So Bill and Warren were talking about recent purchases, Bill says, "Oh, I just picked up 4 new golf clubs last Saturday". Warren: "Oh, how are they?". Bill: "Not bad, three of them come with swimming pools".
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Going Cyberpunk
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You pull an old tv out of the attic and check it out, thinking it might sell on eBay. Just as you turn the UHF knob toward the upper end of the dial a paralysing shock knocks your hand numb and a loud thought-voice says, in a friendly, evenly modulated female tone, "I'm sorry, you were about to tune into a frequency band used for private unencrypted voice conversations, prohibited by federal law. I cannot allow that to happen Dave."
Next day during a break at work, you come across, in the dark fringe areas of the web, a very large prime number - suddenly your field of vision blacks out with a searing headache and the same thought-voice says, "I'm sorry, you were about to view a number which, when uncompressed, contains information that may be used to circumvent video copy protection, prohibited by federal law. I cannot allow that to happen Dave."
Re:Thats it, people.
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NES PC
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I just picked up an Atari Super Pong for $15 at a hamfest. Works! Will start porting Linux to it this weekend.
I hope they 'upgrade' the lawsuit to include all USians, and all consumers worldwide for that matter.
However, with the transition to an 'information' service economy I expert this suit to slowly fade away like a tabled bill of consumer rights in an economic business conference, c.f., UCITA laws - politicians never met a business they didn't like, even shady ones. Maybe especially shady ones, since the politicians get to run all of the liquor, gambling, prostitution and enforcement racket, and don't like unauthorized encroachment on their turf.
Back in mission control engineers scanned monitors looking for the problems. Suddenly all the dials and gauges went crazy. A voice shouted "fire". It was the voice of one of the astronauts. The controllers looked at the screen that should be showing the interior of the Apollo capsule, all they could see was a fireball. Gus Grissom's voice came over the comms, "I've got a fire in the cockpit". There were more shouts , a scream and then silence. The interior of Apollo I had become a blowtorch and in eight seconds Grissom, White and Chaffee were dead. Everybody's worst nightmare had just become a reality.
The Apollo program had become a mess. Complacency and incompetance was abound and in the wake of the Apollo I disaster a drive to improve things wholesale saw a lot of heads roll. With the Vietnam war and civil rights concerning the public, people were asking if the space program was worth it.
The point is that no one can stop you from using Free software in whatever manner you want to.
Your EMPLOYER sure can, and that's what the newspaper article is all about - employees are hurded into the conference room and given the business about yet another system change, like it or quit. Sure you can use free software at HOME anyway you want, but from 8-5 the noble army of office drones are completely put upon by their clueless managers who fell for the latest PowerPoint rangers presentation about the next big thing that's going to boost productivity (of the drones) and make them (the managers) wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for
I would assert that the gnu philosophy is LESS extreme than our $$$ and power drunk rulers at Msft, hellbent on extinguishing all consumer choice. I wonder if Dennis uses NT out of personal choice or Bell Labs corporate mandate. I guess he answers in this line:
"For stuff like getting Excel and Word things, plus much WWW browsing, I revert to NT."
Well, my Transamerica 401k site is Msft and only works with IE, so we understand.
...and electronic projects magazines would publish FET circuits to ring your extra phones w/o drawing extra current. Think I still have that CG booklet of fet projects somewhere....
Why would an entire industry, an important industry, have such a backwards person as a highly visible spokesperson? It's like the ACM having a chief who scorns anything that came after punched cards, or a automotive industry figurehead who still lives in the days of carburators, leaded gas, stick shifts and no seatbelts. I know he's looking out for industry property rights, but he's sure mucking it up with these "I'm out of it" remarks. Certainly they can find someone who advocates property rights who at least has a clue about digital media and it's positive potentials.
A better analogy would be, do we DESIGN our own cloths, automobiles. And, as a matter of fact my mom has made lots of cloths. She used to run the sewing machines a lot. Now she knits. Man she knits up a storm. Every night I sleep under these incredibly warm afghans lovingly made while she watched TV. Most of those cloths and patterns were, however, purchased plans, kits, etc.
Anyway, It's not at all inconceivable that a group of Ford engineers, in their spare time, make a 'dream design' automobile THAT THEY SHARE WITH ANYONE WHO WANTS A COPY. Say they work by day to earn a living, but are unhappy with the 'cost reducing' and shipping lousy products because of a n agressive marketing deadline. So they get together at Billy's Bar and Brainstorm and dream up the ultimate street rod, draw up plans most any shade tree mechanic can follow and publish it in Hot Rod, sell plans for mostly cost of reproduction. Sure, why not.
DO I Make my own recipies? Sure, I like to experiment in the kitches. They are usually derivities of someone elses (someone better at it than me!). There's plenty of 'do it yourself' people around.
To me it's all a matter of being independant. The thing that scares me the most is becoming dependant on some greedy a$$hole, with no alternative but to pay what they demand or die. They do want to enslave you, and freedom is a constant struggle, because there has always been greedy, domineering, petty tirants, in business and government, just like there have always been obsequious sheep ready to follow them to the slaughterhouse.
I like to imagine a FREE XP CD in every box of Kellog's Rasin Bran, or a mini-cd as the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks. Or hanging by the dozen in the childrens department next to the action figures and toy guns. When little Jimmy gets all gee-whiz over it mommy will buy it and say, "You can play with Windows for now son, but some day you'll have to grow up and use a REAL operating system like your daddy".
"It would seem to me that they lose even more on an unsold unit."
Isn't that clever? The marketing pitch used to be "The more you buy, the more you save!", now Msft is using "The more you buy, the more we lose!"
I'm not sure tho - if people don't buy units they will stop making them, and stop losing $$$. As long as people keep buying them, they'll have to make more units and lose $100 apiece.
After seeing so many of these "who's on first" discussions break down into unresolvable claims and counter claims, usually along nationalistic lines, we start to see that many 'inventions' actually look like state of the art 'waves' involving MANY, MANY people working in varying degress of interinvolvment, and that any one particular person just bob's up and down on the wave crest - if that one person wasn't there at the right place at the right time any one of the others could have easily taken his or her place. You might as well be saying someting like "Neil Armstrong invented moon walking!" which overlooks the talents and dedicated efforts of a huge number of people over a very long time, from the ancient Chinese to Robert Goddard to Werner Von Braun and a large cast of others who helped put him there.
Actually, Nikoli Tesla invented the video game while working for Thomas Edison. It was called "Thunderbolt" and used a scanning disk display synchronized to a 3 foot coil.
Don't be fooled - they're there for one purpose only: to confound and destroy. Anything that takes away from Windows license revenue must be eleminated by any means possible that isn't a flagrant violation of the law (gray fuzzy area means are ok).
If you're looking for the mathematically perfect zero fault spam solution in a world full of Msft and human beings, forget it.
What happens when I start getting 600-800 a day?
Start another account and don't give it to strangers who might sell it. Only give it to the person or persons who are going to send that really important email message. Throw in a few random numbers so if one gets leaked to spammers you can track the source (i.e., I gave my employment agency (obviously an important contact) chuck369, and nobody else. Now if chuck369 starts getting spam we know employment agency leaked it). Use 'throw away' accounts for untrusted contacts who might leak it to spammers.
FR Doc. 02-32649 appears to be "ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of time to file reply comments." You want "67 FR 62667, October 8, 2002) seeking comment on whether it should change its rules restricting telemarketing calls and facsimile advertisements. ", which isn't there to leave comments on. All you can comment on is extention of the time to file comments on a rule you can't comment on (on that website anyway).
Radar: from the book "Confound and Destroy"
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Here's one credible referance, "Confound & Destroy - 100 Group and the bomber support campaign" by Martin Streetly:
"During the 1930s, as Europe prepared itself for a seemingly inevitable war, Britain and Germany began the practice of 'seeing' with radio energy. Radar, as this branch of electronics would later be known, was not new; the principle had been laid out by a German, Christian Hulsmeyer, in a patent of April 1904. "
It is indeed amazing how the screw-the-US pseudo-science earth-worship crowd has made an unproven, complicated theory a common-sense 'fact', Joseph Goebbels would be proud. You can tell just how much good science has been perverted into bad politics by the timing of various 'global warming' studies being released on hot Autumn days, the UK 'scientist' with the 'study' that even getting cold is warmning, etc. Hopefully, as the climate goes thru it's natural cycles, they'll stfu and go away already, the days of open hearth coal burners is over anyway. Most of these tv-talking-head parrots have NO IDEA of the immensity of planet earth anyway - take, for example, the amount of water in the oceans: it's over 285 Million cubic miles of water. Now, to start to grasp this, imagine the length of a mile. Now go up a mile. Now just try to imagine a CUBE that size. Then nearly 300 million of those cubes. It's things like that that make me want to smack a deluded earthie when they try to bust on people for 'destroying the planet' over a small discharge, like it's some kind of fragile egg about to crack. The REAL issues is population instead of US citizen lifestyle anyway, the deluded earthies should be tilting at way overpopulated areas like China and India. They should be griping at the open sewer called the Ganges river and leave healthy, low impact productive industries along. But NOOOOO, critical thinking will appearantly never occur to the mass of sheeple and their evil pop star leaders. I used to really enjoy how the IAEAE (Internation Association of Environmental Alarmists and Extreamists) would try to 'oneup' each other over how fast the rainforrest is being destroyed untill they just start pulling random figures out of their hats - 'The rainforrest is being destroyed at the rate of billions of acres per second! We must do something!' and again, the issues is population, people trying to get farmland by slash and burn clearing.
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So Bill and Warren were talking about recent purchases, Bill says, "Oh, I just picked up 4 new golf clubs last Saturday". Warren: "Oh, how are they?". Bill: "Not bad, three of them come with swimming pools".
You pull an old tv out of the attic and check it out, thinking it might sell on eBay. Just as you turn the UHF knob toward the upper end of the dial a paralysing shock knocks your hand numb and a loud thought-voice says, in a friendly, evenly modulated female tone, "I'm sorry, you were about to tune into a frequency band used for private unencrypted voice conversations, prohibited by federal law. I cannot allow that to happen Dave."
Next day during a break at work, you come across, in the dark fringe areas of the web, a very large prime number - suddenly your field of vision blacks out with a searing headache and the same thought-voice says, "I'm sorry, you were about to view a number which, when uncompressed, contains information that may be used to circumvent video copy protection, prohibited by federal law. I cannot allow that to happen Dave."
I just picked up an Atari Super Pong for $15 at a hamfest. Works! Will start porting Linux to it this weekend.
I hope they 'upgrade' the lawsuit to include all USians, and all consumers worldwide for that matter.
However, with the transition to an 'information' service economy I expert this suit to slowly fade away like a tabled bill of consumer rights in an economic business conference, c.f., UCITA laws - politicians never met a business they didn't like, even shady ones. Maybe especially shady ones, since the politicians get to run all of the liquor, gambling, prostitution and enforcement racket, and don't like unauthorized encroachment on their turf.
from this:
Back in mission control engineers scanned monitors looking for the problems. Suddenly all the dials and gauges went crazy. A voice shouted "fire". It was the voice of one of the astronauts. The controllers looked at the screen that should be showing the interior of the Apollo capsule, all they could see was a fireball. Gus Grissom's voice came over the comms, "I've got a fire in the cockpit". There were more shouts , a scream and then silence. The interior of Apollo I had become a blowtorch and in eight seconds Grissom, White and Chaffee were dead. Everybody's worst nightmare had just become a reality.
The Apollo program had become a mess. Complacency and incompetance was abound and in the wake of the Apollo I disaster a drive to improve things wholesale saw a lot of heads roll. With the Vietnam war and civil rights concerning the public, people were asking if the space program was worth it.
The point is that no one can stop you from using Free software in whatever manner you want to.
Your EMPLOYER sure can, and that's what the newspaper article is all about - employees are hurded into the conference room and given the business about yet another system change, like it or quit. Sure you can use free software at HOME anyway you want, but from 8-5 the noble army of office drones are completely put upon by their clueless managers who fell for the latest PowerPoint rangers presentation about the next big thing that's going to boost productivity (of the drones) and make them (the managers) wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for
I would assert that the gnu philosophy is LESS extreme than our $$$ and power drunk rulers at Msft, hellbent on extinguishing all consumer choice. I wonder if Dennis uses NT out of personal choice or Bell Labs corporate mandate. I guess he answers in this line:
"For stuff like getting Excel and Word things, plus much WWW browsing, I revert to NT."
Well, my Transamerica 401k site is Msft and only works with IE, so we understand.
Which shuts down the higher level brain functions and allows the inner fish to express itself.
On the surface I may seem very profound, but deep down inside I'm actually a very shallow individual.
...and electronic projects magazines would publish FET circuits to ring your extra phones w/o drawing extra current. Think I still have that CG booklet of fet projects somewhere ....
Why would an entire industry, an important industry, have such a backwards person as a highly visible spokesperson? It's like the ACM having a chief who scorns anything that came after punched cards, or a automotive industry figurehead who still lives in the days of carburators, leaded gas, stick shifts and no seatbelts. I know he's looking out for industry property rights, but he's sure mucking it up with these "I'm out of it" remarks. Certainly they can find someone who advocates property rights who at least has a clue about digital media and it's positive potentials.
A better analogy would be, do we DESIGN our own cloths, automobiles. And, as a matter of fact my mom has made lots of cloths. She used to run the sewing machines a lot. Now she knits. Man she knits up a storm. Every night I sleep under these incredibly warm afghans lovingly made while she watched TV. Most of those cloths and patterns were, however, purchased plans, kits, etc.
Anyway, It's not at all inconceivable that a group of Ford engineers, in their spare time, make a 'dream design' automobile THAT THEY SHARE WITH ANYONE WHO WANTS A COPY. Say they work by day to earn a living, but are unhappy with the 'cost reducing' and shipping lousy products because of a n agressive marketing deadline. So they get together at Billy's Bar and Brainstorm and dream up the ultimate street rod, draw up plans most any shade tree mechanic can follow and publish it in Hot Rod, sell plans for mostly cost of reproduction. Sure, why not.
DO I Make my own recipies? Sure, I like to experiment in the kitches. They are usually derivities of someone elses (someone better at it than me!). There's plenty of 'do it yourself' people around.
To me it's all a matter of being independant. The thing that scares me the most is becoming dependant on some greedy a$$hole, with no alternative but to pay what they demand or die. They do want to enslave you, and freedom is a constant struggle, because there has always been greedy, domineering, petty tirants, in business and government, just like there have always been obsequious sheep ready to follow them to the slaughterhouse.
may give you hearing aids.
Imagine if Windows cost $9.99?
I like to imagine a FREE XP CD in every box of Kellog's Rasin Bran, or a mini-cd as the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks. Or hanging by the dozen in the childrens department next to the action figures and toy guns. When little Jimmy gets all gee-whiz over it mommy will buy it and say, "You can play with Windows for now son, but some day you'll have to grow up and use a REAL operating system like your daddy".
"It would seem to me that they lose even more on an unsold unit."
Isn't that clever? The marketing pitch used to be "The more you buy, the more you save!", now Msft is using "The more you buy, the more we lose!"
I'm not sure tho - if people don't buy units they will stop making them, and stop losing $$$. As long as people keep buying them, they'll have to make more units and lose $100 apiece.
After seeing so many of these "who's on first" discussions break down into unresolvable claims and counter claims, usually along nationalistic lines, we start to see that many 'inventions' actually look like state of the art 'waves' involving MANY, MANY people working in varying degress of interinvolvment, and that any one particular person just bob's up and down on the wave crest - if that one person wasn't there at the right place at the right time any one of the others could have easily taken his or her place. You might as well be saying someting like "Neil Armstrong invented moon walking!" which overlooks the talents and dedicated efforts of a huge number of people over a very long time, from the ancient Chinese to Robert Goddard to Werner Von Braun and a large cast of others who helped put him there.
Now my sig line makes sense.
(it was supposed to be someone slurring the sentence ".. I got up at 8 o'clock")
Don't forget 'Austria' vs 'Austrailia' - I always get those two countries mixed up.
Actually, Nikoli Tesla invented the video game while working for Thomas Edison. It was called "Thunderbolt" and used a scanning disk display synchronized to a 3 foot coil.
Well, seeing how much manufacturing has moved overseas from the US, about the only jobs left here are either selling something or sueing someone.
woo+! I finally won!!
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COMMAND? 5
TORPEDO COURSE (IN DEGREES)? 18.43
TRANSLATES TO 2.57778
TRACK: 7 - 7 6 - 8 5 - 8
KLINGON DESTROYED!
IT IS STARDATE 3457
THE FEDERATION HAS BEEN SAVED!
YOU ARE PROMOTED TO ADMIRAL
36 KLINGONS IN 36 YEARS. RATING= 1000
TRY AGAIN?
Don't be fooled - they're there for one purpose only: to confound and destroy. Anything that takes away from Windows license revenue must be eleminated by any means possible that isn't a flagrant violation of the law (gray fuzzy area means are ok).
If you're looking for the mathematically perfect zero fault spam solution in a world full of Msft and human beings, forget it.
What happens when I start getting 600-800 a day?
Start another account and don't give it to strangers who might sell it. Only give it to the person or persons who are going to send that really important email message. Throw in a few random numbers so if one gets leaked to spammers you can track the source (i.e., I gave my employment agency (obviously an important contact) chuck369, and nobody else. Now if chuck369 starts getting spam we know employment agency leaked it). Use 'throw away' accounts for untrusted contacts who might leak it to spammers.
FR Doc. 02-32649 appears to be "ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of time to file reply comments." You want "67 FR 62667, October 8, 2002) seeking comment on whether it should change its rules restricting telemarketing calls and facsimile advertisements. ", which isn't there to leave comments on. All you can comment on is extention of the time to file comments on a rule you can't comment on (on that website anyway).
Here's one credible referance, "Confound & Destroy - 100 Group and the bomber support campaign" by Martin Streetly:
"During the 1930s, as Europe prepared itself for a seemingly inevitable war, Britain and Germany began the practice of 'seeing' with radio energy. Radar, as this branch of electronics would later be known, was not new; the principle had been laid out by a German, Christian Hulsmeyer , in a patent of April 1904. "
It is indeed amazing how the screw-the-US pseudo-science earth-worship crowd has made an unproven, complicated theory a common-sense 'fact', Joseph Goebbels would be proud. You can tell just how much good science has been perverted into bad politics by the timing of various 'global warming' studies being released on hot Autumn days, the UK 'scientist' with the 'study' that even getting cold is warmning, etc. Hopefully, as the climate goes thru it's natural cycles, they'll stfu and go away already, the days of open hearth coal burners is over anyway. Most of these tv-talking-head parrots have NO IDEA of the immensity of planet earth anyway - take, for example, the amount of water in the oceans: it's over 285 Million cubic miles of water. Now, to start to grasp this, imagine the length of a mile. Now go up a mile. Now just try to imagine a CUBE that size. Then nearly 300 million of those cubes. It's things like that that make me want to smack a deluded earthie when they try to bust on people for 'destroying the planet' over a small discharge, like it's some kind of fragile egg about to crack. The REAL issues is population instead of US citizen lifestyle anyway, the deluded earthies should be tilting at way overpopulated areas like China and India. They should be griping at the open sewer called the Ganges river and leave healthy, low impact productive industries along. But NOOOOO, critical thinking will appearantly never occur to the mass of sheeple and their evil pop star leaders. I used to really enjoy how the IAEAE (Internation Association of Environmental Alarmists and Extreamists) would try to 'oneup' each other over how fast the rainforrest is being destroyed untill they just start pulling random figures out of their hats - 'The rainforrest is being destroyed at the rate of billions of acres per second! We must do something!' and again, the issues is population, people trying to get farmland by slash and burn clearing.