What if Google had a Google Crime product where you can track not the history of crimes, but the PATTERNS that they occur. For instance, most thefts occur within a mile of where a suspect lives.
What this product (Google Health) could do is CONFIDENTIALLY (Yes, CONFIDENTIALLY) track patterns for aliements or for statistical values. No one is going to know about your problems unless you share them PUBLICLY, and as we have seen in many medical dramas what happens when patients do not tell their doctor TRUTHFULLY what is wrong with them!
Because the FCC can't get in the way of the Internet, Media corporations can control what we can find on big name websites. NBC controlled by NBCUniversal and General Electric, now has Microsoft on their side. Why else would Yahoo! be next on the Microsoft To-Do list? News Corporation, owners of Fox, MySpace, and the Wall Stree Journal, was also vying for Yahoo! TimeWarner, owners of CNN, HBO, Warner Brothers, and Time magazine, own AOL. Disney owns ABC as well as the GO.com website. (Who uses GO.com anyway?) And of course last weeks merger with CNet and CBS.
Now the mainstream media (MSM) is looking to control a large portion of Internet. If the MSM does not allow us to decide what we want, why should we give them what they want? Why does that last statement sound so familiar?
You have no idea how right you are. I'm looking at the TV.com website and the predominate shows that are being advertised tonight are on CBS or the CW.
*ala David Letterman*
10. Just about everyone on 60 Minutes fears the Internet will send robots to eat their medication.
9. Microsoft will show up with a greater bid to buy Les Moonves.
8. Zug.com's John Hargrave will replace David Letterman in 2012.
7. Everytime a computer is given out as a prize on The Price Is Right, John Dvorak will show up and tell you what a piece-of-crap it is.
6. Old and busted: CBS Sunday Morning; New hotness: The long overdue Meet the Sess!
5. To compete with X-Play, Pauley Perrette and Sean Murray will review games next week on NCIS.
4. At least we can cancel The Big Bang Theory!
3. Morgan Webb will replace Katie Couric.
2. Terrorists will break into CBS Headquarters and Rickroll America on CSI: New York
1. Survivor: 4chan/b/
Everybody needs to get a blimp,
Cause blimps are pretty pimp,
You can fill it up with air,
But that wont get you anywhere,
Advertise upon the side,
Take your girlfriend for a ride,
Just fill up the ballon with the very best gas in Toon.
you need helium to fill that bitch up,
its the second symbol on the periodic table,
oxygen and nitrogen are way behind it,
as chemicals go they're both pretty stupid,
Sadily, the PSP continues to lose ground as a portable web browser as more website use more dynamic features. It also does not help that the PSP does not have a PDF or eBook reading software. The video game developers would have loved to cut their publishing costs by putting their instruction manuals on the UMD discs, but Sony failed there too.
I'm at the point that I'm thinking of selling my PSP.
Another thing to consider about eBook readers is their availability. Consider the case from the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last" A shrewd person such as myself would need to consider the drawbacks of relying on electronics to read books, such as battery life, durability, and ofcourse text size. A poorly designed eBook reader will leave you in the dark and unable to read the books that you want. I am still a fan of the physical records. An old book can last a long time if kept in good condition.
Why is this not a regular film in movie theatres? Maybe it is becase the establishment has kept it secret. Perhaps the truth is being revealed as the world is starting to think that Americans landing on the moon was disinform the fact that the Third Reich beat us to it.
Come to think of in, in terms of real life, why the hell did we elect a distant relative of Adolf Hitler to be the 41st and 43rd Presidents of the United States?
In this Land of Confusion, only one man could be so evil to steal Peter Gabriel's hard drive: Phil Collins. Peter could probably fell it coming in the air tonight. (Oh! Lord!) But Seriously, (gotcha!) we'll see his true colors shining when the cops catch Phil throwing it all away. No son of mine would get away with that!
First off, don't give me this "human rights" schpeel. Raul's daughter, Mariela Castro, is working on that with the GBLT crowd much to the chargrin of the Castro clan.
In terms of 14 y.o. prostitutes, clearly that would be the fault of a corrupt local police force within the cities of Cuba. If you don't want to get caught, don't sleep with 14 y.o. prostitutes, stupid! And if you are doing it with little girls from Cuba, Cristóbal Hansen would like you to "Tome asiento."
In terms of websites, let's start with something simple. The Cuban NIC website, leading to the Empresa de Tecnologías de la Información y Servicios Telemáticos Avanzados (Enterprise Information Technology Services and Advanced Telematics), a department of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment). (If Stephen Colbert were here, he'd probably say "Those vicious Cubans! They're commie actions are trying to save the world with their Science, Technology, and Environmental awareness! That's America's Job!") But this is just the tip of the iceburg. Thanks to the Medio Ambiente, finding stuff in Cuba is easy, even in the United States...pending some ass doesn't firewall it. A quick link to a list of Portal Links, and what is this? Cuba.cu! Noticias y Deportes! (The government might have control over it, but it looks pretty about the same as any American news website.) Energía solar! And of course, what everyone wants to know about Cuba: THE GOVERNMENT!
Hopefully, our friends at the NSA and Pentagon cut us some slack. The more we learn about Cuba, the more we can calm their fears that the big bad America is going to move in and make a glass parking lot out of their beautiful (though run down) country. A country with pleanty of UN protected historical sites such as Ernest Hemingway's summer house, is not going to be touched unless we fumigate the W.A.S.P.s out of our government offices.
If you want to get honey from bees, don't kick the beehive.
As a person who has visted alot of.cu websites (suck it, Bush!) there is alot of stuff that America is missing that the Cubans have. Oh but the big evil Castro boogy man keeps us from visiting these websites. For all we know, thanks to our government (United States), the free information that is maded available via the communinist Cuban government is off limits...that is if you have online friends from Canada, Mexico, even Venezuela. But who is the bigger evil? Why should we buy into the fact the Castro tortures his people when America tourtures people just not within the United States.
Opening up the internet is a step forward. Through the internet, we were able to communicate with people behind the Iron Curtain during the 1980s. Communication was one of the factors that allowed for the fall of the Soviet Union.
America should not worry about disestablishment by building communications with Cuba, or Venezuela, or Iran. If American had more contact with these nations, we could feld the plans of the estabishment that for years has tried to sack Cuba, has separated us from Venezuela, and who are attempting to bring war to Iran.
We are living the 1980s all over again. The government is bailing out corrupt financial firms. Gas is skyrocketing while environmental policities are being susspended. And we are in a volitile and overly expensive war that pays the war profiteers more than the men and women who are in the line of fire.
Opening communication with Cuba will create a dialog, bridged by our neighbors who do not face the embargo that is still in place due to a few old men in Washington. How we can be friends with China but not Cuba is a complex mystery. Because we don't have dialog with Cuba, we do not have an ally to block off drug traffic from Columbia. Because America has not sought to resolve this problem, Cuba is supportive of Venezuela and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), to which the FARC started to trade materials for nucular weapons.
Venezuela is worried that we (America) will invade them. Until we remove the leadership that has fueled those worries, or relationship with Venezuela, as well as Cuba, will still be on the rocks. The fact that FARC and Al Qaeda have not been shut down by Columbia and America, respectively, proves that the current Columbian and American leadership now conspires to bring more enemies to the United States who in their poor judgement and lack of people skills runs the risk of the invasion of Venezuela which Venezuela and the people (not the leadership) of America do not want.
The Government/GLADoS: The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.
The Truth/WCC: You are being spied on!
The Government/GLADoS: In the event that the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the enrichment center urges you to disregard its advice.
The Truth/WCC: 9/11 was planned! Hey are you listening to me!
The Government/GLADoS: If it could talk - and the enrichment center takes this opportunity to remind you that it cannot - it would tell you to go on without it because it would rather die in a fire than become a burden to you.
The Truth/WCC: What are you doing! Hey! Put me down! No not into the fire! Don't flame me, bro! Ahhhh! What a world...what a world!
There is alot about Ghost in the Shell that defintely won't make it to theatres. It's like trying to make 4chan into a movie and not mentioning/b/. You just can't do it. Masamune Shirow's work is great but if you've read the Dark Horse comic import (esp. Man-Machine Interface), things get very explict.
Secondly, Spielberg knows about as much about anime as most kids do about Naruto: NOTHING!
Anime fan's should know that somewhere between Japan and America, censorship puts Anime and Manga back on the barge to Japan.
If Spielberg wants to woo anime fans, he is going to have to do a better job than he did with Transformers.
He should make right all that he done and work on a project that has been in development hell for nearly a decade. (The following sentence is going to piss off alot of folks but he's got to do it.) He should work on the Neon Genesis Evangelion project. Since Robin Williams is a huge Eva fan, that takes care of finding one star willing to work on such a project.
In order for Spielberg to win back audiences, he needs to go back to what he did when he directed Jaws, Jurrasic Park, and Saving Private Ryan. He needs to get his hands dirty and start breaking the rules that Hollywood and the MPAA have restricted films from being: Outstanding. He needs to do what Ridley Scott did in movies like Alien or Blade Runner, the Wachowski Brothers did in movies such as The Matrix.
Hollywood is very afraid to go black, dark, or brooding. They are also frighten by cutures outside of the Western lifestyle. What Spielberg needs to do is tell Hollywood "I'm not afraid to cross the line and neither should you! And a bunch of Midwestern Biblethumpers who secretly have BSDM fetishes that the cover up with 'family values' bullsh*t is not going to stop me from making this movie the way Masamune Shirow, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, or whoever else envisioned it and what his fans want from me!"
MySQL was outstanding. At least in my opinion. Where Oracle took 2 GB of space to download then had to be burned to a CD, MySQL was a lightweight, straight-forward relational database managment system.
Closing off MySQL will have serious consequences for PHP and C developers since SUN will rewrite the entire MySQL API strictly in Java.
Perhaps now would be a good time to migrate to PostgreSQL.
Some people start out on Ritalin when they are young because their teachers do not like thier hyperactive behavior. Eventually, it becomes part of the daily routine, through out education.
But by no means should that be a reason to discriminate a person academically who actually does need it. It is the abuse of the drugs that is the problem. The stupid roomate who is taking your Zoloft because he thinks he can get high off it when you actually need it for your depression.
Then you have the cult of Scientology that demonizes the usage by manipulating the mass media to publish false stories about how prescription drugs are bad and then the drug companies come back with an argument on why you should take more of it.
There is no moderation or equilibrium. It's like being damned if you do and damned if you don't.
I need to take my medication in the morning to focus, get my head in the game, and get in the zone, but the price to my health and to my wallet is now threatened with new threats of discrimination for something I actually do need.
But I take care of myself and do the best I can. I am responisbile and try not to let those fears get the upper hand.
If this is flamebait, then atleast have the courage to explain why it is so. Haven't you folks ever watch Doctor Who?
I knew I should have compared the Evolutionists to Cybermen.
If anything, add a little Doctor Who to the argument. Suppose the Cybermen were Evolutionists as they clame to be "Human Mk II". Suppose the Daleks were Creationists as they come out of no where from their "Ark" prison. The Doctor would be the Flying Spaghetti Monster, flying around in the TARDIS.
Daleks would rather "exterminate" (excommunicate non-believers) just about everyone they deem a heritic than allow peole to explain why they exist, while the Cybermen make people conform or be "deleted" (disprove any whimiscal theory that science can not prove of how man was form). Then there is the Doctor, who only cares that people are happy and have the free will to choose what they want to believe. And when it is all over, they get to ride the TARDIS to a world of beer volcanoes and a stripper factory. Ramen!
Foolish HP. Leaving out the Optical Drive is futile. Kids can get around this. If they feel like it, they will probably write their own games. And who can forget many of the open source classic games that are included with KDE and GNOME.
Creative people are a threat to the status quo. As an engineer can make disruptive technologies like the Internet or a car that runs on water.
When an engineer, hacker, or whistleblower breaks up a long running conspiracy, the best way for the status quo to handle this is to make the media create disinformation, there by squelching exposure as much as possible. But the engineers can and have engineered a way to crack the squelch and spread their ideas penetrate the market where status quo only provides two choices created by the same manufacturer.
So now the status quo pulls out their terror card by calling engineers terrorists. That sh*t may have worked on 9/12/2001 but not 4/4/2008 where people are much wiser and now see that their concent has cost them freedom and liberty.
There should be more engineers in the world, as they break the silence of status quo and bring towering conglomorates crumbling down faster than any international terrorist organization can crash a jet into a high rise.
The real terrorsits are the Engineers of Armageddon that we elected as leaders for the past 8 years. Two of the candidates for president want to make it 12, 16, perhaps 100 years.
It is time to put the real engineers back in charge and start hacking, creating, and engineering again. Give them hell, engineers!
Does anyone know of a website where Uncle Sam sells or auctions off the stuff they don't use anymore? Is there like an eBay-like website or government auction place to get stuff from the US Government?
Meteorologist: "Gosh, all this Global Warming those jerks at the CIA looped us in is making me thirsty." [Meteorologist opens the break room refridgerator to find something horrible.] Meterologist: "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!...."
[Cue The X-Files Intro]
[Cut back to the break room.] Meterologist: "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!....DAMN IT! Xanthor, get your alien ass in here!"
Xanthor [in alien language that only the Meteorologist understands]: "What's up?"
Meteorologist: "I tell you whats up! You left a bottle of Black Oil open in the fridge again. The little bastard drank all my Sunny D!"
Xanthor: "But I didn't leave it in th--"
Meteorologist: "Bulls***! You better put it back in that creeping unmarked container before the day shift gets here. And how am I going to explain to the Head of NOAA--or worse The Syndicate--why everyone else in the office acts like zombies and is radiating half of Washington, DC because somebody made a bad forcast?"
I suppose next we will hear about how Norway will be competing in Bejing ignoring the human rights violations that are being committed by China in Tibet.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree. "Google has a health product! That must mean THEY'RE A WITCH!"
Calm yourself, woman!
What if Google had a Google Crime product where you can track not the history of crimes, but the PATTERNS that they occur. For instance, most thefts occur within a mile of where a suspect lives.
What this product (Google Health) could do is CONFIDENTIALLY (Yes, CONFIDENTIALLY) track patterns for aliements or for statistical values. No one is going to know about your problems unless you share them PUBLICLY, and as we have seen in many medical dramas what happens when patients do not tell their doctor TRUTHFULLY what is wrong with them!
Personally, I would be more concerned about my ISP intercepting that information than Google having it.
Because the FCC can't get in the way of the Internet, Media corporations can control what we can find on big name websites. NBC controlled by NBCUniversal and General Electric, now has Microsoft on their side. Why else would Yahoo! be next on the Microsoft To-Do list? News Corporation, owners of Fox, MySpace, and the Wall Stree Journal, was also vying for Yahoo! TimeWarner, owners of CNN, HBO, Warner Brothers, and Time magazine, own AOL. Disney owns ABC as well as the GO.com website. (Who uses GO.com anyway?) And of course last weeks merger with CNet and CBS.
Robert Smigel was right.
Now the mainstream media (MSM) is looking to control a large portion of Internet. If the MSM does not allow us to decide what we want, why should we give them what they want? Why does that last statement sound so familiar?
You have no idea how right you are. I'm looking at the TV.com website and the predominate shows that are being advertised tonight are on CBS or the CW.
Lets not forget why having big media companies, owned by big corporations, owning Internet companies is a bad idea.
*ala David Letterman* /b/
10. Just about everyone on 60 Minutes fears the Internet will send robots to eat their medication.
9. Microsoft will show up with a greater bid to buy Les Moonves.
8. Zug.com's John Hargrave will replace David Letterman in 2012.
7. Everytime a computer is given out as a prize on The Price Is Right, John Dvorak will show up and tell you what a piece-of-crap it is.
6. Old and busted: CBS Sunday Morning; New hotness: The long overdue Meet the Sess !
5. To compete with X-Play, Pauley Perrette and Sean Murray will review games next week on NCIS.
4. At least we can cancel The Big Bang Theory!
3. Morgan Webb will replace Katie Couric.
2. Terrorists will break into CBS Headquarters and Rickroll America on CSI: New York
1. Survivor: 4chan
Everybody needs to get a blimp,
Cause blimps are pretty pimp,
You can fill it up with air,
But that wont get you anywhere,
Advertise upon the side,
Take your girlfriend for a ride,
Just fill up the ballon with the very best gas in Toon.
HELIUM!
you need helium to fill that bitch up,
its the second symbol on the periodic table,
oxygen and nitrogen are way behind it,
as chemicals go they're both pretty stupid,
HELIUM! HELIUM! HELIUMM!
*dinosour high voice* Don't breathe it in though!
/appologies to Weebl.
If there is a Half-life/Portal movie, to which some people have speculated, why not have the following people play the possible role.
- Dr. Gordon Freeman: Edward Norton, Hugh Laurie, Simon Pegg, David Tennant, Cillian Murphy, Viggo Mortensen, Gary Oldman
- The G-man: Christopher Walken, Robert Patrick, Sean Bean
- Dr. Isaac Kleiner: Kurtwood Smith, Michael Gross
- Dr. Eli Vance: Danny Glover, Morgan Freeman
- Alyx Vance: Freema Agyeman
- Barney Calhoun: John Turturro
- Adrian Shephard: Topher Grace
- Dr. Gina Cross: undecided
- Dr. Colette Green: undecided
- Dr. Wallace Breen: Ian McKellen
- Dr. Arne Magnusson: undecided
- Father Grigori: undecided, maybe Peter Stormare
- Colonel Odessa Cubbage: undecided
- Dr. Richard Keller: Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte
- Dr. Rosenberg: undecided
- Uriah: undecided
- Chell: Michelle Rodriguez
- GLaDOS: Ellen McLain
Another thing to consider is that Universal already owns the rights to Half-Life. So why not a Half-Life/Portal movie?Sadily, the PSP continues to lose ground as a portable web browser as more website use more dynamic features. It also does not help that the PSP does not have a PDF or eBook reading software. The video game developers would have loved to cut their publishing costs by putting their instruction manuals on the UMD discs, but Sony failed there too.
I'm at the point that I'm thinking of selling my PSP.
Another thing to consider about eBook readers is their availability. Consider the case from the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last" A shrewd person such as myself would need to consider the drawbacks of relying on electronics to read books, such as battery life, durability, and ofcourse text size. A poorly designed eBook reader will leave you in the dark and unable to read the books that you want. I am still a fan of the physical records. An old book can last a long time if kept in good condition.
Why is this not a regular film in movie theatres? Maybe it is becase the establishment has kept it secret. Perhaps the truth is being revealed as the world is starting to think that Americans landing on the moon was disinform the fact that the Third Reich beat us to it.
Come to think of in, in terms of real life, why the hell did we elect a distant relative of Adolf Hitler to be the 41st and 43rd Presidents of the United States?
In this Land of Confusion, only one man could be so evil to steal Peter Gabriel's hard drive: Phil Collins. Peter could probably fell it coming in the air tonight. (Oh! Lord!) But Seriously, (gotcha!) we'll see his true colors shining when the cops catch Phil throwing it all away. No son of mine would get away with that!
First off, don't give me this "human rights" schpeel. Raul's daughter, Mariela Castro, is working on that with the GBLT crowd much to the chargrin of the Castro clan.
In terms of 14 y.o. prostitutes, clearly that would be the fault of a corrupt local police force within the cities of Cuba. If you don't want to get caught, don't sleep with 14 y.o. prostitutes, stupid! And if you are doing it with little girls from Cuba, Cristóbal Hansen would like you to "Tome asiento."
In terms of websites, let's start with something simple. The Cuban NIC website, leading to the Empresa de Tecnologías de la Información y Servicios Telemáticos Avanzados (Enterprise Information Technology Services and Advanced Telematics), a department of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment). (If Stephen Colbert were here, he'd probably say "Those vicious Cubans! They're commie actions are trying to save the world with their Science, Technology, and Environmental awareness! That's America's Job!") But this is just the tip of the iceburg. Thanks to the Medio Ambiente, finding stuff in Cuba is easy, even in the United States...pending some ass doesn't firewall it. A quick link to a list of Portal Links, and what is this? Cuba.cu! Noticias y Deportes! (The government might have control over it, but it looks pretty about the same as any American news website.) Energía solar! And of course, what everyone wants to know about Cuba: THE GOVERNMENT!
Hopefully, our friends at the NSA and Pentagon cut us some slack. The more we learn about Cuba, the more we can calm their fears that the big bad America is going to move in and make a glass parking lot out of their beautiful (though run down) country. A country with pleanty of UN protected historical sites such as Ernest Hemingway's summer house, is not going to be touched unless we fumigate the W.A.S.P.s out of our government offices.
If you want to get honey from bees, don't kick the beehive.
As a person who has visted alot of .cu websites (suck it, Bush!) there is alot of stuff that America is missing that the Cubans have. Oh but the big evil Castro boogy man keeps us from visiting these websites. For all we know, thanks to our government (United States), the free information that is maded available via the communinist Cuban government is off limits...that is if you have online friends from Canada, Mexico, even Venezuela. But who is the bigger evil? Why should we buy into the fact the Castro tortures his people when America tourtures people just not within the United States.
Opening up the internet is a step forward. Through the internet, we were able to communicate with people behind the Iron Curtain during the 1980s. Communication was one of the factors that allowed for the fall of the Soviet Union.
America should not worry about disestablishment by building communications with Cuba, or Venezuela, or Iran. If American had more contact with these nations, we could feld the plans of the estabishment that for years has tried to sack Cuba, has separated us from Venezuela, and who are attempting to bring war to Iran.
We are living the 1980s all over again. The government is bailing out corrupt financial firms. Gas is skyrocketing while environmental policities are being susspended. And we are in a volitile and overly expensive war that pays the war profiteers more than the men and women who are in the line of fire.
Opening communication with Cuba will create a dialog, bridged by our neighbors who do not face the embargo that is still in place due to a few old men in Washington. How we can be friends with China but not Cuba is a complex mystery.
Because we don't have dialog with Cuba, we do not have an ally to block off drug traffic from Columbia. Because America has not sought to resolve this problem, Cuba is supportive of Venezuela and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), to which the FARC started to trade materials for nucular weapons.
Venezuela is worried that we (America) will invade them. Until we remove the leadership that has fueled those worries, or relationship with Venezuela, as well as Cuba, will still be on the rocks. The fact that FARC and Al Qaeda have not been shut down by Columbia and America, respectively, proves that the current Columbian and American leadership now conspires to bring more enemies to the United States who in their poor judgement and lack of people skills runs the risk of the invasion of Venezuela which Venezuela and the people (not the leadership) of America do not want.
The Government/GLADoS: The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.
The Truth/WCC: You are being spied on!
The Government/GLADoS: In the event that the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the enrichment center urges you to disregard its advice.
The Truth/WCC: 9/11 was planned! Hey are you listening to me!
The Government/GLADoS: If it could talk - and the enrichment center takes this opportunity to remind you that it cannot - it would tell you to go on without it because it would rather die in a fire than become a burden to you.
The Truth/WCC: What are you doing! Hey! Put me down! No not into the fire! Don't flame me, bro! Ahhhh! What a world...what a world!
Meanwhile, in terms of who should be Motoko Kusanagi, I'm thinking Mariska Hargitay, from Law and Order SVU.
There is alot about Ghost in the Shell that defintely won't make it to theatres. It's like trying to make 4chan into a movie and not mentioning /b/. You just can't do it.
Masamune Shirow's work is great but if you've read the Dark Horse comic import (esp. Man-Machine Interface), things get very explict.
Secondly, Spielberg knows about as much about anime as most kids do about Naruto: NOTHING!
Anime fan's should know that somewhere between Japan and America, censorship puts Anime and Manga back on the barge to Japan.
If Spielberg wants to woo anime fans, he is going to have to do a better job than he did with Transformers.
He should make right all that he done and work on a project that has been in development hell for nearly a decade. (The following sentence is going to piss off alot of folks but he's got to do it.) He should work on the Neon Genesis Evangelion project. Since Robin Williams is a huge Eva fan, that takes care of finding one star willing to work on such a project.
In order for Spielberg to win back audiences, he needs to go back to what he did when he directed Jaws, Jurrasic Park, and Saving Private Ryan. He needs to get his hands dirty and start breaking the rules that Hollywood and the MPAA have restricted films from being: Outstanding. He needs to do what Ridley Scott did in movies like Alien or Blade Runner, the Wachowski Brothers did in movies such as The Matrix.
Hollywood is very afraid to go black, dark, or brooding. They are also frighten by cutures outside of the Western lifestyle. What Spielberg needs to do is tell Hollywood "I'm not afraid to cross the line and neither should you! And a bunch of Midwestern Biblethumpers who secretly have BSDM fetishes that the cover up with 'family values' bullsh*t is not going to stop me from making this movie the way Masamune Shirow, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, or whoever else envisioned it and what his fans want from me!"
MySQL was outstanding. At least in my opinion. Where Oracle took 2 GB of space to download then had to be burned to a CD, MySQL was a lightweight, straight-forward relational database managment system.
:-(
Closing off MySQL will have serious consequences for PHP and C developers since SUN will rewrite the entire MySQL API strictly in Java.
Perhaps now would be a good time to migrate to PostgreSQL.
Goodbye MySQL.
Some people start out on Ritalin when they are young because their teachers do not like thier hyperactive behavior. Eventually, it becomes part of the daily routine, through out education.
But by no means should that be a reason to discriminate a person academically who actually does need it. It is the abuse of the drugs that is the problem. The stupid roomate who is taking your Zoloft because he thinks he can get high off it when you actually need it for your depression.
Then you have the cult of Scientology that demonizes the usage by manipulating the mass media to publish false stories about how prescription drugs are bad and then the drug companies come back with an argument on why you should take more of it.
There is no moderation or equilibrium. It's like being damned if you do and damned if you don't.
I need to take my medication in the morning to focus, get my head in the game, and get in the zone, but the price to my health and to my wallet is now threatened with new threats of discrimination for something I actually do need.
But I take care of myself and do the best I can. I am responisbile and try not to let those fears get the upper hand.
If this is flamebait, then atleast have the courage to explain why it is so. Haven't you folks ever watch Doctor Who?
I knew I should have compared the Evolutionists to Cybermen.
If anything, add a little Doctor Who to the argument. Suppose the Cybermen were Evolutionists as they clame to be "Human Mk II". Suppose the Daleks were Creationists as they come out of no where from their "Ark" prison. The Doctor would be the Flying Spaghetti Monster, flying around in the TARDIS.
Daleks would rather "exterminate" (excommunicate non-believers) just about everyone they deem a heritic than allow peole to explain why they exist, while the Cybermen make people conform or be "deleted" (disprove any whimiscal theory that science can not prove of how man was form). Then there is the Doctor, who only cares that people are happy and have the free will to choose what they want to believe. And when it is all over, they get to ride the TARDIS to a world of beer volcanoes and a stripper factory. Ramen!
Foolish HP. Leaving out the Optical Drive is futile. Kids can get around this. If they feel like it, they will probably write their own games. And who can forget many of the open source classic games that are included with KDE and GNOME.
./configure
Remember kids:
make
make install
"Creationist! Exterminate! Exterminate!"
Creative people are a threat to the status quo. As an engineer can make disruptive technologies like the Internet or a car that runs on water.
When an engineer, hacker, or whistleblower breaks up a long running conspiracy, the best way for the status quo to handle this is to make the media create disinformation, there by squelching exposure as much as possible. But the engineers can and have engineered a way to crack the squelch and spread their ideas penetrate the market where status quo only provides two choices created by the same manufacturer.
So now the status quo pulls out their terror card by calling engineers terrorists. That sh*t may have worked on 9/12/2001 but not 4/4/2008 where people are much wiser and now see that their concent has cost them freedom and liberty.
There should be more engineers in the world, as they break the silence of status quo and bring towering conglomorates crumbling down faster than any international terrorist organization can crash a jet into a high rise.
The real terrorsits are the Engineers of Armageddon that we elected as leaders for the past 8 years. Two of the candidates for president want to make it 12, 16, perhaps 100 years.
It is time to put the real engineers back in charge and start hacking, creating, and engineering again. Give them hell, engineers!
Does anyone know of a website where Uncle Sam sells or auctions off the stuff they don't use anymore? Is there like an eBay-like website or government auction place to get stuff from the US Government?
Would it not be the most malevolent idea if some how you opted out of their e-mail and inadvertedly be drafted into military service.
Imagine how that would work.
Where have I seen a domestic military operation before?
Why can't I go atleast one week without making a reference to the Nine Inch Nail's Year Zero album?
NOAA Headquarters.
Silver Springs, MD.
Meteorologist: "Gosh, all this Global Warming those jerks at the CIA looped us in is making me thirsty."
[Meteorologist opens the break room refridgerator to find something horrible.]
Meterologist: "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!...."
[Cue The X-Files Intro]
[Cut back to the break room.]
Meterologist: "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!....DAMN IT! Xanthor, get your alien ass in here!"
Xanthor [in alien language that only the Meteorologist understands]: "What's up?"
Meteorologist: "I tell you whats up! You left a bottle of Black Oil open in the fridge again. The little bastard drank all my Sunny D!"
Xanthor: "But I didn't leave it in th--"
Meteorologist: "Bulls***! You better put it back in that creeping unmarked container before the day shift gets here. And how am I going to explain to the Head of NOAA--or worse The Syndicate--why everyone else in the office acts like zombies and is radiating half of Washington, DC because somebody made a bad forcast?"
I suppose next we will hear about how Norway will be competing in Bejing ignoring the human rights violations that are being committed by China in Tibet.
Expect Norway to be sorely beaten by Kenya that country of Kenya will piss on Norway.
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