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Are there any particular incidents which are responsible for the low reputation Microsoft (and Bill Gates) has in the eyes of the open source community? Microsoft is clearly not the only proprietary company. Companies like Apple have done a lot worse when it comes to restrictions on software. Why does Microsoft get most of the hatred from the open source community?
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I guess if there's any one "incident" then it was the so-called "Halloween Documents", which were a series of memoranda that were leaked by a Microsoft employee to Eric S. Raymond in the late 90's, detailing Microsoft's desire to "disrupt the progress of open source software."
It is worth mentioning a fact that highlights the aforementioned statement: that Microsoft often engages in negative (non-technical) campaign against its competitors. One of the greatest foul plays in Microsoft's history is paying someone to write a book claiming that Linux source code was stolen from Minix, in an attempt to make companies afraid to use Linux, so that it can sell its own products, in the basis that it was not legal to use stolen source code. Fortunatelly, Andrew Tanenbaum wrote an article to refute the accusation.
While not so intensively, Microsoft still engages itself in practices like that, as one can see from the recent claim (in 2007) that Linux infringes Microsoft patents (1 and 2) or the more recent (2012) "Droid rage feud" on Twitter. A link for the specific tweet can be found here.
While Microsoft's attitude has somewhat mellowed (compared to the past), many in the open source community still see Microsoft as a rather aggressive (and foul) competitor, particularly with respect to the negative campaigns and to the way they license their patented technologies (the "Open Specification Promise").
Now, whether that reputation is (still) justified is another question. Personally, I don't think Microsoft is as "evil" as some people would like you to think - certainly not compared to some other companies out there.
As Dean pointed out, for historical reasons. However, I think Microsoft has been progressively heading the right way, take for example this:
Microsoft signs the Joomla! Contributor Agreement
Keep in mind that Microsoft, above all, is a business, and they will always look for profit in some form of another, however, I think they now know the value of community. Regarding being evil in open-source, I think Oracle is the new Microsoft, v.gr.:
Oracle sues Google, says Android infringes seven Java patents (plus unspecified copyrights)
I think what saves Microsoft is that their actual constant interest is to cover all of the market and this can lead to intelligent strategies, and Oracle's demise in open-source is plain interest in profit. Perhaps I'm being a little visceral against Oracle, so if anyone can prove me wrong, go ahead.
I am an active open source developer with commit access to several projects. I don't hate Microsoft. There are some things that I dislike about our industry as a whole, of which Microsoft is a part:
None of these gripes are at all exclusive to Microsoft. Yes, I read the Halloween documents when they leaked, but I wasn't really put off by them. I said then, just as I say now that a truly functional distributed development model is nearly impossible to disrupt. That has proven to be the case in most instances.
Technically, I am not fond of some of Microsoft's products. I suffered through EDLIN, laughed at BOB and avoided Vista at all costs. However, Windows 2000 is still (in my book) one of the hardest OS's to kill. I'm also becoming rather fond of Windows 7. I wouldn't purchase my own copy, but I'll happily use the copy that my company provided.
As others have said, I'm far more concerned regarding Oracle being Oracle than I am about Microsoft being Microsoft. At the time of this writing, Microsoft is at least predictable and they are trying to repair past damages to the free software community. Like others, I take those repairs with a grain of salt, but they do seem to show the capacity for metacognition, albeit on levels that many would consider trivial. Note again, publicly traded companies have an obligation to their share holders.
My decisions on what technology I use are based solely on technical merit. I'm not the only one who thinks that way. It just happens that, if I have the source code to something and can modify it to suit my needs, the merit increases exponentially. If I change it and can't share it, it is useless to me.
I'm also not completely immune to the idealism of free software, I really hope that one day, open collaboration prevails and we really start advancing ourselves free from litigation and secrets. I live in the real world, and I don't see that happening in the immediate future.
One can hope, and I do, and I work for change. Until then, I do have bills to pay :) I don't get paid for speeches.
Microsoft had something of an anti-competitive reputation before open source was ever an issue.
One example is one of the Office apps (Word, I think) which was claimed to include during startup an allocation of an unrealistically huge amount of memory which was then immediately freed without ever being used for anything. When asked to allocate a large block of memory, MS-DOS would always succeed initially irrespective of whether all that memory was actually available. Digital Researches DR-DOS would fail immediately if too much memory was requested. The effect was that the Office app worked just fine on MS-DOS, but crashed immediately on DR-DOS. The claim was that this was intentionally done to give the impression that DR-DOS was buggy, and to make using DR-DOS impractical for customers already dependent on Office.
The policy of allowing a memory allocation even though the memory isn't immediately available isn't so wierd as it sounds. Linux does the same thing even now. That policy often allows things to run without problem that would otherwise have a problem, though very occasionally the policy backfires and the Linux kernel has to start killing off processes to free memory as a result. The reason I point this out is because, for all I know, there may have been some weird but genuine reason for the large allocation at the start. It sounds implausible, but so does the policy of allowing allocations when the memory isn't immediately available.
For that matter, the whole thing might even be a myth. Certainly some well known ex-Microsoft employees have published blog posts describing the extreme measures that Microsoft used to (and maybe still does) go to to ensure that old applications, including third party apps, continue to run on later DOS and Windows versions - though that is a slightly different thing, of course.
Well some time ago (like 5-6 years AFAIR) they tried to make linux illegal by throwing money at SCO company lawsuit. They were sending legal threats and trying to sue linux users, pretending to own it. It took like 2 years, before they finally acknowledge they were unable to point any "stolen" code, so they switch to a nice thing called software patents and then they said their "intellectual property" was stolen.
As you may know Intellectual Property is some bullshit, not a real thing, so it's easy to say someone stole it from you... when you don't even know what it is. "I use red backgrounds for my desktop - you stole my intellectual property".
SCO's reputation get so bad that they went bankrupt and i guess this one, beside many others is enough to hate microsoft for financially backing up this bullshit to undercut linux reputation.
We can add some mentally retarded Ballmer's quotes to the equation:
-- "Open Source is a cancer"
But, in the end MS is 100x more friendlier than eg. Apple. Apple made it illegal for their programmers to use tools that they want (eg. cross compilers or flash)... treat to destroy any free video codec (because they own all Intellectual Property, bla bla bla)... so at least MS is sane in this matter (not treating their programmers and users like slaves).
We should really hate Apple, microsoft get much nicer over time. Now Apple is trying to delegalize owning a brain.
To end with optimism. It's good that we, in European Union don't have any sortware patent or intellectual property bullshit going on. So apple can for now go f** themselves... and harass United States people only. Even the Terms Of Service (TOS) agreement for private end-users was ruled illegal by the German court (and several other countries ruling followed), so in EU it means just NOTHING. How good is that? :)
As Paulo Scardine has pointed out, Gates started off hostile to the hobby computing community, and it isn't clear that he ever changed that.
Microsoft has used aggressive and frequently illegal business tactics to get to its position, and sells primarily to businesses rather than individuals. Microsoft is currently a monopoly in the OS and office software field, and it's difficult to get a computer without some money going to Microsoft. This is exactly the sort of thing that got a lot of people hating IBM back when they were in a similar position.
The 1998 Halloween documents showed Microsoft as actively hostile to the Free Software/Open Source community.
Microsoft is generally believed (I haven't checked it out myself) to be the financial driver behind the SCO lawsuit that attempted to destroy Linux. The lawsuit was ill-advised (SCO didn't even own the copyrights they claimed they were trying to enforce) and destroyed the company, but that didn't seem to stop anybody.
Microsoft was behind the OOXML standardization scandal, which destroyed a lot of confidence in the ISO and interfered with their ability to get things done. (This involved Microsoft fast-tracking a bad standard by having MS partners step into the standardization process to push specifically for OOXML standardization, ignoring objections, and leaving standards bodies without a quorum when the MS partners left.)
Microsoft has alleged, many times, that Linux violated MS patents, without ever saying which patents or in fact supplying evidence. This was viewed by lots of people as an effort to cast FUD over Linux, making MS look like the safe legal choice through innuendo.
The SCO lawsuit, OOXML standardization, and patent rumbles are all in the past several years.
Therefore, Microsoft's got a strong history of being the enemy, including fairly recent actions. The Free Software/Open Source community has a collective memory, so it will take a long time and a lot of work for Microsoft to lose its bad reputation.
( http://theoatmeal.com/comics/computers )
What really got the ball rolling was the Netscape vs. Microsoft stuff, which included accusations that Microsoft deliberately broke Win98 in a way that caused Netscape to crash.
This accusation turned out to be false -- it was the result of Apple QuickTime not following Netscape's plugin development guidelines. The judge rejected that evidence (most likely because she didn't understand it), and it quickly became popular for governments and organizations to sue Microsoft over silly crap, with the EU following suit insisting that Microsoft killed Real Media with Windows Media Player.
Of course, then Netscape went open source and was forked under the name Mozilla and then Firefox, so the hate swelled within the open source community from there too. All of Mozilla's campaigning didn't help either.
The worst part of all this scapegoating and witch hunting is that it's letting people be incredibly irresponsible, like when people decided to blame half a million SQL injection attacks on SQL Server, rather than admitting that that particular class of bugs is entirely the fault of the database user.
I'm quite critical of Microsoft myself, but I'm even more critical of the people who think that they can get away with anything if they just blame Microsoft.
Also, Microsoft's particularly hated in the open source community because some people -- including Ballmer -- have instilled a false dichotomy between Microsoft and free/Free software.
Kids, sit down, uncle Paulo has a nice history for you.
Bill Gates was one of the first business man to advocate selling software by itself. Before him, software was mostly something bundled with hardware. He started the damn software as a product industry.
The infamous 'AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS - By William Henry Gates III' dates back to 1976!!! A young (just 20) Bill Gates wrote this letter to the legendary Homebrew Computer Club complaining that Altair BASIC was being rampantly copied.
And, towards the end:
So the thing remounts away back before Microsoft became known for playing hardball business. Before the software industry, software was free, something bundled with hardware to make it useful. It came with sources and hardware maker was happy when you fixed or improved programs.
It's why old farts like RMS (and myself) despise this guy - BTW it's why we have the whole free software moviment.
The main cause of dislike for me toward Microsoft is (was) the disdain shown towards open standards.
I think the prime example that comes to mind regarding this issue is Internet Explorer 6. IE6 is so buggy it rapidly becomes a true nightmare to develop websites catering to it. Not having clear, common standards that every party (in this case, browser companies) agree upon only slows down end users work (webdevs), and, in a broader sense, progress as a whole.
Microsoft is making amends and trying to do "good" with IE9, we just have to wait for IE 6, 7 and 8 to slowly die.
For a long long time it was also close to impossible to read a .doc file in anything but Word, preventing users from switching text editors if they wanted to do so.
Bad communication regarding Outlook 2010 also started an uproar on twitter, see here : http://fixoutlook.org/
I think Microsoft has covered a lot of ground towards being more "open" and more standards-friendly, which is a good thing. I predict the "new ennemy" will soon be Apple :)
I don't think of Microsoft as evil, now they're more clumsy and under a lot of pressure, trying to do as best they can to please both devs and users, which isn't always easy.
I think one part for this is the fact that Microsoft has a virtual-monopoly on the Operating System market, and is partially aggressively defending it (Get The Facts, anyone?). Which is absolutely valid, it's a company which needs to make money, the problem with monopolies and virtual-monopolies is that it is good for the company, but not for the market and especially not good for the customers.
We don't have a really free OS-Market at the moment. Sure, the situation has improved a lot over the last years, but there are still many issues out there. F.e. the fact that Windows/Office comes bundled with most PC systems, without the option to get a OS free system (or a completely different OS pre-installed or at least installation medium). Or that most schools are teaching kids that Windows is pseudonymous with PC and Microsoft Office is everything you'll ever need (which is the bigger issue in my eyes).
The next problem is that Microsoft can't really be open and compatible to the rest of the world, because it would destroy their business model. Windows is a closed platform, the moment everything is compatible and open, that's the moment you don't need Windows. F.e. the Office Open XML Standard, which has so many flaws in it and in the standardization process that many call it a violation of the ISO.
In the end, Microsoft is a capitalistic company with a virtual-monopoly, that's absolutely valid...but that doesn't mean that it's good for us. And many people think that way, especially if they've seen other possibilities.
When talking about Microsoft to people who don't know too much about IT, I notice that they wrongly think that:
After all, most people don't bother to know what are the restrictions of Microsoft vs. Apple or other companies software: for them, they are all proprietary, so restrictive in the sense that you cannot download or share the software product legally.
Most people also doesn't know that Microsoft is strongly involved in Open Source products and, even more, in free products, which have a less restrictive license than most Open Source ones (for those people, it's a good idea to invite them to visit CodePlex).
Finally, I think that criticism against Microsoft is stronger than against other companies just because of the dominant position of Microsoft. Probably people using Apple products will have the same arguments against Apple when talking about Open Source.
It has historical reasons. Microsoft was earlier very active against (and sometimes in an unfair way) against concurrents. That also includes Open Source. Halloween-documents are an example. Microsoft also had an agressive campaigning against OSS. That included also some patent-claims, that lead to the contract between Novell (Suse) and Microsoft. That contract made Microsoft in the end to one of the biggest Linux-distributors.
Recently Microsoft has changed it's strategy. The firm no longer agitates against OSS. It even produces some Open-Source-software. Apples and Oracles doings in the recent past, make them currently much more 'evil' than Microsoft. But some people are conservative, that also includes their choosen enemies.
I would add, that Microsoft had been building it's bad reputation not only with the OSS-folk. OS/2-lovers, Netscape-users or Java-programmers all have also reason to hate Microsoft.
I can't speak specifically to open source, but I do know that at least for a while Microsoft made cross-platform programming more difficult than necessary. I spent a good chunk of the '90s writing code that had to run on multiple platforms (various flavors of Unix, Linux, Windows, and occasionally MacOS), and it always seemed like Windows was the long pole in the tent. Microsoft made it relatively easy to develop for Windows, but if you wanted your code to build on any other platform you had to jump through a number of hoops. By comparison, classic MacOS didn't throw anywhere near the number of hurdles in your way that Windows did, although working with MPW would occasionally make you question your career choice.
This isn't the main reason, but it doesn't help: Microsoft has been accused of astroturfing. I've never seen it proven, but I used to lurk on Linux forums, and every so often I would see posts claiming Linux crashes regularly and is hard to maintain. The posts would come from people claiming to be seasoned computing professionals, but there would always be something very basic that they didn't know, or they would say something indicating that their knowledge of Linux was years behind the times.
I reserve judgement as to whether Microsoft was or was not behind the posts, but as I say above, I'm sure the accusation didn't help matters.
The primary reason is because big business is notorious for patenting everything they can and locking others out of the industry. If I invented something, I'd want to profit from it too, but big business takes it a different level, attempting to patent generic ideas and trademark generic words. This is called economic rent seeking. It's a very corrupt practice which congress has not had luck in stopping. It is counter-innovative. Open source people tend to have innovation in their mind more so than money.
Keep in mind, SO is closed source, and profit based. The difference is that they create things of value and ask for little in return (ad revenue). There are even clones of SO out there (for Django, PHP, etc), but SO doesn't sue their creators. Microsoft and Apple sue the competition out of business and charge a killing for their products, while providing little more than an expensive marketing message in return.
I was an almost exclusive user of and developer for Microsoft platforms until Microsoft joined the Trusted Computing Group and basically started to show that I, the person who bought their products, wasn't who they were concerned about pleasing; that instead they'd please media companies, et al, at my expense. I switched away from my MSDN Enterprise subscription (paid a pretty penny for that!), stopped using Microsoft products one at a time, beginning with Windows, as I found F/OSS alternatives until nowadays my computer is 99.44% uncontaminated with anything Microsoft.
I can't speak for open source developers (because I barely qualify as one), but I can say that for my own choice I made it because I got tired of Microsoft taking my money with one hand and taking away my ability to use the computer I paid for with the other.
I'm not a committed F/OSSer. I don't buy into the rabid versions of F/OSS philosophy (or, rather, attitude) so I'll use commercial software provided the following criteria are met:
One more reason:
Microsoft has a history of picking existing and successful open source projects, creating a closed-source clone of it, and integrating it into Visual Studio.
Some examples:
Mostly the Microsoft-made alternatives were seen as inferior by the community - at least by the community of the tool they cloned, and sometimes even by the whole .NET community.
In the meantime, they partly changed their minds and did things like officially shipping jQuery with Visual Studio. Today we are used to this, but in 2008 that was a radical change.
But after that, they still created tools that did the same as already existing OSS projects, for example:
...which probably causes a lot of people involved with open source to still hate Microsoft.
It isn't that people or for the question's sake, geeks, hate Microsoft. When people turn towards open source, initially there is always the open source sentiment in mind. In those sentiments, they just get carried away with all the evil-doings of Microsoft in their past and end-up hating it. But, with time and work, they again realise that it wasn't exactly their not-involved nature, it was more about their inclination in their initial phase. I too started to hate MS in the beginning of my inclination towards open-source but with time, it just faded away.
Everyone needs an enemy in order to motivate the troops. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Certainly, Microsoft hasn't been a saint. However, only half of what is ascribed to them is really valid criticism, most of it is simply hyperbole, conspiracy, and sensationalism.
I've seen mention of OOXML in this thread, and frankly that is the worst possible example because the anti-OOXML campaign was orchestrated by Sun and IBM for their own commercial interests. People like Rob Weir played the Open Source Advocates like a banjo, wrapping their commercial interests in the flag of "openness". Almost everything they accused OOXML of was equally applicable (or more so) to the community trumpted ODF spec, and the ODF spec was seriously deficient in many areas. All the complaints about "ballot stuffing" could be equal leveled at IBM (who actually wrote several of the responses by supposedly government groups).
Whether or not you think OOXML was a good spec is irrelevant. Far worse specs go through standards bodies all the time, without nary a peep.. but because this was microsoft, it was somehow the end of the world as we know it. I mean, seriously.. who cares if OOXML is made an ISO standard? Really? There is no law that because it's a standard, you have to support it. There are tons of standards that nobody supports, even in the open source community.
The whole mess was stupid, and the blame does not rest on MS's shoulders for submitting a sub-par standard, it lies on the Open Source advocates shoulders for making a gigantic mess over something that really had no bearing on those that wouldn't implement it anyways.
As evidence, now that OOXML has passed... who cares? Almost nobody. You seldom hear anyone say anything about it, not even Rob Weir. It's simply a non-issue.


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Palladino: Pomperaug girls just getting started
Wednesday night they said goodbye to the seniors on the Pomperaug High girls basketball team in a pregame Senior Night ceremony. Actually, this was no time to say goodbye. For the Panthers, this was only the beginning.
Pomperaug's season-long preamble is complete. The Panthers laid waste to the countryside and compiled a 19-1 record. Now the real work begins.
Pomperaug wrapped up its regular season with an impressive 86-62 victory over Immaculate (11-8). Everything that Pomperaug did in the off-season, the training and the camps, and everything that has happened this season has led to this moment. It is the postseason. It's show time.
"It feels like we've been talking about the tournament for a long time," said Pomperaug coach Joe Fortier. "Every game has been like, 'How is this game going to get us better for the SWC? How's this game going to get us better for the finals?
"We're ready for the tournament. That's been our goal all season."
The Panthers — like most every team in Connecticut, one presumes — showed the effects of five days off — for the first quarter, anyway. Immaculate, behind Danielle Cerrone (16 points, eight rebounds) and Jenna Mazzucco (18 points), led the Panthers after one quarter, 20-19.
But Pomperaug quickly found its game, paced by 24 points from Gabbie Holness, who also had seven assists. Hannah Metcalf lit the gym up in the third quarter, offensively and defensively, and finished with 18 points, seven assists and four steals.
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Katelyn Perrotti added 18.
A good sign was that Morgan Metcalf put in aggressive minutes after spraining an ankle in the defeat last week to Lauralton Hall. She had four assists and three steals. Another positive was solid rebounding from Olivia Bonnanzio. She grabbed nine boards and scored six points. Bonnanzio believes the Panthers are ready because of lessons learned in past defeats.
"We have watched past teams, and although they have all been successful, there have been flaws in all of them," Bonnanzio said. "Each year we try to improve on what last year's team didn't have. We have really come together, the most I've seen in all four years."
There is no shortage of motivation for these Panthers. Morgan Metcalf doesn't have to be asked about Lauralton Hall. The Crusaders are out there, with seven straight victories over Pomperaug, and a meeting between these two teams in the SWC final (Feb. 22, at Bunnell, for now) is on every player's mind.
"We are definitely excited about what we can achieve (in the postseason)," Metcalf said.
"From previous seasons, losing to Lauralton Hall every single time," she added with emphasis, "it gives us the motivation."
"We are a team that can go a long way," Holness said.
The coach agreed. Fortier believes that the stumbles and defeats on the long Pomperaug journey, for the last three seasons for most of these players, feeds their desire.
"What has driven this team and the coaching staff are the small disappointments," Fortier said. "We remember the losses. We remember the things we learned. Those are the things fueling us."
They said a lot of goodbyes Wednesday night at Pomperaug, but this was hardly a time for farewells. The quest for championships is only just beginning.
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In retrospect, Nettleship described himself as "a short-tempered chemistry teacher with long hair ... [and a] gloomy, malodorous laboratory" who enjoyed picking on students, particularly bright students like Rowling. Which was why it was kind of weird that it took reporters straight up asking him if he was Snape before he figured it out. Even his wife knew the connection, but, tellingly, was too scared to bring it up.
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It looks like somebody has been hitting the butterbeer hard.
The bad news is that sadly, Mr. Nettleship passed away from cancer in March 2011. The good news is that he lived long enough to know that in the end Severus Snape was (HONKIN' BIG SPOILER ALERT) the hero of the whole damn series.
#4. The Soup Nazi
Here are some tips for anyone who has made nostalgia for the '90s their defining characteristic: unhook one strap of your multicolored overalls, Rollerblade everywhere and don't make a pot of soup without hilariously shouting "No soup for you!" to all in hearing distance. They'll laugh soooo hard because it's a really funny thing to do.
"Oh, my sides! If they weren't shriveled from hunger they'd be splitting!"
You'll probably remember that "No soup for you!" was the catchphrase of a character on Seinfeld called the Soup Nazi. This was the guy who sold life-changingly good soup, but forced customers to adhere to a strict set of arbitrary rules in order to get their food. Questioning or looking askance at the rules resulted in a tongue lashing and a refusal of service. Visiting the Soup Nazi was like going to a prostitute, but having to cluck like a chicken for the opportunity to pay for sex. And then ending up grateful to get two indignities for the price of one.
"I'm going to need to see you do the Truffle Shuffle before I get in this car, big boy."
The Real-Life Inspiration
Seinfeld's Soup Nazi was based on Al Yeganeh, an actual soup kitchen vendor in New York City. Just like in the episode, his soups were known for their excellent quality, but Yeganeh was also famous for the unusual way he treated his customers, which was, how do you say ... like shit. Instead of calling him a Nazi, local patrons called him a terrorist, presumably because they knew Yeganeh was born in Iran, not Germany. Yeganeh was so pissed by the Seinfeld episode that he forbid the use of the "N word" in his restaurants. Even the slightest reference to Seinfeld would piss him off, as you can tell by the following video.
So when some cast members and writers from Seinfeld ballsily visited the restaurant after the episode aired, the Soup N-word claimed that the show had ruined his life. Naturally, Jerry Seinfeld gave a sarcastic and insincere apology to Yeganeh, at which point Yeganeh yelled "No soup for you!" and kicked Seinfeld out of the restaurant, presumably because he missed the memo on how not to become a cartoon of yourself.
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Of course, all this could just be a brilliant marketing plan, since he now has franchises in seven states.
#3. Moe Szyslak
Unless you've been living under a pop-culture-blocking rock for the last 22 years, you know Moe. He's the owner of Moe's Tavern on The Simpsons, the lovable galoot with the gruff voice and the longest-suffering victim of a running gag since the British decided to start pronouncing the word "schedule" like "shedule." Bart Simpson would call the bar and ask to speak with a hilariously named patron, like Amanda Huggenkiss or Maya Buttreeks. Imagine getting calls like that for 22 years. You'd end up looking like a jaundiced gorilla, too.
He looks bad for a gorilla, but pretty good for an Internet comedy writer.
The Real-Life Inspiration
The real Moe was ex-boxer Louis "Red" Deutsch, who owned a bar in Jersey City and wound up becoming famous for screaming at phone pranksters. Here's a picture of him in the early 1950s. He's the genial-looking grandpa who looks like he wouldn't hurt a fly:
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Fist-bumping Rocky Marciano, who would knock you out without even trying.
But when Matt Groening created the character of Moe Szyslak, it wasn't Red's face he had in mind, it was his voice. Specifically, recordings of Red unleashing an unholy tirade of insults, profanities and creative death threats at prank callers.
What a glorious legacy.
Before there was such a thing as 4chan, there were Jim Davidson and John Elmo, two punks in the '70s with nothing better to do than call up local bar owners and ask for ridiculously named guests like Ben Dover and Cole Kutz. Most of the bartenders caught on and hung up; others occasionally called out the names, realized their folly, then hung up and moved on with their lives.
Not Red.
Perhaps due to 20 too many knocks to the old noggin, or perhaps due to his own refusal to believe anyone would have the gall to mess with a 6-foot-tall former heavyweight boxer, Red fell for the pranks every time. But that wasn't the interesting part. The interesting part was what happened on the occasions when Red figured out he was getting played the chump. He unleashed insults so hilarious that the pranksters ended up recording them for the entertainment of others, especially since Red had an unusually raspy voice that was amusing in its own right.
The recordings were so funny, in fact, that friends made copies and spread them throughout the country. Before you knew it, Red Deutsch went viral. Groening himself admitted he was a fan of the Tube Bar prank calls. Watch this recreation using real audio to see why:
And in case you didn't make it through that, or the others, here's a little snippet:
"Why you yellow rat bastard, you motherfucker, cocksucker. Your mother's been sucking my prick for many years .... Why don't you come over and meet me face to face, you motherfucker .... I'll meet you wherever you want ... you sonovabitch, I'll cut your belly open."
That one became an actual line in The Simpsons.
"You know your mother sucked my prick the other day. Now you can come down and suck my tube."
One more:
"I'll come over you without my friends to your place! I'll meet you wherever you want, you yellow sonovabitch. And you know somethin? I happen to know who you are, and wait till I catch up with you, I'll put the "Z"s on both cheeks for your life, you'll remember me for the rest of your life."
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Many times I saw the phrase something 101, such as Microsoft Excel 101. What exactly does it mean?
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It means "introductory something". The allusion is to a college course with the course code 101, which in the American system and probably others indicates an introductory course, often with no prerequisites.
It means:
101 is the lowest course number, there's no 'zeroth' level. If someone attends a 220 course, they probably had 101 and 201 first.
In universities courses are (usually) marked by numbers, since they are hard to remember by name. First number corresponds to study year this course should be taken in, followed by 2 (or 3) course id. Usually the same subject course has greater id if they have to be taken in the same year. Therefore lower ids are usually assigned to basic courses. Most basic course would be 100 then, but, I guess, Subject One-Ow-One sounds nicer than Subject One-Ow-Ow, so 101 is used to indicate the very basics in that subject.


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I strive to find a statement $S(n)$ with $n \in N$ that can be proven to be not generally true despite the fact that noone knows a counterexample, i.e. it holds true for all $n$ ever tested so far. Any help?
According the Wikipedia article on Skewes' number, there is no explicit value $x$ known (yet) for which $\pi(x)\gt\text{li}(x)$. (There are, however, candidate values, and there are ranges within which counterexamples are known to lie, so this may not be what the OP is after.)
Another example along the same lines is the Mertens conjecture.
A somewhat silly example would be the statement "$(100!)!+n+2$ is composite." It's clear that $S(n)$ is true for all "small" values of $n\in\mathbb{N}$, and it's clear that it's false in general, but I'd be willing to bet a small sum of money that no counterexample will be found in the next $100!$ years....
(Note: I edited in a "$+2$" to make sure that my silly $S(n)$ is clearly true for $n=0$ and $1$ as well as other "small" values of $n$.)
Statement: "There are no primes greater than $2^{60,000,000}$". No known counter-example. Counter example must exist since the set of primes is infinite (Euclid).
Assume some enumeration of all formulas in first-order peano arithmetic, and let $S(n)$ be the statement
Assuming that the set of known such formulas $\mathcal{F}$ is recursive (meaning that for any given formula, one can decide whether it is in $\mathcal{F}$ or not), there is always such a formula. Otherwise, there would be a recursive and complete extension of PA, which contradicts the incompleteness theorem.
Update: According to this, recursive can be relaxed to recursively enumerable in the above. Thus, "knowing" a counter-example doesn't need to imply that, given a formula, we can decide whether it is a known counter-example. Instead, it's sufficient that there be an algorithm which produces these counter-examples one by one, which seems like a very natural definition for "knowing a counter-example". We then know that there must always be counter-examples that the algorithm does not generate.
Let $S(n)\equiv$ "$n$ appears only finitely many times in the decimal development of $\pi$". We know that certainly this cannot be true for all $n$. We also know that at least two counterexamples are in $\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0\}$ but we don't know any counterexample.
Of course this relies, as other answers, on facts that are still unknown (no number can be tested before answering: which are the numbers that appear infinitely many times in the development of $\pi$?) So, strictly speaking, it is not a new answer, but I think is nice.
Define $k$ to be 42 if the Riemann Hypothesis is true, and 108 if it is false.
Now consider $S(n) \equiv n\ne k$.
Alternatively consider $S(n)$ to be "$n$ is larger than $\mathit{BB}(100)$ which is the longest running time of a terminating two-symbol Turing machine with 100 states when started on an empty tape".
The BPSW primality test seems like a good example. 34 years after the probabilistic primality test was described, in daily use in many math packages, we still haven't found a counterexample (even to the weaker versions), and we know from exhaustive testing there are none below 2^64. Pomerance has a 1984 paper which gives a heuristic argument showing we expect infinitely many counterexamples to exist. Various authors have constructed lists of primes where the product of some subset is very likely to be a counterexample (the search spaces are enormous however).
If we require that $S(n)$ must be decidable by a known algorithm, then how about:
This can be determined simply by by enumerating strategies, and clearly there is exactly one counterexample, but it is not known what it is.
In fact it is known that the counterexample is either 45 or 46.
Accepting the axiom of choice, for $n\ge1$ let $$S(n) := ``\mathbb{R}^n \;\text{ has no well-ordering}".$$
I believe it's provable that a well-orering of $\mathbb{R}$ cannot be constructed, although the axiom of choice indicates it exists.
"Prove that a counterexample exists without knowing one". The existence of continuous nowhere differentiable function can be proved without constructing one. In fact, a "typical" continuous function has this property.
Consider the false statement, "All numbers are algebraic." The set of algebraic numbers is countable, but $|\mathbb C|=2^{\aleph_0}>\aleph_0$. Therefore we know there are $2^{\aleph_0}$-many transcendental (i.e. non-algebraic) numbers without needing to identify any in particular. In this case, actual counterexamples, like $\pi$ and $e$, are obviously known, but it's difficult to prove that they are transcendental. This argument works as an easy non-constructive proof that counterexamples exist.
In fact, it has been proven there exists one, and $n$ is in the order of $10^{45}$ but its value is not precisely known.
Are there any situations where we can prove that either A or B (or some element of a finite set) is a counterexample, but we don't know which one?
What about if the limit of some infinite sequence can be shown to be a counterexample, but we can't find the limit - as long as we know it exists. That would become philosophical. What does it mean to "know" a counterexample?
If I give you an arbitrary seventh degree polynomial P7, do we "know" it's smallest real root? Because that would be a counterexample to "P7 (x) != 0 for all x".
"$n$ is composite" can be tested and proved relatively efficiently for large $n$ but finding a prime factor of a large composite number is a notoriously difficult computational problem.


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The NOVA show on the string theory have mention once that the proton and neutron will be disappear in finite amount of time, then reappearing on somewhere else. Is there any experiment have shown that this is true?
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I will assume you have heard something about proton decay.
There are a number of experiments which test whether such decays occur. For example a current one is here.
There exist limits and in this review they are given depending on the theory that would predict proton decay.
Neutrons decay when free anyway into a proton an electron and an e-antineutrino.
Reappearance would require something like a new Big Bang, i.e. all matter/energy become a plasma and then by expansion the reappearance of nucleons.


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The 6 Stealthiest Disguises in the Animal Kingdom
Plenty of animals rely on their ability to hide. There's no shame in your cowardice, non-human friends: Nature is a harsh and unforgiving hellhole -- we'd hide too. But some creatures are so good at blending in to their environment that it goes beyond mere camouflage and turns into a kind of performance art. We've shown you a few of them before. Here are even more critters that could very well be in front of you right now -- if you are reading this from a desert, a swamp, or the bottom of the sea, that is.
(Luckily, there are no terrible spiders that look exactly like computer mice. Or...are there?)
#6. The Fruit Fly That's Got a Posse
Images of ants -- or possibly jumping spiders -- appear to have been airbrushed onto Goniurellia tridens' translucent wings, much like a WWII fighter plane, or the hood of a Pontiac. And they don't just "kind of" look like ants or jumping spiders -- like when the narrator in a nature documentary tells you some bullshit fish has a "terrifying face" because of its measly butt-spots. Look at 'em: Those are downright artistic portraits of its own friggin' predators on its wings.
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The fly itself's still ugly as fuck, but those wings are exquisite.
Why are these bugs sporting wing tattoos? Is it ironic, like a hipster with a finger mustache? Did jumping spiders save their lives back in 'Nam? Was it some sort of ant initiation? Without an informant in one of the major ant gangs, we can't know for certain (and there is some doubt that the shapes are even intentional), but it's been proposed that the fruit flies are trying to scare off potential predators by making it appear as though they're already being eaten, are surrounded by dangerous creatures, or are the dangerous creature themselves. Any way you cut it, the lesson is simple: "I'm more trouble than the meal is worth, homey."
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"The last two who tried wound up dead and nailed to my ass."
This kind of things isn't exactly novel. In fact, there are all kinds of different fruit flies with weird wing markings that they'll wave at spiders to trick them into backing down, thus earning the species their nickname "the frontin'est motherfuckers in nature."
#5. Moss-Mimicking Walking Sticks Are Forest "Ghosts"
What you're looking at up there is the moss-mimic walking stick of the order Phasmatodea. "Phasm" is derived from the Latin word for "apparition" or "ghost," which is fitting. These things are so good at looking like a random piece of jungle schmutz that we're having trouble picturing how they were discovered in the first place. Did some hapless explorer just go around poking everything in the jungle and naming the stuff that moved?
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If it didn't move, it'd probably just be some stupid moss that cures cancer.
Trychopeplus laciniatus lives high up in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, and stakes its entire existence on not looking like what it is. They come in many varieties: There's a hulking species from off the coast of Australia that looks more like a sausage than a stick, and even a flying, thorn-covered one that menacingly waves its ass in the air to trick you into thinking it's a scorpion. Of course, the illusion falls apart a bit if you get an extreme close-up of our mossy little friend:
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Just a harmless creature like you or me.
Some bugs achieve a similar effect by piling bits of random crap on their back, but everything you see on moss-mimic walking sticks are all parts of their chitinous exoskeleton. They can't fly, they move very slowly, and are in all likelihood quite stupid. But none of that matters when your own mother can't tell the difference between you and forest rubbish.
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We swear there is a moth in the above photo. Uropyia meticulodina, in fact -- the Chinese moth that's a dead ringer for dead vegetation. It goes far beyond mere pattern replication: Look at the shadows, the veins, the curling effect -- that is a normal-shaped moth, the wings are not curled up around itself or anything. It's all just a natural optical illusion worthy of M.C. Escher.
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What about WebGL? Is IE9 or future browers from Microsoft ever going to support it? If not (for obvious reasons ), are you guys planning for something for 3D on IE which doesn't require a plugin?
Good to see Giorgio Sardo doing cool things! Cheers mate!
Or D3D... You know, the 3D engine in DirectX.. Not sure what Dean and company plan on doing in the 3-D space. I'll ask him.
I asked Dean this question at PDC 2009 and the answer was something like getting 2D first was important. I can certainly understand that. A full SVG implementation from one version of IE to the next doesn't look like a small task. Still, 3D in the browser will be very interesting.
Now as for background compilation: how does the CLR handle this? Isn't the CLR also doing background compilation? There is now background GC, so background compilation would be a nice complement. In particular since it always seemed to me like the CLR limited the kinds of optimizations it applied because it couldn't do them in time - it's RT/JIT anyway - but with a combination of JIT and background compilation there's less of an excuse.
Oops, when I asked about 3D on IE, I completely forgot about XAML I think it would be great if someone wrote a library to convert WebGL to XAML. No?
What are you asking, exactly?
Charles, there's nothing wrong with D3D (in fact pretty much every 3D application that I run on my own machine is more performant in DirectX mode than OpenGL - possibly chalk that up to the driver support for my older GPU or the coding chops|unequal-experience-with-both-platforms of the authors or the apps), but that's not the point.
The point is that we're talking about a web browser... for loading the worldwide web. It doesn't matter if we could get faster 3D apps (or bigger 3D apps running at the same speed) if IE9 had built in support for D3D rather than built in support for OpenGL (or its little brother WebGL). The point is that Microsoft will never program and support DirectX and Direct3D for MacOSX or Linux or Android or anything else. Neither will you open source it so that the people responsible for these other platforms can make it work for themselves (as I assume that OpenGL does). Microsoft will never make IE9 for anything besides Windows Vista and Windows 7. As much of a market share as Windows has, that excludes a huge number of people as far as proposing to web developers that they use this (theoretical) built-in IE9 D3D support to build 3D web apps.
Apps written in WebGL's subset of OpenGL are going to run in Safari, Opera, Firefox, and Chrome on Windows, on MacOSX, on Linux distros, and on a heap of mobile devices. Apps written in D3D are not. Again, it's not a question of which technology is better, but what is going to actually be usable by people on the platform of their choice.
(Optional rant, available at the bottom of this entry, to be inserted here if so desired.)
Now if all that you meant is that the IE team would be calling D3D behind the scenes in order to run WebGL web apps in the same way that Silverlight for Windows calls DirectX for hardware acceleration for Perspective 3D and HD Video playback and Silverlight for Intel Macs calls OpenGL for hardware acceleration of those same things to provide reliably equal experiences, then that's fine. I just meant to point out that all four of the other major browser vendors are onboard for WebGL and are going to make it a reality, whether IE stays relevant or not. It's going to be a lot less work for IE9 to support WebGL than to have all four other browser vendors have some way to interpret D3D web apps into WebGL apps or whatever would need to happen. The point is that these other browsers care about working on every platform and care about these major features working across platforms whereas Silverlight calls itself cross platform but as of yet the only real platform other than Windows that runs the feature-complete, up-to-date version of Silverlight is Intel Macs, so that even if Silverlight 5 has a major breakthrough in 3D graphics, WebGL will have a much farther reach and deliver much more of this "code once, run everywhere" dream. Moonlight is sadly always going to be a year behind Silverlight because Microsoft understandably does not publish the Silverlight source code to Novell (nor do you take the approach of simultaneously providing an official Microsoft coded Silverlight runtime for Linux as well as allowing Novell to continue to reverse engineer Silverlight with Moonlight into an open source implementation with their one year lag). This means that if authors of Silverlight apps are keeping their apps up to date with the latest version of Silverlight, then Silverlight apps will never work on Linux. That is incredibly frustrating for people who want Silverlight (and consequently Moonlight) to succeed.
While I'm on the Silverlight rant, can I just ask why there isn't any Codeplex project for porting Moonlight to PowerPC MacOSX? I would be stoked to see that being encouraged here on Channel9 - relying on the developer community here to extend Silverlight support past where Microsoft is willing to go. (Honestly, Silverlight has been ported to PPC for the XBOX 360 and has been ported to OSX for Intel processors - why not just combine those two pieces of work and finish the job?) The Moonlight team is already stretched too thin trying to keep up with Silverlight's current iterations to bother about also porting themselves to another platform, but someone should definitely do it. The Moonlight source code is just laying there, ready to be worked with. If I were a coder, that's exactly where I'd be spending my time.
Moving back to the issue of what will be the web standard for 3D, WebGL does seem to be the clear winner, but I don't know that Google has given up on its own O3D either.
Am I wrong? Please discuss.
Warning: the following is a tangent and a bit of a rant. Skip it for logical flow.
People already have this (infuriating) perception that Microsoft = suck (e.g. Windows Live Messenger for Mac). Consequently, having something awesome that only runs on Windows does not generally get the reaction of, "I have got to get a Windows 7 PC!", but rather, "Great, Microsoft broke this innovation so that it only works on Windows!". Examples include:
We can talk all day about how Apple has no choice but to make iTunes for PC because of Windows' awesome market share but at the end of the day Apple is making Microsoft users happy with Apple. Down the line that can easily translate into users leaving Windows for Mac. For contrast, most Microsoft products for platforms other than Windows are... not so hot, compared to their Windows counterparts. Office and Messenger for Mac, I'm looking at you. (Silverlight is the exception to the awkwardness, although the Silverlight for Mac installer is crazily complex compared to the Windows installer and even other Mac installers.) The bottom line is that those sorts of efforts don't generally please people so much that they are head over heels loving Microsoft and drop their Mac to run out and buy a PC. Microsoft's most influential evangelists to end users are their products for Mac (or Linux... if there are any) - Office, Messenger, Silverlight, and perhaps most of all in more recent times, Bing (Bing actually happens to get everything about right, I'm happy to say). They alone are what determine incentive for people to buy Windows 7. Happy Windows 7 commercials will be ignored if the last Microsoft program that people used on their current platform was inferior in any way. (After all, if "Microsoft" can't build a decent instant messenger (Mac users' impression) then why would I want an entire operating system or anything else from "Microsoft".) You want each Mac program Microsoft puts out to be making users think, "It would be so incredible if these guys made an entire operating system. I'd go buy it in a heartbeat.". You want people to not want to close your program because it's so great, not some sort of 'poison the well' strategy where you make sure that the Mac version of Messenger is so terrible compared to the Windows version that people finally cave in and get a PC. I mean, what kind of strategy is that? How do you hope to compete with other instant messengers on the Mac like Skype with a strategy like that? Make sure that your management for Mac development understands this concept.
Good rant Nate! I love your effort at elaboration!
Yes, a lot of cool technology has come out of Microsoft, except I don't know why many of them die a sudden death Probably because of the fact that Microsoft is trying to restrict their usage to the Windows platform. But with the web and web apps coming of age, I doubt that it is a wise decision - the OS might not remain that important and essential anymore. Time will of course tell.
While it is asking a lot of Microsoft to themselves port their applications to other platforms, it does make sense for them to play along with others when it comes to the web.
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I've been asked whats the cheapest/easiest/most reliable way to use Linux as a webserver/mysql DB machine. Is it going to be buying a really old PC and putting Linux on it or what i'd rather do is get one of these SBC (single board computers) to cut down on cost and just house it in a casing. This is going to sit on an ethernet network and be UPS'd up. But i'm just wondering from a hardware point of view what people would/have done?
Using an old PC for a low-computing-power application is often a false economy. You're likely to have to do a lot of maintenance as part fail (and direct costs to replace these parts if you can't find spares). You'll also be using ~100W of power where a single-board computer might use ~10W.
If you already have an always-on modern PC, and your application doesn't need to be physically separate, running it in a virtual machine is the cheapest solution. Failing that, go for an ARM-based appliance (usually ends up cheaper than Intel, especially if electricity is expensive in your locale).
If you use an old PC it is more likely to fail at some point because of its age. If it is not very heavy work what you are going to do on it then I would suggest an atom nettop like the acer aspire revo or the msi wind box. They are cheap, I've got one running here also (debian, motion webcam server). Maybe you could look at a VPS, those are also not more than 10-20 dollars/month. You then don't have the power cost.
Overall Linux runs fine on almost everything, but if you want reliable hardware then I would suggest something modern (with warranty :P)
If you do want to use an old PC, get 2 with the same specs. You not only can use them in a redundant mirrored mode, but you can replace parts from the others to keep 1 running if (or when) failures occur.
to be fair, I've only seen failures from HDDs generally. Old PCs just keep on running, but I have had a motherboard fail on me once in all my years of playing with old PC kit. RAM has never failed, nor has a graphics card. You'll want to RAID your HDDs, and run with relatively modern units.
Otherwise, if you're buying new or need reliability/support, it's probably better to go with the other answers given: ARM or Atom based mini/htpc style PCs.


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I use GNU screen to run pine mail reader. I use external aspell to do spellchecking for the e-mails I sent. The problem is that when aspell finishes, pine restores the old content of the terminal, but the color is all wrong. The font becomes white instead of black, which looks very bad on the the gray background. After typing something for a while, pine redraws parts of the screen, and that looks ok, but initially it looks very hard to read.
The problem does not exist when pine is run directly, not from within screen. I do not know how to begin the troubleshooting. Any ideas?
Pine version: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23)
GNU screen version: Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06
Update 11 Dec 2011: The problem also occurs in some cases when resuming composition with Ctrl+O (no aspell involed).
The following do not help:
- Ctrl+L in pine to refesh screen,
- adding "altscreen on" in
- adding "bce on" or "bce off" in
~/.screenrc(I tried both, as I am not sure what the default is)
- Starting screen with
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April 10, 2013
On Thursday, April 18 at 2 p.m., CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano will offer a spring update to the campus goals he announced last October.
At the meeting, which will be in a town hall format in Old Main, the chancellor will provide an update to the financial, programmatic and organizational goals he outlined in his annual state of the campus address on Oct. 16.
"I want to make sure that the vision we unveil for the campus each fall is revisited each spring," said DiStefano. "I will be giving an assessment of where we're headed financially regarding state support, tuition and with federal sequestration, offering an update on our Flagship 2030 Strategic Plan, and answering questions from faculty, staff and students on the progress and challenges the year has brought."
Doors at Old Main open at 1 p.m. and the chancellor's talk begins at 2 p.m. The speech will be streamed live over the web and accessible at: https://new.livestream.com/accounts/983593/Town-Hall-2pm-thursday.
Following the town hall, please join the Chancellor for a reception in the Heritage Center, on the third floor of Old Main, from 3 - 4 p.m.
If you cannot attend, the chancellor is asking faculty, staff and students to submit questions to him at firstname.lastname@example.com and he will provide answers to as many as he can during the update.


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Deep within the desert is a mysterious pyramid. Mysterious cuz back when a village existed within it, very few save those who resided in the village knew exactly what went on behind its walls. The pyramid itself was in the centre of the village, which was surrounded by high, forbidding walls with a huge gate in the middle. Outsiders spread rumours about the village, some true others simply fabrications built on truth. Visitors wondered; were the walls and gates there to keep people out, or to keep people in? Was there something terrible lurking within the depths of the pyramid, something that if it broke loose, could devastate the entire land? The truth was just as terrifying as the rumours, perhaps even more so. The village did not need high walls and barred gates to protect itself. Deep within the pyramid, there were certain rituals that took place in order to ensure that the village and the pyramid were protected from harm. Any enemies that penetrated the walls and attacked the village would be instantaniously struck down with a mysterious plague, one that devoured their bodies and left their bones to lie in the dust as a warning to others. The priests guarded their secret jealously, but bits and pieces of tales about the rituals escaped to be spread among the outsiders and to encourage them to fear the place as a dreadful warning of death. And how right they were to fear the pyramid. As anyone with any common sense would after learning the horror within the walls.
A scene now materialises in front of you. Looking at first like an innocuous film reel with the faded colours, the dank walls, the floors worn from centuries of footsteps. But then, you spy the girl. She hangs from the door, her head down and her face covered by the dark curtain that is her hair. She hangs from ropes fastened to metal hooks that are driven deep into the wood of the door; the ropes are tied around her wrists and neck, so tight that they are almost embedded in her pale skin. The girl is dressed in a plain shift, dark as blackest night. She does not move as blood drips from her; from her hands, her face; trailing down her legs and dripping off the toes of her bare feet to form a pool beneath her. Elaborately dressed men dip their hands in it up to the elbow, daubing it in the carvings on the door. They utter a droning chant that sounds almost like a hymn to some diabolical god. Busy with their duties, the men pay no attention to the prone figure that hangs above them like a marionette. They notice nothing save the sound of their chanting, til something falls down past their eyes and they stand back, staring. It is a blindfold; it flutters down to the floor like a hurt bird, landing on the edge of the pooled blood which stains its whiteness red. The priests then back away from the girl, praying for deliverence, their eyes wide with fear. The room is then racked with hideous screams as bodies are torn open by invisible forces, organs ripped out viciously, more blood splattered on the floor to mix with what is already there. Within minutes, every single one of the priests are dead. The ropes then break, seemingly of their own accord, and the girl drops to the ground. Despite her surroundings, she does not walk away at once. She knows what lies beyond the door, now.
The scene fades away, to your relief. You look about you at the very different surroundings. You are now standing at the edge of the desert; a few stunted bushes are in view, as well as a jackal hopefully nosing around a rubbish pile. An unearthly cry, like that of a soul in torment distracts you, and you turn to see a young man sitting down near to you, rocking backwards and forwards making a keening noise. He briefly lifts his head and you realise that he is mad; the jackal runs away in fear and you wish you could do likewise, but you are compelled to watch. A girl approaches him from behind. She is fairly pretty, with dark red hair and bright blue eyes. A smile hovers on her lips, one not so nice on the pretty face. She puts her arms around the young man from behind, whispering something in his ear. He freezes, as tho her touch is ice, his hand slipping down towards his pocket. There is still time for the girl to save herself, to escape the fate laid down as punishment for the awful crime she has committed. But she can not resist and thus her fate is sealed. The redheaded girl kisses the young man on the lips, a triumphant look in her blue eyes. Barely a minute passes, before he shoves her roughly away and she falls on her back like an upturned beetle. He pulls out a knife; its edge is keen and the light reflects off the blade. He screams to her about how much he loved her, how she has betrayed him and lied to him, all the time stabbing at the girl's soft flesh with the keen blade. He calls her Eirene, which is not her name, but in his madness, it is Eirene's face he sees before him. The girl desperately tries to fend away the knife, tries to tell him that she is not Eirene, but his blade silences her by slicing thru her heart and lungs, and she dies. The young man immediately shakes the girl, begging for her to wake. She does not respond; it is too late for that. The young man screams his unearthly cry once again to the heavens, slashing at his throat and wrists in his guilt and pain, as tears roll down his face to mingle with the blood. He does not die there, but in the hallway he gasps out his last breath before expiring, leaving a stain that will never wash out.
You are not sure how much more of this you can take. Luckily for you, there is just one last scene to be played out in the tragedy of the pyramid. Your new location is a bridge that crosses a pool of water. We'eds grow within the pond and fish nibble at said we'eds. There is a spring below it which keeps the pond full; it is also a lot deeper than it looks. Your secret wish to not witness any more mindless slaughter is destined to not be granted. Muffled screams can be heard, and you turn to see a girl being dragged accross the bridge by two men away from where you are standing, altho you did not see them go by. The girl turns her face up, and she is terrified. You can almost see the fear oozing from every part of her being, she is so frightened. One of the men slaps her roughly accross the face and calls her a wh*re. He gags her before she can respond, pulling the cloth tight around her face and knotting it behind her head, catching a few strands of hair within the knot. Tears pour from the girl's eyes as the second man ties her wrists and ankles together, securing an iron ball to each. One of the men, the man who struck her, is her own father; the other, her uncle. He finishes tying the ropes and roughly yanks a handful of hair as he berates his niece for attempting to ruin the Hound's Gate ritual. You have never heard of this term before, but somehow, you know what this is. The Hound's Gate ritual involves a young man who from the ages of seven to fourteen is raised as an animal, forced to crawl on all fours, make no noise save that of a dog and kept eternally chained up outside. He is kept away from the other villagers and kept pure, fed well and given plenty of exercise in order that he should grow up strong. His fate is to be drugged so that he is mentally changed into a mindless animal, then set upon the sacrifice; a youth chosen for this very reason. If the youth kills the Hound, then he is given the gift of life and banished from the village, and a new Hound is chosen. If the Hound kills the youth, then he is sent back to the doghouse to endure another seven years til the next ritual. Abruptly, the two men lift the girl and hurl her into the pool. She struggles, but the iron balls quickly pull her under and the water fills her mouth, her nose and finally her eyes. Bubbles rise to the surface and finally stop, indicating that the girl has drowned.
This is a tragedy in three parts. The tragedy signals the end of the village as it is buried by a sandstorm which suddenly rises up and engulfs the village, destroying everyone who still survives. Back to the present day, where the sand has fallen away revealing the village as it was back in its heyday. It is inhabited only by ghosts, and occasionally the odd group of people who feel they are courageous enough to brave the horror of the pyramid. But if you wish to be one of these groups, beware. Not all the ghosts are harmless. A maniac ghost haunts one of the hallways, where a bloodstain covers the floor. He will stab any girl who resembles his beloved. There is also the ritual girl, the Beast, the drowned girl and a host of other beings, some who reinact their grisley deaths, others who seek to force the living to share their fate. Be warned; and be careful; lest you not live to regret your decision to spend a month in the... Pyramid Of Dolls.
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5 Little-Known Sequels That Ruined Iconic Stories
#2. Casablanca's Sequel: As Time Goes By
The Original:
Casablanca is literally the Casablanca of movies. The film cemented Humphrey Bogart's status as a leading man and single-handedly convinced the American public that the Nazis are the bad guys. It also features possibly cinema's greatest ending, in which the cynical and enigmatic bar owner Rick Blaine (Bogart) selflessly gives up the love of his life, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), for a greater cause, that being "Seriously, though, fuck the Nazis."
As Winston Churchill once said, "Brave is the man who gives up boners in the name of freedom."
The Little-Known Sequel That Ruins It:
Hollywood has been trying and failing to recapture the sense of action and white-hot sexual tension created by Bogey, Bergman, and Peter Lorre since day one: We've already told you about Brazzaville, the (terrible) planned movie sequel that was never made, but that's just one of the many failed projects to rape Casablanca's venerable corpse that never got off the ground.
And then, in 1998, they finally did it. Warner Bros. hired author Michael Walsh to write a book sequel called As Time Goes By, which picks up right where Casablanca left off. The end of the film implies that Rick and his new (beautiful) friend Captain Renault will join the French resistance. However, the book starts with Rick going, "You know what? Fuck that," and instead choosing to follow Ilsa and her husband to Lisbon.
"Forget everything I said back then, I was spectacularly drunk."
Once in Lisbon, Rick joins a plan to assassinate a Nazi bigwig, but he's more concerned with secretly fucking Ilsa behind her husband's back, canceling out the original film's ending. Again, the entire point of the movie was that Rick gave up Ilsa. This is like doing a sequel to The Sixth Sense that starts with Bruce Willis finding out that he's alive and everyone was just ignoring him, or if Return of the Jedi had started with Darth Vader saying, "Just kidding, Luke. I say that to everyone."
The sequel also makes sure to kill whatever's left of Rick's aura of mystery by giving him a needlessly detailed backstory. Turns out Rick is actually a Jewish gangster born Yitzik Baline in East Harlem.
"Everybody goes to Yitzik's" just didn't have the same ring.
The East Harlem origin is meant to explain why "Rick" couldn't go back to America (the other gangsters wanted to kill him) and "... why Sam, his best friend, is a black man." Because when you watched Casablanca, the question you came away with was obviously "Why would Humphrey Bogart befriend anyone who isn't white?"
#1. Leave It to Beaver's Sequel: Still the Beaver
The Original:
Leave It to Beaver is looked back on fondly by baby boomers who yearn for a simpler time when a young boy could be nicknamed after female genitalia without irony. A typical episode of this lighthearted sitcom followed the Beaver, the youngest son of a nice suburban family, getting into some sort of trouble and finally receiving a lesson from his father.
"... and that's why you should test your crack before handing over the cash."
The Little-Known Sequel That Ruins It:
Leave It to Beaver ended in 1963, just when the kids were starting to get too old and the "gee whiz" innocence of the show was starting to feel out of place in the new decade. But what if the show had continued into the '80s and gotten exponentially more awkward each year? That's the question that the 1983 TV movie Still the Beaver sought to answer.
You can practically see the desperation in their sweaters.
The special opens with the Beav (played by the same actor, now in his mid-30s) being thrown out of his house by his wife. His wife, by the way, is also his boss' daughter, so in addition to being alone and homeless, the formerly fun-lovin' Beaver is also automatically unemployed and miserable.
Welcome to the '80s, shithead.
The other characters haven't fared much better. Eddie Haskell is a bumbling, weasely independent contractor. The Beaver's brother, Wally, is a successful attorney, but has spent over a year trying to get his wife pregnant, with no success (we're pretty sure they never did that storyline in the old show). And their old pal Larry Mondello is now a Hare Krishna named Vishnu.
Larry is also the first person of color ever featured on Leave It to Beaver.
What about the Beaver's wise and patient father? Yeah, he's dead. With the show's moral center in a grave, it's easy to see how the others ended up the way they did. The Beav moves back in with his widowed mother and inexplicably begins dressing like he's a 10-year-old in 1955 again as he's haunted by black-and-white flashbacks from his childhood.
"This episode's lesson is that we all die, sooner or later."
It seems like only a matter of time until the Beaver's mom walks in to find him sticking his head in the oven, but he's probably too incompetent to figure out how an oven works. Somehow, the movie spun off into a new series called The New Leave It to Beaver, which ran for four fucking seasons.
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I've already seen several times the
org-mode application between applications for productivity, information processing, planning, note-taking etc.
I wonder what are the advantages of this application, what unique features does it bring to the user?
Has it some advantage to organize life in plain text? The mastering of this tool takes a lot of time. Will it be worth it?


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Drs. Arun and Kiran Sharma, two Houston physicians previously sentenced for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and more than a dozen private insurers, have appeared in federal court for a resentencing hearing on restitution and forfeiture issues, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced. The Sharmas, both 58, are a married couple who operated medical clinics in Baytown …
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Son Molested by Neighbor's Child
Q: Our 10-year-old son just revealed that our neighbor's kid, who is 14, molested him. He thought that this kid was a friend, and so did I. Now my son keeps to himself and cries all the time. I need help to find him a therapist to talk to. I also need to know how to bring this up to the kid's parents. My son was afraid to tell because he was getting threats. Please help.
A: Your son is probably currently overwhelmed with confusion and shame. Please network with your medical provider, local area children's hospitals, mental health clinics, and support groups for parents of kids who have been sexually abused. What your son has gone through demands more than a few chats with a therapist. Make sure that the professionals that counsel him and you (you also need to receive counseling on how to best parent your son in the aftermath of this traumatic event) have extensive experience in dealing with male children his age.
The 14-year-old who sexually abused your son needs help and it's your responsibility to alert the appropriate authorities of his behavior. Telling his parents is a must. Don't be surprised if this boy denies that he sexually abused your son or if his parents refuse to believe that he acted in this way.
Right now, you need to show your son lots of understanding and support, including physical affection. Tell him that this sexual abuse was not his fault, reassuring him that you will not allow this 14-year-old to threaten him any further or to do him any more harm. I know that you will get your family the help that is needed and that you will do what's necessary to make sure that this 14-year-old does not sexually abuse anyone else.
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Carleton Kendrick has been in private practice as a family therapist and has worked as a consultant for more than 20 years. He has conducted parenting seminars on topics ranging from how to discipline toddlers to how to stay connected with teenagers. Kendrick has appeared as an expert on national broadcast media such as CBS, Fox Television Network, Cable News Network, CNBC, PBS, and National Public Radio. In addition, he's been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, USA Today, Reader's Digest, BusinessWeek, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, and many other publications.


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