When I read stuff like this, I always feel a little bit like Dogbert. Not where he's got the sceptre and exorcising demons, but where he's laughing maniacally as his world-dominiation plans are coming to fruition. Sometimes it makes me a little scared, but then the evil laugher wells up again and supresses my fear.
The guestBOX main site was still active. Another educated guess worked: the secret authentication key for Boston's venerable South Station was, in fact, south:station
I mean, just WOW. That's like going into the Mall of America, and leaving your windows rolled down and the keys in the ignition. You probably could have gotten away with doing that back in the 1940's, but sure as hell not nowadays.
New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) sounds like a "Think-tank". In this day and age, it's not a question of conflicted interest and "bias". It's only a question of figuring out who funded it. Same as any "university study".
Most of the time I look for keywords. In this case, "anti-competitive" and "waste taxpayer dollars" points me toward the people who stand to lose the most from government-sponsored wireless. Which would be telephone companies and cable companies. I would also expect energy/electricity companies, and several communication satellite companies.
This is known as "social priorities". Honestly, your blurb doesn't transmit any notiable differences between the governments.
What I got out of that is "don't get caught". And that's exactly the same thing as America. Don't get caught with the intern sucking your cock, while you order troops into Bosnia. Don't get caught sending CIA "black-ops" agents to ask Serbs to shoot down Ron Brown's plane over Bosnia. Don't get caught fucking a 9 year-old "barely legal/just-had-her-period-3-days-ago" cousin in Mesopotamia. Don't get caught smuggling weapons, through a tunnel, from Egypt into Palesine. Don't get caught eating cheese and sleeping with 100 different mistresses in Paris.
Don't get caught filming pr0n in Los Angeles when you're fourteen.
Or for that matter, don't get caught fucking wiping out filthy Palestinians when you're the Ottoman Turks and you're fucking fed up with raids into your lands.
Dude. If you were trying to, like, outline some difference between the United States of America dn China, you utterly failed. Even the tank commander was reluctant to just fucking roll over that fucking rice-eating briefcase-wielding Chinaman son of a bitch. I fucking would have. Fucking teach that tree-hugger to defy me!
You are going to have to discuss social stability and personal rights, to draw a difference between China and the US. Not individually and seperate; you are going to have to integrate social stability and personal rights. With integrals, you don't always get to factors out and cancel variables.
Bush talks about freedom, and all the university kids in Iran start learning how to use encrypted P2P to organize protests and idealogy with Berkeley.
The Iranian Government has threated to fucking shoot any son of a dog that downloads movies of the United States President's "State of the Union" address. The Moral Police have been tasked with distributing corrupt Torrent chunks, and tracking IP's of offenders.
Also, the RIAA is, like, totally starving. Executives have been asked to report to work in bum clothing, carrying cardboard signs that say "Homeless Army Veteran. Every bit helps." Workers have been outfitted with GPS units to ensure even distribution and active soliciting of rush-hour traffic.
,hearing it, and I'm not looking to be anyone's parent here.
This problem is solved by not using MSFT software. They actually DO a pretty good job with hardware. I tried my best to destroy several Intellimouse trackballs, and utterly failed (I also cleaned them really well; kind of like what you have to do with the registry?). I also have a Sidewinder Precision 2 that has consistently, and precisely, worked since the first day I bought it; unlike my Gravis Wingman 3D.
As a software company, MSFT makes really good hardware.
It's long been time to turn off the intarweb. You know, not for ever and ever and ever. But at least a few months. This is the best god damn way to go about doing it.
IBM's proposed US$1.25 billion sale of its personal computer business to Lenovo Group of China may be held up by U.S. regulators over national security concerns, Bloomberg reported. The report, citing unnamed sources "familiar with the matter," said members of the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, or CFIUS, were concerned that Lenovo employees might be used to conduct industrial espionage.
This is no different than someone kicking you in the head, and you looking to see what color shoe he's wearing.
So. What color of shoe does China have, Mr. Secretary of the Treasury?
It's a bit wierd, too. I grew up with the whole Chairman of the Board Mao/Better-dead-than-Red thing. But since about 1995, China's been making some really good calls here and there. Honestly, I think they're going to end up surpassing America in both technological advancement, and social stability.
Here's what would put Sony on top again
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If they put out a dual-layer BluRay burner on the PC, and then put out a BluRay dual-layer player for HDTV. And then put out two different music players.
The video player would need to be able to handle OGM, Vorbis, MP3, AC3, Divx, Xvid. You'd have to be able to navigate sub-directories, and play by sub-directory. It'd have to have lasers capable of reading DVD's and CD's, of course.
On the players, they'll need two different types. One with a hard disk, and one that only uses flash memory. They should both run off standard AA batteries, and Sony should market a seperate Lithium Ion battery made specifically for the players. Let third-party companies make the LiON batteries, and let the consumer figure out what he/she wants.
The player with the hard disk should be able to handle Vorbis, MP3, AC3, ATRAC, MID, MOD. The flash player should be able to handle Vorbis and MP3. Both players should use either FAT32, or something like EXT2/3 for their file structures.
On top of everything else, Sony should make it's own simple little program and drivers (for the filesystems), for Win32/OSX/Linux/*BSD. Nothing fancy; just a simple exporer GUI, that lets you drag and drop and arrange things on the disk/memory. If they wanted to go the extra step, they could let you convert formats, with the full range of options that BeSweet allows you to select. ------
The PC burners, the stand alone players, and the music players. They'd be king, once again.
I don't honestly expect them to do that, though. Too many choices, probably too much customer support.
I still have an older HP laserjet, and it's worked well enough. HP makes good printers, it's just that they cost far more than they are now worth. Samsung has become just as good of a manufacturer, and reasonably priced as well.
CHAIRMAN: And you are willing to go on and let these killings take place . . . rather than go out there and see if you might do something to settle those conditions?
ROCKEFELLER: There is just one thing . . . which can be done, as things are at present, to settle this strike, and that is to unionize the camps; and our interest in labor is so profound . . . that interest demands that the camps shall be open [nonunion] camps that we expect to stand by the [Colorado Fuel and Iron Company] officers at any cost. . ..
CHAIRMAN: And you will do that if it costs all your property and kills all your employees?
ROCKEFELLER: It is a great principle.
CHAIRMAN: And you would do that rather than recognize the right of men to collective bargaining? Is that what I understand?
ROCKEFELLER: No, sir. Rather than allow outside people to come in and interfere with employees who are thoroughly satisfied with their labor conditions -- it was upon a similar principle that the War of the Revolution was carried on. It is a great national issue of the most vital kind.
because I missed the UPN Wednesday showing. That was only season 1, and a few parts of season 2. I watched through episode 13, and then a few through episode 22. That was back when Suprnova only took 5 seconds to pull up a page of torrents. Also, I think that was before Cox started offering UPN in my area; slowass fucks!
I'm not looking to specifically harsh anyone's gig here; I'm just calling it like I see it. It's just not the same without Gene being able to call up the episode writers/producers and ask "What the Fuck, Chuck?!". Gene was totally notorious about doing that, you know. Like Bill Cosby calling Eddie Murphy, sometimes he would just call up people and discuss the entire fucking universe for several hours on a Sunday evening. I heard rumors of him flying out to someone's house because they hung up on him, but that was back during the Undiscovered Country "For Gene" aftermath.
Honestly, I don't know if Meyer or Zimmerman have ever flown a B-17, or if B-17's even have a god damn thing to do with good episodes. All I know is I stopped watching after the first couple in season 2.
Morality 10%, ethics 10%, social structure 50%, politics 20%, and tits 10%.
I think that was the winning combo. Also, we need people cussing every once in a while. It's no big deal if the Limey does his "bloody" thing, because America wasn't in all those fucking wars that England got itself into. I think the engineer guy (Trapp?) could probably cut loose with some "hell" and "damnits", every now and then. We're not talking tit stickers on Superbowl Sunday, here; just a little bit of humanity in the mix. Minus the FCC Puritanism, that is. Maybe Enterprise just needs a few years off whilest we fucking do something about the prudes in the Whitehouse.
Didn't the Canadians burn that thing down one time?
The National Reconnaissance Office wanted extra coverage over Iraq, so they re-orbited some of their concealed spy satellites and used the satellite-stealth technology to do it. Intelsat is just mad because they weren't given enough money, so they released this news blurb as a warning to the neocons in the Bush administration.
I'd like to see all these commercial planes using something other than kerosene. Sure, it's just as difficult as putting alternative fuels in cars, but no less important. If the United States and Europe ever really want to do something about "global warming", they'll start with planes.
--- I'd also like to remind people that the brilliance of Chernobyl was that it used non-refined uranium, and that the technicians had to over-ride every last single safety system in the plant, to get it to do what it did.
We could be making hydrogen a reality, right now, and not just toying-with-the-idea.
Recently, I had been using Multimedia cable, until they were bought out by Cox. And just like a Pentium IV 3.0ghz processor has more gigahurtz than an AMD64 2.0ghz processor, Cox was marketing two different speeds. Never mind that if you were not a "sporatic" user of that bandwidth, they would impose a cap so that you didn't actually *have* the bandwidth for which you paid.
Between DNS servers going down, and Cox actually dropping the connection to my cable modem, dialup would have been faster. It would have at least been reliable, and I could count on being able to check the weather and news on a consistent basis. I just up and moved to SBC DSL, because it was the only real alternative. Cox offered me a lower price if I'd stay with them, but it wasn't even worth what they were wanting.
Sure, my "maximum" bandwidth on DSL is much less; 384kbps upload, 1.5mbps download. But I get that reliably. I can rely on being able to browse the web. Over the course of a day, my DSL is far faster than cable, simply because I'm not waiting for web pages to load.
Cox has become absolutely terrible in my area. I say fuck'em. I will pay more for a reliable connection than I will for false advertisement.
If I ever bought a Mac, I'd get one of these. I'm trying, right now, to justify another computer. I fucking [b]want[/b] one, but I'm completely stoked. I have all the machines I can find a use for.
The only "upgrade" I'd pull would be the 512meg. I don't trust any of my windows machines on the net, but I'd certainly hook the Mac up. I might try talking my sister into getting one, and picking up a "cheap" 17" LCD from Sam's.
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When I read stuff like this, I always feel a little bit like Dogbert. Not where he's got the sceptre and exorcising demons, but where he's laughing maniacally as his world-dominiation plans are coming to fruition. Sometimes it makes me a little scared, but then the evil laugher wells up again and supresses my fear.
I fully support this action by Microsoft.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
MP3 should have been outlawed five years ago.
When was the white paper on that one? 1983? 1985?
It's time for people to move up to Vorbis and AC3.
Anyone caught still using MP3 should be beat with a cane pole in the town square.
Against Windows, because Messenger isn't part of the "core" functionality of Windows.
However...
The mailman exploit counts against Redhat Enterprise, because it ships with the distribution.
(just squint really hard, and you'll be able to clearly see what I'm talking about)
I mean, just WOW. That's like going into the Mall of America, and leaving your windows rolled down and the keys in the ignition. You probably could have gotten away with doing that back in the 1940's, but sure as hell not nowadays.
Awesome.
New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) sounds like a "Think-tank". In this day and age, it's not a question of conflicted interest and "bias". It's only a question of figuring out who funded it. Same as any "university study".
Most of the time I look for keywords. In this case, "anti-competitive" and "waste taxpayer dollars" points me toward the people who stand to lose the most from government-sponsored wireless. Which would be telephone companies and cable companies. I would also expect energy/electricity companies, and several communication satellite companies.
I think a little competition would good for 'em.
Builds character.
That's why I don't use it.
a commentary on the Iraq war.
Go George!
Accounting should be an Olympic sport, because they manage to pull off some impressive moves, sometime.
Microsoft would totally win the Gold, with this one.
This is known as "social priorities". Honestly, your blurb doesn't transmit any notiable differences between the governments.
What I got out of that is "don't get caught". And that's exactly the same thing as America. Don't get caught with the intern sucking your cock, while you order troops into Bosnia. Don't get caught sending CIA "black-ops" agents to ask Serbs to shoot down Ron Brown's plane over Bosnia. Don't get caught fucking a 9 year-old "barely legal/just-had-her-period-3-days-ago" cousin in Mesopotamia. Don't get caught smuggling weapons, through a tunnel, from Egypt into Palesine. Don't get caught eating cheese and sleeping with 100 different mistresses in Paris.
Don't get caught filming pr0n in Los Angeles when you're fourteen.
Or for that matter, don't get caught fucking wiping out filthy Palestinians when you're the Ottoman Turks and you're fucking fed up with raids into your lands.
Dude. If you were trying to, like, outline some difference between the United States of America dn China, you utterly failed. Even the tank commander was reluctant to just fucking roll over that fucking rice-eating briefcase-wielding Chinaman son of a bitch. I fucking would have. Fucking teach that tree-hugger to defy me!
You are going to have to discuss social stability and personal rights, to draw a difference between China and the US. Not individually and seperate; you are going to have to integrate social stability and personal rights. With integrals, you don't always get to factors out and cancel variables.
Some variables interact with others.
, wanting to figure out how people bypass the firewall, this is exactly what I'd post on /.
I'd also be asking on Usenet and IRC channels.
Bush talks about freedom, and all the university kids in Iran start learning how to use encrypted P2P to organize protests and idealogy with Berkeley.
The Iranian Government has threated to fucking shoot any son of a dog that downloads movies of the United States President's "State of the Union" address. The Moral Police have been tasked with distributing corrupt Torrent chunks, and tracking IP's of offenders.
Also, the RIAA is, like, totally starving. Executives have been asked to report to work in bum clothing, carrying cardboard signs that say "Homeless Army Veteran. Every bit helps." Workers have been outfitted with GPS units to ensure even distribution and active soliciting of rush-hour traffic.
,hearing it, and I'm not looking to be anyone's parent here.
This problem is solved by not using MSFT software. They actually DO a pretty good job with hardware. I tried my best to destroy several Intellimouse trackballs, and utterly failed (I also cleaned them really well; kind of like what you have to do with the registry?). I also have a Sidewinder Precision 2 that has consistently, and precisely, worked since the first day I bought it; unlike my Gravis Wingman 3D.
As a software company, MSFT makes really good hardware.
It's long been time to turn off the intarweb. You know, not for ever and ever and ever. But at least a few months. This is the best god damn way to go about doing it.
Nuke the entire site from orbit.
MSFT WINS! Fatality!
This is no different than someone kicking you in the head, and you looking to see what color shoe he's wearing.
So. What color of shoe does China have, Mr. Secretary of the Treasury?
Because MSFT has grown beyond our control. We'd really be fucked if the rest of the world fell under our jurisdiction.
It's a bit wierd, too. I grew up with the whole Chairman of the Board Mao/Better-dead-than-Red thing. But since about 1995, China's been making some really good calls here and there. Honestly, I think they're going to end up surpassing America in both technological advancement, and social stability.
If they put out a dual-layer BluRay burner on the PC, and then put out a BluRay dual-layer player for HDTV. And then put out two different music players.
The video player would need to be able to handle OGM, Vorbis, MP3, AC3, Divx, Xvid. You'd have to be able to navigate sub-directories, and play by sub-directory. It'd have to have lasers capable of reading DVD's and CD's, of course.
On the players, they'll need two different types. One with a hard disk, and one that only uses flash memory. They should both run off standard AA batteries, and Sony should market a seperate Lithium Ion battery made specifically for the players. Let third-party companies make the LiON batteries, and let the consumer figure out what he/she wants.
The player with the hard disk should be able to handle Vorbis, MP3, AC3, ATRAC, MID, MOD. The flash player should be able to handle Vorbis and MP3. Both players should use either FAT32, or something like EXT2/3 for their file structures.
On top of everything else, Sony should make it's own simple little program and drivers (for the filesystems), for Win32/OSX/Linux/*BSD. Nothing fancy; just a simple exporer GUI, that lets you drag and drop and arrange things on the disk/memory. If they wanted to go the extra step, they could let you convert formats, with the full range of options that BeSweet allows you to select.
------
The PC burners, the stand alone players, and the music players. They'd be king, once again.
I don't honestly expect them to do that, though. Too many choices, probably too much customer support.
I still have an older HP laserjet, and it's worked well enough. HP makes good printers, it's just that they cost far more than they are now worth. Samsung has become just as good of a manufacturer, and reasonably priced as well.
I might also add that toner refills are harder to come by in the US, than in Europe. This little cartridge debacle will last about 3 months. They'll have "reset" chips just like the Lexmark printers do.
Just in case anyone in the States has given refills a thought, 123 Refills has a good selection of toner kits, both black and color laser toner.
because I missed the UPN Wednesday showing. That was only season 1, and a few parts of season 2. I watched through episode 13, and then a few through episode 22. That was back when Suprnova only took 5 seconds to pull up a page of torrents. Also, I think that was before Cox started offering UPN in my area; slowass fucks!
I'm not looking to specifically harsh anyone's gig here; I'm just calling it like I see it. It's just not the same without Gene being able to call up the episode writers/producers and ask "What the Fuck, Chuck?!". Gene was totally notorious about doing that, you know. Like Bill Cosby calling Eddie Murphy, sometimes he would just call up people and discuss the entire fucking universe for several hours on a Sunday evening. I heard rumors of him flying out to someone's house because they hung up on him, but that was back during the Undiscovered Country "For Gene" aftermath.
Honestly, I don't know if Meyer or Zimmerman have ever flown a B-17, or if B-17's even have a god damn thing to do with good episodes. All I know is I stopped watching after the first couple in season 2.
Morality 10%, ethics 10%, social structure 50%, politics 20%, and tits 10%.
I think that was the winning combo. Also, we need people cussing every once in a while. It's no big deal if the Limey does his "bloody" thing, because America wasn't in all those fucking wars that England got itself into. I think the engineer guy (Trapp?) could probably cut loose with some "hell" and "damnits", every now and then. We're not talking tit stickers on Superbowl Sunday, here; just a little bit of humanity in the mix. Minus the FCC Puritanism, that is. Maybe Enterprise just needs a few years off whilest we fucking do something about the prudes in the Whitehouse.
Didn't the Canadians burn that thing down one time?
The National Reconnaissance Office wanted extra coverage over Iraq, so they re-orbited some of their concealed spy satellites and used the satellite-stealth technology to do it. Intelsat is just mad because they weren't given enough money, so they released this news blurb as a warning to the neocons in the Bush administration.
*jumps on the conspiracy bandwagon*
In you, much fear I sense. Yes, much fear. Fear leads to anger...yadayadayada...SUFFERING!
So, to recap:
1. Fear
2. Anger
3. yadayadayada
4. SUFFERING!
5. PROFIT!
I'd like to see all these commercial planes using something other than kerosene. Sure, it's just as difficult as putting alternative fuels in cars, but no less important. If the United States and Europe ever really want to do something about "global warming", they'll start with planes.
---
I'd also like to remind people that the brilliance of Chernobyl was that it used non-refined uranium, and that the technicians had to over-ride every last single safety system in the plant, to get it to do what it did.
We could be making hydrogen a reality, right now, and not just toying-with-the-idea.
Recently, I had been using Multimedia cable, until they were bought out by Cox. And just like a Pentium IV 3.0ghz processor has more gigahurtz than an AMD64 2.0ghz processor, Cox was marketing two different speeds. Never mind that if you were not a "sporatic" user of that bandwidth, they would impose a cap so that you didn't actually *have* the bandwidth for which you paid.
Between DNS servers going down, and Cox actually dropping the connection to my cable modem, dialup would have been faster. It would have at least been reliable, and I could count on being able to check the weather and news on a consistent basis. I just up and moved to SBC DSL, because it was the only real alternative. Cox offered me a lower price if I'd stay with them, but it wasn't even worth what they were wanting.
Sure, my "maximum" bandwidth on DSL is much less; 384kbps upload, 1.5mbps download. But I get that reliably. I can rely on being able to browse the web. Over the course of a day, my DSL is far faster than cable, simply because I'm not waiting for web pages to load.
Cox has become absolutely terrible in my area. I say fuck'em. I will pay more for a reliable connection than I will for false advertisement.
Just without a monitor and battery.
If I ever bought a Mac, I'd get one of these. I'm trying, right now, to justify another computer. I fucking [b]want[/b] one, but I'm completely stoked. I have all the machines I can find a use for.
The only "upgrade" I'd pull would be the 512meg. I don't trust any of my windows machines on the net, but I'd certainly hook the Mac up. I might try talking my sister into getting one, and picking up a "cheap" 17" LCD from Sam's.