The NOS Virus The "NOS Virus" comes both in a digital, and liquid form. *** I put this in my gas tank for teh horse powerz!!!1 *** The "NOS Virus" has recently been identified as the single most crippling attack to [Skynet] system to date. Little is known of the virus origin, but in 2009 the hacker legend "sti2gsxr" single-handedly hacked a website critically linked to the main internet hub, causing blackouts throughout central Asia and parts of Wisconsin. The site gixxer.com was first introduced to the NOS virus at 3:00pm on 05/19/2009... that's 19/05/2009 to you britts. The virus is designed to distract global citizens from their daily activities, therefore simply stopping all productivity and development on a global scale. At this time, there is no known cure for stopping this internet virus, and it has seemed to take on a life of its own. It has been estimated by webmasters that by the end of 2009, the virus will take over all web pages search engines, and direct all internet traffic to the gixxer.com website. From here, it has been established that hacker legend "sti2gsxr" will simply turn off the internet. When asked why he would do such a thing... he was cited to say "Omfg noobs. nobody helpz me got my bike to run!" then babbled something off topic about "how could more octane hurt?" Network analysts are working on a cure, somehow linked to deleting all avatars. While these solutions are tested, it has been recommended by government officials to avoid energy drinks, and use the internet for its primary functions... searching for porn and playing WOW.

If it's a repost the repost police can suck my nads, my brother just sent me this email and I think it's funny.

Dear wife:

I'm writing you this letter to tell you that I'm leaving you forever. I've been a good man to you for 7 years & I have nothing to show for it.
These last 2 weeks have been hell.

Your boss called to tell me that you quit your job today & that was the last straw. Last week, you came home & didn't even notice I had a new haircut, had cooked your favorite meal & even wore a brand new pair of silk boxers. You ate in 2 minutes, & went straight to sleep after watching all of your soaps. You don't tell me you love me anymore; you don't want sex or anything that connects us as husband & wife. Either you're cheating on me or you don't love me anymore; whatever the case, I'm gone.

Your EX-Husband
P.S. don't try to find me. Your SISTER & I are moving away to West Virginia together! Have a great life!

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Dear Ex-Husband

Nothing has made my day more than receiving your letter.

It's true you & I have been married for 7 years, although a good man is a far cry from what you've been. I watch my soaps so much because they drown out your constant whining & griping Too bad that doesn't work. I DID notice when you got a hair cut last week, but the 1st thing that came to mind was 'You look just like a girl!' Since my mother raised me not to say anything if you can't say something nice, I didn't comment. And when you cooked my favorite meal, you must have gotten me confused with MY SISTER, because I stopped eating pork 7 years ago. About those new silk boxers: I turned away from you because the $49.99 price tag was still on them, & I prayed it was a coincidence that my sister had just borrowed $50 from me that morning.

After all of this, I still loved you & felt we could work it out. So when I hit the lotto for 10 million dollars, I quit my job & bought us 2 tickets to Jamaica But when I got home you were gone.. Everything happens for a reason, I guess.

I hope you have the fulfilling life you always wanted. My lawyer said that the letter you wrote ensures you won't get a dime from me.

So take care.

Signed,
Your Ex-Wife, Rich As Hell & Free!

P.S. I don't know if I ever told you this, but my sister Carla was born Carl.

I hope that's not a problem.

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The zero property of multiplication and division is based on false assumptions. Well that is ofcoarse my assumption, but I must admit I never was good at maths in general.
Don't take it to seriouslly either, it's just something I felt wasn't right - nothing more.

What they teach us:
multiplying any number by 0, you get 0

dividing any number by 0, is forbidden - or in floating point numbers is indicated as not a number


In my optics this is totally wrong, why? Because IMHO it's against natural laws. let's make a little example:
Imagine your walking a street somewhere in the far future. Suddenlly you come across something called 'The multiplicator'! Like you can imagine and thanks to quantum physics this 'thing' can take any opject and multiplicate (replicate) it.
So you grab a apple from out of your pocket and put it into the machine, you want to press the '2' on the keypad but you slip and press the '0' followed by 'enter'. The machine start making all those strange noises and funny lights and then suddenlly: ... the apple is gone!!!
My point is, you then would have been scammed - because we all know that you cannot make things 'disappear'.

20 years ago it once again hit my attention when I had my first c64 computer. Back then you turned on a computer and the only thing you had was a blinking cursor behind the word 'ready'.
The first thing you can do is use it as a calculator, and that's what I did. Finally I could have the answer to my problem! So I typed my pseudo mythical combination 2000 x 0= and pressed 'enter'...
Guess what? I never got my answer because it looked like the computer was gone with vacation. The blinking cursor was gone!

And up to the present day they have problems with computers performing a division by zero and crashing.
In floating point they call it 'not a number' and blame it on quantum physics - computers are then programmed to ignore any division by zero in calculations in order to prevent the computer from crashing.
And I can believe they will do the same for the multiplication by zero (for even my c64 couldn't take it).

What does it all boils down to?
Well, first it's easy to see that some mathematical property are giving a hard time to computer programmers. While meanwhile 'mathematicians' are keeping their head stiff, pretending there's no problem at all.

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Well, there is a bit of a problem, I think. The problem with division or multiplication by zero.

Dividing by any number, x, means that there exists an inverse 1/x so that for any number, x (1/x) =1. Dividing by 0 would mean that we would have to work with 1/0.

We know that 0(x) = 0 for any x, so: 0 (1/0) = 0. However, at the same time ... 0 (1/0) = 1, because x (1/x) = 1.

Therefore, 0 = 1.

A world in which multiplication and division by 0 could be admitted would then become a world in which 0 took the place of all numbers, and therefore would cease to exist. Nothing only equals nothing; nothing cannot equal something.*

_{*Except within the walls of the United States Congress, where any number can equal any other number, and nothing can and usually does equal something. This is known as the Washington Anomaly.}

The key to resolving this apparent paradox is to understand that x = any number, but zero is not a number, but simply an indicator of an order of magnitude--a numerical 'punctuation mark.' It is no more a number than a period (.) is a letter. The human brain, with its capacity for lateral thinking, can distinguish the contradiction, because it is intelligent. It can understand the concept of nothingness. However, a computer cannot because computers are programmed to work only with things--with numbers. Zero is not a number. It is the absence of number.

In the case of your 'Multiplicator,' if you put the apple in and accidentally pressed zero, the apple wouldn't disappear. The machine would register an error because it can only provide quantity, and zero is not quanity. It would be like asking it to multiply blueness, or a lawyer's sense of ethics.

That is my take on it.

The Kiss: "is about... me. One of the very few mornings of the year when I've woken up and I don't remember exactly what I've done the night before."

Catch: "... is a very winsome, mystical love song. That's something that happens to me all the time, when I see people I haven't seen for a year."

Torture: "Is about bondage. It's best left untouched"

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep...: "it's about my preoccupation with the romantic idea of Angels. It exists all through history, the idea of an angel: a guardian angel, an avenging angel, or a dark angel. I've met some people who are "angelic", and I didn't think you could meet someone who is an angel. It's funny how it's turned into a slang word: "Oh you angel!". It's really a gorgeous idea, someone or something being angelic. I cherish the idea of Angels. It's like poetry."

Why Can't I Be You?: "That was written, actually, about what someone else said to me. I was having a conversation with somebody who was very over-awed at meeting me and they said they wanted to be me. I spent the whole afternoon pointing out why I was no different from him. And if I wasn't comfortable I might wish the same thing, to be him. So it's very ironic, that song.

How Beautiful You Are...: "That was the one term that was nicked from a true reference, a Beaudelaire short story. I wrote it a long time ago when I read the story. Someone gave me a book of Beaudelaire, Rembeau, and Delaney. So I re-read it and dug it out. I think that's my favorite set of lyrics.

the Snakepit: "is just taken from something that happened to me in America last year. The words are pretty clear. I was out in the car with a stupid girl."

Hey You!!!: "It's the sort of thing you'd see if you were to get up now and you'd had one drink too many. You just sort of stand up and go "EEEEUUUUUUuuuuhhhhh!"

Just Like Heaven: "it's like the link beetween this record and the Head on the Door. It sounds a bit like In Between Days, but it's supposed to, 'cause it's like that sort of pop side of The Cure that I really like. It's supposed to be like a love song, but i lose the girl at the end of it (shrugs) I always do."

All I Want: "actually started out "all i want is to hold you like a doll", but something happened and it turned into "dog". That's about as pure sexist as you're ever gonna get."

Hot Hot Hot!!!: "It's about drugs."

One More Time: "is about- my fear of dying. Which everyone has."

Like Cockatoos: "you know when you're little and it's summer and you're out on the roadside and you sit there and there's a storm where it's just rain. And you go out and it's like, bubbles at your feet. And the next time you see it when you're old, it's like a dream and something upsets you and you look down and you see the bubbles in the road and you sort of cry.That's what the songs about."

Icing Sugar: "it's about drugs as well, I suppose in a funny way. Hot Hot Hot!!! is very trite, Icing Sugar is more like "your delicious drink slapped your green eyes.""

the Perfect Girl: "It's just pure love."

A Thousand Hours: "It's, um, pure frustration. It's like when you see something and you feel really angry about it and you just can't do anything about it."

Shiver and Shake: "it's about all the people that I hate! One person in particular will know who it is!"

Fight: "I thought, having got such a good group and having grown up with people I really admire made me go and do something. And I thought "we've never done a song that encouraged people to do something." It's about time we did something that was a bit anthemic. I was really proud of what we'd done up to that point, and I thought it would be nice of us to do something that would encourage people. Something positive. It's the weirdest Cure song we've ever done."

Dear Craig,

Thank you for submitting nin: access to the App Store. We’ve reviewed nin: access and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store at this time because it contains objectionable content which is in violation of Section 3.3.12 from the iPhone SDK Agreement which states:

“Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.”

The objectionable content referenced in this email is “The Downward Spiral”. Since the app is live on the App store, please make the necessary changes to the application as soon as possible, and resubmit your binary to iTunes Connect. Thank you

Regards,

iPhone Developer Program

Trent retorts:

Now, “The Downward Spiral” the album is not available anywhere in the iPhone app. The song “The Downward Spiral” I believe is in a podcast that can be streamed to the app.

Thanks Apple for the clear description of the problem – as in, what do you want us to change to get past your stupid fucking standards?

And while we’re at it, I’ll voice the same issue I had with Wal-Mart years ago, which is a matter of consistency and hypocrisy. Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and “clean” versions be made for them to carry. Bands (including Nirvana) tripped over themselves editing out words, changing album art, etc to meet Wal-Mart’s standards of decency – because Wal-Mart sells a lot of records. NIN refused, and you’ll notice a pretty empty NIN section at any Wal-Mart. My reasoning was this: I can understand if you want the moral posturing of not having any “indecent” material for sale – but you could literally turn around 180 degrees from where the NIN record would be and purchase the film “Scarface” completely uncensored, or buy a copy of Grand Theft Auto where you can be rewarded for beating up prostitutes. How does that make sense?

You can buy The Downward Fucking Spiral on iTunes, but you can’t allow an iPhone app that may have a song with a bad word somewhere in it. Geez, what if someone in the forum in our app says FUCK or CUNT? I suppose that also falls into indecent material. Hey Apple, I just got some SPAM about fucking hot asian teens THROUGH YOUR MAIL PROGRAM. I just saw two guys having explicit anal sex right there in Safari! On my iPhone!

Come on Apple, think your policies through and for fuck’s sake get your app approval scenario together.

1. Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control are not natural.
2. Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people cannot get legally married because the world needs more children.
3. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children because straight parents only raise straight children.
4. Straight marriage will be less meaningful, since Britney Spears’s 55-hour just-for-fun marriage was meaningful.
5. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and it hasn’t changed at all: women are property, Blacks can’t marry Whites, and divorce is illegal.
6. Gay marriage should be decided by the people, not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of minorities.
7. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are always imposed on the entire country. That’s why we only have one religion in America.
8. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people makes you tall.
9. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage license.
10. Children can never succeed without both male and female role models at home. That’s why single parents are forbidden to raise children.
11. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and we could never adapt to new social norms because we haven’t adapted to cars or longer lifespans.
12. Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a “separate but equal” institution is always constitutional. Separate schools for African-Americans worked just as well as separate marriages will for gays & lesbians.