Foil the piracy police! Microwave your olympic souvenirs today!
I'm sure this was meant in jest, but that wouldn't accomplish anything, as they're looking for souvenirs without the DNA, regardless if the microwave technique worked or not.
Natural boundries. There's mountain and ocean on all sides, and it would have been difficult up until recently (with air technology) to be invaded. Luck, perhaps, but Costa Rica is a diamond in the rough.
In the United States, most people under age 16 can't work. I didn't start my CD collection until I was into college and got a job, and my parents didn't particularly want me working while I was in high school. That doesn't excuse theft, but it does excuse your outdated "work ethic".
I like to think of the internet of the future as we see electricity today - ubiquitous, invisible, and standard.
Past that, I think they'll be much greater commercialization of the internet in general, it will be THE media source; there'll be one wire with data, audio, video and holography, and your house will have it all. The age of the internet applience is here and will continue to become more important, with all your appliences talking to eachother, keeping your house as you'd like it and as you program it.
I hope to see voice control of computers soon that does not require training on the part of the user, along with natural voice recognition. Once this is accomplished, so much more is possible, and so many more people will be able to interact with their digital world.
I dream of having every document digitized and searchable - every book, magazine, report, study and gov't document - all at our fingertips. Luckily enough, this dream is possible.
The internet is, and will continue to be, everywhere. Hopefully we will notice it less and less, until it's just a part of our lives and we use it for ANY communications need we have. There's nothing else quite like having information for those that want it.
Individualism can involve some unpleasant choices. Corporatism viscerally punishes and isolates individuals. By their nature, individualists are discontented: persistent, obnoxious and unpopular...
I'd like to think that we all consider ourselves individuals. I'm sure JK does, I'm sure you do, and I know I do. But no one out there is so much an individual that we stop being social.
To what lengths do we take individualism? I'm sure JohnKatz wouldn't want to stop speaking English. He still uses his telephone and computer to communicate with the outside world, and most likely uses established, well known software to type up his rants. I don't know if he's a nudist, but I doubt it, and walking down the street, no matter HOW individual, you probably can't pick him out from a crowd. Fringe culture groups; punks, goths, retro 50s kids, ravers, hippies, etc, they're all different, but they're also all like someone else.
I AM an individual. You are too. Even our friend John Katz is. But not going as far as saying "let the corperate world eat my soul", it's important to realize that some things stay the same. Humans are social animals. We need love and companionship, and seperating yourself on ALL levels isn't the way to accopmlish this. I know this wasn't the main point of the article, but remember that you're an individual, just like everyone else.
You use Raging.com because it's a hell of a lot shorted to type than http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text. Better looking, too. That's no. No other reason.
Ask Al is one of the most wonderful sites I know about. I've liked Al forever anyway (I'm a comedy DJ in california), and Ask Al just makes me respect him even more. He's funny, honest, and answers questions from his fans every month.
Also off topic, but kinda related: has anyone else noticed, both on Napster, it's clones, and the web in general, that people will assign a random comedy song as being by Weird Al? I've seen ALL sorts of songs attributed to him, many very dirty, and they're clearly not him. I just wanted to see if anyone else had noticed this.
Thats all for my Off Topic ranting. Back to your regularly scheduled program.
I was under the impression that Metallica had hired some magical internet dectective firm to find the real names of those who had been trading mp3s illegally...am I mistaken? This article makes it sound like all that have is Napster user IDs. Yes? No?
If that's all they have, then why is there a problem? Anyone can use any name to sign up and use the service, it's not as if the 335,000 named folks can't use it anymore. Also, I don't remember giving any personal information when I signed up for Napster, so unless they're working with ISPs, they won't have any real names. If I'm wrong about this, please, someone enlighten me. But it just sounds to me like NetPD logged on, got user names, and killed some trees to make a show of the whole thing.
Getting people to respect an honor system like that is going to be tough though.
Yes, but the same is true with shareware. It couldn't hurt though; if even one person pays, they'll have more than they have now. And, amazingly enough, some people pay for their shareware, and would pay for MP3s if the band asked them too (especially if they knew the money was going to the band and not the Evil (tm) record company.
If this were true, it would be most amazing...but unless they were both abundant and local, they wouldn't do us too much good. If there were enough of them, we could use them, but that's a big if.
The only way for these to be truely useful would be if we could create them - a la science fiction - and use them as we see fit. But who knows, there could millions or billions of them. Hopefully, some day, the space progams will start real missions again, and we might someday know.
I found this in my mailbox this morning... __________________________________________
I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's, (sent to me because I forwarded their e-mail to five other people, celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals), when I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken -which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC.
Anyway, one day this guy went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened e-mail entitled "Join the crew!"
He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.)
The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense.
Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped around a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is,the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives.
I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).
So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation.
Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green m&ms, but if you don't the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the antiperspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the government will put a tax on your e-mails forever.
I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet. _______________________________ The Good Reverend
I think the main reason cold pizza tastes so good is because we're hungry in the morning, and everything we like tastes even better when we're hungry.
A restaurant here in Santa Cruz used to have "cold pizza and beer" on their breakfast menu.
There is the issue that pizza with extra cheese tastes great hot, but is annoying cold, because the cheese is TOO thick. I perfer a thinner layer of cheese in the morning.
Why plasma shoelaces? The animated pictures on the site make it look like a bad Dire Straits video. The "Blinking to extend battery life" doesn't help. There must be other things that actually WOULD be cool with plasma glowing, I just can't think of anything that doesn't scream 1986.
The Good Reverend
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He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line ofthirty cubits to measure around it. -- 1 Kings 7:23
Friends, I'd like to take a moment or two to discuss with you the biggest whopper in the whole liberal lie of mathematics. The liberals like to tell us that pi is what they call a "transcendental number." This is, of course, shameless liberal jargon that has no meaning whatsoever. They are teaching our children that pi goes on and on forever without repeating itself, and that it is not representable by any polynomial with integer coefficients. This, my friends, represents only the latest in a long string of liberal lies meant to undermine God and his Creation.
The true value of pi is exactly three, as evidence by the Scripture quote above. It is universally agreed by all honest mathematicians that there is no evidence for a transcendental pi. Not one iota. Friends, you and I know that the Bible is the wholly inerrant word of God, and that the liberals are barking up the wrong tree. That doesn't stop them from spreading their socialist "transcendental number" propaganda. See, the liberals like stuff like this. They like anything that makes mankind think of itself as small and insignificant. This makes it easier for them to control the minds of our children. After all, why not listen to some liberal, if you are not capable of fully representing a single number?
This is an out-and-out lie.
The whole mathematical system has been invented by communists so that they can gain a foothold in decent society. Along with this comes the damnable "Metric" system, which was invented in the socialist Mecca of Europe. The liberals want us all to use this "Metric" system. They want to force us into conformity so that they can run our lives. They tried it once in the 1970s.. remember, that, friends? They put up all of those speed limit signs with metric measurements on them (kilowatt-hours? hectares? who knows!) Of course, God's good Christians responded warmly by shooting them down. Therefore, I am glad to report that the Metric system has not caught on in decent society, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Really, friends, the only unit of measure that we need is the cubit. This is a Biblical, Godly unit of measure that can be used for everything that the socialist Metric system is supposed to be used for. You can say "The Johnson baby was one tenth of a cubit long" or "It is 78.8 quintillion cubits to Alpha Centauri" (though the latter is a lie, of course; the stars are simply fixed points on a celestial sphere that lies somewhere beyond our planet Earth, which is the center of the Universe.) My swimming pool holds forty cubic cubits of water.
So let's fight the fight, friends. Let's fight transcendental numbers. Let's fight the Metric system. Let's wage a war against the liberals that intend to enslave our minds through obfuscated mathematics and anti-God systems of measurement. Write your congressman and school board and insist that they use books that teach that pi == 3 and transcendental numbers don't exist. We can do it, my friends. We can do it if we all stick together.
I didn't write this, but I think it's damn funny. The Good Reverend
We live in a big world. We also have a big internet. There's thousands of e-tailers, huge companys, former Brick and Morters, etc etc that are "coming online and ruining the internet". No. They're not. The internet is huge. Sure, they have the domain names and the newbies and the money. So what? Does that mean you can't still have your web page, with basically (as far as the law allows) pretty much anything you want on it? Does AOL having millions of visitors stop people from coming to you page?
No. It most likely brings more people, because the number of users is WAY up, and maybe someday one of those newbies will see what you're saying. No harm in that. New laws are scary. I don't think we need them. But this isn't like the old west. "They" aren't taking our land; "they" are building around it, and "they" might be trying to get in. It's still you web page. It's still your newsgroup. Be happy that millions of new people have the joys of getting online easily and might think for themselves one day.
Has anyone else noticed that when someone posts "I'll probably be moderated down for this", "There goes my karma", or "-1, flamebait", they are almost certain to be moderated UP?
I think it's just that you see more of the posts that DO get moderated up, regardless if their posters have low self-esteem. =)
From the posts here, and my years in computers, there's the general opinion that geeks have to eat ramen and burritos, never have a good meal, and either be overweight or underweight. I know that's not true, geeks come in all shapes and sizes.
Personally, I LOVE food. I love cooking. Sure, I'll eat ramen, I'll eat microwave burritos, but I'll also make whole, real meals most of the time. Why? Because they're tasty. Because things taste better when you make them yourself, IMHO.
I'm curious why geeks are supposed to be these malnurished drones who can't leave their computers. Some of us remember to eat now and again, and some of us like to cook and make food that's tasty and good for us. Personally, it helps me to work. I know where the stereotype came from, but is it the norm?
For what? Sex? If my university (UC Santa Cruz) charged that much for long distance, there'd be riots. Our phone network doesn't allow for any 10-10-xxx numbers, but calling cards are ok, but most students use the university long distance, because it's competitive (we have a "deal" with MCI, but the rates aren't bad).
I find it ironic that people are willing to accept incompetence in software as one of the terms of doing business.
I agree completly. Microsoft is guilty, but I'd say almost every other software manufacturer is as well. Just about all software has bugs, some has more than others. it's the nature of the beast. And the larger a system gets, the more difficult it becomes to test everything. But this isn't a Microsoft problem in the least. Bugs happen. Everywhere.
He wouldn't be considered because it's not funny. The Darwins are chosen to make readers have a nervous laugh and feel bad about it, and to marvel at the stupidity while enjoying a sad yet amusing story. If I step out in front of a train because I didn't look both ways before crossing the tracks, I may be stupid, I may have made a bad judgement, but it's not that interesting. JFK Jr. died in a plane crash, and he happened to be famous. It's not like he was trying to fly it from the wings.
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Foil the piracy police! Microwave your olympic souvenirs today!
I'm sure this was meant in jest, but that wouldn't accomplish anything, as they're looking for souvenirs without the DNA, regardless if the microwave technique worked or not.
The Good Reverend
Try living just down the coast in Santa Cruz (Capitola, actually) and still being unable to make it. :6
What? You don't want to take 17 in the evening? What's wrong with you?
The Good Reverend
Natural boundries. There's mountain and ocean on all sides, and it would have been difficult up until recently (with air technology) to be invaded. Luck, perhaps, but Costa Rica is a diamond in the rough.
The Good Reverend
In the United States, most people under age 16 can't work. I didn't start my CD collection until I was into college and got a job, and my parents didn't particularly want me working while I was in high school. That doesn't excuse theft, but it does excuse your outdated "work ethic".
The Good Reverend
I like to think of the internet of the future as we see electricity today - ubiquitous, invisible, and standard.
Past that, I think they'll be much greater commercialization of the internet in general, it will be THE media source; there'll be one wire with data, audio, video and holography, and your house will have it all. The age of the internet applience is here and will continue to become more important, with all your appliences talking to eachother, keeping your house as you'd like it and as you program it.
I hope to see voice control of computers soon that does not require training on the part of the user, along with natural voice recognition. Once this is accomplished, so much more is possible, and so many more people will be able to interact with their digital world.
I dream of having every document digitized and searchable - every book, magazine, report, study and gov't document - all at our fingertips. Luckily enough, this dream is possible.
The internet is, and will continue to be, everywhere. Hopefully we will notice it less and less, until it's just a part of our lives and we use it for ANY communications need we have. There's nothing else quite like having information for those that want it.
The Good Reverend
Individualism can involve some unpleasant choices. Corporatism viscerally punishes and isolates individuals. By their nature, individualists are discontented: persistent, obnoxious and unpopular...
I'd like to think that we all consider ourselves individuals. I'm sure JK does, I'm sure you do, and I know I do. But no one out there is so much an individual that we stop being social.
To what lengths do we take individualism? I'm sure JohnKatz wouldn't want to stop speaking English. He still uses his telephone and computer to communicate with the outside world, and most likely uses established, well known software to type up his rants. I don't know if he's a nudist, but I doubt it, and walking down the street, no matter HOW individual, you probably can't pick him out from a crowd. Fringe culture groups; punks, goths, retro 50s kids, ravers, hippies, etc, they're all different, but they're also all like someone else.
I AM an individual. You are too. Even our friend John Katz is. But not going as far as saying "let the corperate world eat my soul", it's important to realize that some things stay the same. Humans are social animals. We need love and companionship, and seperating yourself on ALL levels isn't the way to accopmlish this. I know this wasn't the main point of the article, but remember that you're an individual, just like everyone else.
The Good Reverend
You use Raging.com because it's a hell of a lot shorted to type than http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text. Better looking, too. That's no. No other reason.
The Good Reverend
Ask Al is one of the most wonderful sites I know about. I've liked Al forever anyway (I'm a comedy DJ in california), and Ask Al just makes me respect him even more. He's funny, honest, and answers questions from his fans every month.
Also off topic, but kinda related: has anyone else noticed, both on Napster, it's clones, and the web in general, that people will assign a random comedy song as being by Weird Al? I've seen ALL sorts of songs attributed to him, many very dirty, and they're clearly not him. I just wanted to see if anyone else had noticed this.
Thats all for my Off Topic ranting. Back to your regularly scheduled program.
The Good Reverend
I was under the impression that Metallica had hired some magical internet dectective firm to find the real names of those who had been trading mp3s illegally...am I mistaken? This article makes it sound like all that have is Napster user IDs. Yes? No?
If that's all they have, then why is there a problem? Anyone can use any name to sign up and use the service, it's not as if the 335,000 named folks can't use it anymore. Also, I don't remember giving any personal information when I signed up for Napster, so unless they're working with ISPs, they won't have any real names. If I'm wrong about this, please, someone enlighten me. But it just sounds to me like NetPD logged on, got user names, and killed some trees to make a show of the whole thing.
The Good Reverend
Getting people to respect an honor system like that is going to be tough though.
Yes, but the same is true with shareware. It couldn't hurt though; if even one person pays, they'll have more than they have now. And, amazingly enough, some people pay for their shareware, and would pay for MP3s if the band asked them too (especially if they knew the money was going to the band and not the Evil (tm) record company.
The Good Reverend
But as far as I understand, doesn't the science say that wormholes would have a passage size of about 6 ft. diameter?
One of the points of the article was that the "new" wormholes would be large enough for a larger object to pass through...we'll see...
The Good Reverend
If this were true, it would be most amazing...but unless they were both abundant and local, they wouldn't do us too much good. If there were enough of them, we could use them, but that's a big if.
The only way for these to be truely useful would be if we could create them - a la science fiction - and use them as we see fit. But who knows, there could millions or billions of them. Hopefully, some day, the space progams will start real missions again, and we might someday know.
The Good Reverend
Good film. That involved actually shrinking the person and ship, though. Now THATS a technology I'd like to see.
The Good Reverend
I found this in my mailbox this morning...
__________________________________________
I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's, (sent to me because I forwarded their e-mail to five other people, celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals), when I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken -which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC.
Anyway, one day this guy went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened e-mail entitled "Join the crew!"
He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.)
The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense.
Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped around a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is,the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives.
I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).
So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation.
Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green m&ms, but if you don't the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the antiperspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the government will put a tax on your e-mails forever.
I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.
_______________________________
The Good Reverend
I think the main reason cold pizza tastes so good is because we're hungry in the morning, and everything we like tastes even better when we're hungry.
A restaurant here in Santa Cruz used to have "cold pizza and beer" on their breakfast menu.
There is the issue that pizza with extra cheese tastes great hot, but is annoying cold, because the cheese is TOO thick. I perfer a thinner layer of cheese in the morning.
Why are there so few posts to this? Spooky.
The Good Reverend
Why plasma shoelaces? The animated pictures on the site make it look like a bad Dire Straits video. The "Blinking to extend battery life" doesn't help. There must be other things that actually WOULD be cool with plasma glowing, I just can't think of anything that doesn't scream 1986.
The Good Reverend
Friends, I'd like to take a moment or two to discuss with you the biggest whopper in the whole liberal lie of mathematics. The liberals like to tell us that pi is what they call a "transcendental number." This is, of course, shameless liberal jargon that has no meaning whatsoever. They are teaching our children that pi goes on and on forever without repeating itself, and that it is not representable by any polynomial with integer coefficients. This, my friends, represents only the latest in a long string of liberal lies meant to undermine God and his Creation.
The true value of pi is exactly three, as evidence by the Scripture quote above. It is universally agreed by all honest mathematicians that there is no evidence for a transcendental pi. Not one iota. Friends, you and I know that the Bible is the wholly inerrant word of God, and that the liberals are barking up the wrong tree. That doesn't stop them from spreading their socialist "transcendental number" propaganda. See, the liberals like stuff like this. They like anything that makes mankind think of itself as small and insignificant. This makes it easier for them to control the minds of our children. After all, why not listen to some liberal, if you are not capable of fully representing a single number?
This is an out-and-out lie.
The whole mathematical system has been invented by communists so that they can gain a foothold in decent society. Along with this comes the damnable "Metric" system, which was invented in the socialist Mecca of Europe. The liberals want us all to use this "Metric" system. They want to force us into conformity so that they can run our lives. They tried it once in the 1970s
Really, friends, the only unit of measure that we need is the cubit. This is a Biblical, Godly unit of measure that can be used for everything that the socialist Metric system is supposed to be used for. You can say "The Johnson baby was one tenth of a cubit long" or "It is 78.8 quintillion cubits to Alpha Centauri" (though the latter is a lie, of course; the stars are simply fixed points on a celestial sphere that lies somewhere beyond our planet Earth, which is the center of the Universe.) My swimming pool holds forty cubic cubits of water.
So let's fight the fight, friends. Let's fight transcendental numbers. Let's fight the Metric system. Let's wage a war against the liberals that intend to enslave our minds through obfuscated mathematics and anti-God systems of measurement. Write your congressman and school board and insist that they use books that teach that pi == 3 and transcendental numbers don't exist. We can do it, my friends. We can do it if we all stick together.
I didn't write this, but I think it's damn funny.
The Good Reverend
We live in a big world. We also have a big internet. There's thousands of e-tailers, huge companys, former Brick and Morters, etc etc that are "coming online and ruining the internet". No. They're not. The internet is huge. Sure, they have the domain names and the newbies and the money. So what? Does that mean you can't still have your web page, with basically (as far as the law allows) pretty much anything you want on it? Does AOL having millions of visitors stop people from coming to you page?
No. It most likely brings more people, because the number of users is WAY up, and maybe someday one of those newbies will see what you're saying. No harm in that. New laws are scary. I don't think we need them. But this isn't like the old west. "They" aren't taking our land; "they" are building around it, and "they" might be trying to get in. It's still you web page. It's still your newsgroup. Be happy that millions of new people have the joys of getting online easily and might think for themselves one day.
The Good Reverend
Has anyone else noticed that when someone posts "I'll probably be moderated down for this", "There goes my karma", or "-1, flamebait", they are almost certain to be moderated UP?
I think it's just that you see more of the posts that DO get moderated up, regardless if their posters have low self-esteem. =)
The Good Reverend
From the posts here, and my years in computers, there's the general opinion that geeks have to eat ramen and burritos, never have a good meal, and either be overweight or underweight. I know that's not true, geeks come in all shapes and sizes.
Personally, I LOVE food. I love cooking. Sure, I'll eat ramen, I'll eat microwave burritos, but I'll also make whole, real meals most of the time. Why? Because they're tasty. Because things taste better when you make them yourself, IMHO.
I'm curious why geeks are supposed to be these malnurished drones who can't leave their computers. Some of us remember to eat now and again, and some of us like to cook and make food that's tasty and good for us. Personally, it helps me to work. I know where the stereotype came from, but is it the norm?
The Good Reverend
My university charges 25+ cents a minute
For what? Sex? If my university (UC Santa Cruz) charged that much for long distance, there'd be riots. Our phone network doesn't allow for any 10-10-xxx numbers, but calling cards are ok, but most students use the university long distance, because it's competitive (we have a "deal" with MCI, but the rates aren't bad).
The Good Reverend
I find it ironic that people are willing to accept incompetence in software as one of the terms of doing business.
I agree completly. Microsoft is guilty, but I'd say almost every other software manufacturer is as well. Just about all software has bugs, some has more than others. it's the nature of the beast. And the larger a system gets, the more difficult it becomes to test everything. But this isn't a Microsoft problem in the least. Bugs happen. Everywhere.
The Good Reverend
Jeez...who among us ISN'T ordained by the ULC? I know I am =)
The Good Reverend
Almost every geek I know is a libertarian, though many don't realize it..
I don't agree with this, but I think it would make a good poll question.
The Good Reverend
JFK Jr. He dies because of his own stupidity.
He wouldn't be considered because it's not funny. The Darwins are chosen to make readers have a nervous laugh and feel bad about it, and to marvel at the stupidity while enjoying a sad yet amusing story. If I step out in front of a train because I didn't look both ways before crossing the tracks, I may be stupid, I may have made a bad judgement, but it's not that interesting. JFK Jr. died in a plane crash, and he happened to be famous. It's not like he was trying to fly it from the wings.
The Good Reverend