Hmmm... I was thinking of Mr. Magoo and Kazoo and such. I suppose a kazoo would be better than most of the other wind instruments on shown on this page:
As for shakuhachi... I don't know that nor think it is a proper or even a given name for the average Nihonjin. Kazu is a real, talented, gifted artist. The spellings are different, but in Nippon, I suppose a FEW people might in a drunken state poke fun at him if he showed up at a session with a kazu. But, they might say/ask, "Kah-zhu-o San... Nani-o/Nanji des(u)ka...", and he'd likely reply, "Kuh-zhoo des(u)...", to which another obligatory reply might be... "Soo des(u).... cool..."
But, as a veteran of the USN, I am imagining people would rather some massive/hunkin power-projecting ear-splitting-capable instrument rather than a pocket-sized gizmo... I could be wrong...tho...
You get spun up about 25.5 Gs against a panel, desk edge, or chair for say 5 or 10 mintues (how else will this type of test be useful if under 5 minutes but is supposed to explore deepspace travel?...) and see if you don't come out with a new type of.... (heralding voice here) "THE BENDS". I'm sure they can pump your ass full of nitrogen or some gas, but, in the end (pun intended), your ass will STILL be all busted up inside. Probay the best to come out of it is reduced case flatulence, if that doesn't in itself turn the spinner into a gas chamber, or make it an ex-ghaspirating experience..
One wonders whether these geniuses had the "forsight" to take a few fresh cadavers out for a spin.
(In the name of NASA and national eminence, I suppose some contracts could be crafted for the expeditious acquisition of "near-live cadavavers"... Or, subject some bona-fide criminals to these in exchange for, ummmm, a lighter sentence. A few non-joy rides in one of these things could have the effect of compressing time and lightening the incarceration time...Could even open up a whole new set of recidivism stats for the FBI and any other agency wanting to fight over that cherry assignment.... If you "weeble and wobble" the hardened criminal elements sufficiently, major crime could "bow", or "knuckle under the pressure"...spuns (spun puns) intended...)
But, for the criminal elements, say, (50's esque product placement voice): "You do this NOT ONLY for your COUNTRY, but for yourSELF."
Once the subject emerges, the testers can pull Kirk's version of the IDIC/Vulcan split-fingers sign (where Kirk asked the mind-melded McCoy: "How many fingers to I have up?" It was easy for McCoy to say, "That's not very DAMN FUNNY...) and ask the emergees: "Ohhhh, say can you SEEEEEE????"
I mean, the KNOW they have plenty of documentation about car crashes, high-altitude and low-altitude high-speed ejection, deep (attempted and failed) escape from submarines, nitrogen narcosis, and a plethora of other unnatural limits-pushing or limits-breaking events.
I suppose this Stapp will probably be blind to some extent, if not completely. Maybe Stapp WAS the subject? If so, I envision it was QUITE an "eye-opening" to "eye-popping" experience...
Nevermind Gitmo... some of these could end up in Guam, Diego Garcia, some hinterland island of the Philippines... some afloat Prison/Afloat Mobyle Einformation Extraction Fasility... anyplace where US anti-torture laws would "normally" appall, umm, apply...
Would the human inside count as a power source? If the device is properly balanced, the human inside this habit-trail might make this thing qualify as some sort of perpetual motion machine. Maybe NASA will get the first patent!
We, NASA, on behalf of DHLS, claim an apparatus enabling the constant motion of a machine, which comprises a dense food and water supply, hope-inspiring-but-useless escape tools, and a plurality of combative but resilient human subjects contained therewithin, intent on fortuitously arriving upon or fervently concocting escape plans, inducing perpetual motion of embodied device.
Further uses of this device are classified under various secrecy acts and are exempt from disclosure
This is NOT your father's merry-go-round or Ferris wheel...
But, NOR is it a torture device, or a gas chamber... It's a reincarnation *acceleration* chamber...(think Reagan era comments on the gas chamber...)
Officially, it's an Information Secretion Device, though it can cause EXcretion and catonia and rapid weight loss, circulatory problems and acute inverse osteoporosis... But, primarily it has variable speed success at inducing persons of interest to secrete secret informations under otherwise unpossible nomral-g sitiations......
Indeed, in the spirit of extracting every valuable penny's worth of information, we will TAX the shit out of all subjects subject to the newly-improved "Salad Spinner", aka "Vegetable Maker". The resulting past is tronger than vegemite...
Talk about extracting information (from terrorists OR from science subjects) at "dizzying speeds"
Now, just put James Bond in THAT intense G-force. I imagine almost ANYone would be "impregnable" under those harsh circumstances...
Say, has anyone got a torch? It's quite dark in heeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!
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RTTUZYUW 20060430-0115... 0723 " From: COMNAV... To: sdfw " ekl " SUBJECT: Issuance of Kazoos in Replacement of CD Gadgets and Bugles SSIC: 23532 REF: " Budget Reductions "
INT WTF??
Kazoo Players for Taps?
I just had a sick though:
Ship, far from home with chillers and freezer units damaged from pernicious and incessant enemy direct action commencing burial at sea evolution. At the last minuted, the Duty MAA arrives to the fantail:
Sir, regret to inform you that the Signalman of the Watch reports that our only bugle has been damaged by casualties sustained related to the enemy attack. However, Petty Officer Jackson reports he has a kazoo in his bunk locker. Seaman Ishihara has a shakuhachi -- a kind of 4-foot long Japanese flute-- and Ensign McCaullay has partially-functional bagpipes.
What happened to the CD's from the USGPO we got last quarter?
Misrouted, sir. We got some culinary and navigation update CDs.
NNNN 0723
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I somehow have a feel a kazoo would be QUITE undiginified... A shakuhachi flute t,ho, would move the crew to tears... if played by someon with the skills of Kazu Matsui (he played the opener for the film/movie "Southern Comfort", and he features with his wife, Keiko. That instrument moves me like no other does... And at a funeral, it would be QUITE depressing... might send the crew to mutiny and refuse to fight anymore.
Considering the various instruments USED to be used for chivalrous/manly announcements of "let the sanctioned slaughters and mayhem commence", to sound taps, and reveille and so on it would not be "dignified" to switch to PRC-25s, clicking the mic button to make music. Neither would pantomiming "hit team" hand signals, darting around tombstones with cammo paint on face.
Seriously, tho, a nation that can spend BILLIONS on sky, sea, and ground weapons systems can spare a Few people and PAY them. The government could take some of those who face jail or military service and turn them into buglers...
(Never mind the BS the services say about the "new (service branch) only takes clean people with diplomas...", as of 2001, I heard an NPR program in which a enlisted Sailor aboard a carrier (CVN) in the Mid East area said he was in the navy ONLY because it was that of jail, and something to the effect that he wanted food and a hot shower every day...He was very much rebuked by his department head and accessibility to him by the journalist was cut or heavily monitored.)
I suppose, one day we'll find out the use of CDs was a ( CLASSIFIED: S E C R E T ) scandalous cover to reduce the risk of returning "war" vets from suiciding just before or after taps. THAT would be a HELLUVA way to express disappointment with recent duty assignment in front of the public.... It's kinda shameful tho, MOST of those who died in the past 15 years did over oil or hegemony or such. The LEAST these US powermongers can do is enlist somebody who is a skilled musician and keep them on call to play taps. If anything, batch up the burials as much as possible (with the families understanding, hopefully) and then have the bugler play for an en masse interment and then fly him or her to the next burial ceremony. I mean, jeez, Oregon (Portland I think) has on an on-call list a clinician or psychiatrist/suicide prevention specialist who is capable of speaking KLINGONESE, because ONE person (deranged, hallucinating, whatever) was rambling and noone could communicate with the person. Somebody figured out the individual was speaking in Klingon. From that point, Oregon has had the ability or legislated the ability to have a Klingon-conversant specialist be summonable to save a life.
Maybe someday, well have multi-lingual politicians who can actually THINK in common sense and dignity for those who die to protect their wealth and power bases. Probably would make many of the younger sailors, soldiers, and airmen/women say, don't drape me in or give to my family a flag unless I get a flesh and blood bugler.
However, I don't know what would be worse: having a war/IED-frazzled trooper or grunt or specops guy rotated to VA or such to blow taps (they might break down and suicide on the spot) or have some conscripted-otherwise-jailbound musically-inclined/gifted not-really-served/ unseasoned/no-action individual in a crisp uniform blowing taps.
It's quite "seedy" to inter men and women via a "CD bugler". Kinda fucked up, if you as me.
My opponent only "slightly" misunderestimated me, so I'll be briefer than he, hehhe
Jeeezuhhhssss!!!!!
I'm glad SOMEbody's posting longer ones than I do, hehehhehe.....
I expected only ONE or TWO more paragraphs, but man, I was stunned, amazed AND impressed at the length.... He must be on a school break...
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But, if the Terrorits want the current administration to collapse maybe the only need wait for it to slither out of office by SIMPLY NOT ATTACKING THE US or its interests until this administration is GONE, swept out with the dust and mold. Hopefully, the NEXT administration WILL be less ass-kicking and swaggering. MAYBE the T's MIGHT tone down, too. I believe tht since OBL has NOT been found, and Hussein was a easier target, the most likely is a connection between the OBL family oil ties (and other ties) to the current cabal/cadge and they will NOT just "kill him off". It's easy and distracting to put up a $35 million bounty on the head of "The Brain", and all these other cute/sardonic/witty names to the top lieutenants, but decapitating OBL is like cutting a hornet's nest off the tree and waiting for it to fall and burst open. Only, the admin, the limb cutter, is not wearing enough armor, and too much armor would slow things to a crawl. Best not to have a picnic, ball game, or shit-kicking hee-haw shindig around a hornet's or bees' nest.
Maybe the admin ought to go and watch "Swarm" or similar b-movies and draw analogies to their conduct as it relates to self-appointed spokespeople of the oppressed. The best way to make 'merkuh less of a T-target is to STOP doing the ACTIVE/domination things that piss off not only Terrorists, but the US FRIENDS, too. Most of them are NOT interested in becoming a fricking bomb recipient. Yeh, the LOVE US tech and weaponry and the billions the US prints and trucks or flies over to them for supposed safekeeping of those economies, but if they get hit by collateral damaged instigated by the US (and explicitly, the ELIGIBLE INFORMED (not tarring ALL of the voting-age potentials...) US voting public apathy or willingness to "buy into" whatever they're spoonfed by any given administration), the will NOT want to hear, "Well, so you lost a few people and a neighborhood; welcome to the new era..."
Tellingly, look at Cambodia, which recently reFUSED to send troops to the Middle East. Their reason? "We've been torn apart by war and destruction. We're TIRED OF WAR." I haven't seen any US-administration followups, but I imagine some envoy or kneecapper went over to give them a one-two shakeup call. OTOH, maybe not. The US wouldn't want bad news to keep festering up or indicate henchmen are actually roughing people (leaders/envoys, etc) up. Moreover, China and Cambodia have some ties, and if China so far is not a major or even MINOR Terrorist target when the US is.....
Finally, I've been reading up on some Asian Affairs stuff... MOST Asian nations care more about economy and prosperity and just catching up, and LESS about "democracy", particularly US-STYLE democracy. They are eying CHINA, and China's "Peaceful Growth" messages. These are many of the same nations badgered and bullied by the US during the Cold War in the US bid to staunch and crush socialism and communism China/Russia-style (or, maybe China/Russia-style socialism and communism). They are actually NOT too terribly interested in being mashed up by deep alliances with the US.
India, Korea (the South, obviously), Japan, and Australia ARE hard-up to get Aegis SPY-1D-related technology, but I dare say MOST of them wouldn't NEED it if they actually had a heart to heart with their neighbors rather than side with nations that try to keep them divided. Once Korea wakes up, they'll realize that it's harder than HELL to get the US out. Wait, they've already waken from that dream sequence, and they found they LIKE the comfort of the US protection umbrella. Same can be similarly said of Japan. But, this gets really nasty REALLY quick
Seems separately they (Google AND the US govt agencies) are trying to create realtime-neural net awareness, or some sort of "Mind of God" (Remember Bolts from the Gods" "Hand of God", "Eye of God" projects?) wherein the agents are "plugged-in", or "on the net" via some synaptic hookup.
I mean, maybe in 15 years, they'll have a crude mind-meld "Your thoughts are my thoughts". It won't be two-way but by then, maybe the govt will have "Mind MELT" capabilities, a la "Telephon". Talk about MIND COPS/THOUGHT POLICE. Then, literally, in real time, you could be summoned or arrested in seconds thanks to geospatial (imagine Arc GIS.)
Initially, I am sure it will be truly, massively "mind-boggling", to say the least... (Or, is that "to think the least"?)
Would that be Inference, Conference? Maybe the way to combat that then would be to have EVERYone "think nice thoughts". Might make heir jobs boring as hell. Or, everyone think in the most chaotic, random, tortured manner , from the most depressing to the most heart-rending thoughts and overwhelm their "mood sensor".
Seems the government and the wealthy are single-handedly, with the snap of two fingers, bringing back the mood ring, well, as soon as they "link up all the agents". Sadly, the public will be pushed into a cowered state, until, at some point, the population lashes back so hard in a deep, undulating, resonating way that secession, sedition, treason all look like malleable, meaningless words.
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Hmmm, this is probably how the Play Station was duplicated. If not, then somebody had a LOT of nerve...
I don't remember if it was on/., but I sometime around last year read that Sony was knocking their head against the wall trying to figure out where units causing high sales volumes but with not cashflow traceability were coming from. Apparently, there was a WHOLE COUNTERFEIT factory in full-swing operation, building and shipping them off. Reminds me of the counterfeit KFC once found in China. Right down to the meat and logos and uniforms.... People called in to verify a franchise and the loc wasn't on the books...
Hmmm.../. imageword "article" funny, considering this "article" is about "counterfeit articles"... heheh
Sounds to me like someone (paid lobbyists) is trying to kill off Amarok and Rhythm Box and stuff like that....
But, they'll probably dry up or kill off some lucrative front ends to advertisers who see us Linux users as potential clients they can't afford to capricious cut off just to please some twit lobbyists or others who may be acting for ms and ms-like entities...
But, hopefully Amarok and Rhythm Box will live if there are enough independent artists producing content across the various genres. So long as THEIR work is not copyrighted, the damned lobbyists/henchmen out there can't and SHOULDN'T be doing a DAMNED THING about it. The can cut of copyrighted stuff that already ought not be shamelessly reproduced (and particularly resold illegally), but the free, independent stuff... they better keep their damned grubby hands off of the free (that is, the stuff free as in beer and freedom) stuff...
Or, how 'bout if we can go to Citgo, AM/PM or Shell and get a couple of hi-dose burritos or natto and recharge our cars as we pass gas from one form to another.
Talk about and organic Lithium cracking station. Better set up the A/C boosted (power and air chiller) charcoal-activated-charcoal vacs-- otherwise the miniature ion storm will gaspirate you passengers... with a one-two combo lung-whacking, brain-thumping adiabatic/isentropic booting/boosting out the window at highway speeds...
True, but Einstein was more than "da bomb". The way he's popularly portrayed (as a single inventor of da bomb, with few if any assistants) could almost qualify him as proxy unibomber, depending on your perspectives...
Funny, tho, I was half-expecting images of OTHER well-known Linux/OS advocates. But, in this (aside from estates and heirs) most dead men can't sue, hehehe.....
Yep, it's sometimes unfortunate that appearance/appearances (and voiced opinions) can doom a product or project just because of herd mentality and "shoot the messenger" syndrome.
But, honestly, if a person with halitosis or buck teeth or such in TODAY's times wanted to be warmly received by the masses (or by billionairs), on what difficulty scale would it land? Based on person? The product (I suppose Wiley Coyote or the Wildebeast could be backed by investors as long as they stood to make butt-loads of money and could invoke plausible denial if Wiley's face made the cover of time...)
Apology accepted, sir. (Thank you, too. I admit, however, I do expose (and sometimes espouse, I suppose) some quite weird/unorthodox opinions and ramblings...)
Maybe they want Japan-style (or other places?) CVs on which the applicants photo is affixed. Maybe they don't want (to use the words of a USMC SSgt/ GSgt I served under many moons ago...) "spaghetti-long Bob Marley hairdos" (the words the SSGT used in dismay when he ordered us Sailors to uncover (remove our caps/head gear) for his personal inspection of us... some dumb-assed boneheads (we were right out of boot camp) were not staying within hair/grooming standards...)
But, also, as a peer organization, MAYbe, just maybe, "professional-looking" suits and lawyers might make more headway getting certain enterprise/corporate IT-level implementations achieved with a better PR face on the stories. It's hard as hell (I gather) to put on a major mag a face with buckteeth, wild hair, unkempt appearance and so forth
I kinda have first-hand observation of this. A company I worked for had 6 IT guys. 3 were not very hygienic (crudded teeth on one, wild hair on the 2nd, BO to high heaven on both, T-shirts and sneakers. Business casual (no tie) was my dress. The manager was about the same as mine. The others were similar. We got bought and merged (and the usual stuff that goes with it) and the top partner IT came in and interviewed each of us, making their assessments as can be expected. They already had HUNDREDS of IT on staff, but I wouldn't be surprised that their corporate culture only forced the interviews in the name of feigning fairness. They were strictly suit and tie, shiny shoes, and maybe 80 to 2,000 thread-count shirts (I joked with our own counsel that his shirt was 200-thread count... he didn't laugh... hehehe). I am sure that based on the number of places I've temped at that IT geeks may mostly be behind doors but when it's time to enter a cubicle, you SHOULD look about the same as the others around, just in case "visitors" arrive. It didn't help that 2 had halitosis, LONGGG fingernails, dandruff flakes, Trek-Lazarus-time-traveler-like mustaches and goatees; their cubicles were filled with empty or unopened soda cans and stuff including loose scraps of paper..., no matter HOW brainiac, contributory and wizard-like the dev engineer. Maybe "vanity" is asserting itself in tech circles. A couple of these guys occasionally had runes or chants and sylph-like gaits... all they need were wands, wizard hats, and maybe a dimensional gateway/quantum slipstream portal-opening-summoning device. They are SMART, but they would not be easily integrable with the dominant culture. Not from my observation...of them and of the suits that looked like they walked into a nerd-shack.
But, getting back on track, as for the "Closed Open-Source" aspect, I think they want to be really nitpicky so as to super-enhance the credibility and acceptability of their results when they start wardriving/swooning the companies that might accept their standards proposals, papers, and such.
(I THINK I got the closed parens correct this time...heheheh for the parenthetical Nazis, heheh)
ass invasion to come... poop-detector connected to scent emitter enables all neurally-connected players the opportunity for tap out "First Sniff" and to speak into the mic, "somebody fahted"...
Whatever happened to the scent emitter ideas. In urban warfare games, the smell of carrion, cordite, and more could REALLY get the adrenaline flowing behind every firewall and digital fireline.
Maybe those rumbling chairs might see more sales...
Maybe in the case of a charge/check purchase it ties a name to the purchaser, not just a name to ISP paperwork. If the modem moves to a new residence (whether or not the same owner) it still provides "traceability" for the spooks doing the watching. Maybe, someday, the modems will "seed" the computers with "tagants" so that if the computer of interest is a laptop (say, normally behind a firewall), it can be traced to a neighborhood if the users frequents a WiFi/hotspot.
Of course, this assumes the user is using poor security and poor judgment... As SMARTER person would use disposable hardware, random, untraceable accounts, and so forth. But, it was just an idea... maybe a lame one at that...
BUT, if the cable modem IS backdoored, then if the prosecution decides to reveal they have "technical knowhow", they could then seal a verdict against an accused (assuming they are telling the truth and not bolstering a case with "hyped up evidence") by revealing they can undeniably match a c/m to a credit card that matches the person of interest, and their movements (if any movements come into play...). It might also reveal that additional computers behind a modem could expose different computers and even different owners.
Remember that relationship association software someone last month or in February in/. talked about/linked to?
LOL!!! Well, if it's a hard-core slut, then it'll be more than a "manager"; it'll be a MAN AGER!!! Age the hell out of the hapless man who gets into her dragnet...
I guess you wooley and pooper really need to go find some s-c-e-x or a hobby... Why r u so uptight? I'm not ATTACKING the distro, since obviously it's under the thread "wordplay"! I s'pose there's no point reasoning with or expecting humour out of you two...
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Hmmm... I was thinking of Mr. Magoo and Kazoo and such. I suppose a kazoo would be better than most of the other wind instruments on shown on this page:
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As for shakuhachi... I don't know that nor think it is a proper or even a given name for the average Nihonjin. Kazu is a real, talented, gifted artist. The spellings are different, but in Nippon, I suppose a FEW people might in a drunken state poke fun at him if he showed up at a session with a kazu. But, they might say/ask, "Kah-zhu-o San... Nani-o/Nanji des(u)ka...", and he'd likely reply, "Kuh-zhoo des(u)...", to which another obligatory reply might be... "Soo des(u).... cool..."
But, as a veteran of the USN, I am imagining people would rather some massive/hunkin power-projecting ear-splitting-capable instrument rather than a pocket-sized gizmo... I could be wrong...tho...
CLEARLY you're taking this DOUBLY seriously...
GOOD GOD!!!
"0, Insightful"?
This guy must have had INCREDIBLY NEGATIVE karma to be zero and yet insightful...
No mercy?
No bruises or marks my ass... hehhee
You get spun up about 25.5 Gs against a panel, desk edge, or chair for say 5 or 10 mintues (how else will this type of test be useful if under 5 minutes but is supposed to explore deepspace travel?...) and see if you don't come out with a new type of.... (heralding voice here) "THE BENDS". I'm sure they can pump your ass full of nitrogen or some gas, but, in the end (pun intended), your ass will STILL be all busted up inside. Probay the best to come out of it is reduced case flatulence, if that doesn't in itself turn the spinner into a gas chamber, or make it an ex-ghaspirating experience..
One wonders whether these geniuses had the "forsight" to take a few fresh cadavers out for a spin.
(In the name of NASA and national eminence, I suppose some contracts could be crafted for the expeditious acquisition of "near-live cadavavers"... Or, subject some bona-fide criminals to these in exchange for, ummmm, a lighter sentence. A few non-joy rides in one of these things could have the effect of compressing time and lightening the incarceration time...Could even open up a whole new set of recidivism stats for the FBI and any other agency wanting to fight over that cherry assignment.... If you "weeble and wobble" the hardened criminal elements sufficiently, major crime could "bow", or "knuckle under the pressure"...spuns (spun puns) intended...)
But, for the criminal elements, say, (50's esque product placement voice): "You do this NOT ONLY for your COUNTRY, but for yourSELF."
Once the subject emerges, the testers can pull Kirk's version of the IDIC/Vulcan split-fingers sign (where Kirk asked the mind-melded McCoy: "How many fingers to I have up?" It was easy for McCoy to say, "That's not very DAMN FUNNY...) and ask the emergees: "Ohhhh, say can you SEEEEEE????"
I mean, the KNOW they have plenty of documentation about car crashes, high-altitude and low-altitude high-speed ejection, deep (attempted and failed) escape from submarines, nitrogen narcosis, and a plethora of other unnatural limits-pushing or limits-breaking events.
I suppose this Stapp will probably be blind to some extent, if not completely. Maybe Stapp WAS the subject? If so, I envision it was QUITE an "eye-opening" to "eye-popping" experience...
But, whether for scientific or military purposes, if the subjects have died, the device can be named dual information extraction device, or "DIED"...
But, in the spirit of "Rods from the Gods", "Eye in the Sky" and "Finger of God", and so on... the government can herald:
DIETY: "Dual Information Extraction Testing Yoke"....
(cue up all the jokes about being "yoked/yolked" around)
Nevermind Gitmo... some of these could end up in Guam, Diego Garcia, some hinterland island of the Philippines... some afloat Prison/Afloat Mobyle Einformation Extraction Fasility... anyplace where US anti-torture laws would "normally" appall, umm, apply...
Would the human inside count as a power source? If the device is properly balanced, the human inside this habit-trail might make this thing qualify as some sort of perpetual motion machine. Maybe NASA will get the first patent!
We, NASA, on behalf of DHLS, claim an apparatus enabling the constant motion of a machine, which comprises a dense food and water supply, hope-inspiring-but-useless escape tools, and a plurality of combative but resilient human subjects contained therewithin, intent on fortuitously arriving upon or fervently concocting escape plans, inducing perpetual motion of embodied device.
Further uses of this device are classified under various secrecy acts and are exempt from disclosure
This is NOT your father's merry-go-round or Ferris wheel...
But, NOR is it a torture device, or a gas chamber... It's a reincarnation *acceleration* chamber...(think Reagan era comments on the gas chamber...)
Officially, it's an Information Secretion Device, though it can cause EXcretion and catonia and rapid weight loss, circulatory problems and acute inverse osteoporosis... But, primarily it has variable speed success at inducing persons of interest to secrete secret informations under otherwise unpossible nomral-g sitiations......
Indeed, in the spirit of extracting every valuable penny's worth of information, we will TAX the shit out of all subjects subject to the newly-improved "Salad Spinner", aka "Vegetable Maker". The resulting past is tronger than vegemite...
Talk about extracting information (from terrorists OR from science subjects) at "dizzying speeds"
Now, just put James Bond in THAT intense G-force. I imagine almost ANYone would be "impregnable" under those harsh circumstances...
Say, has anyone got a torch? It's quite dark in heeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!
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... 0723 "
RTTUZYUW 20060430-0115
From: COMNAV...
To: sdfw " ekl "
SUBJECT: Issuance of Kazoos in Replacement of CD Gadgets and Bugles
SSIC: 23532
REF: " Budget Reductions "
INT WTF??
Kazoo Players for Taps?
I just had a sick though:
Ship, far from home with chillers and freezer units damaged from pernicious and incessant enemy direct action commencing burial at sea evolution. At the last minuted, the Duty MAA arrives to the fantail:
Sir, regret to inform you that the Signalman of the Watch reports that our only bugle has been damaged by casualties sustained related to the enemy attack. However, Petty Officer Jackson reports he has a kazoo in his bunk locker. Seaman Ishihara has a shakuhachi -- a kind of 4-foot long Japanese flute-- and Ensign McCaullay has partially-functional bagpipes.
What happened to the CD's from the USGPO we got last quarter?
Misrouted, sir. We got some culinary and navigation update CDs.
NNNN
0723
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I somehow have a feel a kazoo would be QUITE undiginified... A shakuhachi flute t,ho, would move the crew to tears... if played by someon with the skills of Kazu Matsui (he played the opener for the film/movie "Southern Comfort", and he features with his wife, Keiko. That instrument moves me like no other does... And at a funeral, it would be QUITE depressing... might send the crew to mutiny and refuse to fight anymore.
Considering the various instruments USED to be used for chivalrous/manly announcements of "let the sanctioned slaughters and mayhem commence", to sound taps, and reveille and so on it would not be "dignified" to switch to PRC-25s, clicking the mic button to make music. Neither would pantomiming "hit team" hand signals, darting around tombstones with cammo paint on face.
... It's kinda shameful tho, MOST of those who died in the past 15 years did over oil or hegemony or such. The LEAST these US powermongers can do is enlist somebody who is a skilled musician and keep them on call to play taps. If anything, batch up the burials as much as possible (with the families understanding, hopefully) and then have the bugler play for an en masse interment and then fly him or her to the next burial ceremony. I mean, jeez, Oregon (Portland I think) has on an on-call list a clinician or psychiatrist/suicide prevention specialist who is capable of speaking KLINGONESE, because ONE person (deranged, hallucinating, whatever) was rambling and noone could communicate with the person. Somebody figured out the individual was speaking in Klingon. From that point, Oregon has had the ability or legislated the ability to have a Klingon-conversant specialist be summonable to save a life.
Seriously, tho, a nation that can spend BILLIONS on sky, sea, and ground weapons systems can spare a Few people and PAY them. The government could take some of those who face jail or military service and turn them into buglers...
(Never mind the BS the services say about the "new (service branch) only takes clean people with diplomas...", as of 2001, I heard an NPR program in which a enlisted Sailor aboard a carrier (CVN) in the Mid East area said he was in the navy ONLY because it was that of jail, and something to the effect that he wanted food and a hot shower every day...He was very much rebuked by his department head and accessibility to him by the journalist was cut or heavily monitored.)
I suppose, one day we'll find out the use of CDs was a ( CLASSIFIED: S E C R E T ) scandalous cover to reduce the risk of returning "war" vets from suiciding just before or after taps. THAT would be a HELLUVA way to express disappointment with recent duty assignment in front of the public.
Maybe someday, well have multi-lingual politicians who can actually THINK in common sense and dignity for those who die to protect their wealth and power bases. Probably would make many of the younger sailors, soldiers, and airmen/women say, don't drape me in or give to my family a flag unless I get a flesh and blood bugler.
However, I don't know what would be worse: having a war/IED-frazzled trooper or grunt or specops guy rotated to VA or such to blow taps (they might break down and suicide on the spot) or have some conscripted-otherwise-jailbound musically-inclined/gifted not-really-served/ unseasoned/no-action individual in a crisp uniform blowing taps.
It's quite "seedy" to inter men and women via a "CD bugler". Kinda fucked up, if you as me.
timation on my part... following...
My opponent only "slightly" misunderestimated me, so I'll be briefer than he, hehhe
Jeeezuhhhssss!!!!!
I'm glad SOMEbody's posting longer ones than I do, hehehhehe.....
I expected only ONE or TWO more paragraphs, but man, I was stunned, amazed AND impressed at the length.... He must be on a school break...
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But, if the Terrorits want the current administration to collapse maybe the only need wait for it to slither out of office by SIMPLY NOT ATTACKING THE US or its interests until this administration is GONE, swept out with the dust and mold. Hopefully, the NEXT administration WILL be less ass-kicking and swaggering. MAYBE the T's MIGHT tone down, too. I believe tht since OBL has NOT been found, and Hussein was a easier target, the most likely is a connection between the OBL family oil ties (and other ties) to the current cabal/cadge and they will NOT just "kill him off". It's easy and distracting to put up a $35 million bounty on the head of "The Brain", and all these other cute/sardonic/witty names to the top lieutenants, but decapitating OBL is like cutting a hornet's nest off the tree and waiting for it to fall and burst open. Only, the admin, the limb cutter, is not wearing enough armor, and too much armor would slow things to a crawl. Best not to have a picnic, ball game, or shit-kicking hee-haw shindig around a hornet's or bees' nest.
Maybe the admin ought to go and watch "Swarm" or similar b-movies and draw analogies to their conduct as it relates to self-appointed spokespeople of the oppressed. The best way to make 'merkuh less of a T-target is to STOP doing the ACTIVE/domination things that piss off not only Terrorists, but the US FRIENDS, too. Most of them are NOT interested in becoming a fricking bomb recipient. Yeh, the LOVE US tech and weaponry and the billions the US prints and trucks or flies over to them for supposed safekeeping of those economies, but if they get hit by collateral damaged instigated by the US (and explicitly, the ELIGIBLE INFORMED (not tarring ALL of the voting-age potentials...) US voting public apathy or willingness to "buy into" whatever they're spoonfed by any given administration), the will NOT want to hear, "Well, so you lost a few people and a neighborhood; welcome to the new era..."
Tellingly, look at Cambodia, which recently reFUSED to send troops to the Middle East. Their reason? "We've been torn apart by war and destruction. We're TIRED OF WAR." I haven't seen any US-administration followups, but I imagine some envoy or kneecapper went over to give them a one-two shakeup call. OTOH, maybe not. The US wouldn't want bad news to keep festering up or indicate henchmen are actually roughing people (leaders/envoys, etc) up. Moreover, China and Cambodia have some ties, and if China so far is not a major or even MINOR Terrorist target when the US is.....
Finally, I've been reading up on some Asian Affairs stuff... MOST Asian nations care more about economy and prosperity and just catching up, and LESS about "democracy", particularly US-STYLE democracy. They are eying CHINA, and China's "Peaceful Growth" messages. These are many of the same nations badgered and bullied by the US during the Cold War in the US bid to staunch and crush socialism and communism China/Russia-style (or, maybe China/Russia-style socialism and communism). They are actually NOT too terribly interested in being mashed up by deep alliances with the US.
India, Korea (the South, obviously), Japan, and Australia ARE hard-up to get Aegis SPY-1D-related technology, but I dare say MOST of them wouldn't NEED it if they actually had a heart to heart with their neighbors rather than side with nations that try to keep them divided. Once Korea wakes up, they'll realize that it's harder than HELL to get the US out. Wait, they've already waken from that dream sequence, and they found they LIKE the comfort of the US protection umbrella. Same can be similarly said of Japan. But, this gets really nasty REALLY quick
Seems separately they (Google AND the US govt agencies) are trying to create realtime-neural net awareness, or some sort of "Mind of God" (Remember Bolts from the Gods" "Hand of God", "Eye of God" projects?) wherein the agents are "plugged-in", or "on the net" via some synaptic hookup.
I mean, maybe in 15 years, they'll have a crude mind-meld "Your thoughts are my thoughts". It won't be two-way but by then, maybe the govt will have "Mind MELT" capabilities, a la "Telephon". Talk about MIND COPS/THOUGHT POLICE. Then, literally, in real time, you could be summoned or arrested in seconds thanks to geospatial (imagine Arc GIS.)
Initially, I am sure it will be truly, massively "mind-boggling", to say the least... (Or, is that "to think the least"?)
Would that be Inference, Conference? Maybe the way to combat that then would be to have EVERYone "think nice thoughts". Might make heir jobs boring as hell. Or, everyone think in the most chaotic, random, tortured manner , from the most depressing to the most heart-rending thoughts and overwhelm their "mood sensor".
Seems the government and the wealthy are single-handedly, with the snap of two fingers, bringing back the mood ring, well, as soon as they "link up all the agents". Sadly, the public will be pushed into a cowered state, until, at some point, the population lashes back so hard in a deep, undulating, resonating way that secession, sedition, treason all look like malleable, meaningless words.
Maybe this is a cover story, and the REAL salesmen are coming out later?
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OpenBRR Launches Closed Open-Source Group
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/25
Hmmm, this is probably how the Play Station was duplicated. If not, then somebody had a LOT of nerve...
/., but I sometime around last year read that Sony was knocking their head against the wall trying to figure out where units causing high sales volumes but with not cashflow traceability were coming from. Apparently, there was a WHOLE COUNTERFEIT factory in full-swing operation, building and shipping them off. Reminds me of the counterfeit KFC once found in China. Right down to the meat and logos and uniforms.... People called in to verify a franchise and the loc wasn't on the books...
/. imageword "article" funny, considering this "article" is about "counterfeit articles"... heheh
I don't remember if it was on
Hmmm...
Sounds to me like someone (paid lobbyists) is trying to kill off Amarok and Rhythm Box and stuff like that....
But, they'll probably dry up or kill off some lucrative front ends to advertisers who see us Linux users as potential clients they can't afford to capricious cut off just to please some twit lobbyists or others who may be acting for ms and ms-like entities...
But, hopefully Amarok and Rhythm Box will live if there are enough independent artists producing content across the various genres. So long as THEIR work is not copyrighted, the damned lobbyists/henchmen out there can't and SHOULDN'T be doing a DAMNED THING about it. The can cut of copyrighted stuff that already ought not be shamelessly reproduced (and particularly resold illegally), but the free, independent stuff... they better keep their damned grubby hands off of the free (that is, the stuff free as in beer and freedom) stuff...
Or, how 'bout if we can go to Citgo, AM/PM or Shell and get a couple of hi-dose burritos or natto and recharge our cars as we pass gas from one form to another.
Talk about and organic Lithium cracking station. Better set up the A/C boosted (power and air chiller) charcoal-activated-charcoal vacs-- otherwise the miniature ion storm will gaspirate you passengers... with a one-two combo lung-whacking, brain-thumping adiabatic/isentropic booting/boosting out the window at highway speeds...
HEHE SLASSSSHHHH!!!!! LOL!!! Image word: "disagree"
(I s'pose my post will found to be "disagreeable")
True, but Einstein was more than "da bomb". The way he's popularly portrayed (as a single inventor of da bomb, with few if any assistants) could almost qualify him as proxy unibomber, depending on your perspectives...
Funny, tho, I was half-expecting images of OTHER well-known Linux/OS advocates. But, in this (aside from estates and heirs) most dead men can't sue, hehehe.....
Yep, it's sometimes unfortunate that appearance/appearances (and voiced opinions) can doom a product or project just because of herd mentality and "shoot the messenger" syndrome.
But, honestly, if a person with halitosis or buck teeth or such in TODAY's times wanted to be warmly received by the masses (or by billionairs), on what difficulty scale would it land? Based on person? The product (I suppose Wiley Coyote or the Wildebeast could be backed by investors as long as they stood to make butt-loads of money and could invoke plausible denial if Wiley's face made the cover of time...)
Apology accepted, sir. (Thank you, too. I admit, however, I do expose (and sometimes espouse, I suppose) some quite weird/unorthodox opinions and ramblings...)
Maybe they want Japan-style (or other places?) CVs on which the applicants photo is affixed. Maybe they don't want (to use the words of a USMC SSgt/ GSgt I served under many moons ago...) "spaghetti-long Bob Marley hairdos" (the words the SSGT used in dismay when he ordered us Sailors to uncover (remove our caps/head gear) for his personal inspection of us... some dumb-assed boneheads (we were right out of boot camp) were not staying within hair/grooming standards...)
But, also, as a peer organization, MAYbe, just maybe, "professional-looking" suits and lawyers might make more headway getting certain enterprise/corporate IT-level implementations achieved with a better PR face on the stories. It's hard as hell (I gather) to put on a major mag a face with buckteeth, wild hair, unkempt appearance and so forth
I kinda have first-hand observation of this. A company I worked for had 6 IT guys. 3 were not very hygienic (crudded teeth on one, wild hair on the 2nd, BO to high heaven on both, T-shirts and sneakers. Business casual (no tie) was my dress. The manager was about the same as mine. The others were similar. We got bought and merged (and the usual stuff that goes with it) and the top partner IT came in and interviewed each of us, making their assessments as can be expected. They already had HUNDREDS of IT on staff, but I wouldn't be surprised that their corporate culture only forced the interviews in the name of feigning fairness. They were strictly suit and tie, shiny shoes, and maybe 80 to 2,000 thread-count shirts (I joked with our own counsel that his shirt was 200-thread count... he didn't laugh... hehehe). I am sure that based on the number of places I've temped at that IT geeks may mostly be behind doors but when it's time to enter a cubicle, you SHOULD look about the same as the others around, just in case "visitors" arrive. It didn't help that 2 had halitosis, LONGGG fingernails, dandruff flakes, Trek-Lazarus-time-traveler-like mustaches and goatees; their cubicles were filled with empty or unopened soda cans and stuff including loose scraps of paper..., no matter HOW brainiac, contributory and wizard-like the dev engineer. Maybe "vanity" is asserting itself in tech circles. A couple of these guys occasionally had runes or chants and sylph-like gaits... all they need were wands, wizard hats, and maybe a dimensional gateway/quantum slipstream portal-opening-summoning device. They are SMART, but they would not be easily integrable with the dominant culture. Not from my observation...of them and of the suits that looked like they walked into a nerd-shack.
But, getting back on track, as for the "Closed Open-Source" aspect, I think they want to be really nitpicky so as to super-enhance the credibility and acceptability of their results when they start wardriving/swooning the companies that might accept their standards proposals, papers, and such.
(I THINK I got the closed parens correct this time...heheheh for the parenthetical Nazis, heheh)
ass invasion to come... poop-detector connected to scent emitter enables all neurally-connected players the opportunity for tap out "First Sniff" and to speak into the mic, "somebody fahted"...
Whatever happened to the scent emitter ideas. In urban warfare games, the smell of carrion, cordite, and more could REALLY get the adrenaline flowing behind every firewall and digital fireline.
Maybe those rumbling chairs might see more sales...
Maybe in the case of a charge/check purchase it ties a name to the purchaser, not just a name to ISP paperwork. If the modem moves to a new residence (whether or not the same owner) it still provides "traceability" for the spooks doing the watching. Maybe, someday, the modems will "seed" the computers with "tagants" so that if the computer of interest is a laptop (say, normally behind a firewall), it can be traced to a neighborhood if the users frequents a WiFi/hotspot.
Of course, this assumes the user is using poor security and poor judgment... As SMARTER person would use disposable hardware, random, untraceable accounts, and so forth. But, it was just an idea... maybe a lame one at that...
BUT, if the cable modem IS backdoored, then if the prosecution decides to reveal they have "technical knowhow", they could then seal a verdict against an accused (assuming they are telling the truth and not bolstering a case with "hyped up evidence") by revealing they can undeniably match a c/m to a credit card that matches the person of interest, and their movements (if any movements come into play...). It might also reveal that additional computers behind a modem could expose different computers and even different owners.
Remember that relationship association software someone last month or in February in/. talked about/linked to?
I could just see Al (David) Hedison's head on the fly's body, his voice squealing, "Heo-yope meeeee..."
((Strontium Beryllium) tinfoil hat)
LOL!!! Well, if it's a hard-core slut, then it'll be more than a "manager"; it'll be a MAN AGER!!! Age the hell out of the hapless man who gets into her dragnet...
LOL!!!
Seems YOU are functioning within operating normal parameters...
I guess you wooley and pooper really need to go find some s-c-e-x or a hobby... Why r u so uptight? I'm not ATTACKING the distro, since obviously it's under the thread "wordplay"! I s'pose there's no point reasoning with or expecting humour out of you two...
/. could use a "dry humor" tag...
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