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Numeric (22250):
-- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space!

stefanlasiewski (63134):
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."

Doesn't_Comment_Code (692510)
Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein believed in God. So do I.
*bonus points for user name :-)

Chinju (662523):
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -Edsger W. Dijkstra

netsharc (195805):
Somewhere in Texas, there's a village missing its idiot.
*would be funnier if it wasn't true

Peace & Blessings To You

FYI, I am hosting the William Gibson-read Neuromancer audiobook on the "warez" p2p net. The Edge (from U2) did the excellent techno-ish soundtrack. Plus, having Gibson himself do the reading gives it a nice flavor. It consists of eight 45min segments.

AFAIK, this is in the public domain; if anyone knows otherwise, please let me know.

Enjoy!

Peace & Blessings

If I was home-brewing a cellphone app to prioritize my contacts, does anyone out there know if I can send personalized info in the cellphone call header? I know that there is a std packet of info that gets sent (which includes caller id info), but I'd like to add an "urgency" code. Of course, only users of my software could send such a code to my app, but I'm imagining having both ends running this software.

Thanks in advance.

You know the idea that there are angels sitting on our shoulders, one good and one bad, each making its case in the attempt to convince us to do their bidding? Well, it's true, though they are not angels.

The poet Rumi entitled an entire volume of poems "We Are Three". That three consists of:

1) The physical body.
2) The soul.
3) The spirit.

The free will (connected with the mind) is unique to the human race. It is what separates us from the animals in that we get to choose what to do (animals are simply compelled by necessity/opportunity). What the free will commands is the first body: the physical body. The free will uses the mind to choose between the options given it from the soul and the spirit.

The spirit is of divine origin and relays commands to us that will lead not only to our own personal happiness, but to the happiness of the people around us. Its source is the Divine Will and it is incapable of relaying any negative suggestion to us.

The soul is capable of relaying both vice and virtue. At first, in *all* human beings, the soul is tuned to relay only the commands that will lead us away from happiness. "As you sow, so shall you reap" is quite true, and, in order to create unhappiness in us, the soul relays commands that create unhappiness for others, through the 19 different vices (such as anger, hatred, enmity, rebellion, assumption, ignorance, addiction, impatience, overbearance). When a human being chooses to act upon the soul's negative suggestions, it creates unhappiness for others and, subsequently through the Law of Karma, for themself.

Within our Creator's grand design there is a process that a human being can (and should!) go through to replace all the vices in the soul with their corresponding virtue (e.g. replacing hatred with love). This is called "cleansing the soul" in Sufi parlance and leads, if successfully completed, to the soul also relaying only the Divine Will.

At that point, all strife has ended for the person because, for one, there is no more conflict between the commands coming from the spirit and soul, and, two, all the Divine commands only lead to happiness. When Jesus said "I and the Father are one", this is exactly what he was referring to; namely, that he was completly harmonized with the Divine Will.

The most important piece of information related to this *most* important of all human endeavors is this: to begin the process of soul cleansing, one must make the following wish/prayer:

"Lord/God/Allah/Jehovah/..., please take my spirit into Yourself in my lifetime that I will do your Divine Will."

Once this wish to reach God is made from deep within your heart, your very being undergoes certain changes. As well, you begin the journey to submission to the Divine Will, which is the road to happiness, for one's self and for everyone around you.

May all the peace, prosperity and happiness of this world and the next be with you and our entire human family.

More later, insha'Allah.

If you download *and keep* a song, movie of software and have no intention of paying for it, then you ARE STEALING. Yeah, I know, copyright infringement, blah, blah, blah. In my book, it's called stealing.

I spent a significant amount of years in Charlotesville, VA in the years when Dave Matthews et al were coming up. I only saw a few shows (one particularly amazing outdoor one where Boyd Tinsley played his fiddle a la Hendrix on _All_Along_the_Watchtower_ through a Wah-Wah pedal - friggin amazing, but that's another story :-), but I do know this: if they hadn't made enough money by selling tshirts and cds at their shows, we wouldn't be seeing them today.

Those guys were scraping by and every dollar they made went into funding tours and studio time and whatnot. If it wasn't for those dollars we wouldn't be blessed with DMB, a band that is actually completely and totally full of real musicians.

Some, come on, people, if you like the product, ante up! I have a deep suspicion that all these people who "share" files haven't ever - and probably won't ever - create anything themselves. Software, music, movies, whatever. Write `em a check, jackass, even if the evil RIAA is making most of it. And don't worry, the days of those leaches are numbered. See my previous journal entry and extrapolate about what's going to happen to those sobs as the information devaluation freefall continues.