I think security measure are a good idea, but personally, I'd rather see more emphasis on money and effort being spent on social justice for Islamic countries so militant Islamic fundamentalists don't have a wide support base to draw upon.
For instance, a lot of Islamic countries could do with better infrastructure and education as well as social justice. If they perhaps had fairer lives and better educations, then maybe they'd stop trying to kill us all. Yes gentlemen, we need more Islamic nerds. If you've learnt how to appraise arguements and have a good life, the appeal of killing yourself with a bomb strapped to your chest for religious ideas would probably be a lot less appealing.
Security is one thing, but causing peace would be much better. Perhaps it's not possible with some of the real lunatics, but there's plenty of things perhaps we could start with that are more important than metaphorical big fences and whistleblowers although I guess there is of course a place for these things.
I'd like to see a law against frivilous patents like Kodak's one. It's so invalidated by prior art in well established OO programming.
It just seems terrible that companies can tie up the courts and stifle innovation like this. I probably don't even hold the rights to my own DNA.
There's an Australian add for our yellow pages directory and their slogan is "Sorted(TM)". If they can trade mark the word "sorted", then I guess we'll have to start paying somebody for speaking English soon too. Either that, or we'll all be forced to speak an open souce artificial language. Anyone got a Klingon dictionary handy?
hehehe - what a good story, thanks. I'm from Australia myself. I've heard a lot of good things about Tim Costello.
There's a pretty interesting book called "Sleepers Wake" you might enjoy if you haven't read it by Barry Jones on the future of work and it speaks about the emerging leisure class. Both Tim and Barry were both at my university, Monash.
The immensely ignorant farmers around Stonehenge knocked the stones down over the years, thinking that they were pagan symbols. There used to be a procession of stones along the paths towards Stonehenge too.
The Irish have their own smaller Stonehendge too. Of course some Irish people are decendants of the original builders, the Tuatha De Danann. When the Celts came to Ireland, we mixed with the older people who occupied (what is now called) Ireland and the U.K. They were the builders of Stonehendge, and unless you're a decendant of them, then it's not really your history, although I'm sure you're welcome to share in it.
The Celtic people and the Maori (although quite distinct) have a great deal in common however, in fact both cultures have a lot of similarities in many things.
"About 80 percent of the organisms they found in the flaky scum were in the same genetic families as those known to infect wounds or cause problems for people with AIDS, cancer or other immune system disorders."
So these germs can be found absolutely anywhere - even shower curtains. Further, that if you have an reduced immunity, you're even more suceptible to these germs or ones that are related to the ones on shower curtains.
Wow - I'm completely amazed by this breakthrough! Perhaps it is these organisms that cause diseases, and not the humours or the Devil. Here I was blaming my neighbour who be a witch!
Australia also suffers from a terrible anti-intellectual culture. Of course, the world's media and artists are mostly anti-intellectual, and cater for the lowest common denominator so it's really no wonder. Our schools and universities are a joke as all the people who were capable of innovative or original thought have upped and left. The rest are just warming chairs, whilst the government of the day makes more funding cut backs.
MTV is a good example of how deplorable criminals and their low brow culture are promoted to children (such as Puff Daddy et al).
Personally, I'm considering moving to a country like Ireland or France, that actively supports scientific and artistic achivements. The bright people here are wasted on these cretins and their knuckle dragging education systems.
When I think of all the things I'm still teaching myself (for example vedic mathematics) that my school and university failed to even know about let alone mention, it's enough to make me weep.
The only personal data I really care about when I die is my organic computer's (aka brain).
Instead of wishing or hoping that it gets ftp'd by wireless connection to the big sysop in the sky (if he's there), I'd instead rather have it copied and placed on a new machine.
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MODERATORS - Some of you are definately cretins.
MODERATORS - how exactly is my parent post off topic? I'm discusing security, so what's your beef?
I think security measure are a good idea, but personally, I'd rather see more emphasis on money and effort being spent on social justice for Islamic countries so militant Islamic fundamentalists don't have a wide support base to draw upon.
For instance, a lot of Islamic countries could do with better infrastructure and education as well as social justice. If they perhaps had fairer lives and better educations, then maybe they'd stop trying to kill us all. Yes gentlemen, we need more Islamic nerds. If you've learnt how to appraise arguements and have a good life, the appeal of killing yourself with a bomb strapped to your chest for religious ideas would probably be a lot less appealing.
Security is one thing, but causing peace would be much better. Perhaps it's not possible with some of the real lunatics, but there's plenty of things perhaps we could start with that are more important than metaphorical big fences and whistleblowers although I guess there is of course a place for these things.
I'd like to see a law against frivilous patents like Kodak's one. It's so invalidated by prior art in well established OO programming.
It just seems terrible that companies can tie up the courts and stifle innovation like this. I probably don't even hold the rights to my own DNA.
There's an Australian add for our yellow pages directory and their slogan is "Sorted(TM)". If they can trade mark the word "sorted", then I guess we'll have to start paying somebody for speaking English soon too. Either that, or we'll all be forced to speak an open souce artificial language. Anyone got a Klingon dictionary handy?
TOS has taught me that one can never underestimate the power and many uses of the Mark II phaser.
Tricorders are for all those Next Generation do-gooders. Hand me a hand phaser, and I'll explore space the Kirk way.
One dead alien at a time.
Is it possible to watch too much Star wars? (Excluding Jar Jar Binks of course).
"...as a serious anti-nuke picture"
Oh yes of course. I should be ashamed of missing the true subtext. Silly me, I thought it was just a B grade monster movie.
It does even better than just supporting nforce2. It provides the GPL drivers for your card, "forcedeth" automatically.
hehehe - what a good story, thanks. I'm from Australia myself. I've heard a lot of good things about Tim Costello.
There's a pretty interesting book called "Sleepers Wake" you might enjoy if you haven't read it by Barry Jones on the future of work and it speaks about the emerging leisure class. Both Tim and Barry were both at my university, Monash.
Forget working at home and outsourcing. In the future a robot can do the work.
Myself, I'll be a member of the newly emerging leisure class.
Seems like a good idea to me. In making Linux apps run on Windows, it takes the battle to Microsoft's camp and gains exposure.
In my day, he would have been hanged just for looking at the nice young government men strangely.
And he would have been thankful for the lesson too, and thanked them politely whilst he was climbing the gallows.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Citizen
The immensely ignorant farmers around Stonehenge knocked the stones down over the years, thinking that they were pagan symbols. There used to be a procession of stones along the paths towards Stonehenge too.
The Irish have their own smaller Stonehendge too. Of course some Irish people are decendants of the original builders, the Tuatha De Danann. When the Celts came to Ireland, we mixed with the older people who occupied (what is now called) Ireland and the U.K. They were the builders of Stonehendge, and unless you're a decendant of them, then it's not really your history, although I'm sure you're welcome to share in it.
The Celtic people and the Maori (although quite distinct) have a great deal in common however, in fact both cultures have a lot of similarities in many things.
"About 80 percent of the organisms they found in the flaky scum were in the same genetic families as those known to infect wounds or cause problems for people with AIDS, cancer or other immune system disorders."
So these germs can be found absolutely anywhere - even shower curtains. Further, that if you have an reduced immunity, you're even more suceptible to these germs or ones that are related to the ones on shower curtains.
Wow - I'm completely amazed by this breakthrough! Perhaps it is these organisms that cause diseases, and not the humours or the Devil. Here I was blaming my neighbour who be a witch!
Janus seems too mild for a Microsoft product.
I suggest "Microsoft Cthulhu".
Australia also suffers from a terrible anti-intellectual culture. Of course, the world's media and artists are mostly anti-intellectual, and cater for the lowest common denominator so it's really no wonder. Our schools and universities are a joke as all the people who were capable of innovative or original thought have upped and left. The rest are just warming chairs, whilst the government of the day makes more funding cut backs.
MTV is a good example of how deplorable criminals and their low brow culture are promoted to children (such as Puff Daddy et al).
Personally, I'm considering moving to a country like Ireland or France, that actively supports scientific and artistic achivements. The bright people here are wasted on these cretins and their knuckle dragging education systems.
When I think of all the things I'm still teaching myself (for example vedic mathematics) that my school and university failed to even know about let alone mention, it's enough to make me weep.
The only personal data I really care about when I die is my organic computer's (aka brain).
Instead of wishing or hoping that it gets ftp'd by wireless connection to the big sysop in the sky (if he's there), I'd instead rather have it copied and placed on a new machine.