The Last Hope

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"The Fifth HOPE"

"The Fifth HOPE" 07/08/2004 02:13 AM

Last Hope

Last Hope 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

I've always thought the name of this bar is perfect for a refuge of last resort. The plywood and the dumpster, which is conveniently located in front for easy disposal of those whose last hope expires, lend it a certain something extra and I hope they keep them there even after the construction on the building is completed. :)

Over the past week I started noticing that there were an awful lot of idiots linking back to images in my archives. One guy was using a photo of mine for the background for his webpage. I mean, sure, it's nice to know someone likes my photos, but should I have to become a content provider for random bizarre web pages and blogs to know that? In fact, 2 blogs liked the same photo, a Christmas star, and both of them were in Arabic which I thought was a little curious and idly wondered if they were related somehow and if they had both inherited the same stupid gene. Fark users like my political anti-bush pics and some churchy types on a jesus bulletin board liked a cross from Effingham for their avatars [Hey! Jesus doesn't approve of bandwidth theft in his flock you morons! There is evil in my domain name, too. Maybe the bible needs to be updated for the digital age.].

I first tried the subtle approach by replacing the images with an image of a hot tub full of naked, fat white guys brandishing a shotgun bearing the message, 'image linking verboten'. It would seem that the churchy folk unlinked rather quickly and are probably already leeching their new avatar from some other unsuspecting victim. The picture of the Effingham [F-ingham to the locals. Oh, the irony!] cross was so popular that I think the christians might be either stupid or terribly cheap [or both] when it comes to buying space on the web for their homepages since it seems that so few of them are willing to host a tiny 25kb image on their own site. Instead they prefer to let someone else pay for hosting their content. I wonder if I should write to the Pope and see if I can get in the queue for some kind of divine blessing for hosting this stuff for those whom Jesus hasn't given either clue or cash enough to provide for themselves. Maybe the new mission of the 21st Century is to go online without having to pay for anything!

The most galling offender was a cheeky asshole who liked one of my bitter candy valentine hearts and who, after I moved/replaced it, came looking for it and linked to the moved file instead. So, as a last resort, I've just gone ahead and used mod_rewrite to punt everyone, including google's image search, who try and link to images. I'll make exceptions, but the idiots who inline the background for their homepage from another host that isn't theirs just need a boot to the head and possibly something more gratifyingly visceral. I'm sure that this is very common around the net, but why do people do it so shamelessly and why are there so few sites who seem to know how to punt them and who indulge them? It ranks right up there with spam in terms of stealing bandwidth, rudeness and outright stupidity.

too linear? I hope so

too linear? I hope so 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
Dave accuses me (in the most constructive way possible) of thinking too linearly about responsibility and Nader. I'm sticking to my line, because it is precisely the line Nader (rightly) took when arguing against, e.g., car manufacturers.

Book of hope

Book of hope 08/17/2004 09:21 AM
Paul Loeb may be coming to your town soon to publicize his anthology, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a book on political hope that includes pieces by Nelson Mandela, Tony Kushner, Cornel West, Vaclav Havel, Alice Walker and other moral and literary legends. JOHO Challenge: Show up and see if you can depress him....

Is there still hope for tablet PCs?

Is there still hope for tablet PCs? 05/21/2004 06:59 PM
ZDNet May 21 2004 10:47PM GMT

i hope they get the handling for each
car different.....and

i hope they get the handling for each
car different.....and 08/15/2004 11:04 PM
TechTree Aug 16 2004 2:49AM GMT

There still may be hope for Palm OS

There still may be hope for Palm OS 06/02/2004 07:19 AM
SiliconValley.com Jun 2 2004 11:33AM GMT

Marathon of Hope

Marathon of Hope 04/12/2005 03:39 AM
"His life was just beginning, and he was simply a slightly nerdy, nondescript youngster sitting at a desk in Grade 8, so short his feet didn't reach the floor." but Terry Fox would go on to grab the heart of Canadians and 25 years on, the world. Also seen before.

There's Hope Yet for Iomega

There's Hope Yet for Iomega 06/01/2004 03:26 PM
Iomega could make a comeback, thanks to the rapidly growing market for simple networking products.

Kicking Up Hope

Kicking Up Hope 04/16/2005 05:09 AM
In Colombia, a dance academy in the slums of Cartagena offers children, including boys, a way out of the tumbledown life.

A new hope for BitTorrent?

A new hope for BitTorrent? 01/05/2005 08:14 AM
Unreleased Exeem could make BitTorrent more lawsuit-resistant, but questions remain.

A New HOPE on the Horizon

A New HOPE on the Horizon 01/16/2004 10:58 AM

I am Not Optimistic But I Do Have Hope

I am Not Optimistic But I Do Have Hope 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
A lecture I gave in 1993 distinguishes between optimism and hope, journalism and The Media. Those are apt for today. Also appearing: Tabitha Soren of MTV, Octavio Paz of Mexico, Leonard Downie, Dan Rather, Max Weber, Jefferson & Hamilton, Bill Clinton, Major League Baseball, the Charlotte Observer, democracy and Christopher Lasch.

Hope for Hubble

Hope for Hubble 04/29/2004 03:11 AM
USA Today Apr 29 2004 7:24AM GMT

Is There Hope for Humanity?: A
Conversation

Is There Hope for Humanity?: A
Conversation 06/05/2005 11:12 PM

I'm beginning to appreciate that conversati ons are useful ways to explore ideas even if they're with yourself. So here's some more thinking out loud between my two schizophrenic halves, Dave the Idealist and Dave the Skeptic, on the subject of whether humanity has what it takes to get its act together and save the world: Dave the Idealist Dave the Skeptic Yes, I know I liked John Gray's book, found it liberating in fact, but I still believe people are good at heart, and their instincts are right if they can re-learn to listen to them. And remember Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." So your argument is that we're going to save the world either by some massive act of collective altruism, even though such a thing is unprecedented, or by some subversive act by some clever noble clique of do-gooders. You know, some people would say that Bush's neocon born-again cabal fit Margaret Mead's 'small group of world-changers' definition perfectly. If that's what she was referring to, small groups of nazis and megalomaniac idealists, we're in trouble. Or is your 'small group' going to put birth control in the water supply and sabotage civilization until we have anarchy and chaos? -- which is actually the neocons' dream situation, since if that were to happen they'd just take over and feel self-justified in doing so, as they would see you as terrorists. We overcame slavery, we gave women the vote, we invented written language and a lot of other amazing things, including birth control technologies, we've made democracy, an improbable way of running the world, work, and we've found ways to strike a balance in the economy between complete totalitarianism and complete laissez-faire. We're learning what doesn't work, we have unprecedented peer-to-peer grassroots communication and organization, and we have more knowledge available to a larger percentage of the population than ever before. And instead of just writing dystopias, many people are actually proposing practical ways to bring about massive change. The last century featured more murders, more imprisonment, more torture, more war deaths, and greater extremes in distribution of wealth and power than any in our history. Every technology we've invented has a dark side that has been more effectively exploited than its positive applications. And as for communication, the digital divide is wider than ever. You shouldn't judge the state of the world by the view from your rosy little corner of it. Stories are all we are. When we have learned new stories, we have become very different creatures very quickly, in a generation or two. It's our ingenuity, our ability to change and respond to new and intuitively better, healthier, happier ways to live, and learn from each other peer-to-peer that makes me optimistic and hopeful, not new technologies, which I admit are a double-edged sword. Stories also allow fanatics and maniacs to raise huge and bloodthirsty armies, and allow cults, including most modern religions and political parties, to brainwash people to act against both their personal and collective interest. Myths and other stories allow people to tolerate and live in denial of atrocities going on all around them. Religious stories have prompted most of history's most brutal and protracted wars. And we're so adaptable that we learn to live a life of never-ending oppression, subjugation and deprivation, and we delude ourselves that our pathetic lives are good, healthy, deserved, getting better and the only way to live. But we are also capable of forgetting, forgiving and moving on quickly, when a better story, a better way of living, is told to us. And in the last decade a significant minority of the population is on a roll -- better informed, more inventive, more attuned to and knowledgeable about that's needed, what's happening and what's possible than ever before. They're able to use networking technology to make creative, synthetic, analogical and metaphorical leaps, collaboratively, in ways that would have been almost unimaginable even a generation ago. We have already witnessed, in the 1960s, a huge shift in mainstream thinking and worldviews occurring in an astonishingly short period of time, and if we could do something like that again now we have much more powerful tools and much greater knowledge to do it with, so it might actually endure this time. Pure romanticism. The 1960s weren't nearly as rosy and liberated as you remember them. Many guys jumped on the bandwagon in complete ignorance and indifference to the peace and liberation movements -- they were merely attracted by the promise of cheap dope and easy sex. Your faith (and it's nothing more than faith, since there's no solid reasoning behind it) that we could start a similar movement in this century and this time it would endure and bring about ubiquitous change, is simply the left-wing version of the right-wingers' Rapture. People don't change, cultures don't change, and there's an unprecedented level of investment in maintaining the status quo working against any little movement that might threaten that. We are programmed by our DNA to spend almost all of our time and energy living moment to moment and distracted by the minutiae of constant and trivial decisions. And even if this were not so, as Gray argues so articulately we have no 'free will' or collective consciousness. Even as 'individual' creatures we are merely collections of cells, molecules and organs, each doing what they do, largely for mutual benefit, and almost entirely (99.9999%) subconscious. So belief that we can somehow get our personal act together, let alone one at the level of some higher social order, and transform ourselves into what we are not, seems to me the height of folly, a form of leftist religious fanaticism. There you go, relying on science again, that collection of unreliable and creaky models of reality, to make your argument. The whole, at every level of aggregation, is always greater than the sum of the parts. Gaia is much more than just all individual life on Earth. We as individual and wondrous creatures are more than a mere collection of our cells, molecules and organs. And I'm not being spiritual here. Forget about 'consciousness' and these other academic and utterly meaningless concepts. We as individuals, and our planet as an organism of a different order, are mostly what happens between our composite parts. We are sensation, reaction, communication, learning, understanding, and the stories that recall them. Most of what we are at both the creature level and at the Gaia level are what is happening in the intersections, margins and edges around the component parts. That is where our true sense of self and meaning resides, that is where our instincts draw their wisdom, that is what our DNA remembers and tells us to do. Your myopic science, looking at individual organisms in isolation, is no more able to understand the great truths of life, and the nature of our existence, than a collector dissecting dead monarch butterflies is able to comprehend the astonishing transformation of that creature's life, or how it could have 'learned' where and how to migrate when three generations have transpired since the last generation, or how sun and flowers and smells make a butterfly happy and inform its understanding of the purpose of its life. Let's look at this argument. You're saying, I think, that almost all of what we are is subconscious, and that an important part of what we are is our relationships with 'others' outside ourselves. Yes? OK. So then you're saying that what can/will save us is something in our collective unconsciousness or subconsciousness? That deep down 'we' intuitively know what needs to be done, what is happening, and what is possible, and will use that knowledge to collectively do what is in our collective interest. Well, at least that's better than relying on gods. But if we had this great collective unconsciouness or subconsciousness, wouldn't we have been able to figure out, even before Einstein did, that almost all human inventions, notably in the media (since the invention of writing and the printing press), in transportation (since the invention of the lever, the inclined plane, the sledge and the wheel) and in the tapping of stored energy (since the invention of controlled fire) would have more negative consequences for our planet than positive ones, and hence prevent them from emerging? No, don't give me that nonsense that the global population is leveling off because we somehow 'know' it must, since people have repeatedly told researchers the only reason they don't have one or two more kids each is that they can't financially afford it (for now). If we ('we' being either all humanity or all creatures on the planet) are our own collective guiding hand, that guiding hand has done a pretty lousy job over the last 30,000 years. Just because we've lost touch with nature and Gaia, you say? I think it's more likely that we're just an exceptionally fierce and adaptable species which emerged by random accident from the primeval soup and, like all fierce and adaptable species in Earth's history, plagued (in the literal sense of the word, not the moral one) the planet until a meteor came along, or a climate change or new species evolved that preyed on excessive numbers of the plague species, and restored equilibrium and the selected preference of known life for biodiversity. Disequilibrium is neither new or unnatural in the universe. And that, more than the crown of creation, more even than the sum of our 'stories', is what we humans really are.

A New Hope for Patent Reform

A New Hope for Patent Reform 09/20/2004 07:05 PM
Electronic Frontier Foundations Sep 20 2004 11:35PM GMT

Hope for Hubble telescope?

Hope for Hubble telescope? 07/14/2004 03:07 AM
USA Today Jul 14 2004 7:53AM GMT

Google IPO: All hope, but few are chosen

Google IPO: All hope, but few are chosen 04/25/2004 07:29 PM
IHT Apr 25 2004 10:46PM GMT

The Woz to Keynote at Next HOPE
Conference

The Woz to Keynote at Next HOPE
Conference 04/23/2004 10:53 AM

Schumacher retains hope

Schumacher retains hope 09/25/2004 11:55 PM
Michael Schumacher will start from the back of the grid when the Chinese GP begins at 0700 BST on Sunday.

Steam engines could be eco hope

Steam engines could be eco hope 12/28/2004 05:08 AM
The steam powered car that is aiming for a land speed record and an alternative fuel future.

Bet the company, Dave -- It's your last,
best hope

Bet the company, Dave -- It's your last,
best hope 05/03/2004 09:22 AM

Football: Ranieri given hope

Football: Ranieri given hope 05/11/2004 11:47 PM
Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon says the club has not decided Claudio Ranieri's fate.

Payout hope for Hep C patients

Payout hope for Hep C patients 07/05/2004 01:21 AM
Patients who contracted Hepatitis C through infected blood products can claim "compassionate payments".

Cricket: England hope for win

Cricket: England hope for win 07/01/2004 02:05 AM
England need to beat the West Indies to rekindle their NatWest Series hopes.

Hope for stroke victims

Hope for stroke victims 07/26/2004 08:53 PM

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ABC News reports that there may be hope for stroke victims thanks to the brain cells taken from fetuses. The brain cells in question come from fetuses that were aborted a long time ago. The brain cells are not the same as the embryonic stem cells that we see on the news from time to time. Still, even though reports state that this is some how different than stem cells, they are still coming from…

Davies gives Eriksson hope

Davies gives Eriksson hope 08/02/2004 03:17 AM
The FA's acting chief hints the England coach might keep his job in the row that has seen the chief executive quit.

Little Hope Seen for Rainier Climber
(AP)

Little Hope Seen for Rainier Climber
(AP) 06/19/2004 09:17 PM
AP - A helicopter rescued two stranded climbers from Mount Rainier on Saturday, two days after they called for help, but rangers held out little hope for a third man missing since an accident that killed his partner.

Hope for an Alzheimer's vaccine

Hope for an Alzheimer's vaccine 08/05/2004 03:53 AM
Scientists are developing an experimental vaccine which could treat Alzheimer's disease.

Great White Hope is On the Way

Great White Hope is On the Way 08/07/2004 03:43 PM
Congress is just a stepping-stone for eugenicist James Hart: "We are interested in competing with Jesus Christ and Buddha for the destiny of man."

I really hope that it isn't true, but I
have no reason to believe it isn't

I really hope that it isn't true, but I
have no reason to believe it isn't 06/13/2004 04:03 AM
A thirdhand report on a talk by Sy Hersh, hero of My Lai and now Abu Ghraib: He said that after he broke Abu Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him this stuff. He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, "You haven't begun to see evil..." then trailed off. He said, "horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run." But I'm afraid the we are far from the bottom of this pit. When will the American people rise up and throw out this government that has taken America so far away from its core values? November isn't soon enough....

Glimmer of hope for Maori 3G

Glimmer of hope for Maori 3G 06/06/2004 05:39 PM
The New Zealand Herald Jun 6 2004 7:44PM GMT

Myriad's Making Hope Possible

Myriad's Making Hope Possible 08/19/2004 03:28 PM
This small biotech provides screens that can help catch cancer.

No hope? No direction? We have answers.

No hope? No direction? We have answers. 09/01/2004 12:35 AM
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Spy plane 1,000 jobs hope

Spy plane 1,000 jobs hope 05/17/2004 01:30 AM
A £21m investment will turn a Welsh business park into a centre of excellence for unmanned aircraft and a major employer.

Triumph of Hope Over Reason

Triumph of Hope Over Reason 09/01/2004 01:57 PM
A frighteningly expensive drug of marginal efficacy begets triple-digit multiples? Bring on the miracles.

Fifth HOPE Conference Underway

Fifth HOPE Conference Underway 07/09/2004 12:05 PM

Little hope seen for spam relief

Little hope seen for spam relief 01/24/2004 09:13 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 24 2004 1:09PM GMT

Catherine Margerin: A Little Bit Of Hope

Catherine Margerin: A Little Bit Of Hope 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

"Final Cut Pro HD made it very easy to create an offline project by capturing and compressing the footage on the fly, using the offline photo-jpeg codec." By J. Russell Kliegel, Apple

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