Hey, the man is an expert manipulator. I mean - he has to be, how else would he have gotten movie studios to let him produce so many bombs. (Howard the Duck, etc.)
Main Entry: fascism Pronunciation: 'fa-"shi-z&m also 'fa-"si- Function: noun Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces Date: 1921 1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition 2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control - fascist/-shist also -sist/ noun or adjective, often capitalized - fascistic/fa-'shis-tik also -'sis-/ adjective, often capitalized - fascistically/-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb, often capitalized
How is that possible? Is there CAD software for the PSII? Is someone going to export one of these, then write some, then use it to design a missle? Why not buy a missle from Russia, or just go to the US, and get a damn computer.
Decisions like these are made by government idiots who look at the specs and say "hmm... such-and-such megaherz, we'd better not let people export it!"
You're buying a license. A license to use the process described in their patent. In your little scenario, Amazon owns the patent. They get payed the royalties/fees/whatever. Depending on the agreement, they may get to revoke your license. You and the other licensees have equal status, each at the whim of amazon, and with the right (perhaps temporary) to let people buy tings with "one-click technology."
Hope that helps!
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I hat the facist way that the TV studios attack people who are just trying to enjoy the show. If I have some Simpson's sounds/ pictures on my web site, I'm not hurting anyone!
In fact, I'm making the show more popular. I don't make money of of the stuff - it just hypes the show. It's the same way with fan fiction.
Add to that the fact that the actual scripts aren't very impressive. Taco might have been jokin, but you literally could write an xfiles plot generator.
shhh... I'll give you the secret xfiles formula!
monster commits a crime/murder. scully and mulder argue about coming to investigate. they come anyway. someone gets killed again. they argue about whether it was a monster or a person. before the next person gets killed, they figure it out and save them. the details of the monster are vague. it could go either way.
it's a really stupid formula. a couple times a year, they actually show the interesting government conspiracy plot. it's like two different shows - carter blew it.
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I don't know where you live, buddy, but "racist propaganda" and bomb making texts aren't illegal in the US. I guess that you must live in a facist country. God Bless the First Amendment.
First of all , you can have my Napster, my deCSS, and my GNUtella after you kill me and pry them from my cold dead fingers. But, I'll use my constitutionally protected assault weapons to kill your jack-booted thugs first. That's why they are protected, see.
You show me a solid object, and I'll show you something that can break the law. I can do it with most liquids, some gasses, and certainly with plasma, too. Would you like to outlaw matter?
Furthermore, Napster could NOT be legally banned, because any law that violates the Constitution is illegal. Software is protected under the nineth and first amendments.
If you actually managed to completely outlaw Napster and GNUtella, I'd distribute my files by floppy, CD-ROM, Ethernet, ICQ, telegraph, telephone, or smoke signal.
There are no bans on most firearms, unless you live in the facist state of California. All you have to do to get an automatic weapon is pay a tax to the ATF and let them know every last detail of your life. And even that is unconstitutional.
In my entire life, I have not heard of anyone using an automatic weapon to commit a crime in the United States.
Do you think that the framers ddn't imagine a future where guns worked better? Keep in mind that the framers had seen the evolution of guns themselves, and the path was entirely predictable.
Switzerland has an automatic weapon for every man in the country.
In fact, YOU are wrong. The last time that "something went wrong with the solid rocket boosters" in NASA was the CHALLENGER, and they were NOT on the ground! That cart didn't save them, did it?
This was a funny April Fools joke. The gramatically incorrect language was not how the joke has originally told.
But, Hemos decided to mess with the joke even though he really isn't funny. Now the joke sucks.
Tip to Hemos: April Fools' jokes are supposed to be believable. Hick-style language is not believable. Now it is not a joke, but a pathetic excuse for one.
I know this will be moderated down, but it had to be said.
Now there's an idea for an encryption algorithm, one that yields a false plaintext if an incorrect key is used
Like the one time pad? You XOR the plaintext and the key, to come up wth a cyphertext. If the key is as long as the message, any decryption is equally likely.
1 GB/sec?! I wasn't aware that there was any consumer electronics item that could transfer that fast. It may be theoretically possible, but I don't know of any device controller - IDE, SCSI, etc. - that has a transfer rate that high.
I wonder if it's actually possible to get speeds that high.
What right does the federal government have to regulate workers organization? None whatsoever. Does the constitution explicitly say that they can regulate it? Do I hear no? Then, it's a violation of the of tenth amendment.
I reserve the right to organize with coworkers and use any nonviolent means necessary to increase my wages.
What's so illegal about "call in sick?" It's certainly within my 1st amendment rights to send messages, and to assemble peacefully!
Here's a nickel, kid! Go getcher self a copy of the US Constitution!
This"grey plague" was covered in an episode of the X-Files. Basically, Kryczek infected Skinner with them, and used a cool Palm to control them. Ultimate blackmail. Now he owns Skinner and can kill him with the touch of a button.
These things that you "need" are products of your brains chemistry. If your brain didn't make you *want* sex, or light, or food, you would not reproduce, make Vitamin D, or live, respectively.
The sad truth that I've come to realize is that I'm just a bunch of electrochemical reactions whose purpose is to force me to live long enough to reproduce.
"What is real? If real is the things you see, or feel, or touch, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain"
Your brain is one big neural net. In theory, if you could put together a neural net on your computer with some 50 billion neurons, which behave exactly as yours do, it would *be* you.
This poses some interesting questions which I can't answer, because I don't know what consciousness is. Can you be alive (concious) in two places at once, on a computer and in your brain. Would the experiences be shared? Or would it be like a twin?
When nanotechnology can map your neural connections, and computers can simulate them, we will know.
It's about time they got a new version. Of course, no discussion of SETI@Home is complete without mentioning: "WHY WON"T THEY OPEN SOURCE IT?!?" There, now I have initiated the debate. One thing that they could do is "opensource" the data, that is let people attack the data with clients that they have designed, in their own open-sourcey style. That would be unfair competition, I suppose. Still, security concerns are a lame excuse, and they should really open it up.
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Hey, the man is an expert manipulator. I mean - he has to be, how else would he have gotten movie studios to let him produce so many bombs. (Howard the Duck, etc.)
(Not a troll.)
I hereby nominate your post for the Random Socialist-NWO Advocate of the Day Award.
Heh. Joke.
Well, aren't we good at mocking people's spelling mistakes! We must be an English asshole (teacher) with a rod clear up our ass!
What the hell's a "fascist"?
/-shist also -sist/ noun or adjective, often capitalized /fa-'shis-tik also -'sis-/ adjective, often capitalized /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb, often capitalized
Main Entry: fascism
Pronunciation: 'fa-"shi-z&m also 'fa-"si-
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis
bundle & fasces fasces
Date: 1921
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti)
that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized
autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social
regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
- fascist
- fascistic
- fascistically
How is that possible? Is there CAD software for the PSII? Is someone going to export one of these, then write some, then use it to design a missle? Why not buy a missle from Russia, or just go to the US, and get a damn computer.
Decisions like these are made by government idiots who look at the specs and say "hmm... such-and-such megaherz, we'd better not let people export it!"
fools!
No!
You're buying a license. A license to use the process described in their patent. In your little scenario, Amazon owns the patent. They get payed the royalties/fees/whatever. Depending on the agreement, they may get to revoke your license. You and the other licensees have equal status, each at the whim of amazon, and with the right (perhaps temporary) to let people buy tings with "one-click technology."
Hope that helps!
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I hat the facist way that the TV studios attack people who are just trying to enjoy the show. If I have some Simpson's sounds/ pictures on my web site, I'm not hurting anyone!
In fact, I'm making the show more popular. I don't make money of of the stuff - it just hypes the show. It's the same way with fan fiction.
Add to that the fact that the actual scripts aren't very impressive. Taco might have been jokin, but you literally could write an xfiles plot generator.
shhh... I'll give you the secret xfiles formula!
monster commits a crime/murder. scully and mulder argue about coming to investigate. they come anyway. someone gets killed again. they argue about whether it was a monster or a person. before the next person gets killed, they figure it out and save them. the details of the monster are vague. it could go either way.
it's a really stupid formula. a couple times a year, they actually show the interesting government conspiracy plot. it's like two different shows - carter blew it.
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There is a big difference between "not being complete" and "lying."
Actually, there is *no* difference at all.
"Not being complete" is known as "lying by omission." It is when you don't tell someone an important truth. Thus, it is a form of lie.
"Lying by comission" is another form of lying. It is when you delibarately tell someting that isn't true.
Both are lies - just two different kinds.
I know that you're being sarcastic, but you DO have a 9th Amendment right to be in "posession" of any drug you please.
wait while you go check the constitution
"What?!?" you say. No the amendment doesn't explicitly say that you can smoke pot, but that's what it means.
I'm too tired to explain, but, suffice to say, you're wrong.
I disagree with you. I think that this promises to be an interesting series - after all, I never knew how the Federation was born.
I hope they can give it an interesting plot, because some of the series were lacking.
Original ST - misfits exploring galaxy
ST:TNG - greater emphasis on politics, technology
ST:DS9 - overemphasis on politics, boring plot (like a sitcom)
ST:VOYAGER - absurd plot
I don't know where you live, buddy, but "racist propaganda" and bomb making texts aren't illegal in the US. I guess that you must live in a facist country. God Bless the First Amendment.
First of all , you can have my Napster, my deCSS, and my GNUtella after you kill me and pry them from my cold dead fingers. But, I'll use my constitutionally protected assault weapons to kill your jack-booted thugs first. That's why they are protected, see.
You show me a solid object, and I'll show you something that can break the law. I can do it with most liquids, some gasses, and certainly with plasma, too. Would you like to outlaw matter?
Furthermore, Napster could NOT be legally banned, because any law that violates the Constitution is illegal. Software is protected under the nineth and first amendments.
If you actually managed to completely outlaw Napster and GNUtella, I'd distribute my files by floppy, CD-ROM, Ethernet, ICQ, telegraph, telephone, or smoke signal.
There are no bans on most firearms, unless you live in the facist state of California. All you have to do to get an automatic weapon is pay a tax to the ATF and let them know every last detail of your life. And even that is unconstitutional.
In my entire life, I have not heard of anyone using an automatic weapon to commit a crime in the United States.
Do you think that the framers ddn't imagine a future where guns worked better? Keep in mind that the framers had seen the evolution of guns themselves, and the path was entirely predictable.
Switzerland has an automatic weapon for every man in the country.
In fact, YOU are wrong. The last time that "something went wrong with the solid rocket boosters" in NASA was the CHALLENGER, and they were NOT on the ground! That cart didn't save them, did it?
Yes, it is lame, and the hick-style writing was not originally part or it. Hemos kinda wrecked the joke because it is not believable any more.
Hemos:
It would have been funny if it was written in standard English, because it would've actually fooled people, which is what April Fools Day is all about
This was a funny April Fools joke. The gramatically incorrect language was not how the joke has originally told.
But, Hemos decided to mess with the joke even though he really isn't funny. Now the joke sucks.
Tip to Hemos: April Fools' jokes are supposed to be believable. Hick-style language is not believable. Now it is not a joke, but a pathetic excuse for one.
I know this will be moderated down, but it had to be said.
Now there's an idea for an encryption algorithm, one that yields a false plaintext if an incorrect key is used
Like the one time pad? You XOR the plaintext and the key, to come up wth a cyphertext. If the key is as long as the message, any decryption is equally likely.
ASHUFBCFPOEAMK
could decrypt to
I troll often. OR
A horny goose.
I vote yes.
1 GB/sec?! I wasn't aware that there was any consumer electronics item that could transfer that fast. It may be theoretically possible, but I don't know of any device controller - IDE, SCSI, etc. - that has a transfer rate that high.
I wonder if it's actually possible to get speeds that high.
What right does the federal government have to regulate workers organization? None whatsoever.
Does the constitution explicitly say that they can regulate it? Do I hear no? Then, it's a violation of the of tenth amendment.
I reserve the right to organize with coworkers and use any nonviolent means necessary to increase my wages.
What's so illegal about "call in sick?" It's certainly within my 1st amendment rights to send messages, and to assemble peacefully!
Here's a nickel, kid! Go getcher self a copy of the US Constitution!
This"grey plague" was covered in an episode of the X-Files. Basically, Kryczek infected Skinner with them, and used a cool Palm to control them. Ultimate blackmail. Now he owns Skinner and can kill him with the touch of a button.
This *will* be a problem someday.
These things that you "need" are products of your brains chemistry. If your brain didn't make you *want* sex, or light, or food, you would not reproduce, make Vitamin D, or live, respectively.
The sad truth that I've come to realize is that I'm just a bunch of electrochemical reactions whose purpose is to force me to live long enough to reproduce.
"What is real? If real is the things you see, or feel, or touch, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain"
Your brain is one big neural net. In theory, if you could put together a neural net on your computer with some 50 billion neurons, which behave exactly as yours do, it would *be* you.
This poses some interesting questions which I can't answer, because I don't know what consciousness is. Can you be alive (concious) in two places at once, on a computer and in your brain. Would the experiences be shared? Or would it be like a twin?
When nanotechnology can map your neural connections, and computers can simulate them, we will know.
Aye. So: on Friday, I won't read /.
It's about time they got a new version. Of course, no discussion of SETI@Home is complete without mentioning: "WHY WON"T THEY OPEN SOURCE IT?!?" There, now I have initiated the debate. One thing that they could do is "opensource" the data, that is let people attack the data with clients that they have designed, in their own open-sourcey style. That would be unfair competition, I suppose. Still, security concerns are a lame excuse, and they should really open it up.
Hell, if it's outside of the US, the US cannot legally touch it. But, the US can bully its allies into doing something.
Try an island in the Carribean. "Money can buy me no-extradition..."