I mean, at the moment politicians and the **AA's have to struggle against reality to take away our freedoms... why would anyone want to move their mind into a reality where reality itself could be changed to prevent things like this.. and worse, make it so it never happened in the first place?
Somehow I don't think Pets Warehouse has the same clout as Microsoft or Scientology.. I expect Mr. Taco would rally the troops and fuck Mr. Novack up very severely.
Of course, I think google may do the same.;)
Hey google.. wanna own a shitty pet store? (oh god, is he going to sue/me/ now?)
"Hey guys, look at that 4000 year old gigantic stone structure, which has what we believe to be a large room at the end of a long, bending, unaccessible shaft thats only 20cm by 20cm, and blocked by a large, tightly wedged limestone rock with brass handles in it.
Even though it's painfully clear that people arent supposed to be opening up this heavily guarded chamber in the 4000 year old structure, and there is no real value for us in doing so, other than to satisfy our curiosity, lets send a small robot down there to pull the block out so we can send a camera in."
I mean, sure, it/SOUNDS/ exactly like the beginning of an extremely cheesy horror movie.. but it's actually important science. At least until they open it and unleash the apocalypse.;)
I live in Texas, and I get 100% of my energy from wind power. Green Mountain Energy offers it, and seems to be doing well. It isn't cheaper, but it isn't much more expensive either. And IMHO it's worth it.
so wait.. Lance is no longer going up w/ the russians..
Instead of a box of cargo, Why not do the obvious, and send Prince?
If he sorta.. you know.. slipped out the airlock... well, I think we could forgive the russians, don't you? I'd even be willing to let the russians keep the insurance.;)
This is probably the wrong place to ask, but I am trying to figure out the:any modifier for perl6. I currently do not code perl fluently, and have been holding off for perl6 (php and bash suit me just fine atm)
Anyway, in the article, it says there will be an:any modifier that matches a string any way possible, and gives the example:
Ok.. so i get how it returns "ahhh", "ahh", and "ah" - but how the heck does saying "match any string that looks like 'ah*' any way possible" return "a" ?
Is this an error in the article, or am i missing something extremely obvious?
Just thought you should know.. Microsoft IS coming out with a portable phone. Well.. sorta. They design it and put WinCE on it, and others sell it. But same basic idea.
Course, you may have already known this and the sarcasm was completely missed. But whatever.
If i honestly believed there was a chance in hell of this happening, I would take a few weeks off and fly up there. Never been arrested for fundamental rights before. Figure its about time to start.
I had endless amounts of fun with a megaphone in my dorm. things such as asking people if they are awake.. very loudly. or talking to your roommate.. very loudly. or answering junk phone calls.. very loudly.
Yes. I know I am sad.:-/
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You would have groups like music companies that automatically reissue a single, well documented, copy of every album in their catalog every 4.9 years. It would be an auction or something. And as soon as the copy was sold and delivered, agents would patrol p2p network suing anyone who was sharing those files under the pretense that only 1 person can legally own those versions. And that would be all it took to maintain their permenant hold on all materials, even if they have no intention of ever issuing it again on a larger scale.
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do you have a source for your sig? That quote is unreal....
This is a rather long post to digest and reply to at once, but I mentioned elsewhere that I would reply to this if I had anything to say.
I really dont, other than to point out some very basic flaws in your logic.
1) Your attempts to define "freedom" and "rights" are actually attempts to define them inside the context of our social system and pre-defined limitations. Freedom and Rights are abstract concepts, and by nature cannot be defined inside artificial restraints.
2) You spend the last 4 paragraphs talking about how RMS is trying to force people to open their source via "police force", etc. This is completely wrong. He has never once tried to force a license on anyway, though he quite vocally suggests the GPL.
You may consider the GPL itself an attempt to force the freeing of software's code.. but it isn't. It is an agreement made between two people. If you use GPL software, you agree to GPL your software in return. If you dont agree to that, dont use the GPL software. No one is forced to make either decision, but once that decision is made, they are forced to respect the terms of the agreement.
Of course, you could simply be complaining about the terms of the license. If thats the case, simply dont use any GPLed code in any of your projects that you wish to distribute non-GPLed.
"And indeed in the end the PCE encapsulates both the ultimate power and the ultimate weakness of science. For it implies that all the wonders of the universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet it shows that there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules, except in effect just to watch and see how they unfold."
[..snip..]
...But is it the next Principia, the herald of a new scientific revolution?
Read and decide for yourself. Only time, and a lot of it, will tell.
Wow. The only way to get the result of if the book is a new revoltion is to watch and see how it unfolds? Thats somewhat ironic, isn't it?;)
He is talking about Linux, the kernel component of GNU/Linux. When talking only about the kernel, the correct name IS Linux, because thats what the kernel is called. The entire OS is the Linux kernel + a bunch of low and high level apps.. many of which the GNU project created. Hence the argument that the OS should be called GNU/Linux instead of just Linux.
Imagine you play guitar, and went to a guitar store to buy a guitar. After you take it home you notice a sleeve wrapped around the strings with the following notice on it:
By distributing or permitting the distribution of any of your Songs, you hereby grant back to FENDER an irrevocable royalty-free right to use and distribute them by any means. FENDER may at any time and in its sole discretion revoke your right to make your Songs publicly available.
Confused, you head back to the store and are told all guitar companies do that. Is that a valid explanation? Does that make it ok? What would make it ok?
disclaimer -I used Fender as the name of a guitar company as an example.. i am not trying to say anything about Fender.
Now stop whining and pay attention to all the crap going down in the world around you.
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Speaking of Shelob... I wonder if they will keep the distinctive split of books 3 and 4 in the two towers.. you know, the whole ent's thing in one book, with no mention of sam & frodo.. and then the next book being JUST sam & frodo w/ the whole minas morgul and shelob thing..
Or do you think that for the sake of the movie they will mix it up a bit, so we see both concurrently?
If you have the skills to update xmame and manually edit the grimoire, why not simply submit a new xmame spell to the main grimoire? It seems that lack of that type of contribution is part of the problem. Then again, maybe I simply misunderstood what you were saying.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I really miss that internet thing. To think, It's been 3 years since it collapsed. It sure is a shame.
Sarcasm aside, if confidence is the only thing holding a system together, maybe it's time for it to collapse.
I mean, at the moment politicians and the **AA's have to struggle against reality to take away our freedoms... why would anyone want to move their mind into a reality where reality itself could be changed to prevent things like this.. and worse, make it so it never happened in the first place?
People who get overwhelming urges to reach for their gun shouldn't own a gun.
Oh dear god I hope that he sues /.
;)
/me/ now?)
Somehow I don't think Pets Warehouse has the same clout as Microsoft or Scientology.. I expect Mr. Taco would rally the troops and fuck Mr. Novack up very severely.
Of course, I think google may do the same.
Hey google.. wanna own a shitty pet store? (oh god, is he going to sue
Pixar is /not/ owned by Disney. Pixar has a 5 film distribution deal with Disney. But it is it's own production company.
"Hey guys, look at that 4000 year old gigantic stone structure, which has what we believe to be a large room at the end of a long, bending, unaccessible shaft thats only 20cm by 20cm, and blocked by a large, tightly wedged limestone rock with brass handles in it.
/SOUNDS/ exactly like the beginning of an extremely cheesy horror movie.. but it's actually important science. At least until they open it and unleash the apocalypse. ;)
Even though it's painfully clear that people arent supposed to be opening up this heavily guarded chamber in the 4000 year old structure, and there is no real value for us in doing so, other than to satisfy our curiosity, lets send a small robot down there to pull the block out so we can send a camera in."
I mean, sure, it
I live in Texas, and I get 100% of my energy from wind power. Green Mountain Energy offers it, and seems to be doing well. It isn't cheaper, but it isn't much more expensive either. And IMHO it's worth it.
Promises are not easily forgotten. Who is the lucky person who gets the T-shirt?
so wait.. Lance is no longer going up w/ the russians..
;)
Instead of a box of cargo, Why not do the obvious, and send Prince?
If he sorta.. you know.. slipped out the airlock... well, I think we could forgive the russians, don't you? I'd even be willing to let the russians keep the insurance.
Thats FUCKING COOL!
:D
that makes me want to buy a second mac just to test that shit out.
Damn. that rocks.
Got it. Thanks!
:D
These regexp's are tricky! But this kind of thing makes me look forward to learning perl6 and really digging into them.
Anyway, in the article, it says there will be an :any modifier that matches a string any way possible, and gives the example:
Ok.. so i get how it returns "ahhh", "ahh", and "ah" - but how the heck does saying "match any string that looks like 'ah*' any way possible" return "a" ?
Is this an error in the article, or am i missing something extremely obvious?
Thanks!
Just thought you should know.. Microsoft IS coming out with a portable phone. Well.. sorta. They design it and put WinCE on it, and others sell it. But same basic idea.
Course, you may have already known this and the sarcasm was completely missed. But whatever.
If i honestly believed there was a chance in hell of this happening, I would take a few weeks off and fly up there. Never been arrested for fundamental rights before. Figure its about time to start.
I had endless amounts of fun with a megaphone in my dorm. things such as asking people if they are awake.. very loudly. or talking to your roommate.. very loudly. or answering junk phone calls.. very loudly.
:-/
Yes. I know I am sad.
You would have groups like music companies that automatically reissue a single, well documented, copy of every album in their catalog every 4.9 years. It would be an auction or something. And as soon as the copy was sold and delivered, agents would patrol p2p network suing anyone who was sharing those files under the pretense that only 1 person can legally own those versions. And that would be all it took to maintain their permenant hold on all materials, even if they have no intention of ever issuing it again on a larger scale.
do you have a source for your sig? That quote is unreal....
This is a rather long post to digest and reply to at once, but I mentioned elsewhere that I would reply to this if I had anything to say.
I really dont, other than to point out some very basic flaws in your logic.
1) Your attempts to define "freedom" and "rights" are actually attempts to define them inside the context of our social system and pre-defined limitations. Freedom and Rights are abstract concepts, and by nature cannot be defined inside artificial restraints.
2) You spend the last 4 paragraphs talking about how RMS is trying to force people to open their source via "police force", etc. This is completely wrong. He has never once tried to force a license on anyway, though he quite vocally suggests the GPL.
You may consider the GPL itself an attempt to force the freeing of software's code.. but it isn't. It is an agreement made between two people. If you use GPL software, you agree to GPL your software in return. If you dont agree to that, dont use the GPL software. No one is forced to make either decision, but once that decision is made, they are forced to respect the terms of the agreement.
Of course, you could simply be complaining about the terms of the license. If thats the case, simply dont use any GPLed code in any of your projects that you wish to distribute non-GPLed.
...But is it the next Principia, the herald of a new scientific revolution?
Read and decide for yourself. Only time, and a lot of it, will tell.
Wow. The only way to get the result of if the book is a new revoltion is to watch and see how it unfolds? Thats somewhat ironic, isn't it?
He is talking about Linux, the kernel component of GNU/Linux. When talking only about the kernel, the correct name IS Linux, because thats what the kernel is called. The entire OS is the Linux kernel + a bunch of low and high level apps.. many of which the GNU project created. Hence the argument that the OS should be called GNU/Linux instead of just Linux.
Imagine you play guitar, and went to a guitar store to buy a guitar. After you take it home you notice a sleeve wrapped around the strings with the following notice on it:
Confused, you head back to the store and are told all guitar companies do that. Is that a valid explanation? Does that make it ok? What would make it ok?
disclaimer -I used Fender as the name of a guitar company as an example.. i am not trying to say anything about Fender.
It isn't. Its "stuff that matters".
Now stop whining and pay attention to all the crap going down in the world around you.
Speaking of Shelob... I wonder if they will keep the distinctive split of books 3 and 4 in the two towers.. you know, the whole ent's thing in one book, with no mention of sam & frodo.. and then the next book being JUST sam & frodo w/ the whole minas morgul and shelob thing..
Or do you think that for the sake of the movie they will mix it up a bit, so we see both concurrently?
If you have the skills to update xmame and manually edit the grimoire, why not simply submit a new xmame spell to the main grimoire? It seems that lack of that type of contribution is part of the problem. Then again, maybe I simply misunderstood what you were saying.
I blame Microsoft. They allow Napster to work. The RIAA should sue Microsoft. Ok.. I confess, this is a lame first post attempt. :P