Seriously though, it's awfully fun to be able to sing "antidote" lyrics to the incredibly sappy tunes that have become commercialized to the point of mindless oblivion.
The other night in a shopping mall when I might have otherwise been cringing at the seasonal Muzak, I was instead happily humming about Shoggoths, Fishmen and the Yog-Sothoth.
Put everything in a whole new perspective.:-)
(Absolutely no connection to CthulhuLives.org - I just stumbled across the CD last week and have been playing it daily since.)
"What other higher order species that has multi planet colonization did he do his evaluation against?"
The Great Old Ones and their minions? Those Mi-Go are pretty hardy buggers.
On the specifics of this report's premise, it seems to me to be a hell of a lot cheaper (and more realistic at the present) to ensure humanity's survival by being able to "Go Deep". If the we could harness geothermal power down deep, we could power lights that could grow plants in our subterranean cities, etc. and keep ourselves going.
Sure we'd end up living on glowing fungus in the end, and evolve big giant eyes and go all pasty-white pale, but then when we travel back in time to visit Earth in the 1960s-80s we'll look like we're supposed to.
"After the Waco incident there were tons of expose on religious cults and the threat they represent."
Yeah, lots of exposure in the media. But did mobs vandalize their places of worship? Did members become victims of hate crimes? Or those that merely looked like sect members?
In Phoenix, AZ a Sikh was gunned down after 9/11. Hate crime. When arrested he shouted, "I'm a damn American all the way! I'm an American! Arrest me! Let those terrorists run wild!" Ignoring the absurdity that all Arabs/Muslims are terrorists, Sikhs of course are not Muslim. Nor are they typically Arab. He just "looked" like a "terrorist" to that sorry puke of a bigot.
I'm not denying your point or condoning any level of hateful prejudice, but clearly militias and Christian splinter groups did not suffer in any way similar to what the brown-skinned Middle- and Near-Eastern ethnic groups have endured since 9/11.
"I believe native americans immigrated too, just thousands of years earlier across the land bridge.There are no "real" americans
"
Though I think the folks who first made it across the Bering Straight and down Alaska earned it and deserve it.:-)
"after 9/11, reading an interview with a kid (19 years old, something like that) who was arrested as part of a mob that vandalized a mosque."
Better still, when Timothy McVeigh killed hundreds in the bombing of the federal building in OK, where were the mobs running around threatening white males of Christian background?
"Real" American? Unless your family was hunting buffalo here thousands of years ago, you're just a newbie tourist.
So... it reduced your incoming porn spam by 200%. Which means you somehow processed negative numbers of porn spam. Which, to balance the books, must mean you became a net exporter of porn spam?:-)
"I wish I had a feature to select all my spam. and forward it to spam@ftc.gov"
In OSX's Mail app it's easy to set up a rule to do that. I haven't tested it with a live message yet (just created the rule to see if I could), but I think it would keep the headers intact.
The risk then becomes the false positives of your spam filter. Forwarding non-spam to the FTC is probably not a good idea.;-)
"Buying a 100% proprietary software AND hardware setup for twice the price makes you happy"
Honest question - can you point me to a reliable, quality laptop for half the cost of a low-end G4 iBook that matches it in specs? As laptops go, the current crop of iBooks seem like a great "bang for the buck" solution.
Having BSD underlying the operations of a quality hardware product does indeed make me happy. Just my experiences though, to each their own.
"For the price of this computer you can get one from Dell with the MS Tax"
They must be banking on the assumption that their machines are perceived as being better quality than low-end Dells. Having cycled through a few crappy low-end Dells myself, I can attest that the bar is pretty darn low.:-/
"Really, how usable is FreeDOS to the average user?"
Not very, but as another poster pointed out it appears to be geared for those who are going to wipe the drive and install something else over it.
Anytime a major vendor starts shipping affordable (and hopefully quality) consumer boxes that are free from the Microsoft tax, I get that warm fuzzy feeling.
> "and even includes a discussion of the tool's naming" "Wow! I can't wait to read that riveting piece of journalism!"
Absolutely! With an obscure name like "The Review Sketch tool" the mystery is killing me. It's like something out of the Necronomicon! Or "The Da Vinci Code"! Only exactly the opposite!
(It's clearly a slow Friday alright... Anyone up for UT2004?)
Glad to hear it. My first thought was one of those giant oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies they sell at cafes.
Walking around with that on my neck like some weird Vanilla Ice retro-puke with my plate-sized bling bling, with my "Go Away Or I Will Replace You With a Small Perl Script" t-shirt.
"Anything that does not follow the groklaw party line 100% is deleted"
That's a curious conclusion you've come to, since for the last two months or so PJ has set up dedicated threads in SCO-related articles (titled Official "The SCO Group" Positions) which is reserved for official SCO representatives to freely post.
To date I haven't seen SCO officials comment.
Furthermore the intro to the thread states, " Sub-posts from persons not connected with "The SCO Group"
must be very polite, address other posters and the main poster with the
honorific "Mr." or "Mrs." or "Ms.", as
appropriate, use correct surnames, not call names or suggest or imply unethical
or illegal conduct by "The SCO Group" or its employees or attorneys.
"
Seems to me like Groklaw is bending over backwards to accomodate. The catch being that since it's an open forum, SCO will have to endure facts, logic and actual case law being applied to their comments as feedback.
"Funny I found many hits on google from geologists who do not dispute this. Like this one [ www.creationscience.com ]."
Please don't present a "creation science" site as a "geologist" site. It insults actual geologists. "Creation science" is an oxymoron like "civil war".
"Also they have found fossils several thousand feet up in the mountains, like you said."
Ummm... never heard of geological uplift related to mountain formation, have we?
No wonder our country has become the scientific laughingstock of the developed world.
"They're damned if they do, damned if they don't."
More like "they're damned until they ACTUALLY do - often". EA has been tilted so heavily toward the "damned if they don't" side of being upfront and fair, it's going to take a lot of "do's" to earn folks' trust again.
"I have little sympathy for people stupid enough to used a CD-Key hack on a legit copy of a product they bought."
I'm operating on the assumption that "CD-Key hack" means circumventing the need to have the !$$%^! CD in the drive to launch the game. If that's not the case, nevermind.
However if it IS the case, then yes I think blacklisting those few legit users is obscene. I'm ALL for screwing the warez pirates, but "CD in the drive" copy protection is little more than punishment for the legit owner. It's downright natural to want to disable it.
And as one of those who even pays for all their shareware, I've been penalized more than once when I couldn't run my legit software because the CD was unavailable (traveling, or across town and an unexpected opportunity for LAN play arises.)
And all the while I was thinking how the warez crowd wouldn't have that problem, only legit users. That sucks. Makes no sense whatsoever.
"A Valve spokesman says, 'The number of people who actually had bought HL2 and used the CD key cheat was VERY small."
So how draconian are they being? Is that "VERY small" number of users being excluded from the blacklist? Or did they trigger some End Game transgression of the EULA by even trying the CD key cheat?
"allowing the bacteria in question to get into the bloodstream more easily through the cuts in the gums that occur when you floss like you're supposed to"
I think it's safe to say that's a fallacy since healthy gums don't bleed during proper brushing and flossing. At least a fallacy in the "horse is already out of the barn" sense. If your gums are bleeding that easily, you've GOT to get into your dentist to return them to a healthy state ASAP. And if your gums bleed from brushing you've got SERIOUS problems.
If you've gotten to that point then you're likely in for a "deep cleaning". It will hurt, but it's the only way to scrape away all the crap and give your gums a chance to heal.
How do I know this? Been there, done that. Night and day difference. So get a deep cleaning and from then on get your twice-annual maintenance cleaning. Brush GENTLY and floss regularly. No more bleeding gums, no more $1000 crowns.
BTW folks shouldn't be brushing hard either - you can erode the gum line in extreme cases. It's supposed to be a moderate "massaging" action with a soft toothbrush. Ask your dental hygenist, they'll be happy to show how it's done.
Faith can be handy, but nothing speaks like preventative action. Good dental hygiene. Seriously. Dead serious. More and more evidence is pointing to poor dental health as a vector for disease including heart disease and stroke.
This writeup on Pulmonary Actinomycosis (the possible disease in question here) reiterates that:
Poor dental hygiene and dental abscess can predispose people to facial lesions and lung infections caused by these bacteria.
So get to those twice-yearly dental cleanings and brush/floss. Plus with the thousands of dollars you save on not getting root canals and crowns, you can buy an awful lot of tech hardware....
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"the music is starting to drive me mad!!"
Might as well go all the way then.
Seriously though, it's awfully fun to be able to sing "antidote" lyrics to the incredibly sappy tunes that have become commercialized to the point of mindless oblivion.
The other night in a shopping mall when I might have otherwise been cringing at the seasonal Muzak, I was instead happily humming about Shoggoths, Fishmen and the Yog-Sothoth.
Put everything in a whole new perspective. :-)
(Absolutely no connection to CthulhuLives.org - I just stumbled across the CD last week and have been playing it daily since.)
"What other higher order species that has multi planet colonization did he do his evaluation against?"
The Great Old Ones and their minions? Those Mi-Go are pretty hardy buggers.
On the specifics of this report's premise, it seems to me to be a hell of a lot cheaper (and more realistic at the present) to ensure humanity's survival by being able to "Go Deep". If the we could harness geothermal power down deep, we could power lights that could grow plants in our subterranean cities, etc. and keep ourselves going.
Sure we'd end up living on glowing fungus in the end, and evolve big giant eyes and go all pasty-white pale, but then when we travel back in time to visit Earth in the 1960s-80s we'll look like we're supposed to.
Must be Friday. I need a drink.
---
Cthulhu holiday songs, for the gift that keeps on loathing.
"there's an interesting legend behind that on the Kwakiutal side of things from the Jowadaino tribe, about the dangers of technology"
Why am I suddenly picturing an ancient petroglyph that appears to combine the symbols "IE" and "0wned"? :-)
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Cthulhu holiday songs, for the gift that keeps on loathing.
"Some of mine were fishing for salmon and hunting deer (not many buffalo this side of the Rockies). Does that count?"
Absolutely, but you only get the mega-Locals Only bonus points if at some point they made toy balloons out of an animal's bladder. :-)
---
Cthulhu holiday songs, for the gift that keeps on loathing.
"After the Waco incident there were tons of expose on religious cults and the threat they represent."
Yeah, lots of exposure in the media. But did mobs vandalize their places of worship? Did members become victims of hate crimes? Or those that merely looked like sect members?
In Phoenix, AZ a Sikh was gunned down after 9/11. Hate crime. When arrested he shouted, "I'm a damn American all the way! I'm an American! Arrest me! Let those terrorists run wild!" Ignoring the absurdity that all Arabs/Muslims are terrorists, Sikhs of course are not Muslim. Nor are they typically Arab. He just "looked" like a "terrorist" to that sorry puke of a bigot.
I'm not denying your point or condoning any level of hateful prejudice, but clearly militias and Christian splinter groups did not suffer in any way similar to what the brown-skinned Middle- and Near-Eastern ethnic groups have endured since 9/11.
"I believe native americans immigrated too, just thousands of years earlier across the land bridge.There are no "real" americans "
Though I think the folks who first made it across the Bering Straight and down Alaska earned it and deserve it. :-)
---
Cthulhu holiday songs, for the gift that keeps on loathing.
"after 9/11, reading an interview with a kid (19 years old, something like that) who was arrested as part of a mob that vandalized a mosque."
Better still, when Timothy McVeigh killed hundreds in the bombing of the federal building in OK, where were the mobs running around threatening white males of Christian background?
"Real" American? Unless your family was hunting buffalo here thousands of years ago, you're just a newbie tourist.
---
Cthulhu holiday songs, for the gift that keeps on loathing.
"almost 200% effective against porn spam"
So... it reduced your incoming porn spam by 200%. Which means you somehow processed negative numbers of porn spam. Which, to balance the books, must mean you became a net exporter of porn spam? :-)
---
Cthulhu holiday songs, for the gift that keeps on loathing.
"I wish I had a feature to select all my spam. and forward it to spam@ftc.gov"
In OSX's Mail app it's easy to set up a rule to do that. I haven't tested it with a live message yet (just created the rule to see if I could), but I think it would keep the headers intact.
The risk then becomes the false positives of your spam filter. Forwarding non-spam to the FTC is probably not a good idea. ;-)
---
Cthulhu holiday songs, for the gift that keeps on loathing.
"And for those with a HTML-enabled email client"
It's for this reason I have my OSX Mail app configured to not load embedded images and objects in incoming HTML.
---
Cthulhu holiday songs, for the gift that keeps on loathing.
"Buying a 100% proprietary software AND hardware setup for twice the price makes you happy"
Honest question - can you point me to a reliable, quality laptop for half the cost of a low-end G4 iBook that matches it in specs? As laptops go, the current crop of iBooks seem like a great "bang for the buck" solution.
Having BSD underlying the operations of a quality hardware product does indeed make me happy. Just my experiences though, to each their own.
"For the price of this computer you can get one from Dell with the MS Tax"
They must be banking on the assumption that their machines are perceived as being better quality than low-end Dells. Having cycled through a few crappy low-end Dells myself, I can attest that the bar is pretty darn low. :-/
"Really, how usable is FreeDOS to the average user?"
Not very, but as another poster pointed out it appears to be geared for those who are going to wipe the drive and install something else over it.
Anytime a major vendor starts shipping affordable (and hopefully quality) consumer boxes that are free from the Microsoft tax, I get that warm fuzzy feeling.
Then again I suppose my G4 iBook counts too.
> "and even includes a discussion of the tool's naming"
"Wow! I can't wait to read that riveting piece of journalism!"
Absolutely! With an obscure name like "The Review Sketch tool" the mystery is killing me. It's like something out of the Necronomicon! Or "The Da Vinci Code"! Only exactly the opposite!
(It's clearly a slow Friday alright... Anyone up for UT2004?)
"the size would be comparable to a Milano cookie"
Glad to hear it. My first thought was one of those giant oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies they sell at cafes.
Walking around with that on my neck like some weird Vanilla Ice retro-puke with my plate-sized bling bling, with my "Go Away Or I Will Replace You With a Small Perl Script" t-shirt.
"Anything that does not follow the groklaw party line 100% is deleted"
That's a curious conclusion you've come to, since for the last two months or so PJ has set up dedicated threads in SCO-related articles (titled Official "The SCO Group" Positions) which is reserved for official SCO representatives to freely post.
To date I haven't seen SCO officials comment.
Furthermore the intro to the thread states, " Sub-posts from persons not connected with "The SCO Group" must be very polite, address other posters and the main poster with the honorific "Mr." or "Mrs." or "Ms.", as appropriate, use correct surnames, not call names or suggest or imply unethical or illegal conduct by "The SCO Group" or its employees or attorneys. "
Seems to me like Groklaw is bending over backwards to accomodate. The catch being that since it's an open forum, SCO will have to endure facts, logic and actual case law being applied to their comments as feedback.
"Funny I found many hits on google from geologists who do not dispute this. Like this one [ www.creationscience.com ]."
Please don't present a "creation science" site as a "geologist" site. It insults actual geologists. "Creation science" is an oxymoron like "civil war".
"Also they have found fossils several thousand feet up in the mountains, like you said."
Ummm... never heard of geological uplift related to mountain formation, have we?
No wonder our country has become the scientific laughingstock of the developed world.
"They're damned if they do, damned if they don't."
More like "they're damned until they ACTUALLY do - often". EA has been tilted so heavily toward the "damned if they don't" side of being upfront and fair, it's going to take a lot of "do's" to earn folks' trust again.
And this would be a great way to start.
"have you any reason to believe that the IT industry will buck the trend and not improve worker efficiency"
Well if readership of Slashdot continues to grow at its current rate....
"my wife has been appearing late at night in my office begging me to come to bed, usually dressed in something rather scandalous."
She drapes herself in loose-leaf copies of the federal tax code?
"I have little sympathy for people stupid enough to used a CD-Key hack on a legit copy of a product they bought."
I'm operating on the assumption that "CD-Key hack" means circumventing the need to have the !$$%^! CD in the drive to launch the game. If that's not the case, nevermind.
However if it IS the case, then yes I think blacklisting those few legit users is obscene. I'm ALL for screwing the warez pirates, but "CD in the drive" copy protection is little more than punishment for the legit owner. It's downright natural to want to disable it.
And as one of those who even pays for all their shareware, I've been penalized more than once when I couldn't run my legit software because the CD was unavailable (traveling, or across town and an unexpected opportunity for LAN play arises.)
And all the while I was thinking how the warez crowd wouldn't have that problem, only legit users. That sucks. Makes no sense whatsoever.
"A Valve spokesman says, 'The number of people who actually had bought HL2 and used the CD key cheat was VERY small."
So how draconian are they being? Is that "VERY small" number of users being excluded from the blacklist? Or did they trigger some End Game transgression of the EULA by even trying the CD key cheat?
If the latter, that would SERIOUSLY suck.
"Unless he's willing to just Nuke the country then this is is gonna continue ad-infinitum."
PLEASE don't give him any ideas. :-/
Not since Vietnam have we so completely misunderstood both the culture and the enemy of the land we occupy.
"the U.S. government used the Internet to communicate directly with Iraqi soldiers by sending them personalised messages"
But were they able to get the "Darth Vader Boards The Rebel Cruiser" ringtone to work at the same time? Now THAT would've been cool.
"allowing the bacteria in question to get into the bloodstream more easily through the cuts in the gums that occur when you floss like you're supposed to"
I think it's safe to say that's a fallacy since healthy gums don't bleed during proper brushing and flossing. At least a fallacy in the "horse is already out of the barn" sense. If your gums are bleeding that easily, you've GOT to get into your dentist to return them to a healthy state ASAP. And if your gums bleed from brushing you've got SERIOUS problems.
If you've gotten to that point then you're likely in for a "deep cleaning". It will hurt, but it's the only way to scrape away all the crap and give your gums a chance to heal.
How do I know this? Been there, done that. Night and day difference. So get a deep cleaning and from then on get your twice-annual maintenance cleaning. Brush GENTLY and floss regularly. No more bleeding gums, no more $1000 crowns.
BTW folks shouldn't be brushing hard either - you can erode the gum line in extreme cases. It's supposed to be a moderate "massaging" action with a soft toothbrush. Ask your dental hygenist, they'll be happy to show how it's done.
Faith can be handy, but nothing speaks like preventative action. Good dental hygiene. Seriously. Dead serious. More and more evidence is pointing to poor dental health as a vector for disease including heart disease and stroke.
This writeup on Pulmonary Actinomycosis (the possible disease in question here) reiterates that:
Poor dental hygiene and dental abscess can predispose people to facial lesions and lung infections caused by these bacteria.
So get to those twice-yearly dental cleanings and brush/floss. Plus with the thousands of dollars you save on not getting root canals and crowns, you can buy an awful lot of tech hardware....