The Tao of Cluster Computing
In a little known book of ancient wisdom appears the following Koan:
The Devil finds work
For idle systems
Nature abhors a NoOp
The sages have argued about the meaning of this for centicycles, some contending that idle systems are easily turned to evil tasks, others arguing that whoever uses an idle system must be possessed of the Devil and should be smote with a sucker rod until purified.
I myself interpret "Devil" to be an obvious mistranslation of the word "Daemon". It is for this reason, my son, that I wish to place a simple daemon on your system so that Nature is satisfied, for it is clear that a NoOp is merely a Void waiting to be filled...
This is the true Tao.
-rgb
Monday, November 14, 2005
Dick Fuckin' Ass Cheney
These fuckers have been living high on the hog for too many years. They need to be taken down like a french louie. Do you recognise the other cocknocker in the pic? I'll give you a hint- these are your Vietnam War architects..... Cheney and Rumsfeld. Don't it make you a little bit suspicious that these assfuckers have been humping the whiteyhouse for fucking decades, now?
So, this asshole is coming to my town tomorrow. Every cocknobbin' republican't is bending over backward to accomodate the motorcade and security and shit. The thing that pisses me off is that most people don't even want his dumb ass to visit and he's totally gonna be fuckin' up the day for a lot of people here on campus. Commuter students will be displaced (we already have parking problems!) and regular business cannot be conducted at certain places.
Why is Dick Fuckin' Ass Cheney so special? WTF has he done that merits all of this special accomdation for a 2 hour poop-pass to a university? He should be banned from our campus. The deceits, the cover-ups, the spin politics (that means lying), the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi's, not to mention our own military's (more dead poor people), the spending/deficit/recession/economic collapse that is coming..... for fuck's sake, I could go on and on about the bad things that this person has done.
At least his fuckin' daughter is a lesbian. Maybe I'll have sex with her one day, like spend the night with her at her parents house and come downstairs for coffee the next morning. Maybe TheCheney Mama will make me some pussy-shaped pancakes. I'll ask, at least.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
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Thursday, November 03, 2005
Some words about the catholic Alito.....
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Alito to Replace O'Connor?
The fight over the future of the Supreme Court that we have
been fearing since President Bush took office has finally
arrived -- but under extraordinary circumstances. Allowing the
Right to veto his nomination of Harriet Miers, President Bush
has now nominated Judge Samuel Alito of the US Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit.
If confirmed, said one commentator, "There will be no one to
the right of Sam Alito on this Court."
Alito was the only Third Circuit judge who voted to uphold a
requirement that a woman notify her husband before seeking an
abortion. Operation Rescue responded to his nomination by
proclaiming "Roe's days are numbered. we are now on the
fast-track to derailing Roe v. Wade as the law of the land."
Alito has argued that Congress does not have the power to
regulate the sale of machine guns at gun shows.
He tried to uphold the strip search of a mother and her ten
year-old daughter, even though the warrant authorizing a
search did not name either of them.
Alito rejected claims by an African American defendant who
had been convicted of felony murder by an all-white jury from
which black jurors had been impermissibly struck because of
their race.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid quickly signaled his
disappointment with the President's decision to appoint
someone so enthusiastically supported by "those who want to
pack the Court with judicial activists." Patrick Leahy, ranking
member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called Bush's choice
a "needlessly provocative nomination.reward[ing] one faction of
his party at the risk of dividing the country."
Take action & see what the Right Wing is saying:
People for the American Way
AWD sez:
This country is going down the shitter faster than anyone imagined back in 2000 when bu$h stole the election. True science is hurting and will take a lifetime to recover. Civil Rights are only for the rich white people. Justice exists only for corporations. What a sad society we are.
If this keeps up, I'm gonna go to Red Mountain and never come back.....
_______________________________________________________________
Alito to Replace O'Connor?
The fight over the future of the Supreme Court that we have
been fearing since President Bush took office has finally
arrived -- but under extraordinary circumstances. Allowing the
Right to veto his nomination of Harriet Miers, President Bush
has now nominated Judge Samuel Alito of the US Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit.
If confirmed, said one commentator, "There will be no one to
the right of Sam Alito on this Court."
Alito was the only Third Circuit judge who voted to uphold a
requirement that a woman notify her husband before seeking an
abortion. Operation Rescue responded to his nomination by
proclaiming "Roe's days are numbered. we are now on the
fast-track to derailing Roe v. Wade as the law of the land."
Alito has argued that Congress does not have the power to
regulate the sale of machine guns at gun shows.
He tried to uphold the strip search of a mother and her ten
year-old daughter, even though the warrant authorizing a
search did not name either of them.
Alito rejected claims by an African American defendant who
had been convicted of felony murder by an all-white jury from
which black jurors had been impermissibly struck because of
their race.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid quickly signaled his
disappointment with the President's decision to appoint
someone so enthusiastically supported by "those who want to
pack the Court with judicial activists." Patrick Leahy, ranking
member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called Bush's choice
a "needlessly provocative nomination.reward[ing] one faction of
his party at the risk of dividing the country."
Take action & see what the Right Wing is saying:
People for the American Way
AWD sez:
This country is going down the shitter faster than anyone imagined back in 2000 when bu$h stole the election. True science is hurting and will take a lifetime to recover. Civil Rights are only for the rich white people. Justice exists only for corporations. What a sad society we are.
If this keeps up, I'm gonna go to Red Mountain and never come back.....
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
The mpaa sucks dog dicks yet again!
MILWAUKEE - A 67-year-old man who says he doesn't even like watching movies has been sued by the film industry for copyright infringement after a grandson of his downloaded four movies on their home computer.
The Motion Picture Association of America filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Fred Lawrence of Racine, seeking as much as $600,000 in damages for downloading four movies over the Internet file-sharing service iMesh.
The suit was filed after Lawrence refused a March offer to settle the matter by paying $4,000.
"First of all, like I say, I guess I'd have to plead being naive about the whole thing," he said.
"I personally didn't do it, and I wouldn't do it. But I don't think it was anything but an innocent mistake my grandson made."
Lawrence said his grandson, who was then 12, downloaded "The Incredibles," "I, Robot," "The Grudge," and "The Forgotten" in December, without knowing it was illegal to do so.
The Racine man said his grandson downloaded the movies out of curiosity, and deleted the computer files immediately. The family already owned three of the four titles on DVD, he said.
"I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money," Lawrence said. "I never was and never will be a wealthy person."
Kori Bernards, vice president of corporate communications for MPAA, said the movie industry wants people to understand the consequences of Internet piracy. She said the problem is the movies that were downloaded were then available to thousands of other users on the iMesh network.
"Basically what you are doing when you use peer-to-peer software is you are offering someone else's product that they own to thousands of other people for free, and it's not fair," Bernards said.
Illegal downloading costs the movie industry an estimated $5.4 billion a year, she said.
Information from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, http://www.jsonline.com
AngryWoofDog sez:
The only thing that the AWD can surmise from this is that the MPAA is a whole lot of coke-sniffing, limozeen-riding fucknuggets that have nothing better to do than harass an old man that already owned the movies. The kid fucked up! They know that. He knows not to download their stupid shitty product anymore. What the fuck is fair about trying to make someone pay $4000 for movies that only cost $25....? And then trying to sue them for $600,000....? I swear, one day, my head is just going to fucking explode with all of the absurdity that is rife in this society.....
The Motion Picture Association of America filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Fred Lawrence of Racine, seeking as much as $600,000 in damages for downloading four movies over the Internet file-sharing service iMesh.
The suit was filed after Lawrence refused a March offer to settle the matter by paying $4,000.
"First of all, like I say, I guess I'd have to plead being naive about the whole thing," he said.
"I personally didn't do it, and I wouldn't do it. But I don't think it was anything but an innocent mistake my grandson made."
Lawrence said his grandson, who was then 12, downloaded "The Incredibles," "I, Robot," "The Grudge," and "The Forgotten" in December, without knowing it was illegal to do so.
The Racine man said his grandson downloaded the movies out of curiosity, and deleted the computer files immediately. The family already owned three of the four titles on DVD, he said.
"I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money," Lawrence said. "I never was and never will be a wealthy person."
Kori Bernards, vice president of corporate communications for MPAA, said the movie industry wants people to understand the consequences of Internet piracy. She said the problem is the movies that were downloaded were then available to thousands of other users on the iMesh network.
"Basically what you are doing when you use peer-to-peer software is you are offering someone else's product that they own to thousands of other people for free, and it's not fair," Bernards said.
Illegal downloading costs the movie industry an estimated $5.4 billion a year, she said.
Information from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, http://www.jsonline.com
AngryWoofDog sez:
The only thing that the AWD can surmise from this is that the MPAA is a whole lot of coke-sniffing, limozeen-riding fucknuggets that have nothing better to do than harass an old man that already owned the movies. The kid fucked up! They know that. He knows not to download their stupid shitty product anymore. What the fuck is fair about trying to make someone pay $4000 for movies that only cost $25....? And then trying to sue them for $600,000....? I swear, one day, my head is just going to fucking explode with all of the absurdity that is rife in this society.....
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