It was years ago, and the forum melted away a few years ago... I did something similar at Nationstates.net...
Checking the Wayback machine fails to show any result...
Guess it's lost in the ashes of history...
I just used their own words, made a few substitutions, and added stock photos. Their angry responses made them look ridiculous. (It helped that quite a few of them idolized the Stars and Bars)
I was a member on an online forum that was infested with Nazi-types, who kept opening topics that denied the Holocaust - when pressed, their fallback position was "Well, it happened, but wasn't as bad as they say."
So I set up a similar topic denying the US Civil War, with the same fallback position.
The Nazis were laughed at until they stopped coming back.
Say what you might about non-ipod music players, but the Rio 600 was a reasonably good, affordable device... I still use mine for some offbeat audio applications - such as adding sound effects to Halloween costumes...
From a DARPA PDF: "To help arm tactical platforms, the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) program is developing a new high energy laser (HEL) tactical weapon system whose unique cooling system might allow the system to be 10 times lighter, significantly smaller, and approximately half the cost of current developmental HEL systems. The HELLADS design goal of less than 5 kilograms per kilowatt would enable, for the first time, high energy lasers that could be integrated into several air and ground tactical platforms, including unmanned combat armed rotorcraft (UCAR), UCAV, Predator B, the F/A-18, and future ground combat systems. HELLADS could protect fixed installations or population centers from attack, patrol a border, or patrol a demilitarized zone with the capability to react to hostile actions and engage tactical missiles, rockets, or artillery at the speed of light."
This is from 2003, so this has been steeping for a while... is it soup yet?
It'd be more interesting if the opposing CEOs dressed up in colorful, masked outfits with capes and boots and took turns body-slamming each other in a ring, surrounded by thousands of cheering fans, and the play-by-play by a prominent Mexican wrestling announcer.
From http://vburton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/indexsize.html: "The following study was completed by two of Professor Vernon Burton's students at the University of Illinois. Though one of the students previously worked with Professor Burton at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the study was done outside the scope of any NCSA core projects. When first published online, staff at the NCSA noted several issues with the study, and some revisions have been made to the document to reflect several of these concerns. Changes are detailed at the bottom of the following page.
Please note again that this study is not an NCSA publication and was not conducted as part of any NCSA project or under the supervision of NCSA.
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That was this site, which is in existence, but with all dead links...
>a fair bit of data that I will not talk about on a NeXT cube...
Hmmm. The biggest customer of NEXT was the CIA IIRC...
All aboard for Gitmo!
Taz administer broadband network!
NNNNyehhh, what's up doc?
Taz eat hacker rabbit!
It was years ago, and the forum melted away a few years ago... I did something similar at Nationstates.net...
Checking the Wayback machine fails to show any result...
Guess it's lost in the ashes of history...
I just used their own words, made a few substitutions, and added stock photos.
Their angry responses made them look ridiculous.
(It helped that quite a few of them idolized the Stars and Bars)
I was a member on an online forum that was infested with Nazi-types, who kept opening topics that denied the Holocaust - when pressed, their fallback position was "Well, it happened, but wasn't as bad as they say."
So I set up a similar topic denying the US Civil War, with the same fallback position.
The Nazis were laughed at until they stopped coming back.
Laughter is an effective tool.
Sounds like the sort of invention Jimmy Buffett (as opposed to Warren Buffett) might be interested in.
Margaritaville without electricity...
Three points...
1) I seldom actually boil people. Usually I set them on a low simmer.
2) I freely admit to being fallible. There's a speck of the racist (or more) in all of us.
3) People I feel like boiling are the sort you would recognize as not just racist, but proudly so.
Conflict in my central processor...
Racism...
Freedom of speech...
Freedom of speech overrides natural desire to slowly boil racists...
*back to sleep*
I guess there's no question who squeezed the Sharman...
*closes shell*
Did he meet the MS fellow in a parking garage at night after carefully placing a flag in a potted plant on his patio, then receiving the "meet" time in his delivered newspaper?
... then I say we call it GIR...
I received free copies (with keys) of Windows 98, Windows 2000 at various MS promotional events.
Say what you might about non-ipod music players, but the Rio 600 was a reasonably good, affordable device... I still use mine for some offbeat audio applications - such as adding sound effects to Halloween costumes...
And then there's me.
I like gum.
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Seriously, though, it IS a discussion group.
Too much vertical integration.
If he'd just stuck to the marketing side..
He'd still be living large...
Google is your friend...
From a DARPA PDF:
"To help arm tactical platforms, the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS)
program is developing a new high energy laser (HEL) tactical weapon system whose unique
cooling system might allow the system to be 10 times lighter, significantly smaller, and
approximately half the cost of current developmental HEL systems.
The HELLADS design goal of less than 5 kilograms per kilowatt would enable, for the first time,
high energy lasers that could be integrated into several air and ground tactical platforms,
including unmanned combat armed rotorcraft (UCAR), UCAV, Predator B, the F/A-18, and
future ground combat systems. HELLADS could protect fixed installations or population centers
from attack, patrol a border, or patrol a demilitarized zone with the capability to react to hostile
actions and engage tactical missiles, rockets, or artillery at the speed of light."
This is from 2003, so this has been steeping for a while... is it soup yet?
HELLAD DARPA PAGE
Anyone ever come up with what the Aurora was powered by?
...mit laser cannons!
I'd love to see a pulsed-fusion plane...
74 points if you get the 50-point bonus for a word seven letters or longer, 24 if not.
*Note: There is only one Z in the tiles, so the second Z is a blank, and is pointless... just like this post.
What punishment do YOU feel is appropriate when a government agency gets a wriggling, thrashing spammer in its pincers?
I know where Belgium is!
Ya just have to follow all the old German tank tracks!
On a more serious, note, remember Bastogne?
How many times do we have to free an area from vermin before people are grateful?
Not all Americans support Bush.
Heck, not all Americans are even from the US.
Nah.
...and it would be as accurate.
It'd be more interesting if the opposing CEOs dressed up in colorful, masked outfits with capes and boots and took turns body-slamming each other in a ring, surrounded by thousands of cheering fans, and the play-by-play by a prominent Mexican wrestling announcer.
>His shirt showed an original Nintendo controller and said 'Know your roots.'
Wish I still had my old t-shirt which showed the solution of a quadratic equation and had the same motto...
> When you arrive to work one morning, you find that your coworker's workstation is acting funny.
Scan results:
Workstation infected with Circus_Clown_Virus
From http://vburton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/indexsize.html:
"The following study was completed by two of Professor Vernon Burton's students at the University of Illinois. Though one of the students previously worked with Professor Burton at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the study was done outside the scope of any NCSA core projects. When first published online, staff at the NCSA noted several issues with the study, and some revisions have been made to the document to reflect several of these concerns. Changes are detailed at the bottom of the following page.
Please note again that this study is not an NCSA publication and was not conducted as part of any NCSA project or under the supervision of NCSA.
A Comparison of the Size of the Yahoo and Google Indices "