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Gizensha · Postby **Gizensha** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:21 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Bocaj Claw @ Nov 16 2005, 09:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Gizensha @ Nov 16 2005, 05:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Bocaj Claw @ Nov 16 2005, 09:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Who decided that 666 was an evil number and why? </td></tr></table>  The mark of the beast within Revolations. I presume the actual number 666 has something todo with Hebrew numerology. In the same way that 613 is the number of Jehova. </td></tr></table>  Piffle. Numbers are numbers are numbers. Thirteen is no more or less lucky than 7.  </td></tr></table>  Well, you asked <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> And 13 is not as lucky as 7 if box #13 contains

Gizensha · Postby **Gizensha** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:22 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Bocaj Claw @ Nov 16 2005, 09:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Gizensha @ Nov 16 2005, 05:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Bocaj Claw @ Nov 16 2005, 09:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Who decided that 666 was an evil number and why? </td></tr></table>  The mark of the beast within Revolations. I presume the actual number 666 has something todo with Hebrew numerology. In the same way that 613 is the number of Jehova. </td></tr></table>  Piffle. Numbers are numbers are numbers. Thirteen is no more or less lucky than 7.</td></tr></table>  Well, you asked <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> And 13 is not as lucky as 7 if box #13 contains

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:23 pm

Contains what?

Gizensha · Postby **Gizensha** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:25 pm

...What the bleeding hell. It's cutting my posts after putting the [pound currency symbol] in. Uhh... "250,000 pounds and box #7 contains 1p. Sorry. Been a bit obessed with Deal or No Deal recently."

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:30 pm

Thats more of a societal obssession with the number. Its a person who puts the prizes in the box. Its not random (I assume). And if it is random than how often does it occur?

Gizensha · Postby **Gizensha** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:38 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Bocaj Claw @ Nov 16 2005, 09:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Thats more of a societal obssession with the number. Its a person who puts the prizes in the box. Its not random (I assume). And if it is random than how often does it occur?  </td></tr></table>  It's random. Well... 'Independent adudicator puts them in the box', and he works, presumably at random. What's spooky is the ability of one particular contestant to predict what's in his box.

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:13 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Gizensha @ Nov 16 2005, 05:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Bocaj Claw @ Nov 16 2005, 09:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Thats more of a societal obssession with the number. Its a person who puts the prizes in the box. Its not random (I assume). And if it is random than how often does it occur? </td></tr></table>  It's random. Well... 'Independent adudicator puts them in the box', and he works, presumably at random. What's spooky is the ability of one particular contestant to predict what's in his box.  </td></tr></table>  Gasp! His guessing skills come from the devil! Burn him! <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:41 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Bocaj Claw @ Nov 16 2005, 04:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Who decided that 666 was an evil number and why?  </td></tr></table>  It's the mark of the Beast from John's Revelations, Chapter 13 . . . 616 or 666 depending on your translation. The number itself is not as important as the meaning it may have carried for the original audience, and the scholarship indicates this probably represents Babylon, which was often referred to as a hotbed of sin in much of the Hebrew scripture, and in the Christian as well.

Tom Flapwell · Postby **Tom Flapwell** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:33 pm

Numerologically, both 616 and 666 could refer to a spelling of Nero.

Rooster · Postby **Rooster** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:15 pm

If man is 5 And the devil is 6 Then god is 7 - The Pixies, Monkey Gone To Heaven

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:49 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Tom Flapwell @ Nov 17 2005, 10:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Numerologically, both 616 and 666 could refer to a spelling of Nero.  </td></tr></table>  Thanks, and lets end the discussion there. I'd really like for this thread not to "flame up", which is a distinct possibility with this subject matter.

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:52 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (VisibilityMissing @ Nov 17 2005, 07:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Thanks, and lets end the discussion there.  </td></tr></table>  Good idea. Life's too short to get involved in such things, especially when there's radish assailants loose.  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Radish in intensive care after murder attempt Thu Nov 17,11:18 AM ET TOKYO (Reuters) - A giant white radish that won the hearts of a Japanese town by valiantly growing through the urban asphalt was in intensive care at a town hall in western Japan on Thursday after being slashed by an unknown assailant. The "daikon" radish, shaped like a giant carrot, first made the news months ago when it was noticed poking up through asphalt along a roadside in the town of Aioi, population 33,289. This week local residents, who had nicknamed the vegetable "Gutsy Radish," were shocked -- and in some cases moved to tears -- when they found it had been decapitated. TV talk shows seized on the attempted murder of the popular vegetable and a day later, the top half of the radish was found near the site where it had been growing. A town official said Thursday the top of the severed radish had been placed in water to try to keep it alive and possibly get it to flower. Asked why the radish -- more often found on Japanese dinner tables as a garnish, pickle or in "oden" stew -- had so many fans, town spokesman Jiro Matsuo said: "People discouraged by tough times were cheered by its tenacity and strong will to live."</td></tr></table>

Richard K Niner · Postby **Richard K Niner** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:52 am

<a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/18 ... ringement/' target='_blank'>Whoops!</a>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Sony's CD rootkit infringes DVD Jon's copyright How did that happen? By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published Friday 18th November 2005 09:16 GMT Sony's rootkit style DRM software XCP, designed to prevent copyright infringement, looks like it's breaching the terms of a copyright agreement itself. In fact it contains code written by the Motion Picture Ass. of America's villain of the week for several years running, "DVD Jon" Johansen, who was dragged through the Norwegian courts by the MPAA using a very dubious extension of US law, for circumventing the DRM on DVDs. Johansen eventually prevailed in having the spurious charges against him thrown out. The irony of a company using code from someone who circumvented DRM to develop an even nastier form of DRM - without even saying "Thanks!" - will surely feature in geek trivia quizzes for years to come. The British company that developed the DRM software for Sony, First4Internet Ltd, has included free software code covered by the Free Software Foundation's LGPL, a cousin of the GPL, amateur sleuths have discovered. The LGPL, or <a href='http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html' target='_blank'>Lesser General Public License</a>, was designed to protect author's rights for chunks of code rather than finished programs. It's a complicated area, with subtle distinctions between rights over code that is compiled into, and distributed as part of the final binary program, or code that is only called at as the program is executed. But it is pretty clear cut that First4Internet Ltd has used code without observing the terms under which it's distributed - terms backed up by the power of copyright (one of our greatest inventions). And we all know <a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/13 ... tary_garb/' target='_blank'>what happens to people who don't respect copyright</a>. Sebastian Porst <a href='http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity ... l#extended' target='_blank'>discovered</a> code from the LAME project, mpglib and VideoLAN in the XCP copy restriction which has caused Sony so much grief. Jon Johansen is a contributor to the VideoLAN project, and he's used it to "I just want to mention that the function that can be found at virtual offset 0x10089E00 in ECDPlayerControl.ocx is the function DoShuffle from a GPL-ed file called drms.c written by Jon Lech Johansen and Sam Hocevar (Google for it)," notes Sebastian. A parallel, and even more exhaustive forensic examination of the XCP code was undertaken by 'Muzzy' - who published his findings <a href='http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/' target='_blank'>here</a>. So why is First4Internet Ltd in such trouble? If you use LGPL code the license requires that you acknowledge the provenance of the code you're using - with a clear notification, and an assurance that you can provide your own source code on request. It's designed to deter lazy programmers such as... well, the kind employed by First4Internet Ltd. FSF attorney Eben Moglen told us this evening he couldn't offer a statement on what the organization planned to do next.</td></tr></table>

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:44 pm

I think the squealing should be the least of their worries . . . What is that smell?!  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Nov 17, 11:08 PM EST Developer Vows to Use Pig Farm As Revenge RATHDRUM, Idaho (AP) -- A developer has threatened to make a big stink after the Kootenai County Commission denied his request to rezone property he owns at the edge of town for a professional building. Specifically, Steve Nagel plans to park a pig farm on the site, with hundreds of squealing porkers greeting visitors to the northern Idaho town. "Now maybe when I go to negotiate with these people I'll get a little better response," Nagel told The Spokesman-Review newspaper. But county and city officials doubt that Nagel will follow through, noting that threats to go into the hog business have become planning dispute cliches. "That's the first thing they say: 'I'm going to put a pig farm on it,'" Rathdrum Mayor Brian Steele said. "I think it's a common statement." Nagel, an insurance agent, wants to build a professional building on his county land for his insurance company and a few other businesses. The County Commission denied the request Nov. 3 because Rathdrum officials opposed the zoning change and would prefer to annex the land into the city so it could have sewer and water service. Nagel doesn't want to be in the city because he would have to pay an estimated $300,000 to extend a sewer line a half-mile and a water line a mile under railroad tracks to the property. He also said the city shouldn't be able to sway planning decisions of the county. In protest, he plans to raise breeder hogs on the property, a use that's already allowed. County officials said they have had an agreement to discuss zoning issues with the city since the early 1990s. Commission Chairman Gus Johnson said the commission postponed its decision 30 days to give Nagel time to ask Rathdrum for an annexation timeline and how long it would take the city to bring sewer and water to the property. But Nagel didn't show up to the Nov. 3 meeting, so the commission denied the request. Nagel, a Rathdrum native, said the pig farm, which he calls "Makin' Bacon Ranch," is no bluff, and that he's negotiating a contract to buy hogs from southern Idaho. "I'm not going to stand back and let them stab me in the back again," Nagel said. --- Information from: The Spokesman-Review, <a href='http://www.spokesmanreview.com' target='_blank'>http://www.spokesmanreview.com</a> c 2005 The Associated Press</td></tr></table>

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:15 am

Turkeys on the turnpike!!!  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Nov 18, 4:23 PM EST Live Turkeys Fall Off Truck in New Jersey By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Writer NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Maybe they knew what was coming. Two dozen live turkeys bound for Thanksgiving tables fell off a truck Friday on the New Jersey Turnpike, briefly snarling traffic near Newark Liberty International Airport. "I think we should be investigating this as an escape attempt," said Joseph Orlando, a spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The two crates fell as a truck was leaving the highway, and a toll booth supervisor who spotted them contacted authorities. The birds, which survived the fall, will presumably be returned to the trucker - if the driver notices they're missing, Orlando said. The spill was only the latest bizarre animal incident on the highway in recent years. Last November, a tractor-trailer carrying 40,000 pounds of frozen chickens struck a truck carrying sheep in East Windsor, killing 22 of the animals. A month before that, a truck carrying live chickens was hit from behind by another tractor-trailer as it entered the turnpike in Barrington, dumping some onto the road; the others died in a fire. In 1999, six cows escaped from a dairy farm in Mansfield Township. One wandered onto the turnpike and the others ran onto the connector road to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. A trooper lassoed the first; truckers corralled the others. There also have been incidents involving escaped live crabs and horses. "Three years ago, I would have thought this was unusual," Orlando said. </td></tr></table>

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