I know! IT would be SO much easier if we had ONE company that set the rules for EVERYONE. Like a mother almost. That all phones would behave in a certain way and you'd know what coverage you'd have with (let's call her "Ma Bell") no matter where you go because it all the same company! Wouldn't that be nice? And "Ma Bell" could just set these rates and services as she wants to make things easier for us.../sarcasm
17. Thus we may know that there are five essentials
for victory:
(1) He will win who knows when to fight and when
not to fight.
(2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior
and inferior forces.
(3) He will win whose army is animated by the same
spirit throughout all its ranks.
(4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take
the enemy unprepared.
(5) He will win who has military capacity and is
not interfered with by the sovereign.
18. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy
and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a
hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will
succumb in every battle.
I hate it when people only quote half of it, like "judge, not lest ye be judged"
It's funny that the way to LOSE a war according to the art of war is to have the army in a distant land and run the people into recession in order to fund that war (that you should be using the supplies from the fallen army/land to restock).
it's a lot more comforting to believe that our government is almighty and in control doing bad things, rather than believing that shit can and does happen beyond their control.
I'm just pointing out a section of an old book that is almost required reading of people in high military rank. The same people who know that the "enemy" is using the internet and newspapers as a source of intel. What better place to set misinformation than there? Turning the newspapers into doomed spies is just an alteration of Sun Tzu's thought's on spies...
I'm not implying that this is or is not that, just putting it out for discussion.
7. Hence the use of spies, of whom there are five classes:
(1) Local spies; (2) inward spies; (3) converted spies;
(4) doomed spies; (5) surviving spies.
8. When these five kinds of spy are all at work,
none can discover the secret system. This is called "divine
manipulation of the threads." It is the sovereign's
most precious faculty.
9. Having local spies means employing the services
of the inhabitants of a district.
10. Having inward spies, making use of officials
of the enemy.
11. Having converted spies, getting hold of the enemy's
spies and using them for our own purposes.
12. Having doomed spies, doing certain things openly
for purposes of deception, and allowing our spies to know
of them and report them to the enemy.
13. Surviving spies, finally, are those who bring
back news from the enemy's camp.
14. Hence it is that which none in the whole army are
more intimate relations to be maintained than with spies.
None should be more liberally rewarded. In no other
business should greater secrecy be preserved.
Oh yeah, we're so stupid that we're going to let some reporter just find this filing we're trying to hide... NOTHING TO SEE HERE! The Art of war has been around since 5 BC, misinformation has been around longer than that...
She, on the other hand, isn't so kind. I constantly get roped into reading the rhetorical vomit that passes as her papers, usually wanting to cause her physical harm by the end of the first logic-torturing paragraph... That has GOT to be some sort of mental abuse...
She stopped asking my opinions because I gave them to her honestly and my concept of art is different than hers and her clients. I said to her once "This is why I don't have you debug my code. You do your thing that your good at and I do mine... People like what we do enough to pay us. I don't get paid for art and you don't get paid for code... Let's go buy manga and get coffee!"
Ever since then the question of "how was your day" isn't asking about work and there's enough other stuff to talk about. If you don't want to read her papers, tell her man and tell her why. I know Slashdot is NOT the place for advice for relationships but someone with her education should respect the honesty of the whole thing. Then again, I'm not Dr. Phil and YRMV.
Sure, it's still almost impossible to explain the job of a software developer to the average computer user, but then I can't comprehend what a professional accountant must do all day.
My girlfriend and I do a lot of geeky things together, one of our favorites is Monty Python marathons. But, the one thing that's never discussed in great detail is our work lives. She's an artist and I'm an Admin. The most she knows about my work is "The system broke, I fixed it." and the most I know about her art is when I'm taken to gallery openings and what's hanging around the house.
We have enough in common without our work lives having to be involved and I think it's better that way.
Because there are fewer and fewer of us, I must help keep our lineage alive. I am looking for someone to help me do this. I need a woman (obviously) who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix."."
Mom: There's something billy wants to say to you dear...
Dad: What is it son?
Son: Well, ever since I was young I knew I was different... Not like the other boy you wanted me to play with and...
Dad: Billy? Are you telling us you're gay?
Son: No! Not that dad...
Dad: Well son what is it?
Son: I've been dual booting XP for weeks now! I want to use a GUI!
Dad: WHAT?!! I have no son!
But, could that open letter be used as evidence? It came from their website then if they try to use "well, anyone can make things on the internet look that way! Just because the IP address and website are ours it doesn't mean it's our data!" couldn't we counter argue that with their IP sniffing and screen shots or whatever?
I know it would never work. The judge would ph34r t3h ev1l h4xx0rz! But, if fun to dream isn't it?
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
With half a pint of shandy got particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed
I saw someone roll a 100-sider once... once... I think they're still rolling it and trying to get a result where it doesn't roll off the table or hit a book... They basically look like a golf ball with numbers on it
The two 10's (especially the special 10's designed specifically for this) make FAR more sense...
As a Christian, though, I am not surprised when creationism is met with bitter opposition and hatred. After all, when you stand up for the truth, people will hate and they might even kill you for it. Look at what happened to Jesus.
I know I should respond to a coward on such a thread but, I have Karma to answer such things...
What happened to Jesus? Fulfilling the prophecy around his birth! Yes, it was human hate and fear that did it, but, then again: It was His father's will that he die in that way to be reborn... If Jesus hadn't been killed on the day and in the way, the prophecy around him would have been incorrect and would have made him a prophet himself not the messiah. So Anything that happened to Jesus was not because of man but because of God wanting this outcome. Since Jesus was NOT human but a demigod God could impede on Jesus' free will unlike they can do to a human (blurring the line in the Trinity from three separate to one entity). The will of God on man's actions can effect the outcomes, but when God becomes directly involved you cannot say it was because man was Evil
Sundays I spend six hours in a basement playing my level 7 warmage supporting 2 warforged, a rogue, a scout, and a cleric fight the evils that ravage Stromreach! Am I allowed back in the clubhouse yet?
The KY Creation museum isn't too far away from here and everyone that I've talk to that has gone or wanted to go hasn't done so out of religious belief but out of morbid curiosity or think it's funny. Their success is the same as that of the bearded lady, or so it seems to me. Once people get over the initial shock and humor it'll fade into obscurity.
Slashdot Mirror
ME was out HOW long before the next OS?
and WIN98 SE maybe this is Vista SE...As long as they cut some bloat and give me back admin controls in less than convoluted places, I'm cool.
Wait... wait... you lost me... can you use a car analogy? Like You can't turn a red Ford into a blue Chevy, but a VW Bug with the right body kit...
Oh Christ! I hate made up words like that. They make me think of Reaganomics and those "FUN" days.
I know! IT would be SO much easier if we had ONE company that set the rules for EVERYONE. Like a mother almost. That all phones would behave in a certain way and you'd know what coverage you'd have with (let's call her "Ma Bell") no matter where you go because it all the same company! Wouldn't that be nice? And "Ma Bell" could just set these rates and services as she wants to make things easier for us... /sarcasm
Hey! I prefer those phones! NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!
17. Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
(1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
(2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
(3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
(4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
(5) He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
18. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
I hate it when people only quote half of it, like "judge, not lest ye be judged"
It's funny that the way to LOSE a war according to the art of war is to have the army in a distant land and run the people into recession in order to fund that war (that you should be using the supplies from the fallen army/land to restock).
I'm not implying that this is or is not that, just putting it out for discussion.
Then admit you're just in it for the sex and suck it up little soldier!
7. Hence the use of spies, of whom there are five classes: (1) Local spies; (2) inward spies; (3) converted spies; (4) doomed spies; (5) surviving spies.
8. When these five kinds of spy are all at work, none can discover the secret system. This is called "divine manipulation of the threads." It is the sovereign's most precious faculty.
9. Having local spies means employing the services of the inhabitants of a district.
10. Having inward spies, making use of officials of the enemy.
11. Having converted spies, getting hold of the enemy's spies and using them for our own purposes.
12. Having doomed spies, doing certain things openly for purposes of deception, and allowing our spies to know of them and report them to the enemy.
13. Surviving spies, finally, are those who bring back news from the enemy's camp.
14. Hence it is that which none in the whole army are more intimate relations to be maintained than with spies. None should be more liberally rewarded. In no other business should greater secrecy be preserved.
Oh yeah, we're so stupid that we're going to let some reporter just find this filing we're trying to hide... NOTHING TO SEE HERE!
The Art of war has been around since 5 BC, misinformation has been around longer than that...
Ever since then the question of "how was your day" isn't asking about work and there's enough other stuff to talk about. If you don't want to read her papers, tell her man and tell her why. I know Slashdot is NOT the place for advice for relationships but someone with her education should respect the honesty of the whole thing. Then again, I'm not Dr. Phil and YRMV.
We have enough in common without our work lives having to be involved and I think it's better that way.
Dad: What is it son?
Son: Well, ever since I was young I knew I was different... Not like the other boy you wanted me to play with and...
Dad: Billy? Are you telling us you're gay?
Son: No! Not that dad...
Dad: Well son what is it?
Son: I've been dual booting XP for weeks now! I want to use a GUI!
Dad: WHAT?!! I have no son!
They admit to being part of a "dieing breed" yet he is still looking for a mate? Darwin is spinning in his grave...
But, could that open letter be used as evidence? It came from their website then if they try to use "well, anyone can make things on the internet look that way! Just because the IP address and website are ours it doesn't mean it's our data!" couldn't we counter argue that with their IP sniffing and screen shots or whatever?
I know it would never work. The judge would ph34r t3h ev1l h4xx0rz! But, if fun to dream isn't it?
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will With half a pint of shandy got particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed
What IT does with Downtime? You must be new here
The two 10's (especially the special 10's designed specifically for this) make FAR more sense...
What happened to Jesus? Fulfilling the prophecy around his birth! Yes, it was human hate and fear that did it, but, then again: It was His father's will that he die in that way to be reborn... If Jesus hadn't been killed on the day and in the way, the prophecy around him would have been incorrect and would have made him a prophet himself not the messiah. So Anything that happened to Jesus was not because of man but because of God wanting this outcome. Since Jesus was NOT human but a demigod God could impede on Jesus' free will unlike they can do to a human (blurring the line in the Trinity from three separate to one entity). The will of God on man's actions can effect the outcomes, but when God becomes directly involved you cannot say it was because man was Evil
Then again, I'm no longer Christian...
Sundays I spend six hours in a basement playing my level 7 warmage supporting 2 warforged, a rogue, a scout, and a cleric fight the evils that ravage Stromreach! Am I allowed back in the clubhouse yet?
Aww man! I flubbed a Monty Python Quote! My girlfriend is going to kill me...
In hindsight, that phrase only hurt me in getting my geek card restored anytime soon...
Mixing Raw sewage with Stagnant pond water don't exactly get ya Evian... Eh?
It's a simple weight ratio! A 5 oz Sparrow can't carry a coconut!
Northern Kentucky gets Ohio imports into the gene pool from Cincinnati...
But I'm not really sure if that helps or hurts their case...
The KY Creation museum isn't too far away from here and everyone that I've talk to that has gone or wanted to go hasn't done so out of religious belief but out of morbid curiosity or think it's funny. Their success is the same as that of the bearded lady, or so it seems to me. Once people get over the initial shock and humor it'll fade into obscurity.