Saturday, June 29, 2002

Lol!

had a few 'incidents' with taxi drivers. they are completely mental and assert their ownership of the road, whenever than can. Outside the NPG, had a cabbie get out of his cab, after i'd blocked his path from trying to drive through the crowd of cyclists, before a motorcycle cop pulled up along side him and told him to get in his cab. A bit hair-raising for my first ride!

Had similar experiences with RTS street parties about 8 years ago but then I was younger and had less of a sense of 'self-preservation'!!
posted by chriszanf , 6:54 PM Þ 

we are not blocking traffic..."we ARE traffic!"
posted by john , 6:43 PM Þ 

I think all the Critical Mass groups are linked, a bit like 'Reclaim the Streets', et al.

I went with my flatmate Mo, who's an avid cyclist and met up with a couple of mates who I haven't seen for about 3 years. One of them is an excellent artist and we spoke about putting some of his work on my site, so i'll let you know when thats there.
posted by chriszanf , 2:05 AM Þ 

word chris that is funny as we have a critical mass ride here
in vancouver as well. i am guessing it's the same group, maybe?

ok all, here's the news and it's good. there are two projects TES
has going one for Finning.ca and the other for BCGas. The lead on
BCGas wants me as his implementation server team lead with 5
guys under me whom i would coordinate tickets and troubleshoot the
highend stuff. the backend of it is getting worked on now as TES
management has to ok for around 20 new positions of which i will
be the first hire. f-ing wikked right? didn't think i'd get to lead a team for
quite a while here in vancouver. and at a major telecom contracted to
a utility isn't a bad place to start!

sorry for all the job shite posting i will resume nomal stupidness asap.
i am just super f-ing excited!!!!! thanks blogdialians for all ya support!

patsy cline and johnny cash = country at it's absolute finest!
posted by john , 12:04 AM Þ 
Friday, June 28, 2002

Went on my first Critical Mass bike ride tonight around the west end (London) and had a whale of a time!

Next one is on the last friday of the month, meeting under Waterloo bridge at 6pm.
Good luck with the job, Mr Burke! I remember a character called 'Burke' in a kid TV programme called 'Trap Door'

Picture 1
Picture 2
posted by chriszanf , 10:50 PM Þ 

returned from TES with super positive feedback on
the senior architect roles open. i will let you know if they
pull from our team or from the other companies group but
i think we are a shoe in as one of the people on our team
worked for TES for 2 1/2 years so..... we'll see.

f-ing tight market here.
posted by john , 9:30 PM Þ 

Howard Jacques, of *** ***** *****, ******, **** *** said to me today, that he saw on a Number 12 Routmaster®, bus, two plasma displays showing dolpins, waves, captions about the power of the sea and fantazy paradise imagery.

Then, the captions read, "this bus is protected by CCTV" whereon they showed the passengers on the top a live feed of those riding on the bottom, and then they showed the people on the bottom a live feed of the passengers on top.

They then promoted a charity, at which point, he said "No".

Some quotes that come to mind:

"Television screen is the retina of the minds eye "Brian Oblivion" Videodrome

"Charity is the only cheap amusement of the rich, and even for this, the poor pay" The starlit Mire
posted by Irdial , 6:07 PM Þ 

"She really over-reacts whenever she catches me wearing her underwear"

their arguments are such an entertainment to read!!!
posted by chriszanf , 5:03 PM Þ 

Ive been playing for *an hour+* oh well. its Friday.
posted by Irdial , 11:46 AM Þ 

in Celestia, set the clock to 5577777, and be looking at the earth.

oh yes.
posted by Irdial , 11:31 AM Þ 

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mil.millington/things.html
Things my girlfriend and I have argued about
posted by Irdial , 9:55 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 9:52 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 9:51 AM Þ 

will be done, burke! I know how CRUEL Telus is, at least here in Alberta, but I hope you get the position!
I have just put the license plates on my new car. Now all I have to do is learn how to drive the standard transmission...

Damn. Saddened and shocked to hear of Entwistle's death. And right before the tour too.
He was just a bit older than my dad... yikes. Ox made his mark though.

Also, I HATE YOU, REALAUDIO. *dives through plate glass*
posted by Barrie , 4:56 AM Þ 

Holy!!!. Big(v. major) interview in the morning for Telus Enterprise
Solutions on a project for BCGas utility. Team of four
on 140 machines and 30 sites at 3rd level support on the project.
I am f-ing craming!!!

Please send your good thoughts my way at 10:15am PST
tomorrow, danke!
posted by john , 2:45 AM Þ 
Thursday, June 27, 2002

Def II used to be a funky programme on bbc2 in the evenings in 1988, with Derek-B doing the theme in rap. I watched it a bit.

Just heard John Entwistle of The Who has died. That's sad, but time marches on.

A great spoof of radio programming and "formatics" is the legendary "NINE!" available here. I urge anyone with 5 minutes or so to spare to listen - it's very funny.
posted by captain davros , 11:57 PM Þ 

entropy as relates to 106's pathetic concept:
def2: A measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system.
disorder of the coconut is more like it.
def 5.Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society.
nuff said!
posted by john , 11:16 PM Þ 

Tetrapack:

"Radii of my brothers' single"
"My brother's records ending"

7" White Vinyl

A *very* special record indeed. A piece of pure Kunst.
posted by Irdial , 11:14 PM Þ 

Just back from one of my swedish mates, who got a Johnny Cash album that he got autographed by... Kenny Rogers! who signed as 'Johnny Cash'. It's art, and so it 106.
posted by Claus Eggers , 10:38 PM Þ 

106 times 'ha-ha'. What was that record again "The first ten seconds of my brothers record collection"?
posted by Claus Eggers , 10:35 PM Þ 

hell in a handbasket

posted by mary13 , 9:58 PM Þ 

'QUICK 106" was born from a brainstorming meeting with Alan Lawson, Music
Director, our research company consultant and myself," stated Program Director, Bill
Minckler. "We noticed that our consultant's attention span was about seven seconds and
the idea of this new format just grew from that!"


I don't think I'd be publicising the fact that I couldn't keep someone interested in conversation for longer than 7 seconds.
Yes, Bill, you are f**king boring and you just told the whole world.
posted by mary13 , 7:27 PM Þ 

Hmmmmm shorter and shorter attention spans equates directly to entropy effect. 2nd law of thermodynamics. "Dumb and Dumber". What was this about again?
posted by Irdial , 6:57 PM Þ 

entropy my dear sir, entropy.
posted by john , 6:31 PM Þ 

Have we all died and gone to hell?
posted by Irdial , 4:48 PM Þ 

http://www.quick106.com

Clear Channel debuts QUICK 106 in Portland




(Portland, OR)...In a radical departure from mainstream radio formats, Clear Channel has
created a totally new approach to traditional broadcasting. Friday, June 21st at 12:00
Noon, STAR 105.9 FM (KSTE-FM) changes its name and format to "QUICK 106"
...only the Best Parts of your Favorite Songs ". "QUICK 106" was designed to address
the short attention span of today's busy music fan," said Program Director Bill Minckler.

"'QUICK 106' will feature an active library of more than 11,000 songs. 'QUICK 106' is
truly the most variety of music ever heard on Portland Radio. Each day you'll hear the
Best Country, Top 40, Rock and Adult Hits and lots more of them," Minckler continued.

"'QUICK 106" was born from a brainstorming meeting with Alan Lawson, Music
Director, our research company consultant and myself," stated Program Director, Bill
Minckler. "We noticed that our consultant's attention span was about seven seconds and
the idea of this new format just grew from that!"

An additional outcome of the research study showed that Portland Radio Listeners
wanted to know each song title and artist. "QUICK 106" has gone to the extent of
numbering every song so the listener will simply need to log-on to www.Quick106.com
to look up the song number for each title and artist. "QUICK 106" will play an
astonishing 426 songs each and every hour."'QUICK 106" will surely be a favorite to
busy Portlanders that need lots of music in a flash," said Minckler

"QUICK 106" is owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications. "QUICK
106" can be heard at 105.9 FM over the world wide web at www.Quick106.com.
posted by Josh Carr , 4:09 PM Þ 

that is completely amazing. i think it was the entire deep field map that showed on a grand scale a structure of the known universe and galaxys in the shape of what appeared to be a human figure(like da vinci's proportions of man drawing). perhaps that is vain for me to think it looked like that but it did. amazing.

very curious as worldcom burps. at asn701, nodes everywhere may be rerouted. this really could be a big deal if worldcom bites it. many people are going to be getting overtime pay for sure. of course this would never happen, um...right?

has anyone ever run or installed Roxen before? just tinkering..
posted by john , 4:26 AM Þ 

In celestia, use the ] to turn on all the stars.
say navigate, and then go to sol.
while holding down both mouse buttons, slide backwards untill all the stars coalesce.
use the left mouse button to rotate everything.
Can you see the shapes?
Its almost horrifying....
posted by Irdial , 12:41 AM Þ 

that ruling will probably stick for like 20 minutes if that. i mean look
at the dollar bill. deeze things are way too entrenched in the pysche
of the 'masses of molasses' as it were.

You Know Your a New Yorker When:
...you never use the words "grande" and "coffee" in the same sentence.
-NY Times
posted by john , 12:11 AM Þ 
Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Pledge of Allegiance ruled unconstitutional

June 26, 2002 Posted: 3:04 PM EDT (1904 GMT)

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- For the first time ever, a federal appeals court declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional Wednesday because of the words "under God" added by Congress in 1954.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the phrase amounts to a government endorsement of religion in violation of the Constitution's Establishment Clause, which requires a separation of church and state.

"A profession that we are a nation 'under God' is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation 'under Jesus,' a nation 'under Vishnu,' a nation 'under Zeus,' or a nation 'under no god,' because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion," Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote for the three-judge panel.

The appeals said that when President Eisenhower signed the legislation inserting "under God" after the words "one nation," he wrote that "millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty."

The court noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has said students cannot hold religious invocations at graduations and cannot be compelled to recite the pledge. But when the pledge is recited in a classroom, a student who objects is confronted with an "unacceptable choice between participating and protesting," the appeals court said.

"Although students cannot be forced to participate in recitation of the pledge, the school district is nonetheless conveying a message of state endorsement of a religious belief when it requires public school teachers to recite, and lead the recitation of, the current form of the pledge," the court said.

The case was brought by Michael A. Newdow, a Sacramento atheist who objected because his second-grade daughter was required to recite the pledge at the Elk Grove school district. A federal judge dismissed his lawsuit, but the 9th Circuit ordered that the case proceed to trial.

"I'm an American citizen. I don't like my rights infringed upon by my government," he said in an interview. Newdow called the pledge a "religious idea that certain people don't agree with."

The government had argued that the religious content of "one nation under God" is minimal.

But the appeals court said that an atheist or a holder of certain non-Judeo-Christian beliefs could see it as an attempt to "enforce a 'religious orthodoxy' of monotheism."

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/26/pledgeofallegiance.ap/index.html
posted by Irdial , 8:32 PM Þ 

http://www.aspma.com/trubee.htm
Peace & Love
I got high last night on LSD
My mind was beautiful, and I was free
Warts loved my nipples because they are pink
Vomit on me, baby
Yeah Yeah Yeah.

Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind
It's erect because he's blind, it's erect because he's blind
Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind
It's erect because he is blind

Let's make love under the stars and watch for UFOs
And if little baby Martians come out of the UFOs
You can fuck them
Yeah Yeah Yeah.

The zebra spilled its plastinia on bemis
And the gelatin fingers oozed electric marbles
Ramona's titties died in hell
And the Nazis want to kill everyone.

Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind ... etc.
posted by Josh Carr , 7:53 PM Þ 

http://totl.net/VirusScanner/
Human Virus Scanner!
posted by Irdial , 1:26 PM Þ 

http://www.act-of-kindness.com/AboutUs.aspx
Turn the concept of money on its head, and change the world!
posted by Irdial , 10:41 AM Þ 

http://www.tv4.se/lattjo/kojan/bilbanan.asp
Submitted without comment :]
posted by Irdial , 10:24 AM Þ 

again just because...


lxtea: print 'em and we'll buy 'em!! (just as soon as we get the
davesque *$s and the 'batting for..' ones ;))

dude skid row is playing in oxford?? i am fucking there man!
posted by john , 8:09 AM Þ 

Nazi spin doctor = GOEBBELS. Fucking genius of a man, evil genius.
My friends and I enjoy playing Super Smash Brothers Melee on our Nintendo GameCube, and if there's one person short, the fourth player is always a pink-jacketed Dr. Mario at the highest AI difficulty. We refer to him as Propoganda Minister Goebbels. He's a fucking BASTARD.

What does a nazi turkey sound like?
GOEBBEL GOEBBEL GOEBBEL!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Akin: AudioGalaxy/NAPSTER in IRAN would be AMAZING. Hooooly shit. Hell, you could do it in Russia if you really wanted. GLGULRUBLG
posted by Barrie , 4:14 AM Þ 

michael franti ... my new flatmate / very very very good good friend since school age is his biggest fan.. maybe...

going to glastonbury for the xth year running to see him amongst isaac hayes and others... uh you have no idea how drunk iam. can't remember why i'm posting had some thing to say.. shiiiit. please complain if this post offends you for it's impotency.

had a chat on fire with barrie t'other day. instant gpg encryption. seamless and very fuckig hardcore. morrr0rrre ppl NEED to implement seemless, transparent pgp encryption in their apps to popularise privacy. no-one seems to care... how can we breach this gap?

also... i want to print t-shirts with evil corporate logos with their names replaces by R107 (www.r107.co.uk = me!). i hate these companies in so many ways (nike, esso, gap *$s, etc) but i feel morally ashamed to print the swastika under the same terms. why? i dunno. maybe phil night (nike ceo) isn't as bad as hitler, but he certainly has hints of the nazi spin doctor (i'm far too fucking drunk to remember... goering perhaps?)

i don't understand life. saw a racist attack in a conveinice store this eveing, stood outside watching, luckily the people inside dealt with it. felt impotent. i'm not a fighting man, what can i do?
posted by alex_tea , 1:47 AM Þ 

I work on Cowley Road and I bloody hate it
i can tell, it looks like your eyes are going to pop out every time you turn red, too funny dav!

Listen in to my stethoscope on a rope
international lullabies, human cries
thumps and silence, the language of violence
algorithmic, cataclysmic, seismic, biorhythmic
you can make a life longer, but you can't save it
you can make a clone an then you try to enslave it?
stealin' DNA samples from the unborn
and then you comin' after us
'cause we sampled a James Brown horn?

-michael franti
posted by mary13 , 12:34 AM Þ 
Tuesday, June 25, 2002

's funny you should say that Dr Burke, I am just finishing a 4-song collection, though it won't be called the Cowley Road EP; I work on Cowley Road and I bloody hate it (that pic is actually of me in my office, mimicking my bedroom and the pink effect) it's like the skid row of Oxford.

Alas no one will be able to hear my 4 songs since they are all made up of other people's samples and I don't want to get myself in trouble. Great mixes though - track one is an in-vitro fertilization of Van Halen and Scritti Politti (bits from the Fair Warning LP and the dub mixes from the CD of Cupid and Psyche 85), track 2 is a hotwired version of Desireless's mid 80's chanson "Voyage Voyage", track three has the vocals ripped off from Hipsway's "The Honeythief" and track 4 is a rather rude bit of interfering with good old Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

Been out tonight to the wonderfully named Brill. And it really is Brill too. And in Brill there is a windmill. On a hill. I'm not making this up. Brill hill with windmill. Great to drive out there with "Come with Us" on the stereo and the setting sun for company, still perfectly light at 10pm at night.
posted by captain davros , 11:48 PM Þ 
posted by chriszanf , 8:24 PM Þ 


colo facility junction medusa.

cowley road ep?
posted by john , 7:04 PM Þ 

Snorting Vodka is absolutely happening


I learned this handy trick at Roskilde. Here is how-to-do-it™
Fill a Danish beer cap with Vodka, hold it between your thumb and index finger. Use the other index finger to press one nostril closed. Exhale. Move the cap to the open nostril and snort in a steady but powerful inhalation. Cheers. Try not to scream. Then have one for the other leg. Cheers. The effect is being drunk in another (better) way. The price is getting there.

Don't do it too much as everything will go pink, properly due to bleedings in your eyes, I dunno. Acually much like the photo just below.
posted by Claus Eggers , 6:22 PM Þ 

Hey, secret message here - if you see this put the word STROBILE in your next posting
posted by captain davros , 5:42 PM Þ 




that is a really good point btw.
posted by john , 5:25 PM Þ 

All Audiogalaxy had to do is shut down its American operation and move everything to Iran.

Intelectual Property is Haram, so they could exist there perfectly legally. The movie streaming company that used to run out of Taiwan has moved to Tehran, and no one is bothering them there.

America is not the center of the universe; these directory servers need to simply move; shutting down is a sub optimal response.

Just imagine it; the RIAA and MPAA destroy innovation in the west, forcing a "brain drain" to Sharia countries, making them the new centers of innovation and software development in the world....THINK ABOUT IT.
posted by Irdial , 9:03 AM Þ 

FUCKING HELL. FUCKING HELL. FUCKING HELL. I just found out about this. I hate the RIAA. I'd be willing to fucking shoot them. Fuck. It's disgusting how they put their "needs" far ahead of everyone else's. Independant bands (which AG supported very well) don't matter for shit. The RIAA needs it's god-given right to horde MONEY! Fucking WHORES.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,53342,00.html

Why Audiogalaxy Case Matters Not
By Brad King

2:00 a.m. June 20, 2002 PDT

As news swept across the Internet regarding Audiogalaxy, the file-trading company forced to shuts its network on Monday, music fans came face-to-face with a sense of dread and déjà vu.

But just as the demise of Napster's service nearly a year ago created some inconvenience for music downloaders, Audiogalaxy's shutdown should have little lasting effect on the future of sharing.

Audiogalaxy, which has consistently ranked among the most popular applications at Download.com, capitulated to demands from the Recording Industry Association of America, which sued the company last month for copyright infringement. The company's decision may be a victory for the RIAA -- but it's not really a big one, according to parties on all sides.

Audiogalaxy ran a type of centralized server, which means the company had some control over the types of files on its system. During the landmark Napster case initiated by the RIAA in 1999, Ninth Circuit U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled that such systems could be held accountable for infringing materials on their systems.

Shutting that service down required little more than a lawsuit. However, the big test still looms in Los Angeles. That's where the music trade group is suing the makers of Kazaa and Morpheus, two decentralized file-trading services in which each user connected to the network acts as a server, creating a web. To shut down the network, each user must be removed.

The Audiogalaxy settlement is ominous because it shows the power of a legal ruling against a technology company. But it does little to stymie the millions of users connected to decentralized systems like Kazaa and Morpheus.

"This is a sign that we realize we understand we have to pursue these suits one at a time," said Cary Sherman, RIAA president. "We feel like we have no choice but to pursue these cases so that we can turn the Internet into a place where legitimate business can flourish. For that, the case against Kazaa remains important to establish the law with regards to different forms of (peer-to-peer) systems."
posted by Barrie , 4:35 AM Þ 
Monday, June 24, 2002

"The elite involved in the black programs are among the smartest people on the planet, but even so remain deeply puzzled by much of what they've learned. They tend to regard the public with disdain, like undisciplined and unruly children incapable of handling information of extraordinary complexity. While officially supporting democracy, the black program elite in reality espouse a kind of benevolent dictatorship or enlightened oligarchy by those, such as themselves, who have earned the right to know and to make decisions in the best interest of civilization, to which the ordinary person, being lazy and easily distracted, is not motivated or qualified to contribute anyway. The average American cares more about the Super Bowl than about life elsewhere in the Universe. The intellectual mentors of those with clout and power are Plato and Machiavelli, not Aristotle and Jefferson. Over the past 50 years, the highest courts have accepted and upheld the precedence of national security over the First and Fourth Amendments. So even if the public wanted to know, that would not constitute a legal need or right to know. The elite are doing their patriotic duty by trying to control the situation within the established rules of national security."

http://www.ufoskeptic.org/secret.html
UFO Skeptic
posted by Irdial , 11:58 PM Þ 

the world of tiffness

as for vodka, i prefer mine ice cold with lemon... though as i sit here at work i am terribly envious of you, mikkel. have fun and i want pictures!
posted by mary13 , 11:36 PM Þ 

snorting vodka
This is for real right?

Its the second time that I have heard that this is done; just how fuckkin cRaZy are you whippersnappers??!?!? Eh??!!??
posted by Irdial , 11:09 PM Þ 

so they freed arthur lee?

"Arthur Lee of Love was incarcerated by the State of California in 1996 for allegedly firing bullets into the peopled upstairs apartment through his ceiling; an act begotten for the hungry fantasists who can ony costruct such scenarios etherally, while Lee, the idealist, strove to sprinkly all our lives with hope, and transform paralyzed desire into action. A slug in the ceiling for everyone at war with the tyrannical massivity, Arthur announced the war that's raged insidiously undeclared. Arthur's action, while formally pure and delightful to recount, goes beyond symbolism, is the new herotic mantle for the conquering downpressed. Trade your silence for his example, with the diet of cold rice and the sound of stark, sharp, gospel music. Arthur Lee must be freed. Free Arthur Lee! Free Love! Write to the Governor of the State of California to appeal the wrongful incarceration of this inspirational man. This is not a joke."

he's the only one with the common courage
to tell us about the old scars
he used to live in a common castle
now he's behind bars
posted by alex_tea , 10:09 PM Þ 

wfmu loves to play bob hund. crazy crazy sounds...
posted by Josh Carr , 10:00 PM Þ 

Things continue to pop to mind. Mikkel, at all times you most carry a black flag that reads "18 05 80" in bold red letters. It's very important.
posted by Claus Eggers , 9:53 PM Þ 

Short post, I have some spare time> Hah, claus, you bet I'm gonna post a full report! If I can remember anything, that is. (also, holy shit, Josh, you know about Bob Hund? Goddamn!)

I will try my best to live up to Claus' exploits of '00, except for the whole consumption of piss thing. (for non-danes, PIK = COCK hee hee). I need something that looks vaguely like a backstage pass. Or I need to roll someone who has one.
posted by Mikkel , 8:35 PM Þ 

can we get a pic dav?
posted by john , 8:04 PM Þ 

The sun is really incredibly bright tonight (well, this evening) and as such I have hung a pink blanket up in my window to shade my room from its intensity. Now everything is glowing pink and I feel like I'm in a drug scene from a bad 70's film.

This is a good way to waste time, unless you consider doing this a good use of time. I say waste time at work while yr getting paid and then have fun later. http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm

posted by captain davros , 7:51 PM Þ 

Uhm... forgot licking perly dew-drops of the grass in the wee hours of the morning realising it was piss - litterally, and snorting vodka.
posted by Claus Eggers , 7:35 PM Þ 

Hey Mikkel, what happend to snogging Swedish girls, vomiting your 20£ mescalin right up, sleeping with your head in the bassbin, stealing booze from the MTV trailer, cheating you way back-stage, eating Eat Statics dinner and stealing their wine, getting mosquito bites on your arse while humping your ex-girlfriend on a nearby field, crowd surfing two meters over dead corpses in from of orange stage, pretending your law enforcement and scare the shit out of street vendors, hacking hotmails on the netcafé boxen, finding 200 joints in a plastic bag and loosing them again because you are stoned like a zombie, having your photo taken with law enforcement, taking a dump on the roof of a car, spending 30£ on a henna tattoo that reads PIK on your forehead, burning all your gear - and the neightbors as well before you take the train home hiding in the lavy, falling asleep and waking up with law enforcement fining you. What about it? I wan't a full report when you return young man!
posted by Claus Eggers , 7:31 PM Þ 

because of moby's bad breath!
posted by john , 7:16 PM Þ 

wow, mikkel: the Roskilde Fest looks amazing.

and you will know us by the trail of dead
andrew wk
anti pop consortium
antibalas
bob hund
common
dirtbombs
alec empire
Love w/ arthur lee (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
slayer
spiritualized
television
yeah yeah yeahs

... and on and on and on

how the hell are you going to decide which acts to catch?

why don't festivals such as these exist in the US???????????????
posted by Josh Carr , 7:13 PM Þ 

coming next: the microsoft toaster and the microsoft programmable handy wipe.

oooh, i'm so paranoid and stupid that i'll trust you to take care of it. ok..... i'm going to close my eyes now. you hold my wallet and just please take care of it won't you??
jihad....i can't even address this choice of words.
It’s easier to vandalize a Web site than to program a remote control. this is not true and it's this mindset that pushes people even farther away from having a clue as to what is actually happening on the web. as if it's some big mystery. "the big scary unknown internet". fear fear fear and more fear. fear the unknown and stay under someone else's control. like a cult of the moronic. noone will ever know it all but that is no reason not to try!

the vast majority of people don't even know how to properly use their email so frankly i couldn't care less if they sell 5 billion of these systems. i'll never buy one but perhaps some people should have someone else take care of their own lack of "_________" when it comes to the internet. whether it's m$ or someone else. because if/when i get 1 more email from some friend with the subject FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW: i think i am going to completely blow a cog.

posted by john , 4:59 PM Þ 

Palladium will die a death, just like Hailstorm. No one will buy into M$ controlling what software can and cannot run on a machine. It's just pie in the sky.
posted by Irdial , 4:23 PM Þ 

ha ha the name palladium makes me think of bad 80s comedy. jimmy tarbuck, russ abbot, etc...

now he paperclip will crack jokes: "it's the way you tell 'em"
posted by alex_tea , 2:19 PM Þ 

Mikkel + Beer + Tents + Mud + Music + Lots of People = Roskilde Festival 2002

YES! I'm off. Cya in a week.
posted by Mikkel , 1:26 PM Þ 

http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp?cp1=1#BODY

The Big Secret
An exclusive first look at Microsoft’s ambitious-and risky-plan to remake the personal computer to ensure security, privacy and intellectual property rights. Will you buy it?
By Steven Levy
NEWSWEEK

July 1 issue — In ancient Troy stood the Palladium, a statue of the goddess Athena. Legend has it that the safety of the city depended on that icon’s preservation. Later the term came to mean a more generic safeguard.

HERE’S SOMETHING THAT cries for a safeguard: the world of computer bits. An endless roster of security holes allows cyber-thieves to fill up their buffers with credit-card numbers and corporate secrets. It’s easier to vandalize a Web site than to program a remote control. Entertainment moguls boil in their hot tubs as movies and music are swapped, gratis, on the Internet. Consumers fret about the loss of privacy. And computer viruses proliferate and mutate faster than they can be named.
• Audio: Steven Levy and Mario Juarez on Microsoft: Secrets of Security
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Computer security is enough of a worry that the software colossus Microsoft views it as a threat to its continued success: thus the apocalyptic Bill Gates memo in January calling for a “Trustworthy Computing” jihad. What Gates did not specifically mention was Microsoft’s hyperambitious long-range plan to literally change the architecture of PCs in order to address the concerns of security, privacy and intellectual property. The plan, revealed for the first time to NEWSWEEK, is... Palladium, and it’s one of the riskiest ventures the company has ever attempted. Though Microsoft does not claim a panacea, the system is designed to dramatically improve our ability to control and protect personal and corporate information. Even more important, Palladium is intended to become a new platform for a host of yet-unimagined services to enable privacy, commerce and entertainment in the coming decades. “This isn’t just about solving problems, but expanding new realms of possibilities in the way people live and work with computers,” says product manager Mario Juarez.
posted by Barrie , 6:27 AM Þ 

My computer sucks... Celestia runs at about 5 fps or so... blah. I really need a new computer.
posted by Barrie , 3:22 AM Þ 
Sunday, June 23, 2002

The Framley Examiner!


celestia is......breath-taking!! cheers for that, Akin
posted by chriszanf , 8:21 PM Þ 

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
This is what it looks like...breath taking.
posted by Irdial , 2:24 PM Þ 

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
Albert Einstein
posted by Irdial , 3:17 AM Þ 

J Robert Oppenheimer & Albert Einstein:




TOP SECRET


DRAFT June 1947

Relationships with Inhabitants
of Celestrial Bodies

Relationships with extraterrestrial men presents
no basically new problem from the standpoint of international
law: but the possibility of confronting intelligent beings
that do not belong to the human race would bring us problems
whose solution it is difficult to conceive.

In principle, there is no difficulty in accepting the
possibility of coming to an understanding with them, and of
establishing all kinds of relationships. The difficulty lies
in trying to establish the principles on which these
relationships should be based.

In the first place, it would be necessary to establish
communication with them through some language or other, and
afterwards, as a first condition for all intelligence, that
they should have a psychology similar to that of men.

At any rate, international law should make place for
a new law on a different basis, and it might be called "Law
Among Planetary Peoples", following the guidelines found in
the Pentateuch. Obviously, the idea of revolutionizing
international law to the point where it would be capable of
coping with situations would compel us to make a change
in its structure, a change so basic that it would no longer
be international law, that is to say, as it is conceived
today, but something altogether different, so that it could
no longer bear the same name.

If these intelligent beings were in possession of a
more or less culture, and a more or less perfect political
organization, they would have an absolute right to be
recognised as independent and sovereign peoples, we would
have to come to an agreement with them to establish the
legal regulations upon which future relationships should be
based, and it would be necessary to accept many of their
principles.

Finally, if they should reject all peaceful
cooperation and become an imminent threat to the earth, we
would have the right to legitimate defense, but only insofar
as would be necessary to annul this danger.

*****

Another possibility may exist, that a species of homo
sapiens might have established themselves as an independent
nation on another celestrial body in our solar system and

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evolved culturally independently from ours. Obviously, this
possibility depends on many circumstances, whose conditions
cannot yet be foreseen. However, we can make a study of the
basis on which such a thing might have occurred.

In the first place, living conditions on these bodies
lets say the moon, or the planet Mars, would have to be such
as to permit a stable, and to a certain extent, independent
life, from an economic standpoint. Much has been speculated
about the possibilities for life existing outside of
our atmosphere and beyond, always hypothetically, and there are
those who go so far as to give formulas for the creation of
an artificial atmosphere on the moon, which undoubtedly have
a certain scientific foundation, and which may one day come
to light. Let's assume that magnesium silicates on the moon
may exist and contain up to 13 percent water. Using energy
and machines brought to the moon, perhaps from a space station,
the rocks could be broken up, pulverized, and then backed to
drive of the water of crystallization. This could be collected
and then decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, using an electric
current or the short wave radiation of the sun. The oxygen
could be used for breathing purposes; the hydrogen might be
used as a fuel.

In any case, if no existence is possible on celestrial
bodies except for enterprises for the exploration of their
natural riches, with a continuous interchange of the men who
work on them, unable to establish themselves there indefinitely
and be able to live isolated life, independence will never
take place.

*****

Now we come to the problem of determining what to
do if the inhabitants of celestrial bodies, or extraterrestrial
biological entities (EBE) desire to settle here.

1. If they are politically organised and possess a
certain culture similar to our own, they may be recognised as
a independent people. They could consider what degree of
development would be required on earth for colonizing.

2. If they consider our culture to be devoid of political
unity, they would have the right to colonize. Of course, this
colonization cannot be conducted on classic lines.

A superior form of colonizing will have to be conceived,
that could be a kind of tutelage, possibly through the tacit
approval of the United Nations. But would the United Nations
legally have the right of allowing such tutelage over us in such
a fashion?
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(a) Although the United Nations is an
international organisation, there is no doubt that it would
have no right of tutelage, since its domain does not extend
beyond relationships between its members. It would have the
right to intervene only if the relationships of a member
nation with a celestrial body affected another member nation
with an extraterrestrial people is beyond the domain of the
United Nations. But if these relationships entailed a
conflict with another member nation, the United Nations would
have the right to intervene.

(b) If the United Nations were a supra-national
organisation, it would have competency to deal with all
problems related to extraterrestrial peoples. Of course,
even though it is merely an international organization, it
could have this competence if its member states would be
willing to recognise it.

*****

It is difficult to predict what the attitude of
international law will be with regard to the occupation by
celestrial peoples of certain locations on our planet, but
the only thing that can be foreseen is that there will be
a profound change in traditional concepts.

We cannot exclude the possibility that a race of
extraterrestrial people more advanced technologically and
economically may take upon itself the right to occupy
another celestrial body. How, then, would this occupation
come about?

1. The idea of exploitation by one celestrial
state would be rejected, they may think it would be advisable
to grant it to all others capable of reaching another
celestrial body. But this would be to maintain a situation
of privilege for these states.

2. The division of a celestrial body into zones
and the distribution of them among other celestrial states.
This would present the problem of distribution. Moreover,
other celestrial states would be deprived of the possibility
of owning an area, or if they were granted one it would
involve complicated operations.

3. Indivisible co-sovereignty, giving each celestrial
state the right to make whatever use is most convenient to
its interests, independently of the others. This would
create a situation of anarchy, #@ the strongest one would
win out in the end.

4. A moral entity? The most feasible solution it

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seems would be this one, submit an agreement providing for the
peaceful absorption of a celestrial race(S) in such a manner
that our culture would remain intact with guarantees that
their presence not be revealed.

Actually, we do not believe it necessary to go that
far. It would merely be a matter of internationalizing
celestrial peoples, and creating an international treaty
instrument preventing exploitation of all nations belonging
to the United Nations.

*****

[SNIP!]


Respectfully,

/s/

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Director of Advanced Studies
Princeton, New Jersey

/s/

Professor Albert Einstein
Princeton, New Jersey

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