I find Communism to be a really nice idea, but it seems really hard to implement (outside of the family unit) due to the disincentive to production created by abandoning private property.
Robots, of course, don't exhibit this behavior.
At this rate, Communism may actually become feasible within my lifetime!
Sometimes I hate being right. I though I illustrated it pretty clearly by what I chose to quote. Would you consider it unfair if I paraphrased your post as "You annoying dorks should have nice social skills, like me."?
Or perhaps you consider belittling "dorks" to be a valid social skill. (In which case I amplify the comment that we now come to.)
you are the kind of asshole that gets high schools shot up.
Spoken like a shooter. "It's your fault I pulled the trigger!"
You seem to take cause to imply responsibility. I don't.
Maybe you are a swell guy and we are just failing to communicate. But you come off as an arrogant ass that takes exception to anyone who is socially "beneath" him displaying any of the very same traits you possess.
Because the rest of us can't fucking stand working with you. [. ..]
You're just the computer dork.
[. ..]
Maybe spend less time sticking up for yourself and be a social person instead.
I'm sure you can't see the inconsistancy in your own thinking. I'm really just responding to let you know that you are the kind of asshole that gets high schools shot up.
If you're a national telemarketer, you pay your $7,375.00 and download the 122MB compressed file annually. I don't think this is a large fee or burden compared to the actual costs of the telecommunications equipment, not to mention your staff.
Clearly I don't understand how this business works.
If I ran a business that relied on cold-calls to generate sales, and I had a DB of millions of phone numbers I would cheerfully pay eight grand for a list of hundreds of thousands of people who are never going to buy from me so I could scrub them from my DB.
To put it another way, you say "On the other hand, the amount of lost revenue from the diminished "audience" for your calls has got to hurt." I don't believe this for a second.
Any given company selling packaged vacations or whatever can't hit every phone in the country very often. Imagine the staffing that would be required. Removing everyone on the DNC list would almost have to increase the ratio of calls to sales.
So, assuming the same number of calls are made, revenue goes up.
What time was that? What is a "definable definition?"
The system in the United States, from its inception, was intended to have a set of reasonable laws, to be interpreted and applied by the Judiciary and juries.
Trying to define everything down to a gnat's balls, then using shortcomings of semantics to get around those definitions does not strike me as a superior system.
Trying to define everything the the nth degree, and codify every possible human activity is clearly an impossible task.
Thankfully the Framers possessed a degree of wisdom you appear to lack.
Damn it. That was my second theory (after the ubermatrix theory), but I forgot all about it.
5. Now that he's been to the core he is "hooked in" and can influence the Matrix (and everything else connected to the core) even when he isn't "plugged in."
I was dissatisfied with this theory because I couldn't think of how it could be plausibly explained that his thoughts get from inside his head to the core through the Ether.
Of course, the fact that I can't explain this plausibly could be directly related the the fact that I don't write scripts for blockbuster movies . ..
Let's try to get all of the "reasonable" explanations for the sentinel incident at the end of Reloaded nailed down.
1. Zion (and the "service and waste tunnels" etc.) exist in an uber/meta-matrix. Ha ha, we fooled you.
This one seems the most popular.
2. There was a "bait and switch" as our heroes thought they were exiting the Matrix after Neo saves Trinty.
This one is supported by a) Neo says "Something's different." before he stops the sentinels. b) All reports are that Zion was destroyed/abandoned at that time, but the battle seems to be going on in Revolutions. c) It makes the whole Bane/Smith thing much easier to accept.
This one seems the most plausible.
3. Neo is a genuine Messiah, sent by God. In this scenario the "real world" is the real world. His miraculous powers are genuine, bestowed upon him by the Grace of God for His own purposes.
This one is my favorite. I'm not sure if this is in spite of, or because of the fact that I am an (little "a") atheist.
4. There is no answer. The whole thing is a pointless mind-fuck. Revolutions will have an utterly dissatisfying ending. Twenty years from now the Wachowski brothers will state in an interview that Neo was a replicant.
This one I fear the most.
-Peter
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I don't think it is out of print.
I just bought the "First Mariner Books edition 2000" trade paperback (ISBN 0-618-05707-2) on Amazon for $12.60.
In case you don't know "trade paperback" means hard cover form factor (size, paper, and type) with a laminated paper cover (somewhat glossier and tougher than that of a pulp paperback). I'm not sure what the original edition looked like. This one's cover is white with black all caps titling . . . it isn't very appealing to look at.
It is eminently unfair to call these "Linux" packages.
Of course, none of them are GNU packages, either . ..
OTOH, tinc does have a linux.org homepage, but then it seems to not be "Demolished" by any reasonable definition. He says "This is a terrible way to use RSA, and usually compromises the key." and I'm no crypto geek, but I think what he means by "compromises" is "provides and avenue of attack that is mathematically simpler than brute force against the key" not "reveals the secret".
So, two seemingly abandoned projects are suspect, and one relatively arbitrary (but Open Source!) package has a theoretical weakness.
All that said, my question is: What has been demonstrated (or demolished)?
Wallace began winning contests - local, state, national - culminating in second place in the International Intel Science and Engineering Fair last May in Cleveland.
What the fuck took first?! Must have been that kid that cured cancer.
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I find Communism to be a really nice idea, but it seems really hard to implement (outside of the family unit) due to the disincentive to production created by abandoning private property.
Robots, of course, don't exhibit this behavior.
At this rate, Communism may actually become feasible within my lifetime!
-Peter
Sometimes I hate being right. I though I illustrated it pretty clearly by what I chose to quote. Would you consider it unfair if I paraphrased your post as "You annoying dorks should have nice social skills, like me."?
Or perhaps you consider belittling "dorks" to be a valid social skill. (In which case I amplify the comment that we now come to.)
You seem to take cause to imply responsibility. I don't.
Maybe you are a swell guy and we are just failing to communicate. But you come off as an arrogant ass that takes exception to anyone who is socially "beneath" him displaying any of the very same traits you possess.
-Peter
Really? Where do you work?
-Peter
I'm sure you can't see the inconsistancy in your own thinking. I'm really just responding to let you know that you are the kind of asshole that gets high schools shot up.
-Peter
Clearly I don't understand how this business works.
If I ran a business that relied on cold-calls to generate sales, and I had a DB of millions of phone numbers I would cheerfully pay eight grand for a list of hundreds of thousands of people who are never going to buy from me so I could scrub them from my DB.
To put it another way, you say "On the other hand, the amount of lost revenue from the diminished "audience" for your calls has got to hurt." I don't believe this for a second.
Any given company selling packaged vacations or whatever can't hit every phone in the country very often. Imagine the staffing that would be required. Removing everyone on the DNC list would almost have to increase the ratio of calls to sales.
So, assuming the same number of calls are made, revenue goes up.
These guys are all nuts.
-Peter
SquirrelMail's main advantage is that it does not require a DB back end.
;-)
It does depend on IMAP, which is arguably an email specific DB, but from an installation and maintenance standpoint that doesn't count.
It also doesn't depend on perl. Since I don't like perl this is an advantage for me
-Peter
PS: I agree with GP that rolling your own is the way to go if you know what you want.
-P
What time was that? What is a "definable definition?"
The system in the United States, from its inception, was intended to have a set of reasonable laws, to be interpreted and applied by the Judiciary and juries.
Trying to define everything down to a gnat's balls, then using shortcomings of semantics to get around those definitions does not strike me as a superior system.
Trying to define everything the the nth degree, and codify every possible human activity is clearly an impossible task.
Thankfully the Framers possessed a degree of wisdom you appear to lack.
-Peter
We have jury trials.
We can't define what's music, but we know it when we hear it.
But I'm drunk and didn't read the f-ing article.
Maybe it has something to do with having a beat and chords . . . ?
-Peter
David Bradley created this key sequence.
Bill Gates merely made it famous.
-Peter
No, no. His garage door (inbox). I have to find someone who has carelessly left their shed (SMTP server) unlocked (open), and use their spray paint.
;-)
Thanks for getting it though
-Peter
You are 100% correct. I have some important political speech I would like to express.
Please send me your address so I can spray paint it on your garage door.
-Peter
PS: I'll give you a cookie if you can figure out the fundamental difference between junk mail and SPAM all by yourself.
-P
Clearly this is not the ideal solution, but perhaps it strikes a balance between your needs and ideals.
Consider picking the device based on its stand-alone features, then upload the recording via the line-in on your sound card.
Of course this won't work if time is an issue, but maybe it would be workable for you to just hit play and go to bed.
Anyway, once you do that you can use a sensible, open codec like Speex.
-Peter
Damn it. That was my second theory (after the ubermatrix theory), but I forgot all about it.
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5. Now that he's been to the core he is "hooked in" and can influence the Matrix (and everything else connected to the core) even when he isn't "plugged in."
I was dissatisfied with this theory because I couldn't think of how it could be plausibly explained that his thoughts get from inside his head to the core through the Ether.
Of course, the fact that I can't explain this plausibly could be directly related the the fact that I don't write scripts for blockbuster movies . .
-Peter
Let's try to get all of the "reasonable" explanations for the sentinel incident at the end of Reloaded nailed down.
1. Zion (and the "service and waste tunnels" etc.) exist in an uber/meta-matrix. Ha ha, we fooled you.
This one seems the most popular.
2. There was a "bait and switch" as our heroes thought they were exiting the Matrix after Neo saves Trinty.
This one is supported by a) Neo says "Something's different." before he stops the sentinels. b) All reports are that Zion was destroyed/abandoned at that time, but the battle seems to be going on in Revolutions. c) It makes the whole Bane/Smith thing much easier to accept.
This one seems the most plausible.
3. Neo is a genuine Messiah, sent by God. In this scenario the "real world" is the real world. His miraculous powers are genuine, bestowed upon him by the Grace of God for His own purposes.
This one is my favorite. I'm not sure if this is in spite of, or because of the fact that I am an (little "a") atheist.
4. There is no answer. The whole thing is a pointless mind-fuck. Revolutions will have an utterly dissatisfying ending. Twenty years from now the Wachowski brothers will state in an interview that Neo was a replicant.
This one I fear the most.
-Peter
I don't think it is out of print.
I just bought the "First Mariner Books edition 2000" trade paperback (ISBN 0-618-05707-2) on Amazon for $12.60.
In case you don't know "trade paperback" means hard cover form factor (size, paper, and type) with a laminated paper cover (somewhat glossier and tougher than that of a pulp paperback). I'm not sure what the original edition looked like. This one's cover is white with black all caps titling . . . it isn't very appealing to look at.
-Peter
Red Hat != Linux
I wish I could mod myself redundant on that one.
-Peter
It is eminently unfair to call these "Linux" packages.
.
Of course, none of them are GNU packages, either . .
OTOH, tinc does have a linux.org homepage, but then it seems to not be "Demolished" by any reasonable definition. He says "This is a terrible way to use RSA, and usually compromises the key." and I'm no crypto geek, but I think what he means by "compromises" is "provides and avenue of attack that is mathematically simpler than brute force against the key" not "reveals the secret".
So, two seemingly abandoned projects are suspect, and one relatively arbitrary (but Open Source!) package has a theoretical weakness.
All that said, my question is: What has been demonstrated (or demolished)?
-Peter
In related news, I'll be suing the Library Hotel for resizing my god-damned browser window without express, written permission.
:-(
Man that pisses me off.
And it seems that Konq won't let me turn that off
-Peter
#apm -s
-Peter
Ah, AC. You have no appreciation for the subtleties of delivery.
(It really did happen, though. But now that I think about it, it was Sunday.)
-Peter
PS: Reconsider your linking style. It is almost never necessary to link the word "here."
You could have simply said: "you were one of the people referred to earlier in this comment."
-P
PPS: Good luck on that whole "getting a slashdot user ID" thing. I'm pulling for you.
-p
I packed up my AT clone and my bus mouse and moved out years ago . . .
-Peter
I had a conversation with my Dad about Linux start times yesterday that went something like:
Dad: But it takes so long to start up.
Me: Yeah, but you only have to do it once.
-Peter
If you discipline yourself no one else will have to.
Why don't you start going in at 7:00? If you clock in at 7:01 (or even, <gasp> 7:07) you'll still be "on time."
Traffic will probably be a hair better on the way home too.
Well, got to go. I'm running late for work!
-Peter
What the fuck took first?! Must have been that kid that cured cancer.
-Peter
Actually, I almost cited "Corporate Speech and Corporate Personhood" as an example of the drowned out good points.
You've illustrated my point nicely though. Thanks.
Also, kudos to AC for aptly identifying the straw man.
-Peter