"Umsonst "
as in "this haircut is for free"
and it also means "of or to no purpose" such as when you go into town on a public holiday or a Sunday and can't buy anything because the shops are closed.
1 Leak Windows 7 to pirate torrents sites
2 Create a wave of internet excitement(?)amongst people who would never buy it.
3 Sell millions of copies as a result of this er...
4 Normally comes pre-installed on new PC'S
5 Very few people ever actually buy a copy (see 4)
6 Not actually available in the shops
7 ???
8 Result Profit???
my cat hid under the bed at almost 25 seconds into the New Year. Right after he heard the first of the fireworks. However he did restart normally about 22 minutes later after a soothing saucer of milk. I wonder if...
and immediately restore all of civilisation, just like they did after the fall of Rome, only much quicker this time and the quality will be so much higher and it will be ten times more efficient...
How can anything in Michigan be removed from the Queen's English? Won't they have to tear up the declaration of independence (I think perhaps that should be in capitals:-) ) Even Her Majesty's own subjects don't speak whatever the Queen's English is. Just listen to the now invisible glottal stop in estuary English (cue Amy Winehouse album) "To'al" or the south's strange pronounciation of Wednesday as Wendsday. If Michigan wants to rescue the Queen's English, I suggest they email an apology to Our Lizzie at Buck House, send a back payment for all that unpaid stamp duty, start drinking tea again, change all of their Boulevards back to streets, start driving on the wrong side of the road again, charge citizens over one hundred pounds per year to watch the telly, start making films at Hollywood, rename (American) football to armoured-rugby and then start playing (proper)football again and declare President Elect, Barack Obama King...
Like many career politicians, Andrew Burnham has never had a proper job in his life. He followed the traditional career path of a labour appartchick university, nob-end admin of some union front organisation and then Parliament.
So it should come as no surprise that his understanding of the internet is a bit like my gran's - it's a big phone - Let's all bask in the glowing trail of ignorance that this brief political meteor provides us with as he burns up in the atmosphere of public ridicule.
histories to date. Qantas is one of the safest airlines in the world. Anyway, aside from the likes of Ariana,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_Afghan_Airlines air travel remains amongst the safest forms of mechanised transport. Compare and contrast the risks of road traffic accidents and their level of fatality amongst the under 30's.
"Poor Hareton was squalling and kicking in his father's arms with all his
might, and redoubled his yells when he carried him up-stairs and lifted
him over the banister. I cried out that he would frighten the child into
fits, and ran to rescue him. As I reached them, Hindley leant forward on
the rails to listen to a noise below; almost forgetting what he had in
his hands. 'Who is that?' he asked, hearing some one approaching the
stairs'-foot. I leant forward also, for the purpose of signing to
Heathcliff, whose step I recognised, not to come further; and, at the
instant when my eye quitted Hareton, he gave a sudden spring, delivered
himself from the careless grasp that held him, and fell.
There was scarcely time to experience a thrill of horror before we saw
that the little wretch was safe. Heathcliff arrived underneath just at
the critical moment; by a natural impulse he arrested his descent, and
setting him on his feet, looked up to discover the author of the
accident. A miser who has parted with a lucky lottery ticket for five
shillings, and finds next day he has lost in the bargain five thousand
pounds, could not show a blanker countenance than he did on beholding the
figure of Mr. Earnshaw above. It expressed, plainer than words could do,
the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting
his own revenge. Had it been dark, I daresay he would have tried to
remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps; but, we
witnessed his salvation; and I was presently below with my precious
charge pressed to my heart. Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered
and abashed."
School Prison System. I have said it a few times now, on slash dot. School is a prison where young people are held hostage and counted, frequently. These cameras will make that even more efficient. John Gatto has said it all already http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue2.htm
I have no doubt that this topic will spiral into a squabble between both camps in the God divide but before that happens, the rest of us could give thanks (you choose to whom) that we are now in a position to be able to examine a growing wealth of original source material in a way that has never before been available to anyone. The opportunity that this portends for the future are quite possibly, of greater immensity than we can imagine.
Not only that but in the very near future, when the pointless grandstanding that will soon render this topic unreadable happens, or when the discussion inevitably turns to the eternal question of how many polar bears can be balance on the point of an argument, we shall have a new moderation: Go See.
is rather confusing for us Europeans, certainly me, since the U.S seems to use it as a label for both sides of the fence. While on the surface, the arguments appear to circle around the wagon train of self interest, personal freedom and a smaller government both sides seem able to imagine a society without government. This comes from the common belief found in western thought where the state is considered fundamentally evil. Clearly an idea that puts the cart well ahead of the horse. I have probably re-hashed this post a few times over the years but I shall repeat it. Military power is a side effect of trade and the state, a product of laws, is the side effect of military power. These organisations are intended to produce stability and stability is always followed by society which cannot exist alone.
It may not come as a surprise, but the military organisation is not one well suited to difficult decisions. Their purpose is to break stuff and kill people, a rather black and white process and, once the heat of battle is over, history is repleat with examples of how they screwed it up. To make difficult decisions required a reasonable degree of consensus and simple trading entities are equally incapable of this. What was required is the law and this is the foundation of society. Laws can and have come and gone over the past 2000 years of recorded history but wherever you found them they did not exist in a vacum devoid of state or military.
The purpose of all these elements of society is to exert control over each other to avoid chaos and bloodshed. As states grew in history we can observe how their power waxes and wains and we can observe how the disenfranchised strove to absorb advances to create a greater balance amongst them (the inevitable creation of the United States of America is a perfect example of this). The apparent disparity in a variety of social metrics around the world is nowhere near where it was 100 hundred years ago, which is why we will never see an empire the size of the British Empire (on whom, the sun never set) again.
For this reason, anyone can hold any political opinion they wish, believe in any creed or cult or ethnic minority, but in the absence of the state there is only one single political idea, self interest and self interest is completely incapable of building even a small house, never mind a road network and the infrastructure of society.
European libertarian thought was more communist or anarcho-syndicalist - obsessing about who owned the mechanisms of the state and what they should be and more importantly why. The topic under discussion here is more in line with interpretations of what liberalism is (again, a loaded term in the U.S.) and how our society should or should not be modified by it. Sadly a great deal of the debate is just that, debate, an idle pastime of the priviliged (I include myself here, otherwise how would I have time to idle away here on Slashdot).
Someone, Karl Marx in fact (whom even I bridle at mentioning on slashdot), was quite plain about the true course of action when he said (possibly with a tad of input from Engels - someone of immense idle privilege) "philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point is to change it." While this discussion is certainly an entertaining distraction from the hum drum of our existence, perhaps, just perhaps, whether it's support for concepts like OLPC, concern for the welfare of our fellows, action to improve reading standards and education, freedom to pursue the political party of our conscience or just providing everyone with drinking water, perhaps, just perhaps quite a lot of us could be part of change that, together, we can make for ourselves without the involvement of either faith or belief.
I am rather tempted to say, "No, honest Virgil did say it!" Or : "he would have!" or "Tertullian forced me say it!" or possibly even:
"Yeah, but, no, but... ", "... or summing or nuffing", "I wasn't even sposed to be there so, SHUT up!", "Don't be giving me evils!", "Oh my God! I sooo can't believe you said that!"
But it was indeed a mistake, too many classics, not enough brain space left.
You have my sincerest apologies. I meant Juvenal. Sorry.
Virgil's famous quote had very little to do with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It was a satirical reference in his play to a certain young woman of easy virtue and began 'Pone seram cohibe' (restrain her in her room) and he was worried that one would never find enough young sentrys capable of not yeilding to her charms 'So, whose going to stop her getting laid?' I can think of a response to this (better guards, gay guards) but I don't even have enough time to note it in the margin.
The original (if it is!) is even funnier, even in English:
... noui
consilia et ueteres quaecumque monetis amici,
"pone seram, cohibes." sed quis custodiat ipsos
custodes qui nunc lasciuae furta puellae
hac mercede silent? crimen commune tacetur.
... I know
the plan that my friends always advise me to adopt:
"Bolt her in, constrain her!" But who can watch
the watchmen? They keep quiet about the girl's
secrets and get her as their payment; everyone hushes it up.
For readers of a technical disposition, I inadvertently added a trailing slash while slapping in some wallpaper from wikipedia to make the page properly sexy for the new discerning web2 readership. And of course I didn't check anything, I'm an effing former photojournalist after all and we're pure scum.
Put the television up rather loud, let them talk all the way through their script, agree that all the offers are very tempting (ahu, ahu) and then when you get an opportunity to ask a question, just say: "Do you think I will be able to get social security to pay for that?"....buuuuurrr!
Journalism's origins stem from the reporting of shiploads of trade goods and their arrival in port - particularly Venice and London. Advance knowledge of a ship and it's contents allowed the original speculators the opportunity to make a healthy profit. These sheets were circulated, certainly around London and Venice and it wasn't long before people used them to advertise.
Friends of the printers (to cut a long story short) often sent lengthy letters to each other, reporting on topical events (it was before the internet) especially wars. These letters were often printed verbatim hence the origin of the word 'correspondent'. These reports were incredibly popular and garnered readership. Edward Mallet took the highly original step of editing them to fit the space between the ads, and the Daily Courant was born in the 1700's. Often these letters were reports of reports of reports - a bit like the internet!
Gradually this developed into an art form and it wasn't long before reporters were despatched to write the letters themselves. War, conflict, crime and punishment and scandal soon became the daily diet of millions of readers. Then Hollywood was invented and so was the world of entertainment. Gradually readers started to prefer entertainment to 'news' - and who wouldn't? I present exhibit one 'The Sun' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun/ , which holds the world record for the highest readership of a single edition in the English language. This is closely followed by that masterpiece of twee entertainment published by DC Thomson 'The Sunday.Post' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Post/ including the immortal humour of 'Oor Wullie' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oor_Wullie/ Oor_Wullie and 'The Broons' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broons/
So it shouldn't really surprise anyone that people like to be entertained and since the entertainment industry is the economic dynamo of the developed nations, we shouldn't really be surprised by the sudden revelation that newspapers are in the 'infotainment' business.
None of this is at all new, Evelyn Waugh, in 1938, lampooned the whole industry to hilarious effect in 'Scoop' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(novel)/. The simple tests for 'news' is; "What is the origin of this report?" and: "Who benefits from it?" and the three eternal questions any journalist would ask any famous figure if they caught them in the elevator are: "How bad is it? Will it get any worse? And what are you going to do about". A healthy attitude of scepticism is an essential attri..
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you ** breaking news** direct from Lynwood, California where Paris Hilton has just been released from prison having served four days of a 40 day sentence...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton/
Bias Disclaimer: I used to be a member of the NUJ and I used to teach this subject.
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and exactly how many battalions does virtual have?
Go Nuclear!
"Umsonst " as in "this haircut is for free" and it also means "of or to no purpose" such as when you go into town on a public holiday or a Sunday and can't buy anything because the shops are closed.
According to the BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7808171.stm the jury is still out on this one.
1 Leak Windows 7 to pirate torrents sites ...
2 Create a wave of internet excitement(?)amongst people who would never buy it.
3 Sell millions of copies as a result of this er
4 Normally comes pre-installed on new PC'S
5 Very few people ever actually buy a copy (see 4)
6 Not actually available in the shops
7 ???
8 Result Profit???
With appropriate apologies to the South Park Meme
naturally such a senior member of the administration is only ever served special cat milk which is very low in lactose.
my cat hid under the bed at almost 25 seconds into the New Year. Right after he heard the first of the fireworks. However he did restart normally about 22 minutes later after a soothing saucer of milk. I wonder if ...
and immediately restore all of civilisation, just like they did after the fall of Rome, only much quicker this time and the quality will be so much higher and it will be ten times more efficient...
How can anything in Michigan be removed from the Queen's English?
Won't they have to tear up the declaration of independence (I think perhaps that should be in capitals:-) )
Even Her Majesty's own subjects don't speak whatever the Queen's English is. Just listen to the now invisible glottal stop in estuary English (cue Amy Winehouse album) "To'al" or the south's strange pronounciation of Wednesday as Wendsday.
If Michigan wants to rescue the Queen's English, I suggest they email an apology to Our Lizzie at Buck House, send a back payment for all that unpaid stamp duty, start drinking tea again, change all of their Boulevards back to streets, start driving on the wrong side of the road again, charge citizens over one hundred pounds per year to watch the telly, start making films at Hollywood, rename (American) football to armoured-rugby and then start playing (proper)football again and declare President Elect, Barack Obama King...
I could go on...
Like many career politicians, Andrew Burnham has never had a proper job in his life. He followed the traditional career path of a labour appartchick university, nob-end admin of some union front organisation and then Parliament.
So it should come as no surprise that his understanding of the internet is a bit like my gran's - it's a big phone -
Let's all bask in the glowing trail of ignorance that this brief political meteor provides us with as he burns up in the atmosphere of public ridicule.
When you cross the 49th parallel it stops detecting alcohol or handguns in the trunk.
histories to date. Qantas is one of the safest airlines in the world. Anyway, aside from the likes of Ariana,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_Afghan_Airlines air travel remains amongst the safest forms of mechanised transport. Compare and contrast the risks of road traffic accidents and their level of fatality amongst the under 30's.
Obviously that will be the price of freedom! Even with inflation adjustment the price will remain constant.
"Poor Hareton was squalling and kicking in his father's arms with all his might, and redoubled his yells when he carried him up-stairs and lifted him over the banister. I cried out that he would frighten the child into fits, and ran to rescue him. As I reached them, Hindley leant forward on the rails to listen to a noise below; almost forgetting what he had in his hands. 'Who is that?' he asked, hearing some one approaching the stairs'-foot. I leant forward also, for the purpose of signing to Heathcliff, whose step I recognised, not to come further; and, at the instant when my eye quitted Hareton, he gave a sudden spring, delivered himself from the careless grasp that held him, and fell. There was scarcely time to experience a thrill of horror before we saw that the little wretch was safe. Heathcliff arrived underneath just at the critical moment; by a natural impulse he arrested his descent, and setting him on his feet, looked up to discover the author of the accident. A miser who has parted with a lucky lottery ticket for five shillings, and finds next day he has lost in the bargain five thousand pounds, could not show a blanker countenance than he did on beholding the figure of Mr. Earnshaw above. It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge. Had it been dark, I daresay he would have tried to remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps; but, we witnessed his salvation; and I was presently below with my precious charge pressed to my heart. Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed."
School Prison System. I have said it a few times now, on slash dot. School is a prison where young people are held hostage and counted, frequently. These cameras will make that even more efficient.
John Gatto has said it all already http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue2.htm
I have no doubt that this topic will spiral into a squabble between both camps in the God divide but before that happens, the rest of us could give thanks (you choose to whom) that we are now in a position to be able to examine a growing wealth of original source material in a way that has never before been available to anyone. The opportunity that this portends for the future are quite possibly, of greater immensity than we can imagine.
Not only that but in the very near future, when the pointless grandstanding that will soon render this topic unreadable happens, or when the discussion inevitably turns to the eternal question of how many polar bears can be balance on the point of an argument, we shall have a new moderation:
Go See.
an expensive reality on a handheld.
There. Fixed that for you.
I'm going to order myself 1200 H. Upmann petit-coronas. Yumm! Save me having to get Pierre Salinger to do it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Upmann_(cigar_brand)
is rather confusing for us Europeans, certainly me, since the U.S seems to use it as a label for both sides of the fence. While on the surface, the arguments appear to circle around the wagon train of self interest, personal freedom and a smaller government both sides seem able to imagine a society without government. This comes from the common belief found in western thought where the state is considered fundamentally evil. Clearly an idea that puts the cart well ahead of the horse.
I have probably re-hashed this post a few times over the years but I shall repeat it. Military power is a side effect of trade and the state, a product of laws, is the side effect of military power. These organisations are intended to produce stability and stability is always followed by society which cannot exist alone.
It may not come as a surprise, but the military organisation is not one well suited to difficult decisions. Their purpose is to break stuff and kill people, a rather black and white process and, once the heat of battle is over, history is repleat with examples of how they screwed it up. To make difficult decisions required a reasonable degree of consensus and simple trading entities are equally incapable of this. What was required is the law and this is the foundation of society. Laws can and have come and gone over the past 2000 years of recorded history but wherever you found them they did not exist in a vacum devoid of state or military.
The purpose of all these elements of society is to exert control over each other to avoid chaos and bloodshed. As states grew in history we can observe how their power waxes and wains and we can observe how the disenfranchised strove to absorb advances to create a greater balance amongst them (the inevitable creation of the United States of America is a perfect example of this). The apparent disparity in a variety of social metrics around the world is nowhere near where it was 100 hundred years ago, which is why we will never see an empire the size of the British Empire (on whom, the sun never set) again.
For this reason, anyone can hold any political opinion they wish, believe in any creed or cult or ethnic minority, but in the absence of the state there is only one single political idea, self interest and self interest is completely incapable of building even a small house, never mind a road network and the infrastructure of society.
European libertarian thought was more communist or anarcho-syndicalist - obsessing about who owned the mechanisms of the state and what they should be and more importantly why. The topic under discussion here is more in line with interpretations of what liberalism is (again, a loaded term in the U.S.) and how our society should or should not be modified by it. Sadly a great deal of the debate is just that, debate, an idle pastime of the priviliged (I include myself here, otherwise how would I have time to idle away here on Slashdot).
Someone, Karl Marx in fact (whom even I bridle at mentioning on slashdot), was quite plain about the true course of action when he said (possibly with a tad of input from Engels - someone of immense idle privilege) "philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point is to change it." While this discussion is certainly an entertaining distraction from the hum drum of our existence, perhaps, just perhaps, whether it's support for concepts like OLPC, concern for the welfare of our fellows, action to improve reading standards and education, freedom to pursue the political party of our conscience or just providing everyone with drinking water, perhaps, just perhaps quite a lot of us could be part of change that, together, we can make for ourselves without the involvement of either faith or belief.
I am rather tempted to say, "No, honest Virgil did say it!" Or : "he would have!" or "Tertullian forced me say it!" or possibly even:
"Yeah, but, no, but... ", "... or summing or nuffing", "I wasn't even sposed to be there so, SHUT up!", "Don't be giving me evils!", "Oh my God! I sooo can't believe you said that!"
But it was indeed a mistake, too many classics, not enough brain space left.
You have my sincerest apologies. I meant Juvenal. Sorry.
Virgil's famous quote had very little to do with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It was a satirical reference in his play to a certain young woman of easy virtue and began 'Pone seram cohibe' (restrain her in her room) and he was worried that one would never find enough young sentrys capable of not yeilding to her charms 'So, whose going to stop her getting laid?' I can think of a response to this (better guards, gay guards) but I don't even have enough time to note it in the margin.
... noui
consilia et ueteres quaecumque monetis amici,
"pone seram, cohibes." sed quis custodiat ipsos
custodes qui nunc lasciuae furta puellae
hac mercede silent? crimen commune tacetur.
... I know
the plan that my friends always advise me to adopt:
"Bolt her in, constrain her!" But who can watch
the watchmen? They keep quiet about the girl's
secrets and get her as their payment; everyone hushes it up.
The original (if it is!) is even funnier, even in English:
This is of course straight out of wikipedeia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F and I should imagine is far closer to what will be the eventual outcome of the business with the 'engineer'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oor_Wullie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton
For readers of a technical disposition, I inadvertently added a trailing slash while slapping in some wallpaper from wikipedia to make the page properly sexy for the new discerning web2 readership. And of course I didn't check anything, I'm an effing former photojournalist after all and we're pure scum.
Put the television up rather loud, let them talk all the way through their script, agree that all the offers are very tempting (ahu, ahu) and then when you get an opportunity to ask a question, just say: "Do you think I will be able to get social security to pay for that?" ....buuuuurrr!
Journalism's origins stem from the reporting of shiploads of trade goods and their arrival in port - particularly Venice and London. Advance knowledge of a ship and it's contents allowed the original speculators the opportunity to make a healthy profit. These sheets were circulated, certainly around London and Venice and it wasn't long before people used them to advertise.
Friends of the printers (to cut a long story short) often sent lengthy letters to each other, reporting on topical events (it was before the internet) especially wars. These letters were often printed verbatim hence the origin of the word 'correspondent'.
These reports were incredibly popular and garnered readership. Edward Mallet took the highly original step of editing them to fit the space between the ads, and the Daily Courant was born in the 1700's. Often these letters were reports of reports of reports - a bit like the internet!
Gradually this developed into an art form and it wasn't long before reporters were despatched to write the letters themselves. War, conflict, crime and punishment and scandal soon became the daily diet of millions of readers. Then Hollywood was invented and so was the world of entertainment. Gradually readers started to prefer entertainment to 'news' - and who wouldn't? I present exhibit one 'The Sun' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun/ , which holds the world record for the highest readership of a single edition in the English language. This is closely followed by that masterpiece of twee entertainment published by DC Thomson 'The Sunday.Post' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Post/ including the immortal humour of 'Oor Wullie' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oor_Wullie/ Oor_Wullie and 'The Broons' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broons/
So it shouldn't really surprise anyone that people like to be entertained and since the entertainment industry is the economic dynamo of the developed nations, we shouldn't really be surprised by the sudden revelation that newspapers are in the 'infotainment' business.
None of this is at all new, Evelyn Waugh, in 1938, lampooned the whole industry to hilarious effect in 'Scoop' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(novel)/. The simple tests for 'news' is; "What is the origin of this report?" and: "Who benefits from it?" and the three eternal questions any journalist would ask any famous figure if they caught them in the elevator are: "How bad is it? Will it get any worse? And what are you going to do about". A healthy attitude of scepticism is an essential attri..
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you ** breaking news** direct from Lynwood, California where Paris Hilton has just been released from prison having served four days of a 40 day sentence... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton/
Bias Disclaimer: I used to be a member of the NUJ and I used to teach this subject.
...slashdotted!