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LINKSWar is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. --John Stuart Mill Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. --Gen. George S. Patton If we don't want the world's wealth to be controlled by people with money then the alternative is to have the world's wealth controlled by people with guns. Governments have plenty of guns. --P.J. O'Rourke Beer is evidence that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy. --Ben Franklin
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Wednesday, May 22, 2002
Does every row of books in the library have it's own "rolly-stool"? That's a lot of rolly-stools isn't it? Why are they not enlisted in some purpose other than just sitting there all day? No one uses them anyway, except for short people. The most use they're ever put to is tripping over them, or sitting on one if it happens to be nearer your ass than the floor when looking for a book. Why are there no "library rolly stool" races? Events? Olympics? Well, I didn't read it (cuz I'm lazy), but apprently the Karaites are using a metaphoric interpretation of a Biblical verse in order to follow it literally. Karaites on Phylacteries (or Teffilin). Hmmm, you know I'm really not as up on my current practices of Modern Karaites as I Should be . . . I'm reposting Mr. Zarmi's link, because of how important it is, and how upset i am at the dumb animal rights idiots. Mr. Zarmi expresses what they really are quite aptly: Here is a great new invention that may help hundreds of millions of malnourished people get a good source of protein. But of course the misanthropic elements of our society who cloak their misanthropy in misplaced concern for lower orders of life oppose starving people having more and cheaper food. Crimes against humanity, anyone? This article won't help Mr. Klayman, but in answer to his question, duck is a succulent, fatty meat that I haven't had since Smiley dook me out to dinner. *Thanks to Mr. David Ratzker for the link. PS: Mmmmmmm . . . slippery chicken . . . [saliva noises] . . . Tuesday, May 21, 2002
I HATE those animal rights idiots! They are SO DUMB! I am so exasperated by their dumbness. (Mmmm.....slippery chicken........ [saliva noises]........) Speaking of question i'm not "allowed" to ask. You mentioned the word misanthrope. Misogynist = hates women. (mis + gyn) Misanthrope = hates everyone or humanity (mis + anthrop) But what's the word for someone who hates men? I know that Oscar Wilde neologized the word "womanthrope" in The Importance of Being Earnest, but not sure what it meant there. (Shut up!, I know, I know if i want my own questions i dhould open my own blog dedicated to whatever, but sorry folks, like i said that's the risk of letting me into your universe. Here is a great new invention that may help hundreds of millions of malnourished people get a good source of protein. But of course the misanthropic elements of our society who cloak their misanthropy in misplaced concern for lower orders of life oppose starving people having more and cheaper food. Crimes against humanity, anyone? This article won't help Mr. Klayman, but in answer to his question, duck is a succulent, fatty meat that I haven't had since Smiley dook me out to dinner. *Thanks to Mr. David Ratzker for the link. Did i know that i'm not allowed to ask questions? What are questions? Why are questions? What is duck? Monday, May 20, 2002
Since this has apparently become a forum for questions, rather than answers (Joe and I won't admit to having many of the former), regarding Shimon's question on cloning: Clone CD, a product of Schweiz, is the primary CD cloning software available on the market, and is successful at breaking many of the CD encryption technologies. As an example, one way of preventing regular burning of files is to sprinkle throughout the CD spiral track bad sectors, causing the burning program to shut down. Clone CD just copies the whole thing, bad sector and all. Another way of preventing burning is to have the program look for the little tag on the CD-R that says it's a CD-R, and then not allow you to use it (this is assuming that the program requires you to insert the CD with each use, a security measure in its own right). Clone CD in its latest version allows you to keep Clone CD running in the background, while you open the program. When it makes a call for the CD-R tag, Clone CD intercepts this and tells it that it's not CD-R. There are other features that Clone CD has to overcome copyright protections which are beyonf the purview of this forum. The legal use of this product would be to brun extra copies for yourself. You could perhaps imagine that if somebody spent $489 to purchase Bar-Ilan Responsa 9.0, they might want an extra copy if theirs scratches. But the United States' government has deemed this too dangerous and therefore made it that versions sold to Americans are lacking those nifty copyright-violating features. This of course makes a lot of sense, since it's impossible to get a crack for that on the mythical Internet. *wink*wink* Because it copies every sector on the CD, even the unused sectors, it is obviously not ideal for use when not needed. But when it is needed, it's a G-dsend. G-dspeed. Regarding Jonathan Last's Star Wars column, the Very Rev. Avi Zarmi had the following to say: Last is basing himself in part on the actual history of the Roman Empire (as Lucas probably has been, as well), but Last is being more realistic. The reason that the Roman Republic collapsed was precisely because Rome's possessions had become too vast and extensive to be governed by the Senate, an adequate institution (given its organisation and the communications technology of the age) for governing a city-state, or a relatively small conglomeration of city-states. G. Julius Caesar realised this, and attempted to replace the sclerotic Senate with a government which worked (and was assassinated for his trouble). When the sut of the ensuing civil war dissipated, his adopted son, Octavianus, became the Princeps ("First" or "Principle" citizen, whence the English word Prince), carefully allowing the Senate to continue deliberating and pretending to consult the Senators, while in reality making all the important decisions himself. Over time, the Senate became a ceremonial and honorary body, and gradually withered away. The Romans' problem was that they never worked out a reliable method of ensuring the succession of emperors or of guaranteeing reasonable quality of one emperor or another. The closest thing to a workable system was developed for a few centuries by the Eastern Roman ("Byzantine") successor state based on Constantinople, when it consisted basically of modern Turkey and the Balkans. The Empire was divided into miltary provinces (called "themata") which were required to raise and finance either a "combined arms" division of cavalry, archers, and artillery (siege equipment), or, if it was a maritime thema, a quota of ships for the Navy. Beyond that, each village or township was responsible for payment of the tax levy to support the central government (and the village or township was responsible for collection of the taxes and payment to the thematic commander, the strategos), which was the primary impact of the Empire on the lives of ordinary citizens. The Strategos was responsible for maintenance of the infrastructure, suppression of banditry and piracy within the area of his responsibility, and administration of justice above the village level, when needed. The central government conducted diplomacy, international trade, and defended the empire from external enemies. Most of the serious issues in the average citizen's life were dealt with at the local level, by local government. So long as the thematic system remained intact, the Empire was virtually impregnable. YES! I found a website that Joe didn't know about. It's really just like the Onion except, it's specifically for medicine. There's a definite need for Qfever, especially, what with how stupid ppl are, and how the drug companies are really just drug-dealers except they advertise on TV. (Headlines: "Drug Companies invent new pill because users are too stupid to use the original version which worked fine anyway." "Drug Company that makes Prozac Launches Massive Depression Campaign, 'Happy ppl are ruining our profit margin,' says important executive." Kellogg's Unveils New Eternal-LIFE Cereal. Thou Shalt not Worship Count Chocula. (Joe: Do you know about this website?) Sunday, May 19, 2002
This site has some info, and a couple of good pictures of my favorite bridge. I think the links at the bottom are worth following. One of them might be the same as i've already showed you. We are committed to the development of our employees to ensure they have the skills, knowledge, and resources for personal and professional growth as well as the growth of the NRA. We offer a challenging work environment with comfortable surroundings, an in-house Cafe, dry-cleaning and workout facilities, and a state-of-the-art indoor shooting range. Joe, u mentioned Evelyn Waugh a ways back. I could go look up that email, or check my desk at home, but. I think i recall you mentioning something about really funny, humorous (along with another author). But apparently Waugh's Brideshead Revisited along with Joyce's Portrait of the Artist had BIG influence on Chaim Potok. How come i never heard of Waugh? (Whoa...) |
