"William Robinson, director of Islamic art and carpets at Christie's said that a succession of lots exceeded their estimates, topped by the "spectacular figures" achieved by the two outstanding Korans consigned from the Hispanic Society of America."
I thought it was strange that the Hispanic Society of America possessed and seemingly SOLD a Koran.
Any bibles (not talking about sci-fi show bibles) going for that price?
I wonder if the '55 paper will fetch any price at Christies...
What kind of moderation systems allows nuts to down-mod a comment like the one I posted. I purposely AVOID rating people's comments because I don't in this forum want to bash someone's opinion or knowledge.
What the hell is so wrong with my assumption? Is it off-base, that Google could still walk in and try to become a co-investor? Google, voicing "do no evil" could see such a move as a counteraction against letting microsoft hijack Facebook. Ahh, I suppose it was an mshaft FANBOY who took issue with my calling mshaft mshaft. Any reasonable, intelligent person could figure out which part was a stab ("mshaft") and which parts might make sense (the stuff less the word "mshaft").
Some people are so goddamn petty, picky, or bored around here...
Doesn't patent-enforcement and claims for damages, etc, require ongoing, active enforcement?
Seems to me they waited all these years, found out they need a MAJOR cash infusion, and they see all these companies as an income stream. Kinda like lying in wait (yeh, the "victims" are aware there MAY be a trap around the bend, but are hoping no one is lurking...), hoping a court will rule in their favor.
Looks like the "staggering(ly)" long list is a clue they are gold-digging.
Maybe they think "100 new companies" is like "100 new hookers". Think "Pump n' Dump" (pick the pumps and dumps of your choice, device, action or biomatter...)
Well, if they do THAT, then I think Google's owners will DEFINITELY buy F/B at $500MM, JUST to make sure they have controlling interest. Then, they even FURTHER drive down the valuation, then buy out mshaft's share.
You know, this got scored and marked as funny, but when I went to read if via my cell phone (sprint, carrier) it was censored. The part that does NOT show up in my phone is:
"want to be sunk? DON'T FUCKING SPY ON FOREIGN NATIONS, then."
Why the fuck is Sprint censoring or editing MY cell-phone reading of a posting having profanity? (Or, is it S/D?, censoring before it gets to the phone, worried that some sensitive kids or squeamish adults might run across profanity on the net?) But, not just the WORD is whited out, the entire portion in quotes is removed. I don't have the quotes in the S/D posting, as you can see, and I have not special characters embedded, either.
I've seen profanity on other sites on the net, so I'm starting to think it might be S/D. Now, let's see if THIS posting is manipulated.
As for marking this guy/girl TROLL, why? What is wrong with Friendsite? I looked at it, and while I'm have no real reason to join it, I didn't notice anything bad or heinous about the site. Is he being accused of trying to be bought or hunting for suitors?
I REALLY wish Slashdot would require selecting a justification when Troll and such are slammed onto a comment.
WHICH is why I advocate putting out of business ALL "state" navies, deprecating (not combining) them to the status of own-nation coast guards (in such a scenario, the USCG would FINALLY get to be THE maritime/policing authority and wouldn't the USN HATE that!) and supplanting the UN to some extent. State-based navies are shitty excuses for government billy clubs.
See one of my sites.
No, they're not about "bringing down the government", but they ARE about putting out of business a bunch of activities that need income curtailment, and need to be put closer to home. A stateless navy being attacked by a state force would make such a state force the official SCOURGE of the planet.
The primary missions would be to:
- protect commercial shipping and shipping lanes - chase down and apprehend terrorist, pirates, and other scofflaws - conduct counter-espionage action against nations spying on or infiltrating other nations - rescue shipwrecked or storm/disaster victims displaced from safety - other peacekeeping/monitoring/non-combat instigating operations - reducing the effect of "flag-waving navies' power-projecting" nations will impositions
Liken it to a "federation" if you will, but we've got way to goddamn much fiefdom, redundancy, and international bullying going on, and most of it is power concentrated in the hands of just a few countries.
Officers would have to be FLUENT (R/W/S) in at LEAST 3 non-home languages. Enlisted personnel would have to be able to SPEAK at least 2 "foreign"/non-home languages, and maybe write in at least 1 non-home language. The ships would be stateless, meaning not OWNED by a state; they would not be subject to being boarded by STATES; they would be the local authority in the event a ship in international waters being told "heave to and prepare to be boarded" says, "I elect to be boarded by a Unified Nations Anti-Unilateral action Navy (UNAUN) ship, not your (name any nation, particularly western ones) ship, since we're in international waters...)
No two ranking officers on each ship can be from the same home country, this being to reduce the chance that the local chain of command would go off playing Lt. William Cally or the like. It could end up being a jobs-creation organization, but for the higher-IQ of humans, officer AND enlisted alike. Launch-capable weapons would be range limited to say (50 miles) meaning they legally and physically have no ability to launch strikes onto, into or over most nations. The ships would be highly-defensive, with a mandate to sanitize the local waters of ANY nation, clearing them of lurking foreign subs of ANY nation. The ships would (despite Greenpeace and other environmentalists) tow mines and noisemakers to wreck or force the surfacing of subs trying to conduct espionage. Don't want to be sunk? DON'T FUCKING SPY ON FOREIGN NATIONS, then.
If anyone can propose if for space exploration, then we owe it to humanity to first do it with some portions of military. "State Superiority" is a bullshit notion and fact and needs to be put into the past.
GODS, I hope you're saying that Bochs or some other kernelspace change means I can finally stop using Win4Lin, from 2005ish?
Will I be able to run Win98? I have NO need nor desire to pay for any xp/2k/vista and I don't pirate them, either. The copy of 98 I'm using came with my Gateway computer I bought back in like Dec 1999 or 98.
The thing that bugs the shit out of me is that when I needed win4lin so desperately I overlooked that I had to reboot to load certain USB hardware that the Win4Lin kernel mods didn't play nice with.
Now, I have a Samsung phone that PCLinux OS (2006?) CAN see, but when I boot into the Win4Lin kernel, I cannot access my cell. Neither of my 2 computers can, when W4L is the running kernel.
I wish Bochs or Cedega or whatever just CAME WITH the damned kernel. I'd PAY 15 or 45 extra dollars just to NOT have to spend HOURS dicking around with w4l. Some rebuilds I can finish with w4l in under 1 or 2, others, HOURS or days if I forget or mis read a step.
But, I use either PCLinuxOS or Mandriva. I LIKE Ubuntu, but I'd prefere Kubuntu, and I have yet to get Kubuntu on a cover disk of the various Linux mags.
Can SOMEbody make a kernel routing that auto-installs the emulators when it sees a win98/xp genuine install disk, OR set up wine nice and right?
I am also sick of trying to pull teeth out of Transgaming/Cedega to find out if Lotus SMARTSUITE works with Cedega, not just Lotus NOTES. Cedega and WINE installs have broken on me innumerable times and I just give up and stick with W4L, but now I'm bitter that I am missing out on new kernel features meant to part of a NEW distro. I'm tired of going lowest-common-denominator with the deprecated W4L kernel, and I am NOT sidegrading to XP, 2k or vista.
They should be made to run around in fundoshi for 3 weeks, apologize, and bathe in squid oil for 2 weeks.
I don't suppose other parts of Asia will welcome this threat to a unified Asian Linux distro.
This is just
(obscene)
(Why the hell cannot )
It COULD just be that microphones and cameras lack an associative library/databank comparable to the human brain and powers of coherent and random recall. Data is just data, but experiences make data MEAN something. Once computers learn to synthesize information ON THEIR OWN, we better watch out. They're ALMOST there. Hook up sound, sight, smell and intelligence with mobility, and something wonderful (bionics for the physically challenged) can happen or something terrifying (robotic cannons go loose and kill people, and the recent one in Africa was a non-mobile, non-intelligent type...).
I think a clue that robotics experts seem to miss or aren't disclosing is that machines built to emulate human walking and balance need to have telescoping/self-jacking legs. They need to have gyros and be raised like babies, and put on moving platforms, provided with sensors, and "pain sensors".
Once they fall and feel "pain", they won't like it. Once they negotiate successfully, they'll likely be experts. Once they see evil in a human's eye toward another, they'll either avoid or KILL such humans. Let us hope cameras and microphones are not LIED to by human programmers.
It's not so hard to give the robots worm-gear leg extension capabilities. The REAL fear is that they may have an INSATIABLE desire for knowledge of all THAT and more THAN we know. The movie robots and gizmos do what the special effects teams MAKE them do. Real robots only do what (so far) we LET them do (by bad engineering or by crippled engineering).
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I KNOW this is off-topic, but the book that quotes the Earth is some 6,000 years old, well, it's ubiquitous.
However, I read this AM, in the papers, that a Koran (Quoran?) recently sold for over $2.3 MILLION.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=12541
Get this:
"William Robinson, director of Islamic art and carpets at Christie's said that a succession of lots exceeded their estimates, topped by the "spectacular figures" achieved by the two outstanding Korans consigned from the Hispanic Society of America."
I thought it was strange that the Hispanic Society of America possessed and seemingly SOLD a Koran.
Any bibles (not talking about sci-fi show bibles) going for that price?
I wonder if the '55 paper will fetch any price at Christies...
on the ever-swelling Terr'ist Watch List...
You download THAT, you just GOTS TA BE be a wee bit interested in causing or learning how to cause mayhem....
OTOH...
I sit corrected.
Still, though, it should be a mitigating factor when the DO end up in the courtrooms. Despite case precedents.
Thanks for enlightening me, though.
What the HELL?
What kind of moderation systems allows nuts to down-mod a comment like the one I posted. I purposely AVOID rating people's comments because I don't in this forum want to bash someone's opinion or knowledge.
What the hell is so wrong with my assumption? Is it off-base, that Google could still walk in and try to become a co-investor? Google, voicing "do no evil" could see such a move as a counteraction against letting microsoft hijack Facebook. Ahh, I suppose it was an mshaft FANBOY who took issue with my calling mshaft mshaft. Any reasonable, intelligent person could figure out which part was a stab ("mshaft") and which parts might make sense (the stuff less the word "mshaft").
Some people are so goddamn petty, picky, or bored around here...
Seems to me they FSCK'd up...
Doesn't patent-enforcement and claims for damages, etc, require ongoing, active enforcement?
Seems to me they waited all these years, found out they need a MAJOR cash infusion, and they see all these companies as an income stream. Kinda like lying in wait (yeh, the "victims" are aware there MAY be a trap around the bend, but are hoping no one is lurking...), hoping a court will rule in their favor.
Looks like the "staggering(ly)" long list is a clue they are gold-digging.
Maybe they think "100 new companies" is like "100 new hookers". Think "Pump n' Dump" (pick the pumps and dumps of your choice, device, action or biomatter...)
Well, if they do THAT, then I think Google's owners will DEFINITELY buy F/B at $500MM, JUST to make sure they have controlling interest. Then, they even FURTHER drive down the valuation, then buy out mshaft's share.
Y/N/M?
Put that in the REAL DOLL. Sniffing and smile detection...
Be sure to endow the Doll with voice synthesis (and other servos, pumps, actuators, springing action, etc...)...
Then, to borrow a line from a certain 60's show...
him: "You'll let me know if you fell pain?..."
her: "You'll be the FIRST to know..."
They can try electronic scratch n' sniff, teaching it how to recognize smell.
As for the chairs, be sure to give them motility, so they can watch for a ballmer tirade. Then, they can run away from him.
You know, this got scored and marked as funny, but when I went to read if via my cell phone (sprint, carrier) it was censored. The part that does NOT show up in my phone is:
"want to be sunk? DON'T FUCKING SPY ON FOREIGN NATIONS, then."
Why the fuck is Sprint censoring or editing MY cell-phone reading of a posting having profanity? (Or, is it S/D?, censoring before it gets to the phone, worried that some sensitive kids or squeamish adults might run across profanity on the net?) But, not just the WORD is whited out, the entire portion in quotes is removed. I don't have the quotes in the S/D posting, as you can see, and I have not special characters embedded, either.
I've seen profanity on other sites on the net, so I'm starting to think it might be S/D.
Now, let's see if THIS posting is manipulated.
Personally, I wish GOOGLE bought into Facebook.
As for marking this guy/girl TROLL, why? What is wrong with Friendsite? I looked at it, and while I'm have no real reason to join it, I didn't notice anything bad or heinous about the site. Is he being accused of trying to be bought or hunting for suitors?
I REALLY wish Slashdot would require selecting a justification when Troll and such are slammed onto a comment.
No. Pressure and Volume. AND blade-saw-on-joint cutting speed.
How CAN it? It'll be Found On Road Disintegrated.
Cue the Austin Powers jokes:
Dick,
Bob,
Dong,
How many balloons? Two? OK, but if THREE, then call ET.. (the Extra TESTical)...
Sorry...
(Captcha: wormed)
You might be interested in my:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=338423&cid=21102241
In my slash URL I am at:
http://www.otanashide.com/
and
http://www.dreadyachts.com/
WHICH is why I advocate putting out of business ALL "state" navies, deprecating (not combining) them to the status of own-nation coast guards (in such a scenario, the USCG would FINALLY get to be THE maritime/policing authority and wouldn't the USN HATE that!) and supplanting the UN to some extent. State-based navies are shitty excuses for government billy clubs.
See one of my sites.
No, they're not about "bringing down the government", but they ARE about putting out of business a bunch of activities that need income curtailment, and need to be put closer to home. A stateless navy being attacked by a state force would make such a state force the official SCOURGE of the planet.
The primary missions would be to:
- protect commercial shipping and shipping lanes
- chase down and apprehend terrorist, pirates, and other scofflaws
- conduct counter-espionage action against nations spying on or infiltrating other nations
- rescue shipwrecked or storm/disaster victims displaced from safety
- other peacekeeping/monitoring/non-combat instigating operations
- reducing the effect of "flag-waving navies' power-projecting" nations will impositions
Liken it to a "federation" if you will, but we've got way to goddamn much fiefdom, redundancy, and international bullying going on, and most of it is power concentrated in the hands of just a few countries.
Officers would have to be FLUENT (R/W/S) in at LEAST 3 non-home languages. Enlisted personnel would have to be able to SPEAK at least 2 "foreign"/non-home languages, and maybe write in at least 1 non-home language. The ships would be stateless, meaning not OWNED by a state; they would not be subject to being boarded by STATES; they would be the local authority in the event a ship in international waters being told "heave to and prepare to be boarded" says, "I elect to be boarded by a Unified Nations Anti-Unilateral action Navy (UNAUN) ship, not your (name any nation, particularly western ones) ship, since we're in international waters...)
No two ranking officers on each ship can be from the same home country, this being to reduce the chance that the local chain of command would go off playing Lt. William Cally or the like. It could end up being a jobs-creation organization, but for the higher-IQ of humans, officer AND enlisted alike. Launch-capable weapons would be range limited to say (50 miles) meaning they legally and physically have no ability to launch strikes onto, into or over most nations. The ships would be highly-defensive, with a mandate to sanitize the local waters of ANY nation, clearing them of lurking foreign subs of ANY nation. The ships would (despite Greenpeace and other environmentalists) tow mines and noisemakers to wreck or force the surfacing of subs trying to conduct espionage. Don't want to be sunk? DON'T FUCKING SPY ON FOREIGN NATIONS, then.
If anyone can propose if for space exploration, then we owe it to humanity to first do it with some portions of military. "State Superiority" is a bullshit notion and fact and needs to be put into the past.
Thanks! I definitely will check that out.
GODS, I hope you're saying that Bochs or some other kernelspace change means I can finally stop using Win4Lin, from 2005ish?
Will I be able to run Win98? I have NO need nor desire to pay for any xp/2k/vista and I don't pirate them, either. The copy of 98 I'm using came with my Gateway computer I bought back in like Dec 1999 or 98.
The thing that bugs the shit out of me is that when I needed win4lin so desperately I overlooked that I had to reboot to load certain USB hardware that the Win4Lin kernel mods didn't play nice with.
Now, I have a Samsung phone that PCLinux OS (2006?) CAN see, but when I boot into the Win4Lin kernel, I cannot access my cell. Neither of my 2 computers can, when W4L is the running kernel.
I wish Bochs or Cedega or whatever just CAME WITH the damned kernel. I'd PAY 15 or 45 extra dollars just to NOT have to spend HOURS dicking around with w4l. Some rebuilds I can finish with w4l in under 1 or 2, others, HOURS or days if I forget or mis read a step.
But, I use either PCLinuxOS or Mandriva. I LIKE Ubuntu, but I'd prefere Kubuntu, and I have yet to get Kubuntu on a cover disk of the various Linux mags.
Can SOMEbody make a kernel routing that auto-installs the emulators when it sees a win98/xp genuine install disk, OR set up wine nice and right?
I am also sick of trying to pull teeth out of Transgaming/Cedega to find out if Lotus SMARTSUITE works with Cedega, not just Lotus NOTES. Cedega and WINE installs have broken on me innumerable times and I just give up and stick with W4L, but now I'm bitter that I am missing out on new kernel features meant to part of a NEW distro. I'm tired of going lowest-common-denominator with the deprecated W4L kernel, and I am NOT sidegrading to XP, 2k or vista.
Maybe we should get that feature added as to kernel space...
I wonder if this article got posted as a feel-good right after the TurboLinux news posted...
They should be made to run around in fundoshi for 3 weeks, apologize, and bathe in squid oil for 2 weeks. I don't suppose other parts of Asia will welcome this threat to a unified Asian Linux distro. This is just (obscene) (Why the hell cannot )
Mwo? (Huh?)
(I'm gonna leap a bit off topic, too.)
It COULD just be that microphones and cameras lack an associative library/databank comparable to the human brain and powers of coherent and random recall. Data is just data, but experiences make data MEAN something. Once computers learn to synthesize information ON THEIR OWN, we better watch out. They're ALMOST there. Hook up sound, sight, smell and intelligence with mobility, and something wonderful (bionics for the physically challenged) can happen or something terrifying (robotic cannons go loose and kill people, and the recent one in Africa was a non-mobile, non-intelligent type...).
I think a clue that robotics experts seem to miss or aren't disclosing is that machines built to emulate human walking and balance need to have telescoping/self-jacking legs. They need to have gyros and be raised like babies, and put on moving platforms, provided with sensors, and "pain sensors".
Once they fall and feel "pain", they won't like it. Once they negotiate successfully, they'll likely be experts. Once they see evil in a human's eye toward another, they'll either avoid or KILL such humans. Let us hope cameras and microphones are not LIED to by human programmers.
It's not so hard to give the robots worm-gear leg extension capabilities. The REAL fear is that they may have an INSATIABLE desire for knowledge of all THAT and more THAN we know. The movie robots and gizmos do what the special effects teams MAKE them do. Real robots only do what (so far) we LET them do (by bad engineering or by crippled engineering).
What's all that Fsck'ing noise?
Gives a new meaning to "sounds like shit"....
"Ah well, as you may have guessed, English is not my native language. "
That is UNpossible. The rest of what you typed (grammatically) is much better than what MOST of the the Slashdot crowd does.
Don't forget "temporal rules of separation". I think I've been in a wormhole a few times. Or maybe a quantum slipstream or subspace eddy...