Cats are amazingly intelligent, but like people their individual intelligences vary. I knew a cat who could open a door by jumping up and grabbing the knob and swinging. I taught another cat to play dead on cue, point your finger at him and say "bang" and he'd fall over. One time maybe fifteen years ago I was visiting a frined in St Louis, and was woken up by what sounded like a child crying for help, plain as day -- "Help! Help! Help!" I opened the door and Jeff's cat walked in and sad, again plain as day, "hello!"
But some cats are as dumb as posts. I was going to link an old K5 story I authored, but I can't find it.
You know, when you have an FA that shows that piracy doesn't harm the music industry and two anonymous cowards pipe in to say "well, I don't buy music because I can get it free" you can be pretty damned sure they're RIAA shills being paid to write their posts.
I'm shocked that the first AC shill is sitting at 3, interesting when it should be -1, overrated.
The music establishment screwed up by fighting Napster rather than embracing it, and embracing lawless thugs and gangsters when it should have been shunning them. They could easily have used Napster downloads to get people to buy physical CDs (which are superior to downloads in many ways) with their massive marketing budgets, but their fear was that the indies could use it, too. They have radio and all the indies had was Napster, so they painted Napster as evil while promoting thug lifestyles. WTF did they think would happen?
Most people who don't listen to hip hop (and many who do) are honest and will pay, if you offer them something worth paying for. A five or ten dollar CD (what the indies usually charge) will have ten or twenty songs, cover art, a nice case, track listing, higher fidelity, yet costs more per track than the CD itself which has to be manufactured, shipped, and warehoused.
Maybe the music industry should stop promoting thug behavior and stop stealing their artists' royalties and stop lying to everyone and price their wares more responsibly. Or maybe they should just die, neither musicians nor listeners need them any more. It doesn't take a fortune to make a quality recording and get it pressed to CD these days, let alone uploaded to iTunes; the most expensive part is the musical instruments themselves. And the internet is word of mouth times a billion.
What's pathetic is your anti-science, anti-curiosity, money-worshiping comment. Going to Mars is far from useless. In fact, there is no such thing as useless science. As far as anyone knows (no matter how unlikely) we could find unobtainium or some other incredibly useful substance on Mars that simply doesn't exist on Earth. And whether or not evidence of Martian life is found, it has answered a question and if you don't think knowledge is worth paying for, you're on the wrong website. Why did you even bother registering an ID? To troll?
For some reason religious types and tech? Do NOT go together.
I see you've never been to my church. It's more high tech than my workplace. However, you're probably right about most. If the choir is a little off-key, the web site might not be any better.
I shake my head every time I go down 6th street to Wal Mart and past the Berean baptist church advertising their web site, berean.biz. That.biz for a CHURCH boggles my mind.
This is the Amish computer virus. As we do not use computers and not even electricity, we ask that you send this message to 100 different people, then type fdisk c: into a DOS box on your Windows computer.
And why would you be happier with a more federalistic Union if you don't trust your own government to begin with?
Neither Governor Ryan nor Governor Blago would be in prison were it not for the Federal government. You think the Feds are corrupt? Have a look at Illinois' government.
I see you've never read the new testament. You don't have to pay for sin, sin's price was paid in blood by an innocent man. All you have to do is repent those sins and accept that innocent man's sacrifice.
You've probably never read a single word of the bible, not just the new testament. Most bible thumpers I know don't read the bible they thump. I had an argument with a former girlfriend when I mentioned that Jesus went to hell when he died, and she was outraged.
A month ago she called and apologized, seems a preacher showed her the text I had referred to.
I guess I'll have to RTFA, because I've never seen a church site with ads. How is this malware getting into the sites in the first place?
When you say "you think churches DON'T make money" you raise a valid point. There are churches, and there are "churches". I wouldn't doubt for a minute that you might get infected by visiting a certain Baptist church in Florida, you know, the one that openly sins at soldiers' funerals.
I'm pretty sure that many clergy are in fact in it for the money. I've always said "never trust a preacher who wears a necktie" because the tie is the symbol of wealth and power, which is mostly what Jesus preached against. If the preacher is wearing a $4000 suit, you listen to him at peril of your very soul.
Then there are churches like the one I attend. It's a big, rich church, but I don't see any of its clergy driving Escalades or wearing expensive clothing. The money mostly goes to the poor, and that's the poor everywhere. Much goes to Africa, but that's because so much of that continent is so impoverished.
Last Christmas they donated two weeks worth of groceries to any family who had a child or children in Harvard Park Elementary, the grade school in the poorest part of town, because those kids don't look forward to Christmas. Christmas is when they don't get the government-funded school lunches, and those kids normally go hungry on Christmas break.
Contrast that with Pat Robertson's church... yeah, some churches are scams. "Beware wolves in sheep's clothing."
I suggest you have a little more coffee before doing the math on your research (five digits:)
I never used to follow the "vi vs emacs" wars and stuff like that, but I started using Mandrake in 2002. You know, I don't think I've ever opened GIMP even though it's been on my computers for ten years. I may play with it this weekend, I need to design a dust jacket for The Paxil Diaries.
Because I've spoken to quite a few of them in my time (I've been stuck on this rock for sixty years) and every single one seemed crazy. Plus, I don't like door to door salesmen.
They do have quite a few views I agree with, like not liking Christmas trees and Easter Bunnies.
Thanks for those links, that was informative. I found this linked from the wikipedia article you cited especially interesting, and makes me like the KJV that much more.
That is accurate, it is in fact where the word came from (I speak Spanish as a second language). But the word "hacker" doesn't mean what it originally meant, either.
Version 12 looks just like Version 3, except that I had to completely wipe my copy of firefox, delete every single firefox folder on the machine, then had scrub the registry just so I could reinstall and not have weird errors and random things not work. Boy that was a fun way to spend my evening.
That's what you get for using a shitty OS. You don't have that problem in Linux, and I'll bet Apple users don't either.
Sure, if you're the kind of guy who believes that the only reason people use Notepad is because they haven't given vi a good enough try.
Well, that's exactly the thing, isn't it? I never used vi, for all I know it might blow me away. That's your typical Windows user, they never had a chance to try something better.
What are MS's inherent flaws that make virus writing easy?
One example is MS's habit of hiding the extension by default. Write your virus, name it "porn.jpg.exe" and most users only see "porn.jpg" and double click. Another is their use of "active content"; data should be data. But WMA files are "active" data so are a virus vector; I saw a "proof of concept" wma file that opened Notepad by playing a WMA song (and the song actually plays, leaving the victim none the wiser). What's worse is that you can rename virus.wma to virus.jpg and WiMP will cheerfully infect your computer with it. No other media player I know of will.
No other OS has these flaws, and there are way more of them. I will say, I have Win 7 on a notebook and it's far better than previous versions, but is still nowhere near as stable, safe, or useable as KDE.
No, you're incorrect. The ones waving their flippers are freaks. The ones swallowing live animals are geeks.
Didn't stop Best Buy from using the term in their marketing
That's because like "gay" and "hacker" the meaning of the word has changed completely and no longer means college kids swallowing live goldfish. Now it means someone who knows how to fix a broken computer.
Does a large enough portion of the population believe in legalization to get it done? No (it's not even a majority).
Your facts are out of date. See what the polls say.
PRINCETON, NJ -- A record-high 50% of Americans now say the use of marijuana should be made legal, up from 46% last year. Forty-six percent say marijuana use should remain illegal.
When Gallup first asked about legalizing marijuana, in 1969, 12% of Americans favored it, while 84% were opposed. Support remained in the mid-20s in Gallup measures from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, but has crept up since, passing 30% in 2000 and 40% in 2009 before reaching the 50% level in this year's Oct. 6-9 annual Crime survey.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States." The National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2009 found that "16.7 million Americans aged 12 or older used marijuana at least once in the month prior to being surveyed, an increase over the rates reported in all years between 2002 and 2008."
The only really anonymous way of using the internet I've seen is TOR
We keep inventing new things all the time. I can see a wifi mesh netork independant on ICANN or the government set up. Like pot smokers, they can't put us all in prison.
Ever notice that it's only young, punk-ass "gangsta" blacks (like the rappers and their listeners) that use that word? Their aim is to offend the grownups.
A black friend of mine when I was in the Air Force explained it to me. It comes from the days of slavery: "nigger" meant "slave" and a slave was no more human than a dog or a horse. A slave was considered another farm animal. Just like you have house dogs and working dogs, slave owners had house niggers and field niggers.
So when you call a man "nigger" you're calling him sub-human. The young blacks are using the word 1) because the (white owned) record companies are pushing the word and 2) to piss off the old people.
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Cats are amazingly intelligent, but like people their individual intelligences vary. I knew a cat who could open a door by jumping up and grabbing the knob and swinging. I taught another cat to play dead on cue, point your finger at him and say "bang" and he'd fall over. One time maybe fifteen years ago I was visiting a frined in St Louis, and was woken up by what sounded like a child crying for help, plain as day -- "Help! Help! Help!" I opened the door and Jeff's cat walked in and sad, again plain as day, "hello!"
But some cats are as dumb as posts. I was going to link an old K5 story I authored, but I can't find it.
No, I'm not.
You know, when you have an FA that shows that piracy doesn't harm the music industry and two anonymous cowards pipe in to say "well, I don't buy music because I can get it free" you can be pretty damned sure they're RIAA shills being paid to write their posts.
I'm shocked that the first AC shill is sitting at 3, interesting when it should be -1, overrated.
The music establishment screwed up by fighting Napster rather than embracing it, and embracing lawless thugs and gangsters when it should have been shunning them. They could easily have used Napster downloads to get people to buy physical CDs (which are superior to downloads in many ways) with their massive marketing budgets, but their fear was that the indies could use it, too. They have radio and all the indies had was Napster, so they painted Napster as evil while promoting thug lifestyles. WTF did they think would happen?
Most people who don't listen to hip hop (and many who do) are honest and will pay, if you offer them something worth paying for. A five or ten dollar CD (what the indies usually charge) will have ten or twenty songs, cover art, a nice case, track listing, higher fidelity, yet costs more per track than the CD itself which has to be manufactured, shipped, and warehoused.
Maybe the music industry should stop promoting thug behavior and stop stealing their artists' royalties and stop lying to everyone and price their wares more responsibly. Or maybe they should just die, neither musicians nor listeners need them any more. It doesn't take a fortune to make a quality recording and get it pressed to CD these days, let alone uploaded to iTunes; the most expensive part is the musical instruments themselves. And the internet is word of mouth times a billion.
That's pretty much been my observation. If they read any of it, it's the worst parts of the old testament, which the new testament supersedes anyway.
He built the place, all of it, heaven, hell, the universe, time, space, dimention. He holds the keys. He can go any damned where he wants.
What's pathetic is your anti-science, anti-curiosity, money-worshiping comment. Going to Mars is far from useless. In fact, there is no such thing as useless science. As far as anyone knows (no matter how unlikely) we could find unobtainium or some other incredibly useful substance on Mars that simply doesn't exist on Earth. And whether or not evidence of Martian life is found, it has answered a question and if you don't think knowledge is worth paying for, you're on the wrong website. Why did you even bother registering an ID? To troll?
For some reason religious types and tech? Do NOT go together.
I see you've never been to my church. It's more high tech than my workplace. However, you're probably right about most. If the choir is a little off-key, the web site might not be any better.
I shake my head every time I go down 6th street to Wal Mart and past the Berean baptist church advertising their web site, berean.biz. That .biz for a CHURCH boggles my mind.
Dear fellow Christ follower:
This is the Amish computer virus. As we do not use computers and not even electricity, we ask that you send this message to 100 different people, then type fdisk c: into a DOS box on your Windows computer.
Your brother in Christ,
Amos
And why would you be happier with a more federalistic Union if you don't trust your own government to begin with?
Neither Governor Ryan nor Governor Blago would be in prison were it not for the Federal government. You think the Feds are corrupt? Have a look at Illinois' government.
You don't need to pay $50 a year but it gives stupid people piece of mind
Peace on you! You relize that you didn't say what you thought you said, right?
I see you've never read the new testament. You don't have to pay for sin, sin's price was paid in blood by an innocent man. All you have to do is repent those sins and accept that innocent man's sacrifice.
You've probably never read a single word of the bible, not just the new testament. Most bible thumpers I know don't read the bible they thump. I had an argument with a former girlfriend when I mentioned that Jesus went to hell when he died, and she was outraged.
A month ago she called and apologized, seems a preacher showed her the text I had referred to.
I guess I'll have to RTFA, because I've never seen a church site with ads. How is this malware getting into the sites in the first place?
When you say "you think churches DON'T make money" you raise a valid point. There are churches, and there are "churches". I wouldn't doubt for a minute that you might get infected by visiting a certain Baptist church in Florida, you know, the one that openly sins at soldiers' funerals.
I'm pretty sure that many clergy are in fact in it for the money. I've always said "never trust a preacher who wears a necktie" because the tie is the symbol of wealth and power, which is mostly what Jesus preached against. If the preacher is wearing a $4000 suit, you listen to him at peril of your very soul.
Then there are churches like the one I attend. It's a big, rich church, but I don't see any of its clergy driving Escalades or wearing expensive clothing. The money mostly goes to the poor, and that's the poor everywhere. Much goes to Africa, but that's because so much of that continent is so impoverished.
Last Christmas they donated two weeks worth of groceries to any family who had a child or children in Harvard Park Elementary, the grade school in the poorest part of town, because those kids don't look forward to Christmas. Christmas is when they don't get the government-funded school lunches, and those kids normally go hungry on Christmas break.
Contrast that with Pat Robertson's church... yeah, some churches are scams. "Beware wolves in sheep's clothing."
I've always said that a rich and powerful man only goes to prison when a richer, more powerful man wants him there.
s/the environment is not/the environment was not/
That struck me, too. Mars IS very unhospitable to life, but may have once not been.
The presence of water is millenna old.
No, the absense of water is millenna old. There seems to be little or none left today.
You have a six-digit ID
I suggest you have a little more coffee before doing the math on your research (five digits :)
I never used to follow the "vi vs emacs" wars and stuff like that, but I started using Mandrake in 2002. You know, I don't think I've ever opened GIMP even though it's been on my computers for ten years. I may play with it this weekend, I need to design a dust jacket for The Paxil Diaries.
Why not, might I ask?
Because I've spoken to quite a few of them in my time (I've been stuck on this rock for sixty years) and every single one seemed crazy. Plus, I don't like door to door salesmen.
They do have quite a few views I agree with, like not liking Christmas trees and Easter Bunnies.
Thanks for those links, that was informative. I found this linked from the wikipedia article you cited especially interesting, and makes me like the KJV that much more.
That is accurate, it is in fact where the word came from (I speak Spanish as a second language). But the word "hacker" doesn't mean what it originally meant, either.
aint it nice that folks are so different?
Yes, it is.
There may be a lot of people who are conservative and/or religious
Probably, but conservatism is against everything Christ taught, so though they may be "religious" they're certainly not Christians.
Conservatives worship money and the people who have it. Period. No matter what else they think they worship.
Version 12 looks just like Version 3, except that I had to completely wipe my copy of firefox, delete every single firefox folder on the machine, then had scrub the registry just so I could reinstall and not have weird errors and random things not work. Boy that was a fun way to spend my evening.
That's what you get for using a shitty OS. You don't have that problem in Linux, and I'll bet Apple users don't either.
Sure, if you're the kind of guy who believes that the only reason people use Notepad is because they haven't given vi a good enough try.
Well, that's exactly the thing, isn't it? I never used vi, for all I know it might blow me away. That's your typical Windows user, they never had a chance to try something better.
What are MS's inherent flaws that make virus writing easy?
One example is MS's habit of hiding the extension by default. Write your virus, name it "porn.jpg.exe" and most users only see "porn.jpg" and double click. Another is their use of "active content"; data should be data. But WMA files are "active" data so are a virus vector; I saw a "proof of concept" wma file that opened Notepad by playing a WMA song (and the song actually plays, leaving the victim none the wiser). What's worse is that you can rename virus.wma to virus.jpg and WiMP will cheerfully infect your computer with it. No other media player I know of will.
No other OS has these flaws, and there are way more of them. I will say, I have Win 7 on a notebook and it's far better than previous versions, but is still nowhere near as stable, safe, or useable as KDE.
Three works of authorship are subject to perpetual copyright-like rights in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Interesting, where can I learn more? But it's public domain everywhere else.
Which is why the Watch Tower Society puts its literal New World Translation online and distributes printed copies at no charge.
Isn't that the Jehova's Witnesses? I don't trust them, either.
No, you're incorrect. The ones waving their flippers are freaks. The ones swallowing live animals are geeks.
Didn't stop Best Buy from using the term in their marketing
That's because like "gay" and "hacker" the meaning of the word has changed completely and no longer means college kids swallowing live goldfish. Now it means someone who knows how to fix a broken computer.
Does a large enough portion of the population believe in legalization to get it done? No (it's not even a majority).
Your facts are out of date. See what the polls say.
The only really anonymous way of using the internet I've seen is TOR
We keep inventing new things all the time. I can see a wifi mesh netork independant on ICANN or the government set up. Like pot smokers, they can't put us all in prison.
Blacks can use the word nigger all they want.
Ever notice that it's only young, punk-ass "gangsta" blacks (like the rappers and their listeners) that use that word? Their aim is to offend the grownups.
A black friend of mine when I was in the Air Force explained it to me. It comes from the days of slavery: "nigger" meant "slave" and a slave was no more human than a dog or a horse. A slave was considered another farm animal. Just like you have house dogs and working dogs, slave owners had house niggers and field niggers.
So when you call a man "nigger" you're calling him sub-human. The young blacks are using the word 1) because the (white owned) record companies are pushing the word and 2) to piss off the old people.