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I have never been a very Politically minded person. As probably all of you have been too. THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM, don't believe it, read the news. This problem can be changed, by who? by WE THE PEOPLE! How?, find someone aligned with you and support them, Read this persons ideals and see if this isn't someone who shares yours and VOTE

Ok, I could really use everyones help here.
I bought a couple of domains a few years ago and swore i would build up a singles site.
Well i have messed with it for a few years now but never really got something fully up and running. Finding myself single again i have been hitting around on yahoo,adult friend finder, match.com and E-harmony. Who the hell are these guys kidding?

Ok, look bandwidth isn't cheap nor is the hardware to run a serious site like any of those. but with hundreds of thousands of users these idiots are still charging over 20 bucks a month! they are making millions of dollars a month and their total operational costs are VERY LOW.

I am all cool with getting rich and all that but what the hell happened to being generous? Or better yet, not being greedy? Ok, so perhaps i drank to much of the Linux flavored kool-aid but this is kind of ridiculous at some point. So Sunday Feb19th around 4am (ok technically its monday but not for me) i am launching a free singles site. www.sf-adults.com

I have released every bit of software i have ever worked on for free in the past and yet here we go again this time its a bit different though. This time i would love to just build out a site that becomes very popular and hopefully we can built up a huge userbase. Like a craigslist of single friendly adults.

Not trying to get rich, just trying out new things and either it gets noticed and used or it gets ignored. Won't know if we do not try, right?

Personally i would love the steal the userbase right out from under these guys and while the bigger it gets the harder it is to keep it free that should be the number one goal.
:-)
Tnt

Well its about that time again.

Something about being married.
i haven't done a party in years but it seems totally appropriate right now. Cause the Divorce is final! So there you have it, and here it is.

Saturday the 30th of Sept we will be busting out the turntables and bumping the amps all the way up. We is having a PARTAY! And to do it in style i have invited a few of my many DJ friends in to help us out. If you havent noticed we have a few DJ friends and each one of these guys has at least 20 years of DJ experience who will be performing

We have Russell Arteaga performing live. He is the bomb. Once you have heard him you will know what few do, this guy is sick and im talking oakenfold/sasha/PVD kind of sick. And this is not someone just playing other peoples records people he is playing keyboard and its all stuff he wrote. We will also have performances by the likes of DJ Chach and DJ Dan Seoane.. and lord knows who else might show up. Its RSVP only so hit my website, check out the flyer and remember you MUST bring a bottle of something. that is the cover charge.

My first exposure to a computer was in a lab at IBM, i was probably about 9 years old at the time which would make it somewhere around 1972. I was part of a organization called Big Brothers of America and my "Big Brother" worked at IBM at the time.

I just remember all these people walking around and him showing me a stack of cards that the computer read. I vaguely remember them dropping them into this bin and the cards getting sucked into the machine one by one from the bottom of the stack and being spit back out someplace else. Clueless as to what any of this meant.

Sad to say but i really had no clue what i was looking at. Even to this day the memory is kind of fuzzy but at least now i can appreciate what i was seeing, i do remember this huge machine with people around it feeding it the stacks of cards

At the time i was living in a cave in Yosemite National Park, or i had been a week before at least till we got run out by a bear. At the time my life was completely consumed with bicycling. I had ridden my bicycle from Fresno to Yosemite, the goal being to live for two weeks, one before and one after my 18th B-day. Didn't quite make it through the second week before we ran afoul of the real inhabitants of Yosemite. It was a very memorable time but little did i know things were happening back in civilization that would reshape the world.

25 years later and my life is now completely consumed by technology and i haven't touched the bicycle in years, lord knows i need to though.

While i was hiding away from civilization the computer industry was born. Roughly 10 years later though a most unlikely post online was signalling an even larger disruption in the force was soon to come.

> From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
> Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
> Summary: small poll for my new operating system
> Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
> Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
> Organization: University of Helsinki



>


> Hello everybody out there using minix -
>
> I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
> professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
> since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on


> things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat


> (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
> among other things).
>
> I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
> This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
> I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
> are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
>
> Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
>
> PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
> It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
> will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

Its now been almost 15 years and Linus's first post shows how humble of a person he truly is. He has single handedly upset the applecart. This is not to say any or all of the important work is his alone, that would be false, i'm just that he fired the first shot that lit the powderkeg.

Who could have predicted that, Even now he would still be working on his "Free hobby OS" and that it would become more recognizable in name than Gnu. and have every large company, other than Microsoft, working with it and helping evolve it.

9 years or so ago i heard about it at a Nanotechnology conference. Months prior i had been looking for drivers for a No-Name modem i had for windows 95 and all i could find was endless page after page of how to make this thing work in Linux. When the research scientist at the conference brought up Linux i had to ask. What in the hell is Linux, i found endless pages and how-to's of how to make my modem work in linux but nothing about windows 95?

9 years later and i am not only Windows Free, I'm a published Linux nut.

Sadly everyone else seems to be living in that same cave i was at the birth of the PC and I'm wandering what the bear will look like that drives everyone out into the real open world.

Im always up for new experiences, life is never dull, neither is my pencil. Next outrageous party i have penciled into my sleep deprived schedule is at Hugh Heffners pad. Thats right! while you may not have ever been there i will be going to the playboy mansion for a party at the end of March. Insane you say? well actually its a FUNd raiser and yes playboy bunnies will be had. Looking forward to this party and i will be bringing back pics of the party. Look for them up on my website once i get back in town around the first of april.

Im not sure how widespread this is but i have gotten contacted by quite a few women who have already been trying to pull this on me. Its hard to con a geek online. Here is how they try to con you. You get a message and probably a friend request by some cute girl(perhaps guys are doing it to women too, don't know) Some are more blatant and ask for help "getting home" right off the bat. Usually they say they are from the USA and in a foreign country, so far both have said they are in Africa and Afghanistan. Each one is quite friendly perhaps too friendly. I question if they know each other and work as a team but quite possibly not. They pose as students or models or find some justification as to why they are in a foreign country, usually have no family and need help getting home. they will ask you to either A: send them cash, if you say you cant then they ask if they send you money orders if you can cash them and either send it to them via western union or create a new bank account or deposit to your account and give them access to your account. This is just a modified version of the 419 scams we all get in the email but they appear to be quite rampant on here. Either that or these people are too stupid to realize its hard to con geeks online. Either way im only writing this cause i don't want to see anyone fall prey to this. Here is more info on the 419 scams and linkage in case you have fallen prey to it. 4-1-9 scams

Dr. Albert Hofmann will celebrate his 100th birthday on January 11th, 2006! Yes, it is true, Dr. Hofmann will be reaching the wonderful age of 100 years this coming January! Dr. Hofmann's influence on the world as we know it today can not be estimated. From studies in consciousness to psychiatry and psychology, from music over art to fashion, computer and software development to philosophy, spirituality, and religious studies, his discovery of the psychoactive properties of LSD-25 have touched millions of people all over the world. To help celebrate Dr. Hofmann's life and birthday, a wonderful international symposium is set to be held in Basel, Switzerland, on January 13-15 2006. This symposium will feature some of the most famous scientists, writers, artists, and friends of Dr. Hofmann with presentations and discussion forums. You can find out more and order tickets at the event's website: www.lsd.info Several members of the Albert Hofmann Foundation will attend and present at this convention. Look for a report and photos of the event in late January or early February 2006, to be posted in our What's New section. Those of you that can not attend this symposium still can join the celebration by getting together with friends on January 11th to celebrate, or just light a candle to honor this outstanding man! For me, hell im going to switzerland, there is going to be some insane parties going on. I am looking forward to seeing Gil Goa and Banco De Gaia! WooWoo!!!

With so many choices im not sure where to go or what to do. But i know im gonna go screaming past go and its probably gonna cost me more than 200 bucks. Interested in what people thing and if anyone else might be interested. I know of a few parties in the Bay Area/SF/Oakland area for New Years. Also looking at Tiesto in Las Vegas, tickets for Tiesto start at $100 bucks and for VIP its $250. Airfare is pretty cheap so i won't even count that. Kind of wandering if anyone else is going or is interested in going to the City of Sin for a night of Endless Beats and ass kicking times. I can't stay in Vegas and would probably fly back right after cause if all goes well ill be heading out to Switzerland for a party around Jan 3rd. Anyone else wanna be reeeeallllly BAD?!?!?!?!?!