IANAL, but AFAIK, GFS was formerly GPL, then became EULA'd proprietary SW, then was GPL'd by RH. If you'd RTFA, you'd know it's a NFS-like NAS FS used for HPC clusters.
BTW, IIRC the CIA and NSA claim it was used by the AoE to make WMD to drop on GWB and the USA, and was only GPL'd after it was liberated in OIF. TGIF!
It seems no one has posted a real summary of the movie here, so I will do it. I'm not going to do it annonymously to avoid karma-whoring, cause I paid to see the movie, and I deserve some karma, damnit:P
It is in roughly chronological order, and if I missed anything, let me know.
The movie starts with some footage from the 2000 elections.
1) Overview of 2000 election, with a focus on FLorida. Claims:
- Most news shows called Florida for Gore early on.
- Fox News then called Florida for Bush, and other networks follow their lead, apologizing for their "mistake" in calling FL for Gore.
- The man who made the call for Bush winning FL that night was a Bush cousin working for Fox News.
- Katherine Harris, who was the Bush campaign chair for FL was also the FL official responsible for vote-counting. She had also disenfranchised a lot of people, which Moore implies was based on race.
- The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bush.
- The Dems, notably Tom Daschle, did not raise enough fuss, and caved in too easily.
- No Senator was willing to sign a letter to protest the inauguration, even though many Democrats, esp. African-Americans, wanted to officially protest.
2) Bush's vacation - with "everything going wrong" in the first months of his presidency, Bush goes on vacation. Many funny shots of his antics. Claims:
- Bush spent over 40% of his time on vacation during the time before the 9/11 attacks.
3) The attack happens on 9/11. No footage of the attack itself, Moore only plays sounds of the attack, and the faces of the New Yorkers reacting. Cut to Bush, who was on his way to a FL school when the first plane hit, and was informed of it. Bush is then shown going on with his photo op with the class. He is informed of the second plane hitting, but does nothing for several minutes, even starting to read a book to the kids. Claims:
- Moore speculates about what was going on in the President's head, shows Pres. Bush wondering "which of them betrayed me", and shows past ties he and his cabinet or family had with Saddam, the Taliban, and the Saudis.
- Bush did nothing for about seven minutes, seeming to be waiting for advice or orders.
3) The immediate aftermaths of the attack and the responses are shown. Claims:
- The Bin Laden family is whisked away out of the country, supposedly for their safety, while air traffic is still banned. None of them are interviewed by FBI or police.
- Despite claims that they've disowned him, some of the Bin Laden family have maintained relations with Osama, meeting him for a family wedding in Afghanistan in 2000.
- Moore claims that it was reckless to not interview Osama's family members in the U.S., noting that Clinton did not give such treatment to Tim McVeigh's family.
4) The Bin Laden family is profiled, and connections between them and the Bushes are made. Claims:
- GW Bush and the Bin Laden family shared a financial advisor, who Bush met while in the Texas Air National Guard.
- The Bin Ladens funded the younger Bush's early oil businesses, so that they could gain political access to Bush Sr., who was head of the CIA, later vice president and president of the U.S.
- Moore does not claim that Osama himself was involved in this.
- Bush Jr. worked as basically a lobbyist for the Bin Laden family in the 80's, when he was the executive of an oil company. Bush Sr. now works as a PR rep for Saudi oil interests.
- Other financial ties are listed, which I can't recall offhand.
Shoot, I'm not even halfway through the movie, and I have to go do some chores. Will finish later, but if anyone else wants to add to this, feel free to do so.
I've always wondered if you guys over there get the same kinds of 'real life crime' shows we get over here (many from the Fox network). Do you have shows like Cops (video documentaries of ride-alongs as cops go on regular calls and patrols), World's Scariest Police Chases(police camera footage of high-speed chases), or America's Most Wanted(A call-in show to publicize criminals that are wanted)? Cops in particular is pretty cool.
It wouldn't suprise me if America is just a better source for these things because we have more crime over here:P
Well, I don't disagree that there are a lot of violence in games, but perhaps you could tell me what the difference between a "christian" videogame and a "secular" game is?
I remember a while back, a "Christian game company" came out with an "Christian first-person shooter" based on the Quake engine which featured the player slaying demons and such with holy relics and swords. Someone pointed out that this was similar in concept to Doom, you go around killing demons. But Doom is considered a "bad" or "evil" game by many fundamentalist types, whereas the christian game was okay for some reason. Is there really a difference between killing demons with a sword in an "christian" game and killing them with shotguns in secular one? The point of both is to entertain through violence, is it not?
I'm not anti-religious, I just feel that sometimes people are more lenient towards something if it's presented as an overtly religious than as secular.
Oh yeah, I remember Marine Doom - I don't think I ever played it, but I was inspired by a article on it to create my own 'realistic' Doom.Wad.
It featured the Nazis from the Wolfenstein levels of Doom 2 in a bunker-type building, with terrace-like hills and such. I found that the Doom AI could not stop the Nazis from killing each other through friendly fire:P Plus, I could not stop myself from including those mutant spider-things with the plasma canons. So, if the War on Terror turns to fighting Nazis and biomechanical spiders with frickin' plasma cannons, I'll be ready:)
Point being, make sure the simulation is close to real life before you make it a training tool.
P.S. I used Ben Morris's DCK(Doom Construction Kit) to create the map. Morris went on to create WorldCraft for Quake and he got a job at Valve, where WorldCraft became the internal level editor for Half-life. They were the coolest level editors I ever used, and I must give props to Mr. Morris. If you ever have to do level-editing give WorldCraft a try : )
I take it then, that you have not heard about Rage Against The Machine breaking up?
To be honest, I might actually miss their election-year antics this year. I wonder if they'd still endorse Nader. "More for Gore or the son of a drug lord", indeed.
I only played the PC shareware version, but what a great game it was. As the article states, it had a bit more flexibility and strategy than most games of its type. My favorite feature was the ability to split your team up, and switch from one group to another to coordinate attacks.
I found that when a team was unsupervised, they'd shoot at the enemy automatically. So one time, I placed some soldiers in front of one of the enemy-generating buildings, set them on auto, and left for a vacation. : ) When I came back, their kills were in the thousands...
Ah, good times. Anyone know if there's a free or opensource version these days?
Heh, I *should* come with a disclaimer in my genetic license that says, "This genetic code is provided 'as is' without any warrenty of any kind, expressed or implied, including but not limited to merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It may, in fact, be a complete lazy bum and should not be used for real-time monitoring, flight control systems, or nuclear industrial applications."
If only we could have disclaimers releasing us from any legal liability for our actions like software...:)
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You forgot the best one -
War Warring!
Hop on a Blackhawk in the Green Zone, fly around Baghdad looking for APs! If you spot one, forget the chalk - just mark the spot with your chaingun!
I've lived in Oregon for more than a few years, and recently moved to Memphis. I believe the reason people in Oregon are so used to rain is that they don't get the kind of thunderstorms we get in the south.
It would be more accurate to say that it drizzles in Oregon constantly - it's spread out over a long time and doesn't have much intensity.
In the mid-south, it's sunny most of the time - we rarely get much cloudy days over here, and it's really hot compared to Oregon. However when it does rain it tends to come down harder, and we occasionally get storms like nothing I've ever seen in Oregon. When I lived there, I never carried an umbrella, either. In the south, there have been times where I was afraid of getting out of the car because the rain and the lightning was coming down so hard. Several inches of rain will fall in a couple of hours, and flash flooding occurs. The hardest rain I have ever seen was in Louisiana, by the way - real wrath-of-God stuff, it's no wonder they have more fundamentalists here:) The weather in Oregon is so pleasant and laid back, just like the people:) In the south, it's all fire(heatwave) and brimstone(thunderstorms & tornadoes).
In Oregon, the actual amount of rain may be higher, but it's spread out over a longer period of time and is not as intense.
Believe it or not, Portland is not the rain capital of the world.
Dude, that is so wrong. Having lived in Cali, Oregon and now the south, Portland is far, far away from being 'white trash' - yes, they're there, but it's balanced out by a lot of cool cultural vibes. Not so in a lot of other cities.
I notice Memphis was not on your list of cities to compare with. Well, let me tell you how it is here:
- Memphis is famous for three things - Elvis(plus daughter), the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr., and Justin Timberlake.
- We're in western Tennessee, brdering Mississippi and Arkansas for triple the hickness. Portland borders what, Washington? I bet even the 'white trash' there drinks lattes("But from *Starbucks*!" you say. "How lowbrow! Real coffee lovers drink Coffee People!").
*Visit Powell's, supposedly the largest used bookstore in the world. It's like a friggin' maze made of bookshelves.
Admittedly, used computer books are not as useful as new ones, but they have a killer sci-fi section, and every other topic you can think of. Plus a nice cafe!
What is the proper way to behave when the world ends?
I'd probobly celebrate the release of GNU/Hurd 1.0, and try to install it on my box during the precious moments left. That is, if Gentoo was done emerging on it by then...
You've obviously never been married... That would be more like "some neolithic honey with a single eyebrow and no capacity for language was mooching food and protection from one of our earliest ancestors, until she divorced him and took his cave. She then shacked up with Bill Gates's ancestor."
Looking at the aluminum metal grill and transparent side panel, I realized there is only one more thing you need to do: Turn the G5 into a hamster cage.
Put a excersize wheel over the processor, and a water bottle and food tray on the metal grill, and you have the perfect hamster house! The fans could even vent the little poopy smell away!
Well, please remember to set up a webcam so we can view your, uh, female clientele check their email. It'll, um, imrpove security! Yeah, that it! Do it for Jesus!
How happy are you with the 12" ibook? I've been thinking about getting one as a "desktop replacement", and was wondering if it was up to the task. My current setup is an ancient k6-2 450 running debian, so I'm sure the ibook will be powerful enough, just was wondering about screen size and other laptop issues? Should I spring for a 14"?
Right, everyone knows that if you've got mission-critical, life-or-death systems that need ten nine's reliability, you should run them on iMacs.
"I was directing air traffic on my ATC computer, giving a flight path to an KLM flight into Heathrow, when suddenly it was like *beep beep beep beep* and half of my planes were gone.
"I was like, 'Uunh?'
"It DEVOURED my flight path.
"It was a really good flight path.
"And then I had to send it again, and it wasn't as good 'cuase I had to do it fast. And the KLM crashed short of Heathrow.
"It was... a bummer.
"My name is Ellen Feiss, and I'm an air-traffic controller."
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Don't kill him yet, I still need to collect $23,000 from him.
IANAL, but AFAIK, GFS was formerly GPL, then became EULA'd proprietary SW, then was GPL'd by RH. If you'd RTFA, you'd know it's a NFS-like NAS FS used for HPC clusters.
BTW, IIRC the CIA and NSA claim it was used by the AoE to make WMD to drop on GWB and the USA, and was only GPL'd after it was liberated in OIF. TGIF!
It seems no one has posted a real summary of the movie here, so I will do it. I'm not going to do it annonymously to avoid karma-whoring, cause I paid to see the movie, and I deserve some karma, damnit :P
It is in roughly chronological order, and if I missed anything, let me know.
The movie starts with some footage from the 2000 elections.
1) Overview of 2000 election, with a focus on FLorida.
Claims:
- Most news shows called Florida for Gore early on.
- Fox News then called Florida for Bush, and other networks follow their lead, apologizing for their "mistake" in calling FL for Gore.
- The man who made the call for Bush winning FL that night was a Bush cousin working for Fox News.
- Katherine Harris, who was the Bush campaign chair for FL was also the FL official responsible for vote-counting. She had also disenfranchised a lot of people, which Moore implies was based on race.
- The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bush.
- The Dems, notably Tom Daschle, did not raise enough fuss, and caved in too easily.
- No Senator was willing to sign a letter to protest the inauguration, even though many Democrats, esp. African-Americans, wanted to officially protest.
2) Bush's vacation - with "everything going wrong" in the first months of his presidency, Bush goes on vacation. Many funny shots of his antics.
Claims:
- Bush spent over 40% of his time on vacation during the time before the 9/11 attacks.
3) The attack happens on 9/11. No footage of the attack itself, Moore only plays sounds of the attack, and the faces of the New Yorkers reacting. Cut to Bush, who was on his way to a FL school when the first plane hit, and was informed of it. Bush is then shown going on with his photo op with the class. He is informed of the second plane hitting, but does nothing for several minutes, even starting to read a book to the kids.
Claims:
- Moore speculates about what was going on in the President's head, shows Pres. Bush wondering "which of them betrayed me", and shows past ties he and his cabinet or family had with Saddam, the Taliban, and the Saudis.
- Bush did nothing for about seven minutes, seeming to be waiting for advice or orders.
3) The immediate aftermaths of the attack and the responses are shown.
Claims:
- The Bin Laden family is whisked away out of the country, supposedly for their safety, while air traffic is still banned. None of them are interviewed by FBI or police.
- Despite claims that they've disowned him, some of the Bin Laden family have maintained relations with Osama, meeting him for a family wedding in Afghanistan in 2000.
- Moore claims that it was reckless to not interview Osama's family members in the U.S., noting that Clinton did not give such treatment to Tim McVeigh's family.
4) The Bin Laden family is profiled, and connections between them and the Bushes are made.
Claims:
- GW Bush and the Bin Laden family shared a financial advisor, who Bush met while in the Texas Air National Guard.
- The Bin Ladens funded the younger Bush's early oil businesses, so that they could gain political access to Bush Sr., who was head of the CIA, later vice president and president of the U.S.
- Moore does not claim that Osama himself was involved in this.
- Bush Jr. worked as basically a lobbyist for the Bin Laden family in the 80's, when he was the executive of an oil company. Bush Sr. now works as a PR rep for Saudi oil interests.
- Other financial ties are listed, which I can't recall offhand.
Shoot, I'm not even halfway through the movie, and I have to go do some chores. Will finish later, but if anyone else wants to add to this, feel free to do so.
I've always wondered if you guys over there get the same kinds of 'real life crime' shows we get over here (many from the Fox network). Do you have shows like Cops (video documentaries of ride-alongs as cops go on regular calls and patrols), World's Scariest Police Chases(police camera footage of high-speed chases), or America's Most Wanted(A call-in show to publicize criminals that are wanted)? Cops in particular is pretty cool.
:P
It wouldn't suprise me if America is just a better source for these things because we have more crime over here
Well, I don't disagree that there are a lot of violence in games, but perhaps you could tell me what the difference between a "christian" videogame and a "secular" game is?
I remember a while back, a "Christian game company" came out with an "Christian first-person shooter" based on the Quake engine which featured the player slaying demons and such with holy relics and swords. Someone pointed out that this was similar in concept to Doom, you go around killing demons. But Doom is considered a "bad" or "evil" game by many fundamentalist types, whereas the christian game was okay for some reason. Is there really a difference between killing demons with a sword in an "christian" game and killing them with shotguns in secular one? The point of both is to entertain through violence, is it not?
I'm not anti-religious, I just feel that sometimes people are more lenient towards something if it's presented as an overtly religious than as secular.
Oh yeah, I remember Marine Doom - I don't think I ever played it, but I was inspired by a article on it to create my own 'realistic' Doom .Wad.
:P Plus, I could not stop myself from including those mutant spider-things with the plasma canons. So, if the War on Terror turns to fighting Nazis and biomechanical spiders with frickin' plasma cannons, I'll be ready :)
It featured the Nazis from the Wolfenstein levels of Doom 2 in a bunker-type building, with terrace-like hills and such. I found that the Doom AI could not stop the Nazis from killing each other through friendly fire
Point being, make sure the simulation is close to real life before you make it a training tool.
P.S. I used Ben Morris's DCK(Doom Construction Kit) to create the map. Morris went on to create WorldCraft for Quake and he got a job at Valve, where WorldCraft became the internal level editor for Half-life. They were the coolest level editors I ever used, and I must give props to Mr. Morris. If you ever have to do level-editing give WorldCraft a try : )
Actually, it would be reserved for the states, since private citizens would not be making laws against rocketry...
And I think the relevant amendment would be the ninth, the one that says the rights listed in the constitution are not the only ones that exist.
I take it then, that you have not heard about Rage Against The Machine breaking up?
To be honest, I might actually miss their election-year antics this year. I wonder if they'd still endorse Nader. "More for Gore or the son of a drug lord", indeed.
I only played the PC shareware version, but what a great game it was. As the article states, it had a bit more flexibility and strategy than most games of its type. My favorite feature was the ability to split your team up, and switch from one group to another to coordinate attacks.
I found that when a team was unsupervised, they'd shoot at the enemy automatically. So one time, I placed some soldiers in front of one of the enemy-generating buildings, set them on auto, and left for a vacation. : ) When I came back, their kills were in the thousands...
Ah, good times. Anyone know if there's a free or opensource version these days?
Heh, I *should* come with a disclaimer in my genetic license that says, "This genetic code is provided 'as is' without any warrenty of any kind, expressed or implied, including but not limited to merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It may, in fact, be a complete lazy bum and should not be used for real-time monitoring, flight control systems, or nuclear industrial applications."
:)
If only we could have disclaimers releasing us from any legal liability for our actions like software...
You forgot the best one -
War Warring!
Hop on a Blackhawk in the Green Zone, fly around Baghdad looking for APs! If you spot one, forget the chalk - just mark the spot with your chaingun!
Oh yeah? Mine goes up to 11!
I've lived in Oregon for more than a few years, and recently moved to Memphis. I believe the reason people in Oregon are so used to rain is that they don't get the kind of thunderstorms we get in the south.
:) The weather in Oregon is so pleasant and laid back, just like the people :) In the south, it's all fire(heatwave) and brimstone(thunderstorms & tornadoes).
It would be more accurate to say that it drizzles in Oregon constantly - it's spread out over a long time and doesn't have much intensity.
In the mid-south, it's sunny most of the time - we rarely get much cloudy days over here, and it's really hot compared to Oregon. However when it does rain it tends to come down harder, and we occasionally get storms like nothing I've ever seen in Oregon. When I lived there, I never carried an umbrella, either. In the south, there have been times where I was afraid of getting out of the car because the rain and the lightning was coming down so hard. Several inches of rain will fall in a couple of hours, and flash flooding occurs. The hardest rain I have ever seen was in Louisiana, by the way - real wrath-of-God stuff, it's no wonder they have more fundamentalists here
In Oregon, the actual amount of rain may be higher, but it's spread out over a longer period of time and is not as intense.
Believe it or not, Portland is not the rain capital of the world.
Compare - Portland Memphis
Dude, that is so wrong. Having lived in Cali, Oregon and now the south, Portland is far, far away from being 'white trash' - yes, they're there, but it's balanced out by a lot of cool cultural vibes. Not so in a lot of other cities.
I notice Memphis was not on your list of cities to compare with. Well, let me tell you how it is here:
- Memphis is famous for three things - Elvis(plus daughter), the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr., and Justin Timberlake.
- We're in western Tennessee, brdering Mississippi and Arkansas for triple the hickness. Portland borders what, Washington? I bet even the 'white trash' there drinks lattes("But from *Starbucks*!" you say. "How lowbrow! Real coffee lovers drink Coffee People!").
- Oregon's favorite drinks - Coffee, microbrew beer.
- Tennessee's favorite drinks - Jack Daniels, cheap beer.
- You have Tanya Harding, true; but we have a lot of them, it's just that none can make it to the Olympics in figure skating.
So in closing.... Portland is far from the white-trashiest place in the U.S.
Dude, how can you forget this?
*Visit Powell's, supposedly the largest used bookstore in the world. It's like a friggin' maze made of bookshelves.
Admittedly, used computer books are not as useful as new ones, but they have a killer sci-fi section, and every other topic you can think of. Plus a nice cafe!
What is the proper way to behave when the world ends?
I'd probobly celebrate the release of GNU/Hurd 1.0, and try to install it on my box during the precious moments left. That is, if Gentoo was done emerging on it by then...
You've obviously never been married... That would be more like "some neolithic honey with a single eyebrow and no capacity for language was mooching food and protection from one of our earliest ancestors, until she divorced him and took his cave. She then shacked up with Bill Gates's ancestor."
You should sue him for "article theft"! WIPO-man, take him away! He is clearly infringing on my intellectual property!
Looking at the aluminum metal grill and transparent side panel, I realized there is only one more thing you need to do: Turn the G5 into a hamster cage.
Put a excersize wheel over the processor, and a water bottle and food tray on the metal grill, and you have the perfect hamster house! The fans could even vent the little poopy smell away!
Obligatory Debian fanatic post!
apt-get install xorg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xorg
Shit. Maybe by 2005?
They wouldn't let her on the plane - she's French, and therefore a potential terrorist :P
Well, please remember to set up a webcam so we can view your, uh, female clientele check their email. It'll, um, imrpove security! Yeah, that it! Do it for Jesus!
How happy are you with the 12" ibook? I've been thinking about getting one as a "desktop replacement", and was wondering if it was up to the task. My current setup is an ancient k6-2 450 running debian, so I'm sure the ibook will be powerful enough, just was wondering about screen size and other laptop issues? Should I spring for a 14"?
No, it isn't.
:P
"...and the marketing team from OS/2, and the rabid fans from Amiga."
There. Now's its complete.
(Yes, I have BeOS 4.5)
Right, everyone knows that if you've got mission-critical, life-or-death systems that need ten nine's reliability, you should run them on iMacs.
"I was directing air traffic on my ATC computer, giving a flight path to an KLM flight into Heathrow, when suddenly it was like *beep beep beep beep* and half of my planes were gone.
"I was like, 'Uunh?'
"It DEVOURED my flight path.
"It was a really good flight path.
"And then I had to send it again, and it wasn't as good 'cuase I had to do it fast. And the KLM crashed short of Heathrow.
"It was... a bummer.
"My name is Ellen Feiss, and I'm an air-traffic controller."
Ph33r.