This reminds me of a story that took place when the govt, (and I say govt cause I can't remember which agency did this, nasa, airforce, I don't know), was testing the first ejector seats. They didn't want to use a test pilot but they had to get the reactions of a living thing. They needed something that was approximate in size to a human. So they used a brown bear. Yep, they stuck a bear in the seat and chucked him out of the plane. He was a pretty pissed off bear when he hit the ground.
I rarely purchase hardcover fiction, I find that more often than not I am dissapointed; having spent $25 bucks on a book that'll quickly end up at the used bookstore. Gibson novels are different, without having read the review I grabbed this book off the shelf. There's only a few novelists who have earned my hardcover trust, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams and William Gibson round off the top of this list. I can't wait to read this book.
I've got nothing against capitilism persay, its just when companies try to engrain their necessity into the minds of generation after generation, when they try to perpetuate thier own delusions of grandeur that they really annoy me.
Disney is a giant vacuous hole that keeps getting bigger and bigger, swallowing up more and more of the media. It's a hydra that keeps on grafting head after head onto its aging body, making sure that its aging bulk will never die.
To sum it up, Disney disgusts me. Behind all the happy elves, fluffy bunnies and prancing faeries lies a murder of cold, callous, unfeeling, unhappy little crows. Constantly pecking at the bleeding sockets of the world, all the while cawing out cheerful little tunes.
I'm not sure I understand the point of all this disney schlock being written by Katz lately. Is it supposed to be shocking that after Walt died the vultures stopped circling and started tearing his ideas to shreads? Of course Epcot didn't turn out the way he wanted, it wouldn't have made any money that way. It seems that Walt wanted to create some sort of gleaming fascist utopian universe in Disney World, unfortuanetly for him the profiteers took over shortly after his death. And now the technology, (and I really hate using that word now), is geared to creating an environment where the consumer can't help but spend his money. The current leaders of Disney try to keep up the gleam and glitter of Walt's promised land, but only for profit's sake. However, I don't see how this is surprising, this is America after all. A country built on capitalism and the all mighty dollar.
Suppose a university was monitoring network traffic to try to weed out a potential mp3 ftp site and they found what they think to be an ftp site except all the files tranmittied are pgp encrypted. Can they legally demand that you hand over your pgp keys?
Unfortuanetly it doesn't work that way, unless the starving peasant farmer just happened to know english. It be like dropping you in the middle of the sahara with a field manual written in ancient sumerian.
That's right. I've begun naming the machines in my network after pokemon. There's 151 of 'em so I'm not gonna run out anytime soon.
So far I've got
Pikachu - PDC
Riachu - BDC and SQL server
Porygon - File Server
Graveler - my workstation
Rattata - my laptop
Vulpix - firewall (those of you who know pokemon know why)
I used to work for an isp that named all their machines after fish. most boring naming convention I've ever seen. I ended up naming my machine hogsucker..just cause I think naming them after fish is kind of lame.
That's right. I've begun naming the machines in my network after pokemon. There's 151 of 'em so I'm not gonna run out anytime soon. So far I've got Pikachu - PDC Riachu - BDC and SQL server Porygon - File Server Graveler - my workstation Rattata - my laptop Vulpix - firewall (those of you who know pokemon know why) I used to work for an isp that named all their machines after fish. most boring naming convention I've ever seen. I ended up naming my machine hogsucker..just cause I think naming them after fish is kind of lame.
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I for one am not even remotely thinking of getting my cable cut over this. I didn't watch the show, because I knew it would just be about some losers and the h4>0r3d scripts..and the powerpuff girls were on. So there you have it. Once again the sanity of semiriot is saved.. by The Powerpuff Girls!
don't much care for dvd..since I don't even own a VCR..or a tv for that matter. Can't really rationalize buyinga dvd player so I can watch movies on my pc. Seems almost unnatural..like eating dinner in the shower.
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This reminds me of a story that took place when the govt, (and I say govt cause I can't remember which agency did this, nasa, airforce, I don't know), was testing the first ejector seats. They didn't want to use a test pilot but they had to get the reactions of a living thing. They needed something that was approximate in size to a human. So they used a brown bear. Yep, they stuck a bear in the seat and chucked him out of the plane. He was a pretty pissed off bear when he hit the ground.
I rarely purchase hardcover fiction, I find that more often than not I am dissapointed; having spent $25 bucks on a book that'll quickly end up at the used bookstore. Gibson novels are different, without having read the review I grabbed this book off the shelf. There's only a few novelists who have earned my hardcover trust, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams and William Gibson round off the top of this list. I can't wait to read this book.
Disney is a giant vacuous hole that keeps getting bigger and bigger, swallowing up more and more of the media. It's a hydra that keeps on grafting head after head onto its aging body, making sure that its aging bulk will never die.
To sum it up, Disney disgusts me. Behind all the happy elves, fluffy bunnies and prancing faeries lies a murder of cold, callous, unfeeling, unhappy little crows. Constantly pecking at the bleeding sockets of the world, all the while cawing out cheerful little tunes.
I'm not sure I understand the point of all this disney schlock being written by Katz lately. Is it supposed to be shocking that after Walt died the vultures stopped circling and started tearing his ideas to shreads? Of course Epcot didn't turn out the way he wanted, it wouldn't have made any money that way. It seems that Walt wanted to create some sort of gleaming fascist utopian universe in Disney World, unfortuanetly for him the profiteers took over shortly after his death. And now the technology, (and I really hate using that word now), is geared to creating an environment where the consumer can't help but spend his money. The current leaders of Disney try to keep up the gleam and glitter of Walt's promised land, but only for profit's sake. However, I don't see how this is surprising, this is America after all. A country built on capitalism and the all mighty dollar.
Suppose a university was monitoring network traffic to try to weed out a potential mp3 ftp site and they found what they think to be an ftp site except all the files tranmittied are pgp encrypted. Can they legally demand that you hand over your pgp keys?
Unfortuanetly it doesn't work that way, unless the starving peasant farmer just happened to know english. It be like dropping you in the middle of the sahara with a field manual written in ancient sumerian.
Besides it says right in the article that the modem is controller based..thus not a winmodem.
So far I've got
Pikachu - PDC
Riachu - BDC and SQL server
Porygon - File Server
Graveler - my workstation
Rattata - my laptop
Vulpix - firewall (those of you who know pokemon know why)
I used to work for an isp that named all their machines after fish. most boring naming convention I've ever seen. I ended up naming my machine hogsucker..just cause I think naming them after fish is kind of lame.That's right. I've begun naming the machines in my network after pokemon. There's 151 of 'em so I'm not gonna run out anytime soon. So far I've got Pikachu - PDC Riachu - BDC and SQL server Porygon - File Server Graveler - my workstation Rattata - my laptop Vulpix - firewall (those of you who know pokemon know why) I used to work for an isp that named all their machines after fish. most boring naming convention I've ever seen. I ended up naming my machine hogsucker..just cause I think naming them after fish is kind of lame.
or winchips...mmm...winchippy
I for one am not even remotely thinking of getting my cable cut over this. I didn't watch the show, because I knew it would just be about some losers and the h4>0r3d scripts..and the powerpuff girls were on. So there you have it. Once again the sanity of semiriot is saved.. by The Powerpuff Girls!
don't much care for dvd..since I don't even own a VCR..or a tv for that matter. Can't really rationalize buyinga dvd player so I can watch movies on my pc. Seems almost unnatural..like eating dinner in the shower.