That if the NSA were to produce data like that it would have to be faked. It would be like saying that the NSA produces all of the stories about natural disasters just for kicks and that the truth never would get out. The radio transmitters are just a very old paranoid little saying taken from cultural context from people in the 1960's and such. People fear the government and so think about many interesting entertaining senarios that might fit a particular paradigm.
Well that's not what society says we should do! You see we have a little thing called personal responsibility and that forces people to not do beatings even though it may be emotionally damaging for them to hold their feelings in. If everyone acted out most likely there would be anarchy in the streets. No one could really take 2 steps without punching someone out or getting punched. Yeah good plan. No my friend if someone wants to get revenge you just have to wait for the right time. And make sure that the method of your revenge will be both: A. Undetectable until the last moment and be too late to stop. and
B. Allow you to remain unscathed and under no suspicion.
Playing quake isn't going to give a real interpretation anyway of killing people. Recoil on weapons (some of which haven't been produced super shotgun, rail gun, BFG10k and so on), regenerative health (rapid) capabilities. Ever heard of a game called Xevil? Nicle little gem. You get to kill hundreds of people and keep on killing until you drop to get rank quite nice. I can't see games as motivating factors. I never really got into quake and the like anyway. They are just too unreal. Now maybe with a holographic projection system (think holodeck) that might be a possiblity.
If the NSA was really that stupid they need to be taken down. If I want to keep a secret you just don't start broadcasting propaganda from you Secret Headquarters(tm) and then expect not to be found out sooner or later. Do you actually think that the NSA created columbine? That your tooth fillings are actually minituare short-wave radios that are programmed to pick your brain waves? Maybe television is stealing all of your ideas and using them on various sitcoms to gain large quantities of cash. right? The government is not responsible for the way the media works. Just look at the Pentagon Papers. Nixon has been protrayed as being the most tyrannical man to be president and even he couldn't stop the media from doing their thing.
What exactly happened to you "after". What are you doing now? What many people don't realize is that their idea of "helping" people usually involves something that will kill their very essence. Take away all liberties from them, make them dependent on something, hamstring them, and leave them for dead when they have finished. I have this little theory that intense pain and misery and bad things. Perhaps ingestion of postassium cyanide in capsulate form would work in such cases. That way humanity will not have a chance to increase big brotherism and allow people to find some form of peace. And truly if you actually belive in a god perhaps you can find peace with him/her/it or if you don't you may be able to find eternal rest. Whatever. Usually people do not actually think. If you have plans then by all means try and actually use them. I quite frankly don't care. As far as being a victim of crime I have made predictions about how things of this nature could be done and avoid possibilities that could result in injury by terrorists. For large effect and massive death perhaps the employ of sarin, put botulism into the cafeteria, or get about 20lbs of enriched uranium and create a crute nuclear device. Then just have something blaming an unstable middle eastern faction that would precipitate a large war. Problem solved. Why your comment could get a 5 I hardly know. If your statements are actually true then you are perhaps the most disturbed person I have heard about short of A. Hitler. However it seems that a good case of acting is employed.
Oh.. I sincerely hope that any identity trace of your account would not turn up any data that could link your name/address/SSN/or correct e-mail to anything in the real world. I don't think even McDonalds would hire a person like that. If you want to have a stable life/job/reputation you have to keep feelings of this sort under tight wraps. Eventually you can gain stability and order. Meditation?
How interesting they actually have a police show (similar to COPS) about Canada's criminals. I guess all those "non-violent" criminals are just a figment of my imagination?
I was not trying to necessarily be a profiler. I was in fact attempting to be humorous. Everyone and their mother thinks that sports allow a person to become something akin to Ghandi/Martin Luther King/Jesus Christ all rolled into one. I have never been any good at sports and dislike being physically injured. I have at least a couple of physical injuries that have affected the way I can live my life. I can't really see anyone being able to run 1000 miles any way? You know for all the posturing I would rather die at say 60 of a heart attack then live til I was 120 and be crazy as a loon without mental facculties. Being in sports is a very conformist thing at least where I stand in the world. Everyone likes sports, watches sports, fantasizes about sports, therefore it is safe to assume that sports are in the norm. Logically anything out of the norm will be different and anything that goes towards it conformist.
Well one reason is that there is major legislation as far as the anti-gun crowd goes. I was watching a NRA informercial (yes it is biased but it illustrates the extreme of the point) and a group of Australians were talking about how they had basically lost almost all if not all of their gun rights. You probably haven't seen any guns in the hands of children because adults cannot get them easily and they don't have any spares to sell to children. If I pay $3,000 for a black market bee bee gun I will not give it to some kid to have it taken away from him and get me in the slammer.
Is that the Outer Limits? Pretty good stuff there. At any rate they can try to use tests such as these but I can't see how these are different from standard psychological tests for various things. With tests of any type consent must be levied in some form. You can fight testing for various things anyway: especially the psychological. I think that it would be impossible for a government to be able to actually impliment any such thing. People want to gain power right? They need leaders right? What kind of qualities do leaders need? Intelligence. What happens when all the intelligent people are gone? No strong leadership! The loose all the power they were trying to establish and they effectively put their regime out of power. It is self defeating. Unless they have a core group of pre-selected people who are intelligent to choose from they cannot replace them and such decline would be ineveitable.
Or more precisely uses violence as the first option when confronted in such situations. People can be defined by how they act and how they respond to various stimuli and actions. The "normal" response to bulling is to just break the bully's nose or something. People who are the more thinking type will automatically begin to apply techniques to allow them to get out of the situation before the bully can break their nose instead. Pople who feel violated now cannot not take action, but if you do you are punished it's a catch 22. What is a little disturbing is that there was a program on the WB network that was about violence. It tried to take the sterotype of various groups and claim that "violence is wrong kids" by illustrating the various problems with various factions involved. Needless to say I was unimpressed by the whole thing. Violence in it's primitive extends from things that society faults on that cause a break from being able to defend and win at. Homelessness, joblessness, dispair, crime, drug abuse, poverty, etc are all things that contribute to violence. Utopia will never be achieved so we have decided to pretend that they are gone and sweep them under the table.
Then how do they succeed? I mean there can be only so many pimps, gigolos, and pro football stars in the world. Since they are so aggresive maybe we should profile all of the football, track, and cheerleaders.
1. Do you like sports 2. Do you play sports more than 5 hours at a stretch. 3. Do you have feelings of concentration when you play a sport like nothing else matters. .. .. ..
A lot of people would be soiling their pants if the ancient Egyptians were still in thier prime. Their entire culture reveolved death and the afterlife. Generally no culture since has been able to boast that level of involvement with the beyond. Close to the millenium we have a great deal of this fascination with material such as this.
PS. On a side note was anyone else a little disapointed with the outcome of the X-files/Millenium cross over? I thought it was a rather ignoble end of Frank Black and what he did. Still I think he got off lucky. He would have been put in jail for being too "into" death and murder anyway.
if someone actually wants to break the law it can be done without too much fuss or muss. Really most of the greatest criminal minds are usually people who have maticulously honed minds and who have an uncanny ability not to get caught. A great many people in this world really get sore about not being able to find out criminals because all the easy types are already caught. All the mass murderers are pulled over for speeding tickets before they can take that Uzi and take out a building full of people. So what does the FBI and others do? They go looking for "potentially dangerous" people so they can look good.
Rather interesting that as you point out that the capitalists are both evil (they exploit all the por workers) and they are both good (boy when we come home and eat boiled shoe leather for dinner we want help from said capitalists). The only time where calling people evil capitalists is founded is when an ecconomic system is set up that is different from is substantially. Maybe socialism, or communism perhaps. Howevereven socialistic countires do not necessarily go against capitalistic implimentations of ideas. Communism is looking to come to terms with capitalism. Now unless this point of view is seen from either North Korea, or Cuba (places where the worst run communist governments are usualy found today) this point is dead.
Just our of curiousity how many of the programs that I use on a daily basis are coded in Bolivia? I haven't seen any major pieces that have comments done in Spanish. I still think that people should support software development when so much code that is developed in the US and other developed countries *cough* microsoft *cough* is just junk anyway. As a fact I know that I have a collection of NT development CDs at home that are published in ENglish, French, Italian, and maybe German at least it shows that even so called "selfish" people in the USA aren't really so cold hearted.
Ok sounds like your feelings to all of the oppresed is in the typical place. Please tell me just how you can force every country in the world to actually levy tarifs on their software? How will Portugal actually say force China to pay an extra tax on something? A great deal of thewse countries that are considered part of the 3rd world are countries that were once European colonies. They they force the Europeans to go packing because they get a group of disgruntled farmers and start a little trouble. Well that's fine and dandy let's look at the results. 1. Millions of dead, dieing and starving. 2. Lack of critical infrastructure that other more tenaciously held colonies received (Taiwan) 3. Civil strife: when you don't have a governent you can't keep the local or popular bullies off your doorstep. The main reason anti-government types are flat out wrong about the "evil government" 4. Because of all of the above factors you get a smaller percentage of highly educated people to remedy all of the 3 over time like in most other places. To fix all of this will take a little more than a simple tariff or tax on software. Already I could fathom most people internationally pay more for items (even small ones) that are ordered in places like the US. Just look at the price of books at the local bookstore. Usually on the back of these boks you see several prices. First is the price in the local part of the world. The second is usually canada or someplace like that, and then next maybe New Zealand or Great Britian. Usually when you get to the end of the list the p rice is usually over 5-15 dollars (lyre, pounds, franks, DM, etc). Dealing with this is already an inconvience. What would be better is to gradually move to a unified global ecconomy and spare taxiation on certain parts of it. Even in the most developed regions of the world there are still poor and needy you just have to look better for them.
Once upon a time when I was young I would dream about the underling process of how things actually worked. I thought it interesting that there was so much knowledge. I changed my proposed ocupation many, many, times. I at one point wanted to be a beta tester for console video games before I fully grasped the concept. I did well at traditional mathmetics and thought it was fun. Then I hit the 7th grade. I was assigned to a fellow who had about as much right teaching an algebra class as fly to the moon (he minored in math). The experience was quite bad for me. I did however pass the class. I later took classes in math up through differential calculus. That was an equally sour experience. I went into college and am currently taking a similar course as the one that I had in high school. TO say that the material is difficult is an understatement. Much of this "body of knowledge" is rarely accessable to everyone. Now I don't mean that even people with mental retardation should be able to understand special relativity or dark matter but how much work would it be to simply make a book that had advanced topics packaged into a better framework? We did it with the internet (html,dhtml,java, java script, Active X, cgi, etc) why can't there be a group who takes advanced topics and uses them to be presented into say textbooks? Most of the current base of knowledge is in the form of academic journals, papers, and dissertations. If this would be routinely integrated into "supplement books" for textbook updates and then could be integrated into standard textbooks. Quite frankly I think that cellular autonoma is something that would be interesting to look at. However when a subject usually takes about 5 years of solid math traning even to get to the confused stage I think it's time to make it more approachable.Has anyone taken the liberty of creating some sort of learning oriented method of teaching. Take some AI that allows people a student to ask a directed question aloud or maybe on a command line such "Gee I still don't understand why space time curves at the 39th parralel quantum axis when graviton particle concentrations reach 45% why is that?"
About two weeks ago my younger sister came home from school with interesting news about her local high school. The schools wonder about needing money. Usually what happens is that the science department usually gets most of it but doesn't really do anything useful with it. A number of the students from a couple of the classes were asked to move some new furniture into the science teacher's lounge. Altogether this ammounted to about $12,000 worth of furniture (Italian leather) stuff. In her school most science departments heads are people who are not very good teachers in the sense that they are looking for really good ego trips. One of herpast biology teachers made comments that indicated that he enjoyed bringing children to tears overrulings that were made. Unreasonabley high levels of rigor were introduced that I have not found in any of my years of collegiate work. If teachers wish to be kept up to date maybe they should actually think about what they do and tailor it specific audiences. Most people have the ability to buy a subscription to one of their academic journals (Science magazine leaps to mind) that would amply inform them of revent events.
There appears to be a great deal of these "conferences" out there. What exactly of consequence goes on there? I really could justify the expense of plane fare if I had a reason.
Apollo 13 was just a failure and it really didn't prove anything. We should be using "hacks" to send people to mars or beyond. Perhaps developing a warp drive system.
Well because of his "lack of innovation" I can actually use my 486 instead of becomming a contract killer to get my money for my Pentium LXVI to run windows on. It feels good to be cheap and be able to get away with it.
Well mechanics really don't get put on my list of people of the century as a general rule. Apollo 13 was just gross negligence on the part of people who should have anticipated the worst. We really wasted our time going to the moon so many times and not going to someplace like mars or getting an accurate idea about life on other planets.
You do have choice in the unix world. You can use C++, java, perl, python, sed, awk, bash, tcsh, bc, emacs lisp, vi scripts, almost anything that can be scripted, or has stored variables has the ability to become a programming language. I think there's something on unix that people can develop on that allows for tight security. You can simply have any subshell that is created from the command line just generate a restricted shell that will execute an automatic ^D statement that closes it. Then you just simply block the IP address of the individual all in one script. No fuss no muss. Really effective.
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That if the NSA were to produce data like that it would have to be faked. It would be like saying that the NSA produces all of the stories about natural disasters just for kicks and that the truth never would get out. The radio transmitters are just a very old paranoid little saying taken from cultural context from people in the 1960's and such. People fear the government and so think about many interesting entertaining senarios that might fit a particular paradigm.
Well that's not what society says we should do! You see we have a little thing called personal responsibility and that forces people to not do beatings even though it may be emotionally damaging for them to hold their feelings in. If everyone acted out most likely there would be anarchy in the streets. No one could really take 2 steps without punching someone out or getting punched. Yeah good plan. No my friend if someone wants to get revenge you just have to wait for the right time. And make sure that the method of your revenge will be both:
A. Undetectable until the last moment and be too late to stop. and
B. Allow you to remain unscathed and under no suspicion.
Playing quake isn't going to give a real interpretation anyway of killing people. Recoil on weapons (some of which haven't been produced super shotgun, rail gun, BFG10k and so on), regenerative health (rapid) capabilities. Ever heard of a game called Xevil? Nicle little gem. You get to kill hundreds of people and keep on killing until you drop to get rank quite nice. I can't see games as motivating factors. I never really got into quake and the like anyway. They are just too unreal. Now maybe with a holographic projection system (think holodeck) that might be a possiblity.
If the NSA was really that stupid they need to be taken down. If I want to keep a secret you just don't start broadcasting propaganda from you Secret Headquarters(tm) and then expect not to be found out sooner or later. Do you actually think that the NSA created columbine? That your tooth fillings are actually minituare short-wave radios that are programmed to pick your brain waves? Maybe television is stealing all of your ideas and using them on various sitcoms to gain large quantities of cash. right? The government is not responsible for the way the media works. Just look at the Pentagon Papers. Nixon has been protrayed as being the most tyrannical man to be president and even he couldn't stop the media from doing their thing.
What exactly happened to you "after". What are you doing now? What many people don't realize is that their idea of "helping" people usually involves something that will kill their very essence. Take away all liberties from them, make them dependent on something, hamstring them, and leave them for dead when they have finished. I have this little theory that intense pain and misery and bad things. Perhaps ingestion of postassium cyanide in capsulate form would work in such cases. That way humanity will not have a chance to increase big brotherism and allow people to find some form of peace. And truly if you actually belive in a god perhaps you can find peace with him/her/it or if you don't you may be able to find eternal rest. Whatever. Usually people do not actually think. If you have plans then by all means try and actually use them. I quite frankly don't care. As far as being a victim of crime I have made predictions about how things of this nature could be done and avoid possibilities that could result in injury by terrorists. For large effect and massive death perhaps the employ of sarin, put botulism into the cafeteria, or get about 20lbs of enriched uranium and create a crute nuclear device. Then just have something blaming an unstable middle eastern faction that would precipitate a large war. Problem solved. Why your comment could get a 5 I hardly know. If your statements are actually true then you are perhaps the most disturbed person I have heard about short of A. Hitler. However it seems that a good case of acting is employed.
Oh.. I sincerely hope that any identity trace of your account would not turn up any data that could link your name/address/SSN/or correct e-mail to anything in the real world. I don't think even McDonalds would hire a person like that. If you want to have a stable life/job/reputation you have to keep feelings of this sort under tight wraps. Eventually you can gain stability and order. Meditation?
How interesting they actually have a police show (similar to COPS) about Canada's criminals. I guess all those "non-violent" criminals are just a figment of my imagination?
How appropriate comming from a person with a bully sig huh? Why is it suddently a crime to be afraid?
I was not trying to necessarily be a profiler. I was in fact attempting to be humorous. Everyone and their mother thinks that sports allow a person to become something akin to Ghandi/Martin Luther King/Jesus Christ all rolled into one. I have never been any good at sports and dislike being physically injured. I have at least a couple of physical injuries that have affected the way I can live my life. I can't really see anyone being able to run 1000 miles any way? You know for all the posturing I would rather die at say 60 of a heart attack then live til I was 120 and be crazy as a loon without mental facculties. Being in sports is a very conformist thing at least where I stand in the world. Everyone likes sports, watches sports, fantasizes about sports, therefore it is safe to assume that sports are in the norm. Logically anything out of the norm will be different and anything that goes towards it conformist.
Well one reason is that there is major legislation as far as the anti-gun crowd goes. I was watching a NRA informercial (yes it is biased but it illustrates the extreme of the point) and a group of Australians were talking about how they had basically lost almost all if not all of their gun rights. You probably haven't seen any guns in the hands of children because adults cannot get them easily and they don't have any spares to sell to children. If I pay $3,000 for a black market bee bee gun I will not give it to some kid to have it taken away from him and get me in the slammer.
Is that the Outer Limits? Pretty good stuff there.
At any rate they can try to use tests such as these but I can't see how these are different from standard psychological tests for various things. With tests of any type consent must be levied in some form. You can fight testing for various things anyway: especially the psychological. I think that it would be impossible for a government to be able to actually impliment any such thing. People want to gain power right? They need leaders right? What kind of qualities do leaders need? Intelligence. What happens when all the intelligent people are gone? No strong leadership! The loose all the power they were trying to establish and they effectively put their regime out of power. It is self defeating. Unless they have a core group of pre-selected people who are intelligent to choose from they cannot replace them and such decline would be ineveitable.
Or more precisely uses violence as the first option when confronted in such situations. People can be defined by how they act and how they respond to various stimuli and actions. The "normal" response to bulling is to just break the bully's nose or something. People who are the more thinking type will automatically begin to apply techniques to allow them to get out of the situation before the bully can break their nose instead. Pople who feel violated now cannot not take action, but if you do you are punished it's a catch 22. What is a little disturbing is that there was a program on the WB network that was about violence. It tried to take the sterotype of various groups and claim that "violence is wrong kids" by illustrating the various problems with various factions involved. Needless to say I was unimpressed by the whole thing. Violence in it's primitive extends from things that society faults on that cause a break from being able to defend and win at. Homelessness, joblessness, dispair, crime, drug abuse, poverty, etc are all things that contribute to violence. Utopia will never be achieved so we have decided to pretend that they are gone and sweep them under the table.
Then how do they succeed? I mean there can be only so many pimps, gigolos, and pro football stars in the world. Since they are so aggresive maybe we should profile all of the football, track, and cheerleaders.
1. Do you like sports
2. Do you play sports more than 5 hours at a stretch.
3. Do you have feelings of concentration when you play a sport like nothing else matters.
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A lot of people would be soiling their pants if the ancient Egyptians were still in thier prime. Their entire culture reveolved death and the afterlife. Generally no culture since has been able to boast that level of involvement with the beyond. Close to the millenium we have a great deal of this fascination with material such as this.
PS. On a side note was anyone else a little disapointed with the outcome of the X-files/Millenium cross over? I thought it was a rather ignoble end of Frank Black and what he did. Still I think he got off lucky. He would have been put in jail for being too "into" death and murder anyway.
if someone actually wants to break the law it can be done without too much fuss or muss. Really most of the greatest criminal minds are usually people who have maticulously honed minds and who have an uncanny ability not to get caught. A great many people in this world really get sore about not being able to find out criminals because all the easy types are already caught. All the mass murderers are pulled over for speeding tickets before they can take that Uzi and take out a building full of people. So what does the FBI and others do? They go looking for "potentially dangerous" people so they can look good.
Rather interesting that as you point out that the capitalists are both evil (they exploit all the por workers) and they are both good (boy when we come home and eat boiled shoe leather for dinner we want help from said capitalists).
The only time where calling people evil capitalists is founded is when an ecconomic system is set up that is different from is substantially. Maybe socialism, or communism perhaps. Howevereven socialistic countires do not necessarily go against capitalistic implimentations of ideas. Communism is looking to come to terms with capitalism. Now unless this point of view is seen from either North Korea, or Cuba (places where the worst run communist governments are usualy found today) this point is dead.
Just our of curiousity how many of the programs that I use on a daily basis are coded in Bolivia?
I haven't seen any major pieces that have comments done in Spanish. I still think that people should support software development when so much code that is developed in the US and other developed countries *cough* microsoft *cough* is just junk anyway. As a fact I know that I have a collection of NT development CDs at home that are published in ENglish, French, Italian, and maybe German at least it shows that even so called "selfish" people in the USA aren't really so cold hearted.
Ok sounds like your feelings to all of the oppresed is in the typical place. Please tell me just how you can force every country in the world to actually levy tarifs on their software? How will Portugal actually say force China to pay an extra tax on something? A great deal of thewse countries that are considered part of the 3rd world are countries that were once European colonies. They they force the Europeans to go packing because they get a group of disgruntled farmers and start a little trouble. Well that's fine and dandy let's look at the results. 1. Millions of dead, dieing and starving. 2. Lack of critical infrastructure that other more tenaciously held colonies received (Taiwan) 3. Civil strife: when you don't have a governent you can't keep the local or popular bullies off your doorstep. The main reason anti-government types are flat out wrong about the "evil government" 4. Because of all of the above factors you get a smaller percentage of highly educated people to remedy all of the 3 over time like in most other places. To fix all of this will take a little more than a simple tariff or tax on software. Already I could fathom most people internationally pay more for items (even small ones) that are ordered in places like the US. Just look at the price of books at the local bookstore. Usually on the back of these boks you see several prices. First is the price in the local part of the world. The second is usually canada or someplace like that, and then next maybe New Zealand or Great Britian. Usually when you get to the end of the list the p rice is usually over 5-15 dollars (lyre, pounds, franks, DM, etc). Dealing with this is already an inconvience. What would be better is to gradually move to a unified global ecconomy and spare taxiation on certain parts of it. Even in the most developed regions of the world there are still poor and needy you just have to look better for them.
Once upon a time when I was young I would dream about the underling process of how things actually worked.
I thought it interesting that there was so much knowledge. I changed my proposed ocupation many, many, times. I at one point wanted to be a beta tester for console video games before I fully grasped the concept.
I did well at traditional mathmetics and thought it was fun. Then I hit the 7th grade. I was assigned to a fellow who had about as much right teaching an algebra class as fly to the moon (he minored in math). The experience was quite bad for me. I did however pass the class. I later took classes in math up through differential calculus. That was an equally sour experience. I went into college and am currently taking a similar course as the one that I had in high school. TO say that the material is difficult is an understatement. Much of this "body of knowledge" is rarely accessable to everyone. Now I don't mean that even people with mental retardation should be able to understand special relativity or dark matter but how much work would it be to simply make a book that had advanced topics packaged into a better framework? We did it with the internet (html,dhtml,java, java script, Active X, cgi, etc) why can't there be a group who takes advanced topics and uses them to be presented into say textbooks?
Most of the current base of knowledge is in the form of academic journals, papers, and dissertations. If this would be routinely integrated into "supplement books" for textbook updates and then could be integrated into standard textbooks.
Quite frankly I think that cellular autonoma is something that would be interesting to look at. However when a subject usually takes about 5 years of solid math traning even to get to the confused stage I think it's time to make it more approachable.Has anyone taken the liberty of creating some sort of learning oriented method of teaching. Take some AI that allows people a student to ask a directed question aloud or maybe on a command line such "Gee I still don't understand why space time curves at the 39th parralel quantum axis when graviton particle concentrations reach 45% why is that?"
About two weeks ago my younger sister came home from school with interesting news about her local high school.
The schools wonder about needing money. Usually what happens is that the science department usually gets most of it but doesn't really do anything useful with it.
A number of the students from a couple of the classes were asked to move some new furniture into the science teacher's lounge.
Altogether this ammounted to about $12,000 worth of furniture (Italian leather) stuff.
In her school most science departments heads are people who are not very good teachers in the sense that they are looking for really good ego trips.
One of herpast biology teachers made comments that indicated that he enjoyed bringing children to tears overrulings that were made.
Unreasonabley high levels of rigor were introduced that I have not found in any of my years of collegiate work.
If teachers wish to be kept up to date maybe they should actually think about what they do and tailor it specific audiences. Most people have the ability to buy a subscription to one of their academic journals (Science magazine leaps to mind) that would amply inform them of revent events.
There appears to be a great deal of these "conferences" out there. What exactly of consequence goes on there? I really could justify the expense of plane fare if I had a reason.
Apollo 13 was just a failure and it really didn't prove anything. We should be using "hacks" to send people to mars or beyond. Perhaps developing a warp drive system.
Exactly how many people in the 1980's even had "the internet" let alone access to nntp? Seems like about 15 or so.
Well because of his "lack of innovation" I can actually use my 486 instead of becomming a contract killer to get my money for my Pentium LXVI to run windows on. It feels good to be cheap and be able to get away with it.
How does one actually do that? Seems to be impossible.
Well mechanics really don't get put on my list of people of the century as a general rule. Apollo 13 was just gross negligence on the part of people who should have anticipated the worst. We really wasted our time going to the moon so many times and not going to someplace like mars or getting an accurate idea about life on other planets.
You do have choice in the unix world. You can use C++, java, perl, python, sed, awk, bash, tcsh, bc, emacs lisp, vi scripts, almost anything that can be scripted, or has stored variables has the ability to become a programming language. I think there's something on unix that people can develop on that allows for tight security. You can simply have any subshell that is created from the command line just generate a restricted shell that will execute an automatic ^D statement that closes it. Then you just simply block the IP address of the individual all in one script. No fuss no muss. Really effective.