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| 2001/4/20 [Science/Space] UID:21024 Activity:insanely high |
4/19 What's the best degree to get if you want to become an astronaut?
\_ Looking for a genie in a bottle?
\_ there's so much I don't know about astrophysics... I wish I read
that book by that wheelchair guy...
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/hawking -- yuen
\_ "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking?
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/hawking
"He is the only scientist invited to appear on episodes of Star
Trek and The Simpsons." (http://www.isepp.org
-- yuen
\_ http://hawking.org.uk runs linux (according to netcraft).
\_ Dr. Hawking is much more than a mere physicist. He's
also a bad a$$ homey g gansta rapper:
<DEAD>www.mchawking.com<DEAD>
And he runs BSD/OS with his Gin and Juice!
\_ don't be CS, and get two degrees in unrelated disciplines.
\_ CS=ground control.
\_ ugh, psychology and mass comm?
\_ Naval Architecture, Physics, Math or Engineering Science.
These are the primary majors at West Point and Annapolis,
the primary source of graduates who go on to become
Astronauts.
\_ Things are different now with the Space Shuttle. You dont need
to necessarily be all engineering or jet-pilot/military-like
See http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/training.html
for the different degrees, requirements and other skills needed.
\_ 60-76 inches tall?!? blackballing, short bastards! -erikred
\_ 5' - 6'4"? What's wrong with a range like that?
\_ I'm 6'5", oh well.
\_ erikred = 84"
\_ Nothing this is the 80% range of human height. And
the assemblies on the Shuttle are designed for
this range of people. It would be prohibitively
expensive to design for 100% of all people.
\_ they didn't say anything about weight. Whew! -6'4" ~400pounds
\_ At $10k per pound to send stuff to orbit, you're not going
anytime soon.
\_ I'm curious at how this figure is arrived at. So if I'm
an astronaut and happen to have five Big Macs the night
before (ok, unrealistic, but humor me here), will I be
costing NASA another $10-30k?
\_ Not in that sense. But if you know the weight of
the shuttle and everything in it and you know the
"total cost" then it's simple math. I'm guessing
that the TC includes things like salaries for the
flight control crew and other support staff on the
ground, so no, it won't cost anymore if you chow
down the night before. Nothing measureable.
\_ I'm 5'2" 96 pounds, can I go? -cute azn chick
\_ pixP.
\_ That depends on your bra size. What's yours?
\_ If nasa won't have you. I will.
\_ Bang! Zoom! Off the to moon, Alice!
\_ who's alice? |
| 2001/4/20-21 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:21025 Activity:high |
4/19 What is the name of the emacs mode that automatically inserts returns
and indents after you type in a semicolon? Every now and then,
i turn it on accidentally and don't know how to turn it off.
\_ c-mode
\_ asm-mode? -- yuen
\_ ass mode |
| 2001/4/20 [Consumer/Camera, Recreation/Dating] UID:21026 Activity:moderate |
4/19 Anyone's seen Memento? How was it?
\_ I don't remember.
\_ awesome. It was a cross between Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction,
Betrayal, and film noir. Pay attention, don't go get popcorn.
\_ It was very creative story. But I don't think it was an awesome
film.
\_ _Soldier of the Mist_, _Soldier of Arete_, Gene Wolfe
\_ goetz?
\_ Well, it's good enough where I'd consider it criminal if this
worthy film does not get a nationwide release. The film
had more plot twists than a double helix.
\_ If it's not that good why do 5 http://imdb.com staff give it
an average rating of 9?
\_ it's barely released and has already cracked the top #50
on http://IMDB.com.
\_ damn it people.. don't give away the movie. This is one of
those chicks where the less you know the better experience
you'll have.
\_ I'm trying to convince my friend and his wife to see this tomorrow
night, but my friend says he's heard it's violent, and he wouldn't
want to mislead his spouse. Is it that violent?
overall cuz she doesn't like movies with violence.
\_ A dude gets his head blown off in the first two mins.
\_ My gf have it props for creativity but gave it thumbs down
overall cuz she doesn't like movies with that much violence.
\_ What's with their commercials? Are they European or something? |
| 2001/4/20 [Recreation/Media] UID:21027 Activity:very high |
4/19 Do episols 2 and 3 of Star Wars already exist in some form other than
movie, like in a book?
\_ Its all very simple, the plot is g33k5 give money to
GL who uses that money to live the life of landed
gentry. In return, GL puts out medicore crap called
a movie.
\_ Yes, George Lucas wrote the scripts for Star Wars 1-9 already.
\_ There are 9 summaries in a treatise called "Journal of the
Whills" that Lucas wrote long ago. He decided to make episode
4-6 because they were the most interesting. 1-3 was/is only
other movies he'll make of the story. 7-9 will not be filmed.
Only C3PO/R2D2 remain constant thru the stories.
\_ 7-9 will be filmed when GL needs more $s. He'll pimp
his sorry excuse for an "epic" for every $ its worth.
\_ Not true. He has the basic concept in his head, but he
hasn't actually written all the scripts.
\_ He's also said there just isn't much more story after 6, which
is part of the reason why you'll never see 7-9.
\_ If GL runs out of cash, you'll see 7-9.
\_ The guy has millions upon millions. And he owns ILM. I
doubt he'd run out of cash.
\- Hello, Lucas will release 7-9 when he has grandkids and
has another excuse to again betray those of us that were
around in 1977 with some new "technological terror"
along the lines of JJB. ok tnx --psb
p.s. does anyome know which UCB math prof is the one that
looks like George Lucas?
\_ Okay maybe the bit about running out of $s
was wrong. But he will release these movies
when he wants more $s, because g33k5 will
pay good money to watch his crap.
\_ Bergman? He looks more like Francis Ford Coppola,
but i guess you could make the stretch...
\_ GL already has grandkids.
\_ yeah that's so true. he didn't "charge himself" for
using ILM as the EFX company for Episode One. 20th
century got maybe 50 cents of every ticket sold.
\_ was this with one or two asian chic sitting
with you on your bed?
\_ No matter how good your setup is in your living
room, you will not recreate the effect of
watching celluloid on a big screen.
1/3rd went to the theatre. the rest went to GL.
so he made off with a good $400 mil of Ep1 $600 mil
no bad for a movie he forked over his own $110 mil for
\_ So he had a profit of $290m on his crappy movie? I
felt so robbed that I spent good money seeing it.
\_ It's funny how people bitch about wasting their time
and money on Star Wars 1. It's not like you never
ever felt robbed watching a less-hyped movie.
\_ Sure I do. You want a list of all the shitty
movies I've wasted my money on and bitched about?
I only mention this one because that's the thread
topic. If I came up with a random movie to bitch
about, you'd say I was an idiot and off topic.
Tell me the funny part about expressing my
opinion about the subject of the thread topic?
It's funny how stupid people come to the motd to
feel clever but aren't.
\_ Anyone who is stupid enough to *pay* to
watch a movie has no right to bitch that
the movie was bad. You checked your brain
at the door when you traded hard earned
money for worthless celluloid drivel.
\_ You sound like one of those napster idiots.
\_ Why? Because I don't waste my money
on entertainment?
BTW, I never said that one should
pirate IP, I said that hollywoods
IP SUX!
\_ Why do people go to theaters anyway? All
movies are freely available (even before
the release date in most cases) on hotline
and irc. The quality isn't too bad in most
case. Why would you pay $8 to sit in a
dark room with a bunch of insensitive
jerks who are talking to each other and
yakking on thier cell phones instead of
\_ Because spending hours hunting down and
downloading movies so I can watch them on
a dinky monitor or TV is a much bigger waste
of my time than the $8 lost at the movies.
When your time has no value, this is a good
way to go if you don't mind being a thief
and a criminal.
watching the same movie in the comfort
of your own home?
I've heard about this thing called the
"theater experience", but the "experience"
seems to me to be worth $1 or $2 not $8.
\_ Because spending hours hunting down
and downloading movies so I can watch
them on a dinky monitor or TV is a
much bigger waste of my time than the
$8 lost at the movies. When your time
has no value, this is a good way to go
if you don't mind being a thief and a
criminal.
\_ A big screen tv and dolby 5.1 ss
are just as good as the "movies".
And searching/downloading takes
almost 0 time. You just have to
know the right sites.
I don't care about the criminal
part. The founding fathers were
considered criminals by the brits.
TPTB were wrong then, they are
wrong now! Viva la revolution!
\_ Yeah. Why do people watch movies in theaters
anyway? Its much cheaper and faster to d/l the
vobs or asfs from hotline. I watched SW:E1 in
asf format 3 days before the theater release
in the comfort of my dorm room.
\- i bet the person who wrote these two posts
were not born in 1977 ... "you dont get it".
The reason "we" felt ripped off has nothing to
do with wasting $8 ... hell, my Star Wars lunch
pail i still have will pay for the price of
admission several times over. Hint: the fact that
I have a SW lunch pail has more to do with why
I feel betrayed. --psb
\_ You feel betrayed that GL is pimping his
shitty little "epic" for all the $s its
worth so that he can maintain his elite
lifesytle? Why? After all its his shitty
little epic and he can do anything he wants
with it. If you thing that it was good or
that it was some kind of story for the ages
you are a bigger idiot than tom.
(I have read Campbell, so I know what
qualifies as an "epic" and despite what
Campbell may have said to Bill Moyers,
SW is a POS. Star Trek is a *much better*
and a much more realisitc epic)
\_ Star Trek is realistic? Are you totally
stupid or just trolling again?
\_ Star Trek is more realistic than
SW. I never said that ST is realistic.
\_ That's like saying the humpty dumpty
story is more realistic than the
wizard of oz. zero is not greater
than zero. I find the gritty ugly
future of SW more realistic than the
politically correct ST junk. The
science in both is pure fantasy. In
what way is ST more realistic?
\_ The gritty ugly future of SW?
Its in the past you idiot.
"Long, Long, Ago, In a Galaxy
Far, Far, Away..."
Have you even seen SW?
And what's so gritty and ugly?
All of the major cities GL
has shown (the space port
is not a major city) are
neat and clean, manned by
a work force of non-sentient
slave bots.
ST is more realistic in that
it is a story of ordinary
people (not super-human jedi)
who perform extraordinary
acts in the line of duty.
(I'm talking about TOS here
not TNG or any of that other
bs that pretends to be ST)
\_ no one is a bigger idiot than tom.
\_ actually, tom is an idiot, a big one.
\_ but you two are extremely clever! -tom
\_ your real fans wouldn't participate
in such mindless name calling, tom.
we're still waiting to hear your
"reasonable definition" of liberal.
\_ The word was "leftist", and I
don't argue politics with
anonymous cowards. -tom
\_ True. You just delete
anything that doesn't fit your
agenda. Also, no one wanted
to debate with you. A simple
definition isn't a request.
I'm not surprised you can't
manage to define yourself out
of the leftist category. It
would be laughable. I don't
see why you refuse to provide
a "reasonable definition" of
an English word.
\_ No, I didn't feel betrayed at all. And I
watched SW in the theaters. Back in 1977.
It's not like Ep. 1 was the first SW that
disappointed (hello Ep. 6). It's like
Star Trek. Some good, one or two great,
rest monkey doo-doo.
\_ Only watch even numbered ST movies.
No such rule can be given for SW.
They all suck.
\_ The teddy bear episode should have been
a big tip off that the next film was
going to be pure crap. Lesson learned.
I will not be seeing the next one.
\_ yeah really. the epic backstory
was a big hoax. and even if there
ever was a master plan, it was
fucked right from the start when
they destroyed the death star. the
empire strikes back is the only
saving grace of the series, the
only one with some adult themes.
but haven't you learned by now?
kid stuff is what sells, look at
pokemon and boy bands. so lucas
went for the money and with ROTJ
steered starwars firmly into the
realm of kiddie flicks.
\_ Which is why ST is better than
SW. Star Trek dealt with adult
themes in all of TOS and the
first six movies. |
| 2001/4/20 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:21028 Activity:nil |
4/19 What's the difference between "rate" and "APR" in a mortgage? |
| 2001/4/20 [Science/Physics] UID:21029 Activity:very high |
4/19 Say you have a long pole of some hard substance. If you push on
the end, how soon does the other end move? Is there some ripple
effect at the atomic level that propagates at some speed? If so,
is this "c"?
\_ Are you trying to figure out if you can transmit information faster
than the speed of light (say, a giant pole to another planet)? I
think mechanical energy transfers through a metal pole similarly
to how sound would through air.
\_ if you push on my pole, baby, i'll move faster than c
\_ Are you trying to figure out if you can transmit information
faster than the speed of light (say, a giant pole to another
planet)? I think mechanical energy transfers through a metal
pole similarly to how sound would through air.
\_ Yes, the sound speed in the metal. You're propagating
compression/tension waves, more or less. Not only
would it be < c, it would be WAY less than c.
\_ Since the bonds that hold the hard substance together are
electromagnetic, the maximum speed to transfer an impulse from one
end to the other would be the speed of propogation of an EM wave.
So, yes, c is the limit.
\_ Sure, c is "the limit", but your understanding is poor.
Consider hammering a metal train track with a sledghammer.
How long would it take to "notice" that the rail was hammered?
How long would it take your friend "joe" down the track
to hear that it had been hammered? The distance to joe
divided by the speed of sound in metal, that's how long.
Moving it is essentially the same as hammering it. It's
just a very large amplitude, slow frequency sound impulse.
What is the speed of sound in steel? Very high, but nothing
like c.
\_ hm, makes sense, thanks. so it seems the speed of sound in
diamond is around 10^4 m/sec. okay, there goes my plan
to revolutionize fiber optics. (fiber sonics?)
\_ What's the speed of light inside fiber optic cables then?
\_ approximately c/1.52. Index of refraction of glass
is 1.52 ( vacuum speed / material speed ) --jon
\_ Then how is using diamond going to beat fiber optics?
\_ damn. as I suspected, people are already working
on everything. i was basically thinking about
what they call wavelength division multiplexing.
those fuckers.
\_ I said "there goes my plan." Although, something
else occured to me. But this one might be the
million dollar idea. I'm sure you buy that huh?
Hmm. --original poster
\_ hey, don't feel bad. there are plenty
of very succesful internet companies that have
made all of their money via the reciprocal
motion of rigid rods. it just has to be the
right rod.
\_ The one they shoved up your ass as
they took all your money in exchange
for worthless options.
\_ Oops, never mind.
\_ damn. as I suspected, people are already
working n everything. i was basically
thinking about what they call wavelength
division multiplexing. those fuckers.
\_ take a look at negative ir.
\_ I think Einstein said nothing, not even information itself, can
travel faster than c. But I think some quantum mechanics guys
said otherwise. They said for certain pair of particles
far apart, if they do something to one particle, the other particle
responses in some way in a time shorter than light requires to
travel between the two. It's something like that, I don't know
exactly.
\_ Feynman explained this to me once, and I thought I understood
it at the time, but afterwards, I realized I had no idea what
he was talking about. Here it is:
http://www.stardrive.org/feynman.html -ausman
\_ You knew/met Feynman?!? Lucky dog.
\_ You are talking about "spooky action at a distance". The problem
with this analysis is that it forgets to take into account the
wave modes of the particles. There was a paper discussing this
last year in phy. letters or something.
\_ You can't use this to transmit a message, though. Imagine
that you and I have two coins that are mystically linked, so
that when they are flipped, they both come up the same way.
We both flip the coins a bunch of times, and -- wow! -- the
sequence of heads and tails that arises is the same for us
both. But we can't know this until we get together and compare
notes. Until then, it just looks like a bunch of random
coin flips. This quantum thing is like that.
\_ But you're assuming that "flipping a coin" is random.
It's not. If you train yourself, you can consistently flip
quarters to come up the same side pretty much every time. |
| 2001/4/20 [Reference/Religion] UID:21030 Activity:nil |
4/19 What do you mean Jedi is not a religion?
<DEAD>us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/#10<DEAD>
If Scientology is a religion, then so is the otherwise-known-as-
make-George-Lucas-richer religion of Jedi.
\_ Scientology is not a religion. |
| 2001/4/20 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:21031 Activity:nil |
4/19 Anybody have experience installing w98 drivers under w2k? I read
some FAQ about both conforming to windows driver model so they should
be compatible. I'm wondering if this is indeed true.
\_ not true.
\_ BZZZT! Well written drivers won't even allow you to install them
on the other OS.
\_ No well written drivers will include both 98 and NT interfaces
so that they automagically work with both versions.
\_ Huh?
\_ Sorry. No well written drivers will include both 98 and
NT interfaces so that they automagically work with both
versions. |
| 2001/4/20 [Uncategorized] UID:21032 Activity:nil |
4/18 How do i keep in.telnetd from trying to do a DNS lookup? Does FTP
ever behave like this? (Sorry for the confusion!) the question has
been fixed. I meant how do you keep in.telnetd from doing a reverse
lookup on the incomming connection?
\_ 80 columns, people.
\_ utsl
\_ don't run in.telnetd
\_ sshd.
\_ Edit the source |
| 2001/4/20-22 [Health/Disease/General] UID:21034 Activity:high |
4/19 What's the technical difference between viral meningitis and flu,
and between cold and flu? Same phylum/genus/specie of virus strand
with different potency? Sounds like they have similar symptons.
\- are you looking for difference in cause or diagnostic symptoms?
meningitis is an infection of the cerebro-spinal fluid aand can be
either viral or bacterial. cold are caused by a large group of viruses.
flu also from a small number of viruses but the flu virus is more
of a continuum than distinct germs ... they gradually change in drifts
with occasion dramatic changes (shifts), which explains large epidemics
becuase few peopel have resistence to the new form. recommend
l. garrett: the coming plague. ok tnx
\_ Say it loud! I've got Balamuthia mandrillaris, and I'm proud!
\_ virus gets into brain - headaches
\_ Bzzt. that has much more to do with dehydration and fever
than viruses in your brain.
\_ I don't know the technical defferences, but I think you cough
when you have a flu but not when you have a cold.
\_ Bzzt.
\_ Flu more _often_ involves nausea.
\_ Bzzt. Influenza is a respiratory illness.
http://thedailyapple.com/level3/ds3/flhmds3.htm
\_ Technically, you're an idiot... |
| 2001/4/20 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:21035 Activity:nil |
4/19 Jew spreads her racist drivel about SATs at Cal.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jennings.html |
| 2001/4/20-22 [Computer/Domains] UID:21036 Activity:kinda low |
4/20 is there a command (like whois) to find the MX server for a domain?
What is it?
\_ nslookup -type=mx
\_ dig mx [domain] |
| 2001/4/20-22 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:21037 Activity:nil |
4/20 If I want to insert a TAB character, what's the escape key in Emacs?
\_ C-q TAB
\_ C-i |
| 2001/4/20-22 [Uncategorized] UID:21038 Activity:moderate |
4/20 How often does network solutions do bulk deletions of expired names?
I want to buy a name that has expired more than 3 months ago.
\_ "When they damned well feel like it" is how they run the domain
system.
\_ When all attempts to auction it themselves have failed and they're
convinced no one wants to pay them money for it. |
| 2001/4/20-22 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:21039 Activity:moderate |
4/20 How come sed -e 's/[\ \t\n]/ /g' doesn't work for the tab and \n?
\_ obUsePerl
perl -pe 's/[\s\n]/ /g'
\_ perl -pe 's/\s/ /g' is sufficient --dbushong
\_ This is ugly, but it works for tab:
sed -e 's/'"`echo \"\t\"`"'/ /g'
Oh, and what's the point of matching SPACE, TAB, and NEWLINE
instead of just TAB and NEWLINE? Replacing SPACE with SPACE?
\_ you mean /bin/echo right? echo (shell command) wouldn't
work. Also maybe the guy means 's/[\s]+/ /g'
\_ yup, /bin/echo or /usr/bin/echo |
| 2001/4/20-21 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:21040 Activity:high |
4/20 Why do we still have sanctions against Iraq when obviously the Iraqi
gov't does not care?
\_ "obviously". You make this statement based on what?
\_ the Iraqi gov't does not capitulate even though the Iraqi people
and children suffer and die. So simple logic tells me that our
sanctions hurt the innocent and do not accomplish our goals.
\_ Simple logic tells us no such thing. "The children
suffer and die", whose fault is that? Its the fault
of the children's parents. If the parents cared about
thier children, they would overthrow the iraqi gov.
and establish a free society that wasn't interested
in state sponsored terrorism.
Since the parents don't do that, it is logical that
they don't care about thier children and thus why
should we care?
And furthermore, why are the dependent on supplies
from the US to survive? Can't they live on what they
make in thier own country? No, uh, then they have to
play by our rules or suffer the consquences. If you
want my stuff, then be prepared to deal with my terms.
\_ This is the most childish agrument I've heard.
Let's suppose for one moment that you don't
like the US government, why don't you overthrow
it to show the iraqi parents 'how to do it'.
Maybe it's time you get out of soda hall and
see the real world.
\_ You miss the point. The original argument
is as suspect as the one advanced here.
Both are equally invalid.
\_ Yeah maybe you should try. But know what,
you will fail. Why? Because this is the
greatest nation on the face of the earth
and quite possibly in all of god's creation.
\_ like above post says, this argument is ridiculous.
the government controls the military. a bunch of
starving people can't just overthrow the gov't.
the eastern bloc communist countries coudn't just
revolt. and it isn't just a US sanction, the US
maneuvered the UN into a UN sanction by forgiving
a bunch of debts in return for votes.
\_ Yeah, like Solidarity in Poland didn't overthrow
the government? And the founding fathers didn't
overthrow the government? And the Indian National
Congress (literally lead by starving peasants)
didn't overthrow the government. The list goes
on. Machine guns may kill a few people, but the
will of the people will eventually triumph.
If the people in iraq are unwilling to do anything
about thier conditions, its thier problem not
mine.
And what is this BS about the UN getting
"manipulated". Its about F'ing time they
did something our way. Its not enough
that the UN gets my Tax $s, they want to
spend it the way that they want. Screw
that. As long as its our $s at work, its
our way. The UN wants different, let 'em
earn thier own money. Until the UN should
STFU.
If you think that our way is the wrong
way you are welcome to leave the US and
go live in whatever 3rd world hell hole
suits you better.
\_ Our goals being what? Iraq still has a nothing army and isn't
militarily in a position to hurt anyone outside their own
borders. Mission accomplished. You thought we had some other
goals? Sanctions are about isolation. Iraq is isolated.
\_ okay fine, with this argument you admit the US does not
care about human rights. so what then gives us the right
to prattle about human rights to china?
\_ No it doesn't. It says the world isn't the nice little
black and white place you want it to be.
\_ no, it's about the US fucking over people so that
soccer moms can keep driving their SUVs.
\_ No its about the jealousy of other nations
that we have enough prosperity for our
"soccer moms" to drive SUVs. We worked
hard for it and they want to take it
away via state sponsored terrorism.
We have every right to prevent them
from doing that.
\_ we care about human rights. The people in iraq
are oppressed by the current government. There
are only two ways to set them free. Bomb the
current government out of existence or starve
it out of existence. Starving is cheaper than
bombing, though bombing would be quicker.
I favor starving, since its cheaper.
\_ bombing is more fun. I love those CNN giant type
"WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST!" headlines on the tube.
\_ So is there some sort of CNN conspiracy where
CNN backs all wars, otherwise CNN would have no
business?
\_ This is the problem. If we truly believed the
rhetoric of Bush and Bush Jr. we should have
destroyed the Iraqi government like we destroyed
the Nazi government. And if they are doing
threatening things we should do it now. Otherwise
sanctions just 'kill babies'. If you think about it
the US probably kept Saddam in power because it
serves US interests. It lets us keep a firm grip.
\_ eventually they will all die, and we will send in
our oil companies to run the place and we get cheap
gas.
\_ so what happens if we lift the sanctions and the iraqi
government starts funding programs of weapons of mass destruction
targeted at the US? - non troll
\_ well they are doing that anyway right? or we wouldn't have
sanctions, eh? besides, china funds weapons of mass destruction
targeted at the US and we don't have sanctions on them. what
i'm saying is our methods don't solve the problem, they only
hurt the innocent.
\_ we should have sanctions on China. I agree that sanctions
don't solve the problem, but its better than bombing.
\_ See above about our goals. And there are degrees to things.
Funding isn't an either/or deal. They might still have mass
weapons programs but they're a shadow of what they could be
if there weren't sanctions in place. The world is not black
and white.
\_ i agree sanctions suck and kill babies, but I can't think
of a better solution.
\_ never fear, the us is gearing up for another hot war in the
persian gulf. Haven't you noticed all the military propoganda
on the tv these days? Start paying attention and it'll become
clear. We'll be at war again within a year. :(
\_ what's wrong with that? i want to watch some real violence/death
on TV.. not enough of it. besides the iraqi are secretly
arming. the coalition has fallen apart.
\_ The Iraqis are not secretly arming. They're doing it quite
blatantly. |
| 2001/4/20-22 [Reference/Law/Court] UID:21041 Activity:high |
4/20 US District Court judge rules "The First Amendment clearly applies to
the internet. The law says that a person has a right to speak
anonymously." Who would've guessed?
<DEAD>digitalmass.boston.com/news/daily/04/042001/chatter_privacy.html<DEAD>
\_ but tom reserves the right to not reply to your
posts on the motd.
\_ Who said anything about tom? The whole world doesn't revolve
around tom. The truth is tom is a very itty bitty tiny part of
the world. The post is about important things, not tom.
\_ as far a free speach on the internet goes, i think that
what i will call the "tom phenomenon" is very important.
by this i mean that unrestrained speach also can lead to
unrestrained censorship. in the end, as on the motd, we
are not censored by large insitituions or governments,
but by single, petty individuals who feel very strongly that
certain points of view need to be censored.
\_ tom is so k3w1!
How many tom's does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One. Cause the world revolves around him.
- tom's #1 fan
\_ you already used this joke with Alan Greenspan this morning,
ikiru. -tom
\_ tom, i think most people only bait you and pick on you
because you're intellectually dishonest and hypocritical.
it isnt personal. youre not worth getting personal over.
it -is- fun to bait you though. youre very knee-jerk and
reflexive which adds a dose of consistency to life that
some find comforting. thanks for being the same old you
every day without any growth or change all these years.
keep on truckin! -!ikiru
\_ said like a moron whos never made a solid argument
in his life. you're the kind of person who likes to
play devil's advocat because it's easier than making
constructive arguments. you should kill yourself.
\_ A friend of the devil is a freind of mine. |
| 2001/4/20-22 [Recreation/Dating, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:21042 Activity:high |
4/20 Can some one explain how silly puddy works please?
\_ Ok you female "Friends" watcher.. MOTD is for INTELLIGENT questions
not to wonder if silly puddy can be made to look like the prepuce
\_ wow, someone used the words "motd" and "intelligent"
in the same sentence
\_ There are females on the motd? WOW! pixP!
\_ putty, not puddy, you nincompoop.
\_ I'm interested in making a male masterbation device with silly
putty. I thought you guys might already know some web sites
where I could get some information
\_ masturbation, not masterbation, you nincompoop.
\_ Shut the fuck up, twink.
\_ twink is such a stupid word.
\_ No, it's a word for stupid, you twink. |
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