I when I read this, I fired up the web browser on my phone. Works nicely but the text formatting is a little wierd. You, of course, don't get to see the comments.
Then who cares? I mean most of slashdot's popularity is based on it's ability to discuss various things. Now granted wireless rates are high for people in various locations (look at the newest incarnation of the palm and it's associated palm.net) but there at least should be an option.
Now is the chance. There can be a better Slashdot, which retains both the technical and non-technical aspects of/. without adding crap like Jon Katz, timothy, etc.
Unfortunately you have to get the kind of traffic that slashdot for your site to be even remotely successful in any way. That's really the tricky part or not. At one time I had a site that was being generated as the first match for a particular keyword on excite (no I won't tell you what it was). Also you have to keep that audience.
No more idiotic "trolls" who post worthless flames. No more brainless zealots whining about Linux for karma points. No more self-congratulatory "X device uses Linux" bullshit. No more targeted attempts to sell you worthless linux-using merchandise. In breif, no more Rob Malda, Jeff Bates, Andover.net management, VA Linux, etc.
Again in your site becomes popular with anyone all the problems (well maybe not the editorial kind) with slashdot will come to you. Trolls were never asked to come to slashdot they came because they wanted to. Zealots can come if you have an open subscription of any kind and can even be created by your own "trusted" users.
Then maybe this whole idea will come together.
That would be an emense level of social engineering and isn't a trivial task. What is your outlook for this?
I sure would like to get this stuff working. Are there any always on type providers who allow you to have say an httpd server running on your own machine with the slash engine? That would be cool
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I am relly starting to get worried about the ability of future machines to actually be upgraded at all. Seems like Intel is trying their damndest to eliminate that possibility. Is there any hint in actually making my investment a little more viable?
Actually I thought that too but then I looked at the link in the article which says in parenthesis (check local listings). That takes you to a page where you input your zip code. Then they give you a list of stations that are in your area. Then below one of them is a link that shows the evening's programming. To the left of this is a little input box that says search listings of something like that.
I found that the show was going to be shown on 2 dates that are rediculously late but I guess if your not busy coding or sleeping you can watch the show (it's about an hour).
I will find myself in the MST timezone when might I watch this? Is there a good site for local/regional television listings?
Well I found something out. I know this is bad manners to reply to one's own post. However I think this is interesting.
Apparently stupid things like British comedy and the interesting exploits of Johnathan Creek are far more important than this. I will have to stay up quite late just to even watch this?
Anyone know of a really good source of stimulants?
I use vmware.I'm a web developer and I spend a lot of time testing my pages in different browsers. I used to have a bunch of machines with different configs. win95/3.x browsers, win98 4.0 browsers, soon win2k/5.0 browsers, and a 3.1 machine with others. Now, I have two machines linux with 3 vmware 'windows' an a native Win box. (drivers are not the same for color checking in vmware). I love the fact that I can test different browsers on one machine. Besides the virtual networking is really cool.
What kind of a monster linux machine do you have? Vmware takes 128Mb (recommended) for each instince how do you do all that?
Well, Since Linux companies are plummeting in value, and companies who deal with linux are realizing that there is no money to be made with it, this is the natural evolution. VMWare has got to sell itself as a MICROSOFT compatible product, that lets you run linux, not the other way around. IBM is getting out of Redhat, and, as Redhat goes, so goes linux. Once Dell dumps linux (soon), Linux will be regulated back as a Fringe OS.. Then you know how the Mac/BeOS people feel.
Is there any evidence that dell is going to drop linux support in the near future? I would like so hard evidence for this one.
You know there are other alternatives you know. OS2 is quite nice as well as QNX, and others. using VMware does not mean that you have to use windows.
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Netscape 5, aka Netscape Classic, was the first version that Netscape released as open source. The mozilla team worked on it for a while, then gave up as the code was rather hideous to work with. Netscape 6 is where they started over from the ground up.
Did they do a binary build of it?
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I am very curious but what exactly happened to Netscape 5? Is it mozilla? I am currently running 4.7 so I just had to ask this.
Like a piece of art, a website is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. If they blanched at $250k, see if there is anyone ELSE interested in it for that price. If not, then maybe the price IS high....
I would be personally interested in exactly what kind of site it is. I mean it may just be something like say http://www.fucksluts.com or something like that. Usually unless you are doing something really popular like slashdot the only thing that gets that kind of hits are porn sites:)
In a related note I am wondering how much it would cost say to have a nice dedicated connection that allowed me to get a server up in the Western US geographical location. What kinds of things are we talking about for connectivity and what would be the lowest cost solution?
You think you're being cynical and realistic, but you're not nearly cynical enough. You do realize that the movie is based on real events, right? That the author of the book was the teacher of the class in question? Now, that still leaves room for all sorts of distortions, as you'd probably point out, and you are right. But what are you offering as an alternative? That it is "impossible in a democracy" - sounds like a solid bedrock principle. Sticking with your principles over public opinion is idealism, but favoring your principles over fact is delusion.
Do you really think that work for long. They tried some Nazti shit that like that with me and I would most likely have the courts all over them in a second. I am sorry if I am ranting but we had pathetic attempts to stir people back in the 30's during the great depression in America and it didn't work at all in any way.
The best way to prevent people from getting out of hand is to sue them. I would almost say that perhaps I might just become a lawyer so that I can protect my own interests from being trampled on.
People in California how shall I put this delicately, are far and above more likely to do things like this. You have a greater international focus, more liberal arts type education, and recently new technology which has made things like this more of a reality.
A school with adolescents who base their judgement on flawed reasoning is not the best analogy. I can even back up my statement. I have a publication from the American Psychological Association (not with me at the moment) which essentially states with statistical evidence that adolescents have a difficult time distinguishing fallacy from fact in carefully construed situations like the one you are describing.
My principles are based on logic. Since people know of the Natzis and since books have been published and all sorts of other things have happened a logical human being will not be tempted to believe something that they see as readily.
I have no real idea why people would be suckered into such a thing, but then again I haven't watched each and every cinematic work down the pike in the last ok I would say 10 years or so. Believe me if this sucker tried this where I live I would break his ass so fast he would be saying guten tag back to Deutchland so fast he wouldn't know what hit him.
I assume that this subversive group did more than just insidious propaganda. Really I tink I am more qualified about covert operations than anyone. They want to play dirty, you play dirty. If they natzi's try to threaten you. You get together with a group of people and kill some natzis. Simple. An eye for an eye.
GEORGE HEBERT WALKER BUSH is an anagram for HUGE BESERK REBEL WARTHOG
Never was much into anagrams or their significance. That's most likely a Mensa thing and not something that concerns me. I really would like to know why they even play a role in anything anyway. Fun?
Bush is not the worst choice. McCain seemed hellbent on controlling the internet through censorship and such, at least Bush hasn't directly done as much posturing as he did. Gore is part of the Clinton administration and rather bland. Considering how many flubs the Clinton group has had I would not really want him to be running things. I don't like Chinese nuclear missiles pointed at me thank you.
I seem to remember a TV movie years ago about a California high school teacher who tried to explain to his students how the Nazis and Hitler Youth were accepted. He created a "pride" organization in the school that became very scary pretty quickly -- all to demonstrate how it happened. The name of the organization -- and the movie -- The Wave.
Is it my imagination or does most of the really bad things regarding social matters usually happen in California?
The point is that it is rather impossible with thinking people in a democracy to create such an organization. You see there are things called laws. Movies are merely delusional attempts to create what some want to believe and force as an agenda.
I think that if you really wanted to change the world for the worse a group of propaganda films intricatly done would work extremely well for that purpose.
A pep club is a long way from the hitler youth movement and social clensing.
People look on depression as being a Bad Thing, but some of the most incredible people are or have been depressive, take Winston Churchill, who battled all his life with what he named his Black Dog, his fight against depression gave him the courage and the commitment to fight on against the Axis forces even when victory seemed impossible, or Sylvia Plath, a great poet, who had such a creative energy, depression can be a good thing if we listen to it, understand it, use it to free ourselves, after years of not understanding what I was depressed about at the age of 30 I finally understood, I wanted to be "normal", or more correctly, those around me wanted me that way, it has taken me a Herculean effort to face the fact that I am extraordinary, I dont mean that I am "better", just very different, when it hit me I was like Neo after he was resurrected, my perception of the world, and the people in it shifted completely, I became a thousand times more aware, I understand human history, why people do what they do, and why we need to change, if I did it, I know others can too, so look inside yourselves, what is your depression telling you, and what are you going to do about it?
Didn't Plath kill herself eventually?
There is a basic method to fighting depression from a mental means. Philosophy usually works just do this:
Ok people say things and atempt to make you look bad or evil right? Well just make sure that you loathe them and don't give a shit about their ideas. Make yourself the center of the universe and then nothing can hurt you because you are god. Works wonders and can't fail.
he wrote several of the standard texts in his field, as well as what are now the canonical translations / commentaries on a number of classical texts, and was credited with making it a significant area of study wherebefore it was an obscure backwater.
Out of curiousity what field was this?
Now under the WAVE regime, i guess that, if anyone had actually noticed the symptoms, he would have been labelled as dangerous (to people other than himself) and might well have been unable to continue in academia and thus to carry out his work, his humble attempt to add to the sum of human knowledge.
Just keep all your feelings bottled up inside so that no one ever has a chance to see within works quite well. The ways people do things like this are several. After studying them I can rest assured I could easily beat any psych or just about anyone who would try to "profile" me. I have to direct net>>real life translation and so I pretty much am assured anonyminity.
Essentially body posture/movement facial response, and vocal intonation are used along with some rather poor attempts at "gaining trust" all of these things are non-issues to the truly independent.
By all accounts this man was a really good teacher. Clearly I'm somewhat biased, but when he taught me, i could see the talent he had. And three decades worth of students would have been deprived of his abilities, care, concern and sense of duty, had he been 'blacklisted' on health grounds.
Silly me there is a little law called the ADA. Essentially if you are not getting hired just make a claim of unfair treatment and sue.
Tuberculosis is contagious - that's why it's a notifiable disease. depression is an all-too-often fatal condition, but it is not contagious and should in the main remain a matter for the patient, their family and their physician. it is NOT grounds for a witchhunt
Depression in and of itself cannot kill you. That is a human response to something that can actually be reasonably eliminated through ways to change your life. Psychology and it's related diciplines make trillions off of people who are getting "treated" for these things. Hell people in Asia I am sure have depressed people but their culture is different and they have a very health concious ideology with regard to religion and such. Mediation also is a good thing.
I know this is offtopic but... Didn't the ending of the game leave a great deal of unanswered questions. Like for starters exactly what happened to all the people in Midgar and CLoud and company. At least with FF8 we get some form of resolution and the like. Any thoughts?
This is almost the exact word for word attitude that some of that shitty censorware stuff takes. Essentially their argument is that you can't have anything worthwhile to say if you have a free or no cost based web site. On that basis almost all of geocities, xoom, and many other providers gets blocked (Bess). Another question that needs asking here. I can just imagine a group of fed up people actually taking civil action against and ISP that has some sysadmin that just blithely blocks e-mail from some location because of "spam" (that's a crapy name for it). Few of the people who actually run ISPs are in fact owners of said equipment or lines and as such do not have the moral or ethical footing to make such calls. Unless you are actually running your own legitimate server (no not a pirated or other server off you cable modem or DSL or ISDN connection) you can't make calls like that.
I have every reason to believe that most people are just getting screwed over by the Olympians on this one because no one who is getting harmed with having their e-mail blocked has any ability to effectively do anything with it.
As another poster has already pointed out there is a really nad streak of BOFH in many people that works almost the yway it does in cartoons. You know the two little people that stand on the sholders of various characters and represent good and evil? Well I think that many people are listening to the pointy horned one. I know personally of several cases where judgements were filed against various sysadmins who thought that they were going to screw the users in any fashion they wanted. A teacher at a highschool was relieved of his position after taking copies of e-mail correspondence that in fact did not belond to him and then attempting to use it to further his own agenda and get the people involved kicked out of school. Data deletion and malicious banning are also things that I have known to happen. How would you feel if say I really didn't like you and started to actually do packet sniffing and then do an active regex search of all packets comming out of your domain. Then I systematically tamper and trash all of those packets that are e-mail messages say after a random number of packets has matched? Not so funny now is it?
When you work at a job there is a little clause in employment contracts which states something to the effect that anything you do is only permitted if you have authorization from legal representatives within the company and perhaps others in the upper eschelons of the company. Without this you cannot do anything without taking a hefty chunk of liability and as such should not try to limit access from ISPs who are trying to legitimately attempting to provide a service to their users. The mere fact that the list of blocked sites that is being discussed has been removed from it's own service providers several times is indicitative of how draconian these people are. There are already attempts to make intelligent AI driver mail and news filtering engines that can attempt to classify various messages by content and word analysis (similar to Eschelon). Positive results are showing up all over the place. Then once that is done just rapidly have users check their "spam" folder rather rapidly and bam no more problem for them. After doing an analysis of my own mail box and roughly 40,000 from several unix domains I have determined that in fact on the whole 97.8956% of all spam messages that are sent during "peek" times (ie when factored for various changes in TIme Zones relative to each other) between say Monday-Friday 10:00-22:00 with the peak being at about 8pm on Wednesday (maybe more people are home then). Messages in this time period do not exceed 8-12k in any circumstance. I can't see how realistically when such massive bandwidth and tremendous risk is involved one can justify acting as a free speach empidement.
Speak for yourself when you say "our lifetimes." Given the rapid advances in biotech and medicine, the Human Genome Project, nanotech, etc., some of us alive today may very well be living for over 100 years.
Unfortunately my family has a history of heart disease and of dieing before 70 so I don't think any of that can help me now. Plus do you really want to be alive but have the mental capacity of a 10 year old kid for 20+ years that you get to live.
As for gravity shielding, more power to 'em. Skeptics can eat my shorts. Scientific skepticism is often based on logical fallacies, like discrediting scientists (if Adolf Hitler authored the laws of thermodynamics, would they be any less valid?), or claiming the "null hypothesis" - which is a sham! There is no null, relative to hypotheses. If I claim "XYZ" without experimentation or evidence, anyone who claims "not XYZ" without experimentation or evidence is equally unscientific. To those of you who argue there's no evidence gravity shielding is possible: go ahead and prove that it's impossible! I would argue that Podkletnov's experiments ARE evidence in favor of it, until such time as they are debunked.
Ok then what about magical powers? There are many poeple who believe that they can in fact cast spells on people, there are people who beleve in aliens, Bigfoot, The Lochness Monster, The Tooth Fairy, Leprechauns, The Great Pumpkin, Santa, and all sorts of other things.
Making something up out of your head and making that something hard to disprove dosn't mean you have a bulletproof theory or explanation. What if I were to tell you that in fact Bill Gates is secretly funding a group of people in washington to extract the thoughts of people through computers and add them to his own. Kind of hard to disprove that one without a lot of digging and a hell of a lot of proof.
A prime example of the null hypothesis gone bad: There are a number of people in the US who believe that giving young children the massive multiple innoculations that most of them get these days can lead to autism. There are many cases of autism manifesting shortly after such innoculations. Congress held hearings into this subject, and the Surgeon General and a bunch of medical "experts" sat there and claimed there was no link. Why did they claim this? Simply because NO ONE HAD BOTHERED TO DO ANY SERIOUS RESEARCH ON IT. In other words, to the scientific establishment, not researching something is proof that it doesn't exist.
I don't believe it in the least. I think that people have a choice. Either become a cripple and raise the infant mortality rate or have a few minor cases of problems. The greater good is in effect.
Anti-gravity devices are not practal or proven because we can't even create a practal fusion reastor and we can't even get a decent explanation of various forces in quantum mechanics that's why.
You can't learn to run linux without first figuring out how to type/use a mouse/ turn on a computer, and even further it is impossible to say install linux without knowing these things.
That kind of "science" reminds me of Douglas Adams' Hideous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, a man-eating carnivore which will not attack you if you have a towel over your head, because if you can't see it, it thinks it can't see you.
Why is this guy so often quoted? I really don't use or find satire to be of any use in a logical argument.
Could someone please explain why why we are launching probes to Mars while we can barely understand what's going on inside our bodies, still build houses of wood and bricks and use hundred-years-old-design internal combustion engines?
Actually if you look at the large body of knowledge we know about the human body you might just reconsider that statement.
I think your argument is seriously flawed.
That's like a group of biologists studying exobiology or interstelar diplomacy we just don't have what it takes as of yet.
Next you are going to be telling me that there is "serious research" on designs for the next group of soverign class starships, quantum slipstream engines, transwarp coils, tachion emiters, and subspace tunneling right?
I had an idea. Have the wacky adventures of Bill Gates in a new series based on "That 70's show".
Dad: Now bill what did I tell you about those roudy friends of yours Bill: No, parties, no taking the car out, and now unaproved software development. Yeah dad I got it. =============================================== Later that night Bill and some of his friends are comming home from a party and they think they are home free. ================================================ Bill sneaks into the dark house thinking the coast is clear Dad: Suprise! Bill:*shit* Dad: you dumb ass
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I when I read this, I fired up the web browser on my phone. Works nicely but the text formatting is a little wierd. You, of course, don't get to see the comments.
Then who cares? I mean most of slashdot's popularity is based on it's ability to discuss various things. Now granted wireless rates are high for people in various locations (look at the newest incarnation of the palm and it's associated palm.net) but there at least should be an option.
Now is the chance. There can be a better Slashdot, which retains both the technical and non-technical aspects of
Unfortunately you have to get the kind of traffic that slashdot for your site to be even remotely successful in any way. That's really the tricky part or not. At one time I had a site that was being generated as the first match for a particular keyword on excite (no I won't tell you what it was). Also you have to keep that audience.
No more idiotic "trolls" who post worthless flames. No more brainless zealots whining about Linux for karma points. No more self-congratulatory "X device uses Linux" bullshit. No more targeted attempts to sell you worthless
linux-using merchandise. In breif, no more Rob Malda, Jeff Bates, Andover.net management, VA Linux, etc.
Again in your site becomes popular with anyone all the problems (well maybe not the editorial kind) with slashdot will come to you. Trolls were never asked to come to slashdot they came because they wanted to. Zealots can come if you have an open subscription of any kind and can even be created by your own "trusted" users.
Then maybe this whole idea will come together.
That would be an emense level of social engineering and isn't a trivial task. What is your outlook for this?
I sure would like to get this stuff working. Are there any always on type providers who allow you to have say an httpd server running on your own machine with the slash engine? That would be cool
I am relly starting to get worried about the ability of future machines to actually be upgraded at all. Seems like Intel is trying their damndest to eliminate that possibility. Is there any hint in actually making my investment a little more viable?
There was one web hosting company I heard abou that mentioned having full automatic generator power backup, fire supression, and such.
Actually I thought that too but then I looked at the link in the article which says in parenthesis (check local listings). That takes you to a page where you input your zip code. Then they give you a list of stations that are in your area. Then below one of them is a link that shows the evening's programming. To the left of this is a little input box that says search listings of something like that.
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I found that the show was going to be shown on 2 dates that are rediculously late but I guess if your not busy coding or sleeping you can watch the show (it's about an hour).
Hope this helps
I will find myself in the MST timezone when might I watch this? Is there a good site for local/regional television listings?
Well I found something out. I know this is bad manners to reply to one's own post. However I think this is interesting.
Apparently stupid things like British comedy and the interesting exploits of Johnathan Creek are far more important than this. I will have to stay up quite late just to even watch this?
Anyone know of a really good source of stimulants?
I will find myself in the MST timezone when might I watch this? Is there a good site for local/regional television listings?
VMware does not support OS/2 as a guest operating system, and VMware doesn't run on OS/2. That pretty much makes your point moot.
If you can run windows on it theoretically you can run anything on it considering that it emulates an entire PC in ram.
I use vmware.I'm a web developer and I spend a lot of time testing my pages in different browsers. I used to have a bunch of machines with different configs. win95/3.x browsers, win98 4.0 browsers, soon win2k/5.0 browsers, and a
3.1 machine with others. Now, I have two machines linux with 3 vmware 'windows' an a native Win box. (drivers are not the same for color checking in vmware). I love the fact that I can test different browsers on one machine.
Besides the virtual networking is really cool.
What kind of a monster linux machine do you have? Vmware takes 128Mb (recommended) for each instince how do you do all that?
Well, Since Linux companies are plummeting in value, and companies who deal with linux are realizing that there is no money to be made with it, this is the natural evolution. VMWare has got to sell itself as a MICROSOFT
compatible product, that lets you run linux, not the other way around. IBM is getting out of Redhat, and, as Redhat goes, so goes linux. Once Dell dumps linux (soon), Linux will be regulated back as a Fringe OS.. Then you know
how the Mac/BeOS people feel.
Is there any evidence that dell is going to drop linux support in the near future? I would like so hard evidence for this one.
You know there are other alternatives you know. OS2 is quite nice as well as QNX, and others. using VMware does not mean that you have to use windows.
Netscape 5, aka Netscape Classic, was the first version that Netscape released as open source. The mozilla team worked on it for a while, then gave up as the code was rather hideous to work with. Netscape 6 is where they started over
from the ground up.
Did they do a binary build of it?
I am very curious but what exactly happened to Netscape 5? Is it mozilla? I am currently running 4.7 so I just had to ask this.
Like a piece of art, a website is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. If they blanched at $250k, see if there is anyone ELSE interested in it for that price. If not, then maybe the price IS high....
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I would be personally interested in exactly what kind of site it is. I mean it may just be something like say http://www.fucksluts.com or something like that. Usually unless you are doing something really popular like slashdot the only thing that gets that kind of hits are porn sites
In a related note I am wondering how much it would cost say to have a nice dedicated connection that allowed me to get a server up in the Western US geographical location. What kinds of things are we talking about for connectivity and what would be the lowest cost solution?
You think you're being cynical and realistic, but you're not nearly cynical enough. You do realize that the movie is based on real events, right? That the author of the book was the teacher of the class in question? Now, that still leaves room for
all sorts of distortions, as you'd probably point out, and you are right. But what are you offering as an alternative? That it is "impossible in a democracy" - sounds like a solid bedrock principle. Sticking with your principles over public opinion
is idealism, but favoring your principles over fact is delusion.
Do you really think that work for long. They tried some Nazti shit that like that with me and I would most likely have the courts all over them in a second. I am sorry if I am ranting but we had pathetic attempts to stir people back in the 30's during the great depression in America and it didn't work at all in any way.
The best way to prevent people from getting out of hand is to sue them. I would almost say that perhaps I might just become a lawyer so that I can protect my own interests from being trampled on.
People in California how shall I put this delicately, are far and above more likely to do things like this. You have a greater international focus, more liberal arts type education, and recently new technology which has made things like this more of a reality.
A school with adolescents who base their judgement on flawed reasoning is not the best analogy. I can even back up my statement. I have a publication from the American Psychological Association (not with me at the moment) which essentially states with statistical evidence that adolescents have a difficult time distinguishing fallacy from fact in carefully construed situations like the one you are describing.
My principles are based on logic. Since people know of the Natzis and since books have been published and all sorts of other things have happened a logical human being will not be tempted to believe something that they see as readily.
I have no real idea why people would be suckered into such a thing, but then again I haven't watched each and every cinematic work down the pike in the last ok I would say 10 years or so. Believe me if this sucker tried this where I live I would break his ass so fast he would be saying guten tag back to Deutchland so fast he wouldn't know what hit him.
I assume that this subversive group did more than just insidious propaganda. Really I tink I am more qualified about covert operations than anyone. They want to play dirty, you play dirty. If they natzi's try to threaten you. You get together with a group of people and kill some natzis. Simple. An eye for an eye.
GEORGE HEBERT WALKER BUSH is an anagram for HUGE BESERK REBEL WARTHOG
Never was much into anagrams or their significance. That's most likely a Mensa thing and not something that concerns me. I really would like to know why they even play a role in anything anyway. Fun?
Bush is not the worst choice. McCain seemed hellbent on controlling the internet through censorship and such, at least Bush hasn't directly done as much posturing as he did. Gore is part of the Clinton administration and rather bland. Considering how many flubs the Clinton group has had I would not really want him to be running things. I don't like Chinese nuclear missiles pointed at me thank you.
I seem to remember a TV movie years ago about a California high school teacher who tried to explain to his students how the Nazis and Hitler Youth were accepted. He created a "pride" organization in the school that became very
scary pretty quickly -- all to demonstrate how it happened. The name of the organization -- and the movie -- The Wave.
Is it my imagination or does most of the really bad things regarding social matters usually happen in California?
The point is that it is rather impossible with thinking people in a democracy to create such an organization. You see there are things called laws. Movies are merely delusional attempts to create what some want to believe and force as an agenda.
I think that if you really wanted to change the world for the worse a group of propaganda films intricatly done would work extremely well for that purpose.
A pep club is a long way from the hitler youth movement and social clensing.
People look on depression as being a Bad Thing, but some of the most incredible people are or have been depressive, take Winston Churchill, who battled all his life with what he named his Black Dog, his fight against depression
gave him the courage and the commitment to fight on against the Axis forces even when victory seemed impossible, or Sylvia Plath, a great poet, who had such a creative energy, depression can be a good thing if we listen to it,
understand it, use it to free ourselves, after years of not understanding what I was depressed about at the age of 30 I finally understood, I wanted to be "normal", or more correctly, those around me wanted me that way, it has taken me
a Herculean effort to face the fact that I am extraordinary, I dont mean that I am "better", just very different, when it hit me I was like Neo after he was resurrected, my perception of the world, and the people in it shifted completely, I
became a thousand times more aware, I understand human history, why people do what they do, and why we need to change, if I did it, I know others can too, so look inside yourselves, what is your depression telling you, and what
are you going to do about it?
Didn't Plath kill herself eventually?
There is a basic method to fighting depression from a mental means. Philosophy usually works just do this:
Ok people say things and atempt to make you look bad or evil right? Well just make sure that you loathe them and don't give a shit about their ideas. Make yourself the center of the universe and then nothing can hurt you because you are god. Works wonders and can't fail.
he wrote several of the standard texts in his field, as well as what are now the canonical translations / commentaries on a number of classical texts, and was credited with making it a significant area of study wherebefore it was an
obscure backwater.
Out of curiousity what field was this?
Now under the WAVE regime, i guess that, if anyone had actually noticed the symptoms, he would have been labelled as dangerous (to people other than himself) and might well have been unable to continue in academia and thus to
carry out his work, his humble attempt to add to the sum of human knowledge.
Just keep all your feelings bottled up inside so that no one ever has a chance to see within works quite well. The ways people do things like this are several. After studying them I can rest assured I could easily beat any psych or just about anyone who would try to "profile" me. I have to direct net>>real life translation and so I pretty much am assured anonyminity.
Essentially body posture/movement facial response, and vocal intonation are used along with some rather poor attempts at "gaining trust" all of these things are non-issues to the truly independent.
By all accounts this man was a really good teacher. Clearly I'm somewhat biased, but when he taught me, i could see the talent he had. And three decades worth of students would have been deprived of his abilities, care, concern and
sense of duty, had he been 'blacklisted' on health grounds.
Silly me there is a little law called the ADA. Essentially if you are not getting hired just make a claim of unfair treatment and sue.
Tuberculosis is contagious - that's why it's a notifiable disease. depression is an all-too-often fatal condition, but it is not contagious and should in the main remain a matter for the patient, their family and their physician. it is NOT
grounds for a witchhunt
Depression in and of itself cannot kill you. That is a human response to something that can actually be reasonably eliminated through ways to change your life. Psychology and it's related diciplines make trillions off of people who are getting "treated" for these things. Hell people in Asia I am sure have depressed people but their culture is different and they have a very health concious ideology with regard to religion and such. Mediation also is a good thing.
I know this is offtopic but...
Didn't the ending of the game leave a great deal of unanswered questions. Like for starters exactly what happened to all the people in Midgar and CLoud and company. At least with FF8 we get some form of resolution and the like. Any thoughts?
This is almost the exact word for word attitude that some of that shitty censorware stuff takes.
Essentially their argument is that you can't have anything worthwhile to say if you have a free or no cost based web site. On that basis almost all of geocities, xoom, and many other providers gets blocked (Bess).
Another question that needs asking here. I can just imagine a group of fed up people actually taking civil action against and ISP that has some sysadmin that just blithely blocks e-mail from some location because of "spam" (that's a crapy name for it).
Few of the people who actually run ISPs are in fact owners of said equipment or lines and as such do not have the moral or ethical footing to make such calls.
Unless you are actually running your own legitimate server (no not a pirated or other server off you cable modem or DSL or ISDN connection) you can't make calls like that.
I have every reason to believe that most people are just getting screwed over by the Olympians on this one because no one who is getting harmed with having their e-mail blocked has any ability to effectively do anything with it.
As another poster has already pointed out there is a really nad streak of BOFH in many people that works almost the yway it does in cartoons.
You know the two little people that stand on the sholders of various characters and represent good and evil? Well I think that many people are listening to the pointy horned one.
I know personally of several cases where judgements were filed against various sysadmins who thought that they were going to screw the users in any fashion they wanted. A teacher at a highschool was relieved of his position after taking copies of e-mail correspondence that in fact did not belond to him and then attempting to use it to further his own agenda and get the people involved kicked out of school.
Data deletion and malicious banning are also things that I have known to happen.
How would you feel if say I really didn't like you and started to actually do packet sniffing and then do an active regex search of all packets comming out of your domain. Then I systematically tamper and trash all of those packets that are e-mail messages say after a random number of packets has matched? Not so funny now is it?
When you work at a job there is a little clause in employment contracts which states something to the effect that anything you do is only permitted if you have authorization from legal representatives within the company and perhaps others in the upper eschelons of the company. Without this you cannot do anything without taking a hefty chunk of liability and as such should not try to limit access from ISPs who are trying to legitimately attempting to provide a service to their users.
The mere fact that the list of blocked sites that is being discussed has been removed from it's own service providers several times is indicitative of how draconian these people are.
There are already attempts to make intelligent AI driver mail and news filtering engines that can attempt to classify various messages by content and word analysis (similar to Eschelon). Positive results are showing up all over the place.
Then once that is done just rapidly have users check their "spam" folder rather rapidly and bam no more problem for them. After doing an analysis of my own mail box and roughly 40,000 from several unix domains I have determined that in fact on the whole 97.8956% of all spam messages that are sent during "peek" times (ie when factored for various changes in TIme Zones relative to each other) between say Monday-Friday 10:00-22:00 with the peak being at about 8pm on Wednesday (maybe more people are home then).
Messages in this time period do not exceed 8-12k in any circumstance.
I can't see how realistically when such massive bandwidth and tremendous risk is involved one can justify acting as a free speach empidement.
Speak for yourself when you say "our lifetimes." Given the rapid advances in biotech and medicine, the Human Genome Project, nanotech, etc., some of us alive today may very well be living for over 100 years.
Unfortunately my family has a history of heart disease and of dieing before 70 so I don't think any of that can help me now. Plus do you really want to be alive but have the mental capacity of a 10 year old kid for 20+ years that you get to live.
As for gravity shielding, more power to 'em. Skeptics can eat my shorts. Scientific skepticism is often based on logical fallacies, like discrediting scientists (if Adolf Hitler authored the laws of thermodynamics, would they be any less
valid?), or claiming the "null hypothesis" - which is a sham! There is no null, relative to hypotheses. If I claim "XYZ" without experimentation or evidence, anyone who claims "not XYZ" without experimentation or evidence is
equally unscientific. To those of you who argue there's no evidence gravity shielding is possible: go ahead and prove that it's impossible! I would argue that Podkletnov's experiments ARE evidence in favor of it, until such time as
they are debunked.
Ok then what about magical powers? There are many poeple who believe that they can in fact cast spells on people, there are people who beleve in aliens, Bigfoot, The Lochness Monster, The Tooth Fairy, Leprechauns, The Great Pumpkin, Santa, and all sorts of other things.
Making something up out of your head and making that something hard to disprove dosn't mean you have a bulletproof theory or explanation. What if I were to tell you that in fact Bill Gates is secretly funding a group of people in washington to extract the thoughts of people through computers and add them to his own. Kind of hard to disprove that one without a lot of digging and a hell of a lot of proof.
A prime example of the null hypothesis gone bad: There are a number of people in the US who believe that giving young children the massive multiple innoculations that most of them get these days can lead to autism. There are
many cases of autism manifesting shortly after such innoculations. Congress held hearings into this subject, and the Surgeon General and a bunch of medical "experts" sat there and claimed there was no link. Why did they claim this?
Simply because NO ONE HAD BOTHERED TO DO ANY SERIOUS RESEARCH ON IT. In other words, to the scientific establishment, not researching something is proof that it doesn't exist.
I don't believe it in the least. I think that people have a choice. Either become a cripple and raise the infant mortality rate or have a few minor cases of problems. The greater good is in effect.
Anti-gravity devices are not practal or proven because we can't even create a practal fusion reastor and we can't even get a decent explanation of various forces in quantum mechanics that's why.
You can't learn to run linux without first figuring out how to type/use a mouse/ turn on a computer, and even further it is impossible to say install linux without knowing these things.
That kind of "science" reminds me of Douglas Adams' Hideous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, a man-eating carnivore which will not attack you if you have a towel over your head, because if you can't see it, it thinks it can't see you.
Why is this guy so often quoted? I really don't use or find satire to be of any use in a logical argument.
Could someone please explain why why we are launching probes to Mars while we can barely understand what's going on inside our bodies, still build houses of wood and bricks and use hundred-years-old-design internal combustion
engines?
Actually if you look at the large body of knowledge we know about the human body you might just reconsider that statement.
I think your argument is seriously flawed.
That's like a group of biologists studying exobiology or interstelar diplomacy we just don't have what it takes as of yet.
Next you are going to be telling me that there is "serious research" on designs for the next group of soverign class starships, quantum slipstream engines, transwarp coils, tachion emiters, and subspace tunneling right?
nobody cares a fuck if you are ANAL. i just can't understand everybody yelling "I ANAL, I ANAL". fucking crazy slashdotters.
um that's a link to slashdot not an article.
I had an idea. Have the wacky adventures of Bill Gates in a new series based on "That 70's show".
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Dad: Now bill what did I tell you about those roudy friends of yours
Bill: No, parties, no taking the car out, and now unaproved software development. Yeah dad I got it.
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Later that night Bill and some of his friends are comming home from a party and they think they are home free.
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Bill sneaks into the dark house thinking the coast is clear
Dad: Suprise!
Bill:*shit*
Dad: you dumb ass