the nazis have killed me in the last. Thankfully I reached the magical 1000 posts. I have only been able to post once since last thursday. I assumed they somehow have instituted more permanent bans on trolldom without notice. Guess they are not quite as big on due process and free speech as they act. You may post suggestions for my demise here - most likely I will go find a Panchos mexican buffet and keep raising the flag until I suffocate on their horrible enchiladas

I don't see how an LCD Display would make the AGP Port any faster. Would you hook it up to the USB Bus or the PCI Interconnect or something? Maybe you could use ISA Architecture or built in integrated IDE (especially if you hook it up to the advanced ATA attachment)?

as only could be seen on slashdot

God, speaking to one of his underlings after the creation of the earth is pointing at some of its wonders. God says, "oh, and this is Canada, it will have a democratic and peacefull native people, it will have unequalled natural beauty, Mountains, seashore, Wild places like nowhere else... later, a great nation will be formed there. One of peace, tolerance, dialogue and understanding. They will not make wars with their enemies, they will appeal to man's good nature. They will care and respect one another. These Canadians will have the respect of other great peoples, but be humble and honest -- respectfull and mindfull of the virtue of others.

to which, God's pion replies "Well, I wonder God, Is it wise bestowing all these great gifts on a single place -- on a single people?"

God replies "well, its not as simple as it looks, wait until the you see the Assholes I put next to them.
   

I know nobody else will read this stuff, so I guess Im just doing this to have one nice little place to record some random thoughts. Anyways, I'm feeling good today. My job is going nicely. I never thought I'd say that till after I went back to college. This was a good move on my part. Im happy that i can now metamod, so i can participate in this shared illusion i call slashdot. And yes, i try my hardest to be fair.

In case any of you are wondering why I consider you a foe, it is because you recently said some rather inflamatory things. I did it so i could easily recognise those that are against my way of thinking. I am doing this in the most polite and professional way I can think of. Thanks.

Current karma:
5+5+3+5+1+5+1+1+2+1+2+1+1+5+5+1+5+3+5+0+2+1+2+5+0+2= 69.

Talk about irony, eh?

I always believe that a good sig can make someones day, so I'm gonna store the better ones I find here for use. I may even grant fair-use ;-)

--- The believer is happy; the doubter is wise

--- The world is run by idiots because they're more efficient than hamsters.

--- How come we choose from just two people to run for president and fifty for Miss America?

--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.

-- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a pool." Think about it.

--- If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.

--- Is your freedom worth your life?

New as of Nov 6:

Don't you miss the good ol' days when it was the FCC's modem bandwidth regulations rather than the FBI's guns that controlled how fast we browsed?

I wanna be just like Linus when I grow up... No, the one with the blanket

"You can't have everything. Where would you keep it?" -- Steven Wright

Would you cut off your right hand to become left-handed?

"Here's this box, it's FREE!
It may contain candy.
It might contain scorpions."
How can you tell?

When in doubt, f*ck it. When not in doubt, get in doubt!

"The function of freedom is to free someone else." -Toni Morrison

"If imprisonment worked, the United States would be the safest country in the world." --Dr. Kelly Hannah-Moffat

-- We live in a world where lemonade is artificial and soap has real lemon.

  It's going to be like the War on Drugs, except it'll take away the rights of white people too.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush

I wonder where our government will put the concentration camps.

"To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists."

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0237/solomon.php

laugh while you still have the right..

http://www.gluemeat.com/comics/20020705.html

I was very involved in my high school politics... I assasinated 3 class presidents.

i had the chance to mod, and i was really looking for posts to mod up, but i really wanted to do a good job. So, i read a bunch this morning and looked at how others did it. Then i left to run some erands. I ended up seeing a friend i dont really get to see that often, so i talked to her for a while. When i came back home, it was too late for me to mod. oh well, i think ill get m2 soon, maybe i wont screw that up.

I guess imitation..flattery...blah blah. I personally think it is Michael - he is too shy to ask me out directly so he is using this oh so clever route. here

Well, for some reason I dissagree about not having this karma thing be non-numerical. Something in the FAQ made me think this when I was reading it about an unrelated topic. Anyways, it was saying something about it not being a measure of you worth and not a video game score... etc. But, the part that struck me the mose was that he said that the reason to going to the neutral, bad thing was that 'it didn't mater.'
Well, if karma doesn't mater, then why is it used as a basis of judgement for so many things?
Can you moderate?
What is your posting bonus?
...or, the filtering of the information within a discussion?
Yea, it doesn't mater.

"We have art that we do not die of the truth. -- Nietzsche" ...that I think these damn things are cool?

"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have much of anything to do with it." -- unknown

This was one of those little slashdot motd's at the bottom of the page. I thought it was cool.

wtf?

What is my problem... I used to think that being different was sort of cool. Then I realised that the kind of different that I was trying to be was just making me the same as some minority culture. So I decided to think for my self. This left me cynical and with no friends. My original goal though must have been to have friends, or else I wouldn't have decided to be a freak in the first place. Now I am left with a world that has had its candy coating stripped away. Where do I go now for my sweet happyness?

I guess one of the flaming little cultures I thought I belonged to was this flaming little indie computer slashdot culture. I now know that I am wrong. You created your own little shithole for you to be god of and frolic in. I guess thats fine. Everybody needs a little leibsraum. But please, next time, leave me fucking out of it.

Say by now.

Earlier this week I complained about how it's become popular to throw a political spin on every Slashdot article, no matter how irrelevant the connection. This article illustrates that point perfectly. They took what could be a perfectly good story, and subsequent discussion, about a new audio format and turned it into a free-for-all on the evils of watermarking and how Sony is an enemy of fair use.

(Since when does Fair Use entitle you to a perfect digital copy of the source material, anyway? You can exercise your right of fair use by hooking right up to the analogue audio outputs on your CD player.)

I don't want to write another rant about how Slashdot is depressingly political. I just wanted to point out an example of exactly what's pissing me off this week.

I've about had it with Slashdot's political bent. In the past year. Slashdot has gone from an site full of links to interesting and fun things to a mess of misinformation about the DMCA, DRM technology, patents, copyrights, and other issues that-- for reasons that escape me-- are fundamentally offensive to a good chunk of the Slashdot audience.

I believe that reasoned political debate is a wonderful thing. I love talking politics with my friends, whether we agree or disagree. Those sorts of conversations always leave be with the sense that I've learned something new, or heard an opinion that I haven't heard before.

But Slashdot is not the place for reasoned political debate. More often than not, the people who post to Slashdot seem to lack even the most basic information about the topic at hand. Instead of reading and listening and learning about significant issues, the Slashdot readership prefers instead to just repeat the same old litanies: DMCA bad, RIAA bad, MPAA bad, DRM bad, MS bad, Linux good, EFF good, RMS good, capitalism = greed, government = corruption, et cetera, et cetera.

A year ago, the solution was easy: I just chose not to see any articles from the "Your Rights Online" section on the front page. Poof. Done.

Now, half the articles, more or less, make reference to one of the collection of alphabet soup I listed above.

I'm tired of this. I've been an active participant on Slashdot for a long time-- I don't remember precisely how long, but I've posted some 1,200 comments, and I maxed out my karma a long time ago-- but I'm just about ready to give it up. I'm just not finding that much on Slashdot that's worth reading any more.