The collected works of hamei - Page 14

mapesdhs wrote: On the other hand, not everyone is happy leaving an appliance on overnight doing something.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot ... you guys have Joe Lucas refrigerators over there in England, don'tcha ?

fu wrote: ... i thought you spotted a hal or a henry ...

I'm 'enery the eighth I am,
'enery the eighth I am I am ...

indyman007 wrote: 6 hour drive. . .

I've only been to England once but ten years ago there were trains to everywhere ...

sybrfreq wrote: it's like watching the odometer roll over. the car doesn't vanish leaving you with a skidmark on your ass.

Ha ! You never owned any of my cars !

dexter1 wrote: I still have some messages about memory banks missing dimms, which didn't go away after the pod command sequence. I don't think myself they were missing after all, since 4GB ram is installed and a quick inspection shows banks 0 1 2 and 3 occupied with 512MB sticks on both boards

enableall ?

Pretty neat new toy, dex. Sounds like it would be great for running Fireflop 3

skywriter wrote: maybe it's because they hold the special honor of being the only civilization to ever be nuked?.

And after Nagasaki disappeared in a puff of smoke, the military establishment still voted 3-3 on whether to continue the war. The emperor had to break the tie. Two days, two cities and they still wanted to fight to the death in a war they started.

The military mnd can be a strange thing ...

n1mr0d wrote: Also don't forget the PM2 processor module with a R4400-150.

I'm still waiting for a 250 mhz pimm from an indigo2 to get transplanted into an indigo. Dr Dave, what the hell are you doing every evening ?!

The Keeper wrote: Slaughtering then raping? Eww...

I used to share McGee's feelings more strongly. But now that I've lived here a while ....

eMGee wrote: Hammy!

Nope, I'm being honest. Due to confucianism this place hasn't gone anywhere in a thousand years. They are so screwed up that it would be hilarious if it weren't annoying. Population reduction by about one billion would be great.

Except for Mao zi dong there hasn't been a competent home-grown government here for ten centuries. China was invaded by the Mongols, by the Manchu, by the Manchu again, by everyone with a nickel's worth of sense and organization. That was how they freshened up the government and put the country back on track. Then the amoeba which is chinese culture would slowly absorb the competent invaders until a couple centuries later, back to the same effluvia.

You could blame the war in the Pacific on Commodore Perry. Japan was sitting there happily minding its own business until CP did the usual ram-it-down-your-throats-at-gunpoint Western trick. So they figured out quick that if the bad guys have battleships, then they need them also. To a great extent the situation with Japan was the fault of the US. (1)

Anyhoo, if Yamamoto hadn't screwed up and if there hadn't been a war in Europe, Japan probably w0uld have become the next dynasty to run China. When you compare Japanese culture with Chinese and realize how opposite they are, it could have been a fun thing to watch.

(1) By the way, historically speaking (not politically, of course) the United States has been one of the world's most evil governments. Maybe Spain during the Inquisition and the conquest of the "new world" could top us but it'd be a tight contest. The US be some nasty-ass people.

PymbleSoftware wrote: You can cry for Confucius driven China, but stop and shed a tear for human nature and people in general first.

I'm not crying, just observing. There are a couple of aspects to Confusianism that are decidedly destructive. One is the total focus on the family. The side effect of this is that nothing else matters so China becomes a trash dump. Inside my house is my castle, outside is a wasteland. There's no sense of a greater good or public ownership of anything. It's exclusively family, so if you don't benefit directly from something, it doesn't happen. Worse yet, anything public like trains, buses, airports, roads, buildings - all get totally ruined within a few years because if it's not mine, who cares ? Chinese people are the biggest pigs you'll ever meet. It's unbelievable. Nice work, Confucius.

Do you want to know the actual reason for all the current building boom ? It's all a vehicle for kickbacks. If there's any value to any of these projects, that's incidental and a nice bonus. China has gone backwards from being pretty egalitarian to a vipers' nest of greed and corruption in twenty years. Confucius should be proud.

The other major problem with old kong is a practical one. If you revere authority and age all your life and you get this pounded into your head for the first thirty years, where will the independent thinkers come from ? Where do you get leaders, people who can make decisions, people with a brain ? It's not a case of "people killing each other in Asia for thousands of years." It's a case of China needs someone to invade every couple hundred years and run the place. Confucianism is cute but it does not work. Traditional culture is adorable - in a romance novel. In today's world it is destructive garbage. It's already pretty well destroyed China's chance at actually becoming a real member of the world.

Frapazoid wrote: In short, Nintendo was being a huge dildo to ISVs.

But it was OK cause they were #1 and they felt they could do whatever they want.

But in this case, he's correct.

Flash is a steaming pile of pig shit. Adobe couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag, they're a herd of liars and cheats who haven't done a damn thing worthwhile in ten years. It's about time someone called them on it.

And the people who use Flash are retarded. Half of them still haven't figured out that you need a way to bypass that garbage for when it doesn't work and the other half use it when an animated GIF would do a better job. Flash is a bunch of stupid twelve-year-olds playing in the sandbox (when they aren't pouring their cereal bowls over their heads.)

Yay Jobs ! Go Steve Go !

Frapazoid wrote: I've always wondered exactly how it was even possible for Acrobat Reader to be such a monstrously bloated program...

They also forgot the meaning of the word PORTABLE immediately after they gained control of that market.

I'm not real big on liars

VenomousPinecone wrote:

GeneratriX wrote: Same here... if the meteorogical service can't predict correctly the possibility of rain along a term of half of a week, I can't see how anyone else could predict a massive event for his next several hundreed/thousand years... no way. Those are patrañas, or whatever you call them.

Thats essentially how I feel about. The experts and authorities are still human, so they make mistakes and make educated guesses.

You guys have to be joking. I'm oldish for nekochan but not by geological terms ... within my lifetime, glaciers disappearing - glaciers that I used to go drink beer on - polar ice disappearing, ocean pH changing, the damned sea lions moving out of San Francisco ... no wars to reduce the population for the past fifty years, medicine keeping too many cripples alive, people turning into fruitcakes ... if you can't see that there's some big trouble ahead then you're in serious denial.

Here's what makes me think it's over : people seem to have lost their brains somewhere. For thirty years the right-wing in the US has been chanting "get government off the backs of business !" (we can see how well that turned out.) So when this SEC thing comes out, the same people moan and whine "Why were these people surfing the web for porn when they were supposed to be protecting us ?" No one says anything about the conflict here ? Or the way a good half the population has been screaming "Drill ! Drill ! Drill ! who cares about the damned caribou / fish / wildlife ?" Now that the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to becoming the LaBrea Tar Pits, all the same people are snivelling that "Obama didn't do enough ! Why didn't the government stop these people ?" We're big on "personal responsibility" as long as it's not us who has to be responsible ?

If people want to be right-wingers or left-wingers or believe that Jesus speaks to them through the towel dispenser in the executive bathroom, I don't care. But puh- lease , at least stick to the same idiot doctrine you've been spouting for the past twenty years ?

It's as if people couldn't recognize truth if it rose up out of the grunter and bit them in the ass. There is obviously massive operpopulation, overconsumption, overcapacity, serious issues with the world we live on and cannot escape and a disconnect from reality. Yeah, the Maya thing is stupid ... but the impending doom is not. Chanting "Even scientists are human" is ... less than honest with yourself.

Every single disaster of the past fifty years has been predictable and predicted but no one would listen. There's not a chance in hell that people will actually do what it's going to take, so there ya go. Fifty bucks says humanity will not make it to the next century.

I'll put the money in escrow

fu wrote: oh no! not another graph!

guys this ain't about science

You're right. It's about people who suddenly have the power to destroy everything around them just so they can have three cars, a 9,000 square foot mansion on a 3,000 square foot lot, two homes for "investments", drive an 8 litre turbocharged diesel dually because it's cool, destroy everything on earth that isn't more powerful than they are because all that counts to a rapacious shark is the bottom line, care for nothing except themselves, yeah. That's what it's about. That and the billion and a half people over here who have absolutely no taste or concern for anything else on earth either, and who've given up on any kind of idealism when faced with the possibility to pretend to be Impotent People with three bucks hidden in the mattress. Drill ! Drill ! Drill some more ! We need the oil !

Nope, I don't have much hope. When you realize it's all about people needing to do something good instead of being rotten little venal greedy ignorant pieces of shit, then the end result is pretty obvious.