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theBrownfury writes: "The BBC is reporting here that
a very large Earth collision course asteroid has been discovered. This asteroid, NT7,
was first observed on July 5th and current data suggests an impact date of
February 1st, 2019. NT7 is 2kms wide and on date of impact will be approaching
Earth at 28km/s. An asteroid of this size is large enough to cause continent
wide destruction. However astronomers are still cautious in reporting this
asteroid as the orbit of NT7 has not been fully verified. Current data on
NT7's orbit suggests it orbits the Sun every 837 days and travels in a tilted
orbit from about the distance of Mars to just within the Earth's orbit." The BBC article's headline (and accompanying illustration) are more alarming than the story itself seems to warrant: this asteroid has been given a 0.06 on the Palermo technical scale, which means it shouldn't bump getting run over by a llama off your list of worries.
foo baby!
I hope it hits Andover and destroys that ivory tower of faggotry!!!
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Holding up the flag-wrapped body of a 2-month-old girl, tens of thousands of Palestinians marched Tuesday to bury their dead after an Israeli airstrike killed a top Hamas leader and 14 civilians, including nine children. The Islamic militant group vowed revenge.
Woohoo! 5 terrorists and 9 future terrorists on their way to meet Allah. Fucking raghead goatfuckers. GO ISRAEL!!!
... the asteroid is full of guys with sneaked box cutters...
Just heard this on NPR this morning. Bruce Willis, the famous American thespian, was found dead in his home this morning. Even if you never met him in person you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. What a loss. Truly an American icon. And, of course, now we're all fucked because we don't have anybody to send up there to deal with this Asteroid.
:D)
(C'mon, at least give me a +1 funny for calling Bruce Willis a "thespian"...
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Now, who foots the bill? Definitely, the US is going to insist that they only pay 5% of it, as this is their percentage of the world's population.
But the rest of the world is gonna insist that they pay relative of the percentage of their wealth (wealth that, for the most part, has been sucked from the rest of the world anyways).
Since it's gonna take a long time to resolve this, better start ASAP bickering that...
I will use my right to say truefull things when ever I want to. And right now i'm saying that windows, NT5 and probley NT6 will suck. you hear me SUCK, as in get down on their knees and make like a vacuum. And when M$ admits that they are the sucking whores, that everyone know that they are, I will stop saying it so loud.
I have SO MANY posts that are still at zero. They all have Troll in the subject line. I think that Troll Tuesday was a success.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save *BSD at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Where the fuck are we going to find a bunch of foul-mouthed semi-literate perverts who would rather strap a 10-story building full of high explosive to their ass than have sex with a woman?
... nah. Never happen.
If only there were some web site where thousands of people like that hung out
somebody start having sex with Liv Tyler!
Only if she eats something first and gains a real womanly figure. Bean-poles are just not sexy.