I hope they deal with the politics of setting up the Federation. Babylon 5 was heading in this direction, then the series ended. I would like to see some sneaky political stuff about 20 years after the founding of the Federation. Maybe they could work in the start of Section 29.
And maybe they could get that cute little robot from Buck Rogers on the show. The one that said "bedebedebedebede". I just loved him. Just kidding.
There is only *one* source of light. The Earth reflection isn't visible in the photos.
If it was, don't you think that there would be two shadows coming from each astronaut? That is the major clue that the there is only one source of light, not the two that the hoax believers suggest.
The reason for the different shadow angles and lengths is that each astronaut is standing on a differently sloped piece of moon.
You could do better than solar cells, even if bacteria don't match the %30 efficiency (I think that's the record) of the very best cells availabile in laboratories. Solar cells are expensive, and they require replacement every few years.
Bacteria are cheap, and they replicate themselves. This is the same old story. The less efficient solution is usually the cheaper one to implement. The good part is that the inefficiency doesn't waste a particularly scarce fuel like gasoline, and the inefficiency doesn't cause more pollutants to be produced. We've moved that inefficiency to the sweet spot where we can afford it - sunlight is free.
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I have to question one of the implicit assumptions that you make:
What's so wrong with leaving those in power alone, or maybe allowing them to increase their control in the country?
I understand why you wouldn't want to leave a murderous tyrant in power, but why not leave an ineffective/confused/modestly corrupt government inpower? The reasons I can think of for leaving the government in power are:
1) stability is important for growth. If people have to contend with a revolution/government change that could get bloody, that does bad things to their ability to work/be productive/attract foreign capital.
2) a well fed people are a moral people. If you can make a place stable enough so that folks don't have to worry about the coup of the week, then you can get down to fixing the real problems. In my opinion, a great deal of the fixing can be done from the bottom up. If the people do well, they can worry about things other than finding dinner, and that includes government. Working on the economic problems first, even if it means stabilizing/entrenching a less than ideal government, might help people more.
>You can't tarnish
>libraries as thieves and pirates,
>not without ruining your cause.
I wonder about that. I've heard people grumbling about having to pay taxes for a library. It's true, I have met people who think that just because libraries aren't in the constitution, they shouldn't have any public money.
To your reply, I say nay. The Kennedy curse is all about dead Kennedys. I didn't invent the thing, but if some step-cousin of the Kennedys is brought up on murder charges, that's part of the Kennedy curse.
The curse is bogus. Kennedys die from violent causes at the same rate as the rest of us. The reason why we hear about dead Kennedys all the time is that there are a lot of Kennedys and the media is focused on it.
You've obviously never had to sit in a women's clothing store while your wife picks out the one perfect outfit in the entire universe. I have, and believe me a C++ compiler and vim would make me a happy man. And while we're at it, why do they put women's magazines on the tables at women's clothing stores? The women are the ones shopping, and the men are the ones with time to read something...
>The news media made quite a stir a while back
>about the alarmingly high percentage of NFL
>players with criminal records.
Now just how high is the percentage? How do we know that it's higher than the general population?
My bullshit detector is going off here. This reminds me of the supposed Kennedy Family Curse (TM) that makes that family predisposed to death by tragic means. The problem with the "curse" is that when you actually count up who dies of what, there's nothing abnormal about the numbers. Our perception of the situation is affected by how things are reported. Two brothers murdered by firearms, one guy killed on a ski slope, one in an airplane crash. I can bet you that a bunch of Kennedys have died in their sleep, but nobody can remember those. 4 tragic deaths in a family of probably hundreds of people is not unusual. Similarly, you mentioned three crimes, commited by three people. How many NFL players are there? I don't follow football, but it seems like there are a lot. Hundreds? Thousands? I would feel safer around a bunch of NFL football players than I would at a seminar for day traders. At least I know that the NFL guys aren't going to shoot me for my money.
>In Victorian England, female sexuality was
>considered extremely taboo. The notion was that
>women were there only to be desired and
>conquered, never to be sexual beings in their own
>right. There were all kinds of terrible medical
>and psychological horrors inflicted on girls
>who displayed sexual interest in any way.
You're right, but you've got half the picture. *all* sexuality was taboo in Victorian English speaking countries. What they did to women, they also did to men. Men's sexuality was considered very dangerous, so dangerous that the step of removing part of the penis was taken, to diminish the dangerous sex drive. In fact Americans still circumcise their babies to this very day, without realizing how the (barbaric) practice was popularized.
So I don't know if I buy your analysis of Dracula. Perhaps the vampire was the embodiment of the dangerous *male* sexuality, rather than the awakening of the dangerous female sexuality?
I use my Newton 130 every day. I will keep using it until I can get a machine that:
1) runs on AA batteries and doesn't chew through them too fast.
2) can run Java class files compiled with Sun's JDK and downloaded from a Linux machine. I will not spend a single penny for a development kit, and I will not learn another special PDA language like Newton BASIC or Palm BASIC.
3) the ability to run Python and Tcl programs would be a bonus
4) a real keyboard
5) size isn't a big deal, but obviously I want something that weighs less than a pound.
6) has some access to the system bus so third parties can add pages, phones, hard drives, GPS, or whatever to the device.
forward your spam to the e-mail address spamcop@spamcop.net
You will get a reply back that will allow you to parse headers and send a complaint with just a couple clicks. Try it, and you'll never go back to reading headers yourself.
www.cheapbytes.com sells Debian. If you don't have that money lying around, and you live in Michigan, just go out and pick up 20 empty soda cans and you've paid for it.
If you live on some other states, you might have to pick up 40 cans, but that's still cheap.
If you live in a state where there is no deposit on empties, you might have to resort to bank robbery or panhandling. I suspect that it's really not that much of a problem though. I mean how often do we see people on the curb holding signs that say "I won't lie to you, I need five dollars for a pack of cigarettes and a Debian CD."
All the reporters who made a buck in 2000 saying that Linux is going to become fragmented are going to make even more bucks in 2001 saying that Linux is going to hell because of all the consolidation.
Suppose RedHat 15.0 is a piece of garbage, shipped without a compiler, running only shrinkwrap software. It has no commercial competition. Hacker Joe sees the situation as an opportunity to start a business, so he takes the RedHat distribution, tweaks it to run standard software, includes a compiler, and releases his own distribution that is just like RedHat, but everything is now fixed. Sound familiar? Mandrake showed us the way. I expect that scenario to play out many times in the future.
When you apply for your free COMDEX pass, put your job title down as Redshirt, grunt, slave, meathead, Anonymous Coward, Karma Whore, or Peon. There's something fun about walking around a convention with a badge that reads
An electric car would be VERY nice because they have constant torque, and there are things like capacitors which would allow you to literally SMOKE the tires through an entire quarter mile, for far cheaper than the Viper that a feat like that requires today.
This car would sell great in the US. Here's a list of the strong points:
1) Big doors to allow 300+ lb. people to get in and out.
2) Lots of headroom for teased hairdos and cowboy hats
3) Great big wheels for running over tiny animals
4) Antique appearance - this definitely looks like your father's Buick
5) Gigantic engine, because driving 55 in the fast lane is better with 350 horsepower.
6) Probably zillions of beer^H^H^H^Hcupholders
7) Bench seats so the lard doesn't get pinched, plus there's a place to put a whole tray of hot dogs.
8) 22 inch wheels - just like your teenager's Honda Civic
9) Pushrod engine technology - fuck that DOHC shit. This car looks old, so why not use old fashined engines too? Grampa won't get confused when he looks under the hood.
Remember the car that Homer Simpson designed? This is just like it.
Once upon a time there was a kook on the Usenet that I found amusing. His name was Robert E. McElwaine. His tagline was "UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS."
See the resemblance? Check out the McElwaine classics here
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I hope they deal with the politics of setting up the Federation. Babylon 5 was heading in this direction, then the series ended. I would like to see some sneaky political stuff about 20 years after the founding of the Federation. Maybe they could work in the start of Section 29.
And maybe they could get that cute little robot from Buck Rogers on the show. The one that said "bedebedebedebede". I just loved him. Just kidding.
There is only *one* source of light. The Earth reflection isn't visible in the photos.
If it was, don't you think that there would be two shadows coming from each astronaut? That is the major clue that the there is only one source of light, not the two that the hoax believers suggest.
The reason for the different shadow angles and lengths is that each astronaut is standing on a differently sloped piece of moon.
You could do better than solar cells, even if bacteria don't match the %30 efficiency (I think that's the record) of the very best cells availabile in laboratories. Solar cells are expensive, and they require replacement every few years.
Bacteria are cheap, and they replicate themselves. This is the same old story. The less efficient solution is usually the cheaper one to implement. The good part is that the inefficiency doesn't waste a particularly scarce fuel like gasoline, and the inefficiency doesn't cause more pollutants to be produced. We've moved that inefficiency to the sweet spot where we can afford it - sunlight is free.
I have to question one of the implicit assumptions that you make:
What's so wrong with leaving those in power alone, or maybe allowing them to increase their control in the country?
I understand why you wouldn't want to leave a murderous tyrant in power, but why not leave an ineffective/confused/modestly corrupt government inpower? The reasons I can think of for leaving the government in power are:
1) stability is important for growth. If people have to contend with a revolution/government change that could get bloody, that does bad things to their ability to work/be productive/attract foreign capital.
2) a well fed people are a moral people. If you can make a place stable enough so that folks don't have to worry about the coup of the week, then you can get down to fixing the real problems. In my opinion, a great deal of the fixing can be done from the bottom up. If the people do well, they can worry about things other than finding dinner, and that includes government. Working on the economic problems first, even if it means stabilizing/entrenching a less than ideal government, might help people more.
What do you think?
>As a practicing homosexual, I've had
>to replace my
>vaio 4 times already due to
>a cracked screen.
Just a hint... turn the dang thing sideways first. It might be easier. Heh heh.
>You can't tarnish
>libraries as thieves and pirates,
>not without ruining your cause.
I wonder about that. I've heard people grumbling about having to pay taxes for a library. It's true, I have met people who think that just because libraries aren't in the constitution, they shouldn't have any public money.
Talk about penny wise and pound foolish.
To your reply, I say nay. The Kennedy curse is all about dead Kennedys. I didn't invent the thing, but if some step-cousin of the Kennedys is brought up on murder charges, that's part of the Kennedy curse.
The curse is bogus. Kennedys die from violent causes at the same rate as the rest of us. The reason why we hear about dead Kennedys all the time is that there are a lot of Kennedys and the media is focused on it.
Heh heh! Touche!
You've obviously never had to sit in a women's clothing store while your wife picks out the one perfect outfit in the entire universe. I have, and believe me a C++ compiler and vim would make me a happy man. And while we're at it, why do they put women's magazines on the tables at women's clothing stores? The women are the ones shopping, and the men are the ones with time to read something...
I rest my case.
>The news media made quite a stir a while back
>about the alarmingly high percentage of NFL
>players with criminal records.
Now just how high is the percentage? How do we know that it's higher than the general population?
My bullshit detector is going off here. This reminds me of the supposed Kennedy Family Curse (TM) that makes that family predisposed to death by tragic means. The problem with the "curse" is that when you actually count up who dies of what, there's nothing abnormal about the numbers. Our perception of the situation is affected by how things are reported. Two brothers murdered by firearms, one guy killed on a ski slope, one in an airplane crash. I can bet you that a bunch of Kennedys have died in their sleep, but nobody can remember those. 4 tragic deaths in a family of probably hundreds of people is not unusual. Similarly, you mentioned three crimes, commited by three people. How many NFL players are there? I don't follow football, but it seems like there are a lot. Hundreds? Thousands? I would feel safer around a bunch of NFL football players than I would at a seminar for day traders. At least I know that the NFL guys aren't going to shoot me for my money.
Thanks, I'll check out the Psions.
>In Victorian England, female sexuality was
>considered extremely taboo. The notion was that
>women were there only to be desired and
>conquered, never to be sexual beings in their own
>right. There were all kinds of terrible medical
>and psychological horrors inflicted on girls
>who displayed sexual interest in any way.
You're right, but you've got half the picture. *all* sexuality was taboo in Victorian English speaking countries. What they did to women, they also did to men. Men's sexuality was considered very dangerous, so dangerous that the step of removing part of the penis was taken, to diminish the dangerous sex drive. In fact Americans still circumcise their babies to this very day, without realizing how the (barbaric) practice was popularized.
So I don't know if I buy your analysis of Dracula. Perhaps the vampire was the embodiment of the dangerous *male* sexuality, rather than the awakening of the dangerous female sexuality?
Right on!
I use my Newton 130 every day. I will keep using it until I can get a machine that:
1) runs on AA batteries and doesn't chew through them too fast.
2) can run Java class files compiled with Sun's JDK and downloaded from a Linux machine. I will not spend a single penny for a development kit, and I will not learn another special PDA language like Newton BASIC or Palm BASIC.
3) the ability to run Python and Tcl programs would be a bonus
4) a real keyboard
5) size isn't a big deal, but obviously I want something that weighs less than a pound.
6) has some access to the system bus so third parties can add pages, phones, hard drives, GPS, or whatever to the device.
Stallman has started the First Foundation to build an encyclopedia. Yah right.
forward your spam to the e-mail address spamcop@spamcop.net
You will get a reply back that will allow you to parse headers and send a complaint with just a couple clicks. Try it, and you'll never go back to reading headers yourself.
www.cheapbytes.com sells Debian. If you don't have that money lying around, and you live in Michigan, just go out and pick up 20 empty soda cans and you've paid for it.
If you live on some other states, you might have to pick up 40 cans, but that's still cheap.
If you live in a state where there is no deposit on empties, you might have to resort to bank robbery or panhandling. I suspect that it's really not that much of a problem though. I mean how often do we see people on the curb holding signs that say "I won't lie to you, I need five dollars for a pack of cigarettes and a Debian CD."
All the reporters who made a buck in 2000 saying that Linux is going to become fragmented are going to make even more bucks in 2001 saying that Linux is going to hell because of all the consolidation.
Wait, no, Linux is CONSOLIDATING!
Chicken Little, how can they BOTH be bad?
To add to your already insightful comment:
Suppose RedHat 15.0 is a piece of garbage, shipped without a compiler, running only shrinkwrap software. It has no commercial competition. Hacker Joe sees the situation as an opportunity to start a business, so he takes the RedHat distribution, tweaks it to run standard software, includes a compiler, and releases his own distribution that is just like RedHat, but everything is now fixed. Sound familiar? Mandrake showed us the way. I expect that scenario to play out many times in the future.
When you apply for your free COMDEX pass, put your job title down as Redshirt, grunt, slave, meathead, Anonymous Coward, Karma Whore, or Peon. There's something fun about walking around a convention with a badge that reads
Patrick Draper
IBM
Galley Slave/Rower
The server looks like it's already going to fall over. Somebody mirror these things quick.
NOW YOU'RE TALKING!!!!
An electric car would be VERY nice because they have constant torque, and there are things like capacitors which would allow you to literally SMOKE the tires through an entire quarter mile, for far cheaper than the Viper that a feat like that requires today.
This car would sell great in the US. Here's a list of the strong points:
1) Big doors to allow 300+ lb. people to get in and out.
2) Lots of headroom for teased hairdos and cowboy hats
3) Great big wheels for running over tiny animals
4) Antique appearance - this definitely looks like your father's Buick
5) Gigantic engine, because driving 55 in the fast lane is better with 350 horsepower.
6) Probably zillions of beer^H^H^H^Hcupholders
7) Bench seats so the lard doesn't get pinched, plus there's a place to put a whole tray of hot dogs.
8) 22 inch wheels - just like your teenager's Honda Civic
9) Pushrod engine technology - fuck that DOHC shit. This car looks old, so why not use old fashined engines too? Grampa won't get confused when he looks under the hood.
Remember the car that Homer Simpson designed? This is just like it.
Don't shoot me. I'm just the messenger.
Once upon a time there was a kook on the Usenet that I found amusing. His name was Robert E. McElwaine. His tagline was "UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS."
See the resemblance? Check out the McElwaine classics here
It's probably more mundane than that:
8:00 - shit
8:05 - shower
8:12 - shave