The benefits of a classical education. Ah, those heady days of slash/hilarity. Go to the top of the class RANDOMLUSER(804576), we are unworthy. Outstanding.
Yes! Encore! I have been playing it in my mind for the past ten years. It's going to be so awesome when it finally appears. We will be playing it on the Holo-Deck. I can't wait!
Hey, hang on moment... I've been saying that for ten years now...
Oh my God! Look at me! I'm like Richard Dean Anderson in that episode where his hair turned grey and he become really old!
Damn you George Broussard and 3D Realms! Damn you all to Hell!
and therefore living in lalaland. If you manufacture to the normal, acceptable standards of quality production as expounded by the likes of Marshall, Deming and Juran you are producing with a failure rate of 3 deviations from the mean. In other words you are making 99.999 per cent operational product. Now before people make alternative claims lets be clear about something. The more efficient your production process the more profitable your operation is. Quality management costs less than a random rate of failure so it is axiomatic that a modern production method implements a quality production process. All things being equal it is therefore probable that in a modern production process only one X Box 360 in every 1,000,000 would have a significant fault. Anything else is conspiracy.
and ask "but when will Reiser 4 be finished?" and then I RTA - Which I have to confirm is not Capote but it does contain the following from the man himself
Reiser claims that Nina may be consulting with "memory creation specialists" in order to implant memories in Rory's mind. He insists that he never told Rory to hide the fact that they play Battlefield Vietnam together and is convinced that the specialist created this memory. "I am just lucky these memories only involve a computer game so far," Reiser writes to the court. "I don't want to find out that my child remembers being satanically sacrificed by me in a past life."
So there it is... not that funny really, not funny at all.
This sounds far too complicated and it's just another opportunity for disagreement on sldot. I think we should focus our attention on building a huge FO ring around the Sun occupying the entire plane of the Earth's orbit. All we need is a dude with three legs.
(Clovers over Toros)
go Clovers go Clovers go go go Clovers
(Toros)
our game is fierce
and we are hip
so get on back
you can't touch this
(Clovers)
Our game is bad
we're without peer
so get that weakness outta here
you're tryin' to steal our bit
but you look like shit
but we're the ones
who are down with it
Cheertastic! (Oops! Sorry. Copyright Myspace for the moment but moving to any other Web2 type situation in the near future.)
Gründlichkeit or thoroughness is just so much part of the German character. Back in Scotland you could read the important parts of the Blue Book tax guide in the bookshop and easily identify any new legal tax avoidance strategies. You couldn't do that with the German Tax Books there are about 127 of them. My accountant just photocopies pages out and sticks them in the tax return. You have to pay canal tax but there's no canal and you don't get one either. As for thoroughness, Non-German partners are often very surprised when they clean the entire house from top to bottom only to have their partner point out that they forgot the single cup they drank their post cleaning coffee in which is standing on the immaculate sink - dirty. There is no mention of all the good work, because the concept of balancing good things against negative things (one good thing outweighs loads of bad things) is rather specific to English speakers. German anthropology uses the concept of a linear measure of perfection (or distance from it!) and the streets are so clean you could eat your dinner off them. Well, almost but this is the real reason behind this action, more national character than conspiracy. I should confess to reading lots of Tabloid newspapers though but I have also read Critique of Pure Reason if that counts for anything curiously neither activity appears to have had any lasting effect, whereas Counterstrike, now that's a whole different kettle of fish...
that the purpose of a bureaucracy is to provide employment for the bureaucrats. Arthur C. Clarke has suggested that the greatest threat to civilisation is bureacracy. The 19th century French writer Balzac once said that 'bureaucracy is a giant machine operated by pygmies'. Sadly bureaucracy is often reminiscent of Homer's Duff Beer - the answer to and the cause of all our problems. I guess I didn't have to think too much for this post, just pasted in a lot of fondly remembered homily! Outstanding! Hmm, forget to mention girls or drugs - they are always popular. Did manage to get beer in though. Fourth wall? What fourth wall? People read this? No, honestly...
and it is well documented that everyone who ever smoked dope, snorted some meth, Charlie or whatever that other stuff was, and took heroin, ate magic mushrooms, dropped a tab, smoked cigarettes, indulged in a delicious Cohiba (mmm!), had an ice-cold beer or had sex with another human being,(Who was alive at the time, you slashers.) started on the whole road to ruin,(wait, all of those together?) the moment they had a taste of milk. Ay lad. Shit, I missed out Poppers, and taking prescription drugs...
I can understands the revulsion people have to such violent images. After being dangerously exposed to Marlon Brando in The Wild Ones, I went to grammar school where I read Stanley Gibbon's magnificent Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Then I had the misfortune to hear the Sex Pistols singing Pretty Vacant on an unguarded radio and I decided to go to University. You really don't want to know about the period after the Dead Kennedys, The Pixies and God help us, Nirvana.
Once I completed a degree and a post grad (The Smashing Pumpkins, Portishead, post-modern, depressing)I decided it would be wise to avoid further violent images or my skull might explode with too much education.
Of course I do watch Fox's coverage of the war in Iraq/Lebanon/Dafur/anywhere else and I can feel a doctorate looming.
People as individuals make choices that involve actions that have nothing to do with anything other than the fact that they are either good, bad or mentally ill. Television, Computer games or whatever have no more to do with the model than the Coliseum had to do with the Splendour and the Barbarism that was Rome. ( I guess that Gibbon stuff worked. Damn you, Ridley Scott, damn you all to hell.)
Would it not be more purposeful if the people obsessed with these surreal concepts of cause and effect paid slightly more attention to economics and how the dynamism of the West does little to affect the levels of poverty and corruption in places such as Africa? Might I be allowed to suggest with all the sympathy I can for the tragedy that inspires the beliefs of a great number of people who have probably never heard of SlashDot that the people who believe that inert images cause the problems, rather than poverty or madness are wrong?
I used to live in Miami City where they have a concealed weapons law: you can carry a hidden weapon. No one disturbs you in a bar, and no one harasses you. That's because Miami has one of the highest stats for middle aged women shooting dead assailants, with a small handgun - the Lady Colt. Compare a night in Porcaos http://www.rodizioplace.com/THE_PLACE/the_place.ht ml to a night in any Scottish Pub!
Did our parents and grandparents in the UK, ban Nazi propaganda in the face of defeat in 1939? No, they fought like lions If we wish to have a society free from such horror then we too must fight like lions but we must fight against the real enemies and not some shallow paper tiger that is anything on the net. What this is, this attack on a stoopid game, is the forces of the establishment fluttering their wings, because it makes them afraid. And anything they fear they ban - just in case it encourages the unwashed to realise that the mob is the real power broker and that all these capitalist baubles are ephemeral in the face of the mob. The Barbarian Tyrant Mao Tse Tung summed this up very clearly when he attempted to paraphrase Tsun Tsu with "Political truth springs forth from the barrell of a gun".
... wohnt. Es war ironisch. Wie die Volksrepublik von Yorkshire oder Volksrepublik von Falkirk. Entschuldigen Sie bitte. Es tut mir leid. Diese kurzen deutschen Sätze sind auch ironisch. Ein bisschen wie Yoda. Wenn jedermann mit mir sprechen brauche. Ich bin in meinem zimmer.
and the land that invented the Smart car, I can tell you that they do 53 miles to the gallon (that's a British gallon). At least that's what all my colleagues back in Scotland told me. The Roadster is really, in all honesty, quite cool looking in a kids-car-with-a-real-engine sort of way. In Senden there is a huge Smart Car automat. Use your credit to pay 14,000 euros and a brand new Smart Car is dispensed like a bottle of coke. Needless to say I could put one of them on the back of our Hi-Lux as a spare - in fact a famous German multi-millionare has a huge camper van the size of the QE2 and he has a Smart Car in the back. Maybe Al Gore has one in the back of his Lear Jet. Having driven on the UK's motorways (max speed 70 mph) in a Mini and experienced the utter dread of passing a truck in the middle of a rainstorm on the Gravelly Hill Interchange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelly_Hill_Interch ange (Spaghetti Junction), I sort of think you wouldn't want to be on the German Autobahn in one of those ickle Smart Cars. The most elementary principles of Newtonian physics suggest to me that if my Toyota truck was to even touch one as it passed me at 200kph (the truck does 140 kph and no I don't have miles on the dial) the Smart Car would be toast. Germany is the safest place on earth to drive a car (at mentally ill speeds) but I promise you, 88 million people owning three vehicles each does something to the stats. I have seen more road traffic accidents here than I had hot porridge back home. When you see a saloon class Mercedes estate shredded at the side of the Autobahn, it provides a perspective when you come to purchase a new motor. Besides have you ever tried to grind your way up the Reschenpass on your way to some snowboarding joy in a Smart Car? Oh hang on, where will I put the snowboard... er wait a minute there's only room for a single bag of groceries from Tesco's (for US slashd'ers read: Publix followed by Homeric type drool mmm!) in the footwell of the passeger seat and there is no back seat. Of course if you happen to be Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou you will have no problem driving one of them in reverse gear at 100 mph through the streets of Paris with no significant damage to the engine. As demonstrated in that scientifically accurate movie - The Da Vinci Code. Er... do we still say 'not' on slashdot?
Did we ever?
1) compare your total quarterly sales (minus the cost of the ad campaign) after your ad campaign to the previous (ad-free) quarterly sales.
2) ???
3) Profit!
Promotion works in the same quantifiable way:
1) Clip out all of the newsmedia references to your product and multiply that media line rate by 2 and invoice client.
2) ???
3) Profit!
The rainforests, whales, polar bears, otters, badgers, foxes, fox hounds, a variety of small animals not including the cockroach but including anything that is furry or appears to be smiling or sad, Chinese Bears, The Panda, The Manatee, liitle old ladies who cycle to church, The North Atlantic fish stocks, er... North Atlantic Norwegian Fishermen and endangered species et al and keep Greenpeacers and Sceptics reasonably happy. All we need is a number of 'accidental' low level radioactive incidents that contaminate vast areas of land and ocean and scare of all of the humans. I am sure the people Rosie knows (wot can melt steel with fire)will be able to make the necessary arrangements. Another cool - but very beneficial side effect - will be the sudden abundance of the Tomacco providing a unimaginable source of vitamin c, nicotine and food we don't like but are compelled to eat. Almost the same as grammar school rice-pudding.
with pornography is just weird, and even though I am a born and bred Scottish Lutheran - sheesh I did Grow-Up and had an education. Resident as I am on the Continent, (where the Alps are on my doorstep) I am fortunate enough to live where the local population, in general, has a very sensible attitude to sex. It occupies no more of an obsession than clothes, food, beer, balsamico, olive oil and er...George W. Bush (Okay, you can't have everything), so while this is a marginally interesting post it is really a huge load of tosh about an idiosyncrancy that is entirely peculiar to our companions across the big pond, who spent some time chucking English tea into Boston Harbour. You know sex, drugs,rock n roll - these are just things we do. Snowboarding is where we are at. What we want is long powder.
I got fed up babysitting all the material on our commercial website where the staff were hacking away with Dreamweaver 2 (10 euros on ebay) and I was developing it with the ridiculously complex and effing expensive Dreamweaver 8 (they could reduce a 200 page library entry to shreds with a single keystroke) so I found Mambo, checked it out set it up on our development site and then asked the staff to try it. No one could understand it. Found PHPwebsite, set it up on our development website, asked the staff to test it, they thought it lovely, intutitive but a tad clunky looking. Then it crashed for no identifiable reason so we had a long hiatus while I installed Moodle on our development website, asked the staff to try it and despite their now healthy scepticism they did and loved it. "Can't we have a cms like this?" Er no. Then Mambo and Joomla split - ho, here we go this is bound to lead to an interface that could convince the staff to use it. So I installed Joomla on our etc, ad nauseum, ad infinitum, no one could understand it, the learning curve belonged to the NASA Mars Mission and neither I nor any other member if staff with geek credentials to hack Joomla into submission had the time or energy to do so. Incredibly sad because our Business Manager just loved both Joomla and Mambo as brand names to be associated with. When I think of all those Joomla/Mambo plug-ins such as the remository, they make me drool! But the Mythical Man-Month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man_Mon th) is ever present. Product boxes, net library, customer database, flash media and Lord knows what else piles up me and I forget CMS for about three months. Then the US elections arrived and I read a discussion about about Civic CMV (or whatever it is called, I can't be bother googling it at this time of night - BB's on for starters) and I read all the Drupal stuff and thought hmmm, I wonder.
Well Drupal works for the staff, it is a reasonably friendly interface, staff can understand a lot of the cracked geek node stuff and it plugs in with loads of stuff and although it is high-maintenance it isn't the absolutely Betty Blue - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Blue - level of High Maintenance that the other champ CMSs were. IMHO it has vast potential and with each release, the interface gets better and better. I feel that Civic is among one of the driving forces behind it, although I don't even use that module, and the opportunity for users to contribute is on an entry level slightly lower than the other CMSs I mentioned. I am fairly certain that I won't be buying this book however, the development of the print edition is never going to be able to keep up with the pace of the application. Would anyone like to buy my Ubuntu Hacks for version 6 for example. It should be completely useless in 6 months when whatever fluffy edition is released then - and we will update too!
This is simply not how the Stargate works. Dinky robot first, followed by a team of four highly individual individuals wearing the same colour and style of uniform. Morning phone calls are apparently an essential pre-requisite.
Because it's really important for people who post on slash dot (or anywhere else for that matter) to encrypt all of their highly sensitive discussions about Michael Moore, Global Warming, Ninjas, Pirates and I guess... if it's Dugg - Paris Hilton, if it's You Tube - it'll be a man nailing his penis to a block of wood or catching it in a mousetrap, and - I mustn't forget my last and extremely important comment about Ponder Stibbons here recently. I just so wish I had encrypted that. I do have GNUpgp (the German version) on Funderburd but I haven't used it. I am saving it for when all that Terminator type Sith starts happening, cos then we'll definitely need it. We'll also need those cool GSD's that can sniff those skins jobs and I will have to try and remember what it was that Micheal Biehn made out of corn syrup and mothballs and more importantly -why? Oh wait a minute, we won't be able to use the Net will we? That will belong to the bots. D'oh!
Hang on a minute... did I just include some hidden message in the text or is just another sad example of the influence of Post-Modernism?
As everyone surely knows, the universe was created by Ponder Stibbons when an experimental Thaumic Energy Generator overloaded and the resulting blast of unconstrained thaumons (if that is what they are) produced our universe.
Yes G) Whisky particularly Malt Whiskies are a case of substitute Euro sign for pound sign
H) Cuban cigars are half the price too, something sadly unavailable to our American Cousins unless they live near the Bahamas.
Liberal in the sort of American sense of the word although socks and sandals are still common.
But let's keep all this between ourselves.
and of course Scottish*, (but legally Bavarian) I do hope you will continue to post material like this that demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of A) The Germans. B) The German political system C) The German Psyche. D) That anyone who was 20 in 1945 is 82 this year. and E) Todays Germans are a composite of changes in the population that occurred after WWII (ie they're different!)
Slight Technical Aside The change to the law is pretty much the same as the Scottish Crime (readers who don't think Scotland is a country with a separate legal system should stop reading at this point.) of "going equipped to commit a theft or housebreaking" The article in German is just a scrape of The Register and other pages and the Babelfish rip is typical of the gobblydegook that is internet translatation. Google always translates Ich weiss (I know) as I white, which is sub-Noam-Chomsky-stupid. German is a language that lends itself not to dumb dictionary look up programs. The word compile for example never comes out as 'list' in a dictionary - apart from the larger Duden English/Deutsch. Usually it is 'collect together' and sorgen (to worry) becomes 'ensure' although in print dictionaries it is usually translated hilariously as 'solicitious' which when used in an essay on Digital Media is just too funny for words.
So keep up the good work because for me it means: A) Going snowboarding for 18 Euros instead of going to the pub on Friday night for 60 Euros plus hangover because the alps are on my doorstep. B) Wine for 1.49 a bottle (Euro/Dollar about the same, dude.) C) More holidays than you can poke with a stick D) Working half the hours I did back in Bonnie Scotland. E) A country full of beautiful people, almost every single one of whom is liberal (see if Google can translate that.) F) I get to be that British guy who explains why the USA is not the Great Satan and what 'Dude', 'Geek' or 'excellent' means.
Just as long as you keep scaring away all the English speaking part of the world. Cheers!
To quote Alphonse Karr on the subject of abolishing the death penalty.
"I am all in favour of ending capital punishment but I would like to call upon our friends the murderers to take the first step."
terrorist themselves that the more you attack them the stronger they get. This is patently not true and any examination of the history of various 'terrorist' movements will demonstrate this. The error arises from the elementary failure to observe that regimes do not 'win' power - the old regime loses power and is replaced. The distinction between terrorists and revolutionaries is the the revolutionary "swims like a fish" in the ocean of the population, to quote Mao (who probably pinched that from Sun Tzu),and is a populist engaged in activity that receives support from the population. The terrorist never has moral legitimacy and reflects only a set of values that belong to a specific group. The IRA, despite a revolutionary history and support from the nationalist community recognised this and eventually sued for peace in an unwinnable war. The Red Army Faction simply became extinct and The Angry Brigade vanished into the dustbin of history. Terrorist activities have never been succesful against oppressive regimes - both the Third Reich, The Soviet Union in the past and Robert Mugabe's dictatorship in Zimbabwe in the present (just to lump them altogether) were not and are not fearful of them. The military whether you like it or not, have underpinned every civilisation since the year dot. It is the oldest organisational type and it has a natural longevity. The Red Army of the People's Republic of China is one of the main players in the present neo-capitalism of China. The British Empire and present day British society is a complex merger of families with connections on all of the principal elements of the legislature, the executive and the military. This connectivity is reflecting in most of the West. The Roman Army managed to survive for some time after the ultimate collapse of the Roman Empire. No society existed for more than ten minutes in the absence of a military.
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The benefits of a classical education. Ah, those heady days of slash/hilarity.
Go to the top of the class RANDOMLUSER(804576), we are unworthy. Outstanding.
Yes! Encore! I have been playing it in my mind for the past ten years. It's going to be so awesome when it finally appears. We will be playing it on the Holo-Deck. I can't wait!
Hey, hang on moment... I've been saying that for ten years now...
Oh my God! Look at me! I'm like Richard Dean Anderson in that episode where his hair turned grey and he become really old!
Damn you George Broussard and 3D Realms! Damn you all to Hell!
and therefore living in lalaland. If you manufacture to the normal, acceptable standards of quality production as expounded by the likes of Marshall, Deming and Juran you are producing with a failure rate of 3 deviations from the mean. In other words you are making 99.999 per cent operational product. Now before people make alternative claims lets be clear about something. The more efficient your production process the more profitable your operation is. Quality management costs less than a random rate of failure so it is axiomatic that a modern production method implements a quality production process. All things being equal it is therefore probable that in a modern production process only one X Box 360 in every 1,000,000 would have a significant fault. Anything else is conspiracy.
not that funny really, not funny at all.
This sounds far too complicated and it's just another opportunity for disagreement on sldot.
I think we should focus our attention on building a huge FO ring around the Sun occupying the entire plane of the Earth's orbit.
All we need is a dude with three legs.
Aye, those were the days.... and then it was 1986 and Aliens finally appeared.
It said:
Toros)
go Toros go Toros go go go Toros
(Clovers over Toros)
go Clovers go Clovers go go go Clovers
(Toros)
our game is fierce
and we are hip
so get on back
you can't touch this
(Clovers)
Our game is bad
we're without peer
so get that weakness outta here
you're tryin' to steal our bit
but you look like shit
but we're the ones
who are down with it
Cheertastic!
(Oops! Sorry. Copyright Myspace for the moment but moving to any other Web2 type situation in the near future.)
Gründlichkeit or thoroughness is just so much part of the German character. Back in Scotland you could read the important parts of the Blue Book tax guide in the bookshop and easily identify any new legal tax avoidance strategies. You couldn't do that with the German Tax Books there are about 127 of them. My accountant just photocopies pages out and sticks them in the tax return. You have to pay canal tax but there's no canal and you don't get one either. As for thoroughness, Non-German partners are often very surprised when they clean the entire house from top to bottom only to have their partner point out that they forgot the single cup they drank their post cleaning coffee in which is standing on the immaculate sink - dirty. There is no mention of all the good work, because the concept of balancing good things against negative things (one good thing outweighs loads of bad things) is rather specific to English speakers. German anthropology uses the concept of a linear measure of perfection (or distance from it!) and the streets are so clean you could eat your dinner off them. Well, almost but this is the real reason behind this action, more national character than conspiracy.
I should confess to reading lots of Tabloid newspapers though but I have also read Critique of Pure Reason if that counts for anything curiously neither activity appears to have had any lasting effect, whereas Counterstrike, now that's a whole different kettle of fish...
that the purpose of a bureaucracy is to provide employment for the bureaucrats.
Arthur C. Clarke has suggested that the greatest threat to civilisation is bureacracy.
The 19th century French writer Balzac once said that 'bureaucracy is a giant machine operated by pygmies'.
Sadly bureaucracy is often reminiscent of Homer's Duff Beer - the answer to and the cause of all our problems.
I guess I didn't have to think too much for this post, just pasted in a lot of fondly remembered homily!
Outstanding!
Hmm, forget to mention girls or drugs - they are always popular. Did manage to get beer in though.
Fourth wall? What fourth wall? People read this? No, honestly...
and it is well documented that everyone who ever smoked dope, snorted some meth, Charlie or whatever that other stuff was, and took heroin, ate magic mushrooms, dropped a tab, smoked cigarettes, indulged in a delicious Cohiba (mmm!), had an ice-cold beer or had sex with another human being,(Who was alive at the time, you slashers.) started on the whole road to ruin,(wait, all of those together?) the moment they had a taste of milk.
t ml to a night in any Scottish Pub!
Ay lad.
Shit, I missed out Poppers, and taking prescription drugs...
I can understands the revulsion people have to such violent images. After being dangerously exposed to Marlon Brando in The Wild Ones, I went to grammar school where I read Stanley Gibbon's magnificent Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Then I had the misfortune to hear the Sex Pistols singing Pretty Vacant on an unguarded radio and I decided to go to University.
You really don't want to know about the period after the Dead Kennedys, The Pixies and God help us, Nirvana.
Once I completed a degree and a post grad (The Smashing Pumpkins, Portishead, post-modern, depressing)I decided it would be wise to avoid further violent images or my skull might explode with too much education.
Of course I do watch Fox's coverage of the war in Iraq/Lebanon/Dafur/anywhere else and I can feel a doctorate looming.
People as individuals make choices that involve actions that have nothing to do with anything other than the fact that they are either good, bad or mentally ill. Television, Computer games or whatever have no more to do with the model than the Coliseum had to do with the Splendour and the Barbarism that was Rome. ( I guess that Gibbon stuff worked. Damn you, Ridley Scott, damn you all to hell.) Would it not be more purposeful if the people obsessed with these surreal concepts of cause and effect paid slightly more attention to economics and how the dynamism of the West does little to affect the levels of poverty and corruption in places such as Africa?
Might I be allowed to suggest with all the sympathy I can for the tragedy that inspires the beliefs of a great number of people who have probably never heard of SlashDot that the people who believe that inert images cause the problems, rather than poverty or madness are wrong?
I used to live in Miami City where they have a concealed weapons law: you can carry a hidden weapon. No one disturbs you in a bar, and no one harasses you. That's because Miami has one of the highest stats for middle aged women shooting dead assailants, with a small handgun - the Lady Colt. Compare a night in Porcaos http://www.rodizioplace.com/THE_PLACE/the_place.h
Did our parents and grandparents in the UK, ban Nazi propaganda in the face of defeat in 1939? No, they fought like lions
If we wish to have a society free from such horror then we too must fight like lions but we must fight against the real enemies and not some shallow paper tiger that is anything on the net. What this is, this attack on a stoopid game, is the forces of the establishment fluttering their wings, because it makes them afraid. And anything they fear they ban - just in case it encourages the unwashed to realise that the mob is the real power broker and that all these capitalist baubles are ephemeral in the face of the mob.
The Barbarian Tyrant Mao Tse Tung summed this up very clearly when he attempted to paraphrase Tsun Tsu with "Political truth springs forth from the barrell of a gun".
Toyota will make the car and Honda will make the driver. Just as soon as he's finished learning how to carry a tray of coffee cups upstairs.
It provides the owner of the body with a reasonable standard of celebrity and they eventually get a High School named after them.
... wohnt. Es war ironisch.
Wie die Volksrepublik von Yorkshire oder Volksrepublik von Falkirk.
Entschuldigen Sie bitte.
Es tut mir leid.
Diese kurzen deutschen Sätze sind auch ironisch.
Ein bisschen wie Yoda.
Wenn jedermann mit mir sprechen brauche. Ich bin in meinem zimmer.
and the land that invented the Smart car, I can tell you that they do 53 miles to the gallon (that's a British gallon). At least that's what all my colleagues back in Scotland told me. The Roadster is really, in all honesty, quite cool looking in a kids-car-with-a-real-engine sort of way. In Senden there is a huge Smart Car automat. Use your credit to pay 14,000 euros and a brand new Smart Car is dispensed like a bottle of coke.h ange (Spaghetti Junction), I sort of think you wouldn't want to be on the German Autobahn in one of those ickle Smart Cars. The most elementary principles of Newtonian physics suggest to me that if my Toyota truck was to even touch one as it passed me at 200kph (the truck does 140 kph and no I don't have miles on the dial) the Smart Car would be toast.
Needless to say I could put one of them on the back of our Hi-Lux as a spare - in fact a famous German multi-millionare has a huge camper van the size of the QE2 and he has a Smart Car in the back. Maybe Al Gore has one in the back of his Lear Jet.
Having driven on the UK's motorways (max speed 70 mph) in a Mini and experienced the utter dread of passing a truck in the middle of a rainstorm on the Gravelly Hill Interchange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelly_Hill_Interc
Germany is the safest place on earth to drive a car (at mentally ill speeds) but I promise you, 88 million people owning three vehicles each does something to the stats. I have seen more road traffic accidents here than I had hot porridge back home. When you see a saloon class Mercedes estate shredded at the side of the Autobahn, it provides a perspective when you come to purchase a new motor.
Besides have you ever tried to grind your way up the Reschenpass on your way to some snowboarding joy in a Smart Car?
Oh hang on, where will I put the snowboard... er wait a minute there's only room for a single bag of groceries from Tesco's (for US slashd'ers read: Publix followed by Homeric type drool mmm!) in the footwell of the passeger seat and there is no back seat. Of course if you happen to be Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou you will have no problem driving one of them in reverse gear at 100 mph through the streets of Paris with no significant damage to the engine. As demonstrated in that scientifically accurate movie - The Da Vinci Code.
Er... do we still say 'not' on slashdot?
Did we ever?
1) compare your total quarterly sales (minus the cost of the ad campaign) after your ad campaign to the previous (ad-free) quarterly sales.
2) ???
3) Profit!
Promotion works in the same quantifiable way:
1) Clip out all of the newsmedia references to your product and multiply that media line rate by 2 and invoice client.
2) ???
3) Profit!
The rainforests, whales, polar bears, otters, badgers, foxes, fox hounds, a variety of small animals not including the cockroach but including anything that is furry or appears to be smiling or sad, Chinese Bears, The Panda, The Manatee, liitle old ladies who cycle to church, The North Atlantic fish stocks, er... North Atlantic Norwegian Fishermen and endangered species et al and keep Greenpeacers and Sceptics reasonably happy.
All we need is a number of 'accidental' low level radioactive incidents that contaminate vast areas of land and ocean and scare of all of the humans. I am sure the people Rosie knows (wot can melt steel with fire)will be able to make the necessary arrangements.
Another cool - but very beneficial side effect - will be the sudden abundance of the Tomacco providing a unimaginable source of vitamin c, nicotine and food we don't like but are compelled to eat.
Almost the same as grammar school rice-pudding.
with pornography is just weird, and even though I am a born and bred Scottish Lutheran - sheesh I did Grow-Up and had an education. Resident as I am on the Continent, (where the Alps are on my doorstep) I am fortunate enough to live where the local population, in general, has a very sensible attitude to sex. It occupies no more of an obsession than clothes, food, beer, balsamico, olive oil and er...George W. Bush (Okay, you can't have everything), so while this is a marginally interesting post it is really a huge load of tosh about an idiosyncrancy that is entirely peculiar to our companions across the big pond, who spent some time chucking English tea into Boston Harbour.
You know sex, drugs,rock n roll - these are just things we do.
Snowboarding is where we are at.
What we want is long powder.
I got fed up babysitting all the material on our commercial website where the staff were hacking away with Dreamweaver 2 (10 euros on ebay) and I was developing it with the ridiculously complex and effing expensive Dreamweaver 8 (they could reduce a 200 page library entry to shreds with a single keystroke) so I found Mambo, checked it out set it up on our development site and then asked the staff to try it. No one could understand it.n th) is ever present.
Found PHPwebsite, set it up on our development website, asked the staff to test it, they thought it lovely, intutitive but a tad clunky looking.
Then it crashed for no identifiable reason so we had a long hiatus while I installed Moodle on our development website, asked the staff to try it and despite their now healthy scepticism they did and loved it. "Can't we have a cms like this?" Er no.
Then Mambo and Joomla split - ho, here we go this is bound to lead to an interface that could convince the staff to use it. So I installed Joomla on our etc, ad nauseum, ad infinitum, no one could understand it, the learning curve belonged to the NASA Mars Mission and neither I nor any other member if staff with geek credentials to hack Joomla into submission had the time or energy to do so.
Incredibly sad because our Business Manager just loved both Joomla and Mambo as brand names to be associated with. When I think of all those Joomla/Mambo plug-ins such as the remository, they make me drool!
But the Mythical Man-Month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man_Mo
Product boxes, net library, customer database, flash media and Lord knows what else piles up me and I forget CMS for about three months. Then the US elections arrived and I read a discussion about about Civic CMV (or whatever it is called, I can't be bother googling it at this time of night - BB's on for starters) and I read all the Drupal stuff and thought hmmm, I wonder.
Well Drupal works for the staff, it is a reasonably friendly interface, staff can understand a lot of the cracked geek node stuff and it plugs in with loads of stuff and although it is high-maintenance it isn't the absolutely Betty Blue - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Blue - level of High Maintenance that the other champ CMSs were. IMHO it has vast potential and with each release, the interface gets better and better. I feel that Civic is among one of the driving forces behind it, although I don't even use that module, and the opportunity for users to contribute is on an entry level slightly lower than the other CMSs I mentioned.
I am fairly certain that I won't be buying this book however, the development of the print edition is never going to be able to keep up with the pace of the application.
Would anyone like to buy my Ubuntu Hacks for version 6 for example. It should be completely useless in 6 months when whatever fluffy edition is released then - and we will update too!
This is simply not how the Stargate works. Dinky robot first, followed by a team of four highly individual individuals wearing the same colour and style of uniform. Morning phone calls are apparently an essential pre-requisite.
Because it's really important for people who post on slash dot (or anywhere else for that matter) to encrypt all of their highly sensitive discussions about Michael Moore, Global Warming, Ninjas, Pirates and I guess... if it's Dugg - Paris Hilton, if it's You Tube - it'll be a man nailing his penis to a block of wood or catching it in a mousetrap, and - I mustn't forget my last and extremely important comment about Ponder Stibbons here recently. I just so wish I had encrypted that.
I do have GNUpgp (the German version) on Funderburd but I haven't used it. I am saving it for when all that Terminator type Sith starts happening, cos then we'll definitely need it. We'll also need those cool GSD's that can sniff those skins jobs and I will have to try and remember what it was that Micheal Biehn made out of corn syrup and mothballs and more importantly -why? Oh wait a minute, we won't be able to use the Net will we? That will belong to the bots. D'oh!
Hang on a minute... did I just include some hidden message in the text or is just another sad example of the influence of Post-Modernism?
As everyone surely knows, the universe was created by Ponder Stibbons when an experimental Thaumic Energy Generator overloaded and the resulting blast of unconstrained thaumons (if that is what they are) produced our universe.
Yes
G) Whisky particularly Malt Whiskies are a case of substitute Euro sign for pound sign
H) Cuban cigars are half the price too, something sadly unavailable to our American Cousins unless they live near the Bahamas.
Liberal in the sort of American sense of the word although socks and sandals are still common.
But let's keep all this between ourselves.
and of course Scottish*, (but legally Bavarian) I do hope you will continue to post material like this that demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of
eatingbraveheartwatchinga yingo typefulfilling.
A) The Germans.
B) The German political system
C) The German Psyche.
D) That anyone who was 20 in 1945 is 82 this year.
and
E) Todays Germans are a composite of changes in the population that occurred after WWII (ie they're different!)
Slight Technical Aside
The change to the law is pretty much the same as the Scottish Crime (readers who don't think Scotland is a country with a separate legal system should stop reading at this point.) of "going equipped to commit a theft or housebreaking" The article in German is just a scrape of The Register and other pages and the Babelfish rip is typical of the gobblydegook that is internet translatation.
Google always translates Ich weiss (I know) as I white, which is sub-Noam-Chomsky-stupid.
German is a language that lends itself not to dumb dictionary look up programs. The word compile for example never comes out as 'list' in a dictionary - apart from the larger Duden English/Deutsch. Usually it is 'collect together' and sorgen (to worry) becomes 'ensure' although in print dictionaries it is usually translated hilariously as 'solicitious' which when used in an essay on Digital Media is just too funny for words.
So keep up the good work because for me it means:
A) Going snowboarding for 18 Euros instead of going to the pub on Friday night for 60 Euros plus hangover because the alps are on my doorstep.
B) Wine for 1.49 a bottle (Euro/Dollar about the same, dude.)
C) More holidays than you can poke with a stick
D) Working half the hours I did back in Bonnie Scotland.
E) A country full of beautiful people, almost every single one of whom is liberal (see if Google can translate that.)
F) I get to be that British guy who explains why the USA is not the Great Satan and what 'Dude', 'Geek' or 'excellent' means.
Just as long as you keep scaring away all the English speaking part of the world.
Cheers!
*Kiltwearingpennypinching
haggisbashingporridge
worldcuplosingbagpipepl
harddrinking buckfastloving
snpvotingballotpaperspoilingstere
To quote Alphonse Karr on the subject of abolishing the death penalty.
"I am all in favour of ending capital punishment but I would like to call upon our friends the murderers to take the first step."
terrorist themselves that the more you attack them the stronger they get.
This is patently not true and any examination of the history of various 'terrorist' movements will demonstrate this. The error arises from the elementary failure to observe that regimes do not 'win' power - the old regime loses power and is replaced.
The distinction between terrorists and revolutionaries is the the revolutionary "swims like a fish" in the ocean of the population, to quote Mao (who probably pinched that from Sun Tzu),and is a populist engaged in activity that receives support from the population. The terrorist never has moral legitimacy and reflects only a set of values that belong to a specific group. The IRA, despite a revolutionary history and support from the nationalist community recognised this and eventually sued for peace in an unwinnable war. The Red Army Faction simply became extinct and The Angry Brigade vanished into the dustbin of history.
Terrorist activities have never been succesful against oppressive regimes - both the Third Reich, The Soviet Union in the past and Robert Mugabe's dictatorship in Zimbabwe in the present (just to lump them altogether) were not and are not fearful of them.
The military whether you like it or not, have underpinned every civilisation since the year dot. It is the oldest organisational type and it has a natural longevity. The Red Army of the People's Republic of China is one of the main players in the present neo-capitalism of China. The British Empire and present day British society is a complex merger of families with connections on all of the principal elements of the legislature, the executive and the military. This connectivity is reflecting in most of the West.
The Roman Army managed to survive for some time after the ultimate collapse of the Roman Empire. No society existed for more than ten minutes in the absence of a military.