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so....much....win....

http://wimp.com/shirtoff/

They are already planning to do it with aircraft on carriers.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/23/0014259/Navy-Uses-Railgun-To-Launch-Fighter-Jet?from=rss

This is from a post I did on apple talk, but it got buried in a bitchfest, so I thought I would move it over here for anyone interested in setting this up on their linux machine.

ddate is in one of the integral security parts of the linux kernel, which means: 1. it will be present in all versions of linux unless specifically removed. and 2. it will never come out (as foretold by the guy responding to the complaint ticket about it).

I have worked for a long time trying to make my clock applet in ubuntu display the discordian date, but have so far failed. Instead, i think i oped for a much more awesome solution.



If you want to do this too, here is how:

First go and do everything on this page to install a terminal in your background (move any icons from behind the place where the terminal will be, because you won't be able to click on them anymore once the terminal is over them. http://www.webupd8.org/2009/05/ubuntu-embed-terminal-into-you-desktop.html

Once you make the terminal in the background, modify step 3.2 to where the file that gets called in startup also calls the ddate command after opening the terminal. My version of this file is:

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#!/bin/bash
sleep 20 && gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=trans777 --geometry 72x35+780+50 -e ./ddate

You can modify the geometry sizes however you like, but make sure that the command calls another executable file in the home folder (mine was called ddate, but that's just the name of executable file)

Now you have to create the executable file in the home folder that the above command executes (make sure to flip the executable bit on this file as well). My copy of this new file is below:

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ddate
/bin/bash

This calls the ddate command, but unfortunately the terminal just freezes up without a command line after this, so we manually add in a line calling a command line (which is the /bin/bash line).

And that's it. Just make sure to add the "start terminal" shell to the programs at startup list and you should have a wonderful transparent background terminal displaying the ddate for today whenever you start up your computer.


Side note: if you run commands in the terminal and want it to get cleaned up to "just started up" status, run the command:

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clear && ddate

to clear all output above ddate and just leave the output of ddate and a command line below it in the terminal.

holy crap, i didn't realize that there was a bitchfest going on in here when i first clicked the link.

However, some ddate info from me:

One of the developers of ddate has an MIT email address (those geeks).

ddate is in one of the integral security parts of the linux kernel, which means: 1. it will be present in all versions of linux unless specifically removed. and 2. it will never come out (as foretold by the guy responding to the complaint ticket about it).

I have worked for a long time trying to make my clock applet in ubuntu display the discordian date, but have so far failed. Instead, i think i oped for a much more awesome solution.



If you want to do this too, here is how:

First go and do everything on this page to install a terminal in your background (move any icons from behind the place where the terminal will be, because you won't be able to click on them anymore once the terminal is over them. http://www.webupd8.org/2009/05/ubuntu-embed-terminal-into-you-desktop.html

Once you make the terminal in the background, modify step 3.2 to where the file that gets called in startup also calls the ddate command after opening the terminal. My version of this file is:

Code Select Expand

#!/bin/bash
sleep 20 && gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=trans777 --geometry 72x35+780+50 -e ./ddate

You can modify the geometry sizes however you like, but make sure that the command calls another executable file in the home folder (mine was called ddate, but that's just the name of executable file)

Now you have to create the executable file in the home folder that the above command executes (make sure to flip the executable bit on this file as well). My copy of this new file is below:

Code Select Expand

ddate
/bin/bash

This calls the ddate command, but unfortunately the terminal just freezes up without a command line after this, so we manually add in a line calling a command line (which is the /bin/bash line).

And that's it. Just make sure to add the "start terminal" shell to the programs at startup list and you should have a wonderful transparent background terminal displaying the ddate for today whenever you start up your computer.


Side note: if you run commands in the terminal and want it to get cleaned up to "just started up" status, run the command:

Code Select Expand

clear && ddate

to clear all output above ddate and just leave the output of ddate and a command line below it in the terminal.

http://www.youtube.com/v/dm7yAWpX1Mc
Double dream hands = ?

BadBeast lives in The Shire.

Isn't that technically in New Zealand?

Only in the same way that Ancient Greece (Circa "Xena, Warrior Princess") is in New Zealand.

Dude i totally get your thoughts man!

Like Lapuda is totally on top of Miyazaki's writing desk! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhXid6PmkO4
NEW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0xLyoc9DxU

that. was. *sniff* amazing. I like the scene where palin grabs her rifle and joins in the witch hunt, and also when assange pulls out the button and blows the world full of news.

Also, there is a new operation by anonymous that most argue is a much better use of time and resources.
I support operation leakspin! 

Haven't they ever heard of Oprah or "The Secret"? They obviously are falling behind on their guided mega-wanting for money.

Sort of like "Liberty University" for Rand tards.   

I hadn't heard of liberty university before, but reading the article on wiki made me think of bob jones university. Here is something crazy (and strengthening the opinion of one of my "going to be a preacher" friends that Democrats are all damned.

Mark Hine sent an e-mail to the president of LU's College Democrats, Brian O'nill Diaz, revoking the university's recognition of the club. "The Democratic Party platform is contrary to the mission of Liberty University and to Christian doctrine," Hine's e-mail stated, citing the party's positions on abortion, same-sex marriage, hate crimes, LGBT civil rights, and socialism as justification for the dissolution. While the club can still meet on campus, it cannot use the university's name or reserve university facilities.

BadBeast lives in The Shire.

Isn't that technically in New Zealand?

I like these from the generator

Pope Whoopla Coxcomb
Inamorata Malodorous Nosegay
Doctor Lax Brand Name
Reverend Oogle Pretzel
Queen Slugabed Pudding

But the one I use when creating discordian stuff is Dean the Idle

Bitch! You don't even know how to use a skillet!

*skillet THWACK*

*revenge achieved, freedom achieved*

He knows how to get it done!

http://www.wimp.com/janitorrevenge/

I tried searching to see if this thread had already been done yet, but I couldn't find anything.

Basically, just post of images of our lady of discord, sexier is better.

I'll start off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30e3Wi6ks-A&feature=player_embedded#at=234

I don't agree with this opinions and instead support cipher's views in the first matrix movie. "I think that the matrix can be as real as the real world." He frames playing games as such a waste, and it is if you quantify your life by how much you have created or possess, but you could say the same thing about reading books or watching movies. To me, playing games, watching movies, and reading books are all equally valid ways of enjoying life. It isn't a waste because of the simple fact that you get a happy memory out of it.

I feel a little inclined to reverse my opinion for people who spend their lives playing WoW and such, but then I remember my thoughts on morbidly obese people. You can think that they are wasting their lives, but if they really understood that eating so much all the time would cost them years of their life, and they still decided to do it any way because living in comfort was more important to them than constantly calorie counting, then I feel like they have a valid life choice. So I must conclude the same for people who spend their lives playing WoW.

The same cannot be said for the sad cubicle worker who works overtime every day thinking that he'll get promoted and never quits because he feels that he has invested too much in his work for a(n unachievable) promotion. I feel like most other people would have the complete opposite opinion: to say the WoW player or the obese person was the one wasting their life, and the overachieving (and miserable) cubicle worker was the one "contributing to society" and thus living the best life.

Anyways, not very discordian (or is it?) but I thought it might be a good video for TaS.