look up your record of postings to see what other drivel you had foisted on the poor denizens of this newsgroup. And then I realised you were an Anonymous Coward, which just about sums it up. You sit behind your keyboard anonymously immitating your braindead heros like Gush Limpbone and Shawwwn Trinity without even having to expose yourself to the criticism that you are helping to create the conditions that led to the takeover of post-WWI-Germany by the hollow-earth-Nazies and their smack-shooting hangers on. You don't even have the balls--you know what those are,don't you?--to post under a suitable nom de guerre but try to fade into the background and pretend you are just another common man who unfathomably dislikes those that have his best interests at heart, when in reality--you do know what that is?--you are just a poor idiot who hasn't the ability to construct his own worldview. So, psychic vampire that you are, you suck off of others who tell you what you believe on the radio. You are truly pathetic, Mr. Anonymous J. Coward. You disgust me. Go listen to your favorite idiot on the radio and stop annoying the normal folk.
I am a liberal. My parents were liberals. My grandparents were socialists. My great-grandparents were communists. Let me put this as concisely as I can. After all, I don't want to confuse your tiny little reactionary brain:
Fuck you, moron! Why don't you go back to mid-20th Century Germany where you came from?
This testing was done by the same folks who determined that mercury in vaccines was safe for infants? In fact, one wonders just how one "tests" for such things. Shine it in a rabbit's eye and then give him an eyetest? Having recently gone through a bout of facial neuralgia, I am rather sceptical of any medical type who tells me he can't "see" anything wrong. What these idiots can "see" and what exists are two entirely different matters.
It's a tough house.
Maybe you should go next door if you don't like the quality of the entertainment. In fact, maybe you should go somewhere and PAY for your entertainment, you cheap little bastard.
It is the policy of the Shrub Administration that planets should abstain from relations with black holes. Space shields are frowned upon, unless they involve terrorists.
"try not to confuse the poor cashier" Especially when they give you too much change. ;-) I actually argued over that with one once and finally gave up.
Considering they haven't even done any experimention--this whole thing is just an idea of where their research MAY lead--one has to wonder if I can now patent any old idea that crosses my mind. Maybe I should patent a time machine in case I someday figure out how to do this...
OFFTOPIC? These primates spend All Frigging Day posting April Fool nonsense and I'M offtopic? You kiddies need to go do your homework.
I agree. Enough FUCKING April Fool jokes already you gaddamned simians. And I WAS yelling, you idiots.
The one difference I think you're all missing is that all these films and series take place in a universe with a mature interstellar civilization, whereas in the Original Star Trek, space was still a relatively unknown quantity ("going where no man has gone before"). That is what created the sense of awe and wonder and that is what Sci Fi (and SF) are all about--the UNKNOWN--not some spaceship tied to Starfleet Command by a subspace umbilical cord. That was why Janeway was flung halfway across the galaxy, and still they continued to act like a Washington bureaucracy when determining how to proceed.
And along the way Star Trek became more and more about the characters, whereas in the original series, the crew were basically an ensemble cast that acted out new stories every episode. I.e., they were short stories, not parts of a novel. The great thing about this kind of ensemble acting is you don't have to get to know the characters over again. You can cut right to the chase and tell a story. This is why the idea of a Star Fleet Academy series is such a horrendously bad idea. It gets even farther away from the short story format and turns the franchise into even more of a soap opera. And I, for one, cannot abide soap operas pretending to science fiction.
There's apparently so little writing ability and creativity in Hollywood that they can't get beyond Star Trek as the only possible metaphor for space-based Sci Fi. There is an incredibly large universe out there, yet it doesn't appear to have enough room for anything other than ONE plot structure based on ONE metaphor? Here's an exercise: Create a program with the dynamism of the original Star Trek with NONE of the structural baggage. Tell me, is this really an impossible challenge?
Thank you great oracle. Perhaps you also have information on who will win the lottery next Tuesday?
You are sitting in front of a computer with internet access and you want ME to give YOU references?
Just for your edification: The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (qv.) consists of those countries on the Mediterranean that are not in the EU. These include countries in North Africa and far western Asia (Syria, Israel, and the Palestine Organization). Yes, Syria is in Asia, as is Israel, as is, mostly, Turkey, which WILL join the EU within 10 years, the pope not withstanding. ALL of these EMP countries have been told they can join the EU if they meet the qualifications. Whether they will is up to them, not you. Keep in mind, they all have large populations who speak either English or French, since they were once colonies of one or the other, and they thus have cultural connections with Europe, though they are not majority Christian. Most of them do have Christians and Jews among their populations, whatever that proves.
I will not even attempt to untangle your misconceptions about NATO. Go surf. Just for HA-HAs, what national educational system are you a product of?
So is Turkey, mostly, and they're going to join. And other Mediterranean states in Africa and, yes, Western Asia have been told they can join if they meet the qualifications. They may have to change it to the Euro-Mediterranean Union (or EMU?), but what the heck. Poland is in NATO and they're not exactly on the North Atlantic. Beware of confusing terminology with knowledge.
NO NO! Not United States. Guantanamo Autonomous Gulag...
"anyone who truly believes in free markets would have these characteristics be secondary in their preferred economic model"
Let us finally get one thing straight here, Poncho. The ONLY advantage of "free markets," and capitalism in general, is that they work relatively well despite the inadequacies of the average human animal. This does NOT somehow make those failings good in any philosophical sense, nor does this fact mean that there is something superior about the free market economic model. Capitalism is not a free ticket to do as you damned well please. Nor is it an excuse to sit on your butt and do nothing about the problems with the world. It is just a makeshift system devised in order to prevent the worst instincts of humanity from completely destroying all hope of a rational economic system. If we had ideal people, any economic system would work. The goal should be to improve the human condition and the human animal to the point where this model is no longer the only one that can possibly work, not to enshrine their current abominable state in an economic model that some seem to think actually requires human depravity in order to function.
"And who do you suppose ended up in the #1 position on that list? Who do the 'intellectually gifted' among us look up to as a hero? Who, above everyone else, does the Mensa community place on a pedestal? None other than George W. Bush, of course."
As a former member of Mensa (who does not put it on his resumes, nor the fact that I am a published author either--it just sounds too pretentious), I would just like to clarify one point:
Almost half of Mensa members are spouses of those with 98%+ IQs. You couldn't very well leave someone's husband or wife out of a primarily social organization. Hence the actual average IQ of Mensa members is a bit lower than that reputed by them, though obviously much higher than the general average. As for politics, ones attitude on this front is dictated by social class and personal knowledge as much as intelligence, though I have seen statistics that Democrats tend to be smarter than Republicans. (No troll, just the fac's, Ma'am.) And Mensans tend not to be poor, though they are not necessarily rich either.
I admit I know very little about this on the technical end, but haven't I read stories again and again of supercomputers running Linux? Do these projects get filed under something other than mainframe scalability? I really can't think of what that file would be called... And this supposedly at a price point that's subsurface relative to the big boys. Can someone clue me in here? I seem to have somehow become immersed in a fog of FUD.