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PCMCIA Announces NEWCARD Format
schnoz writes "Found this over at DPReview: "The PCMCIA technology association has today announced the 'NEWCARD' format. This new format makes use of PC Card, PCI Express and USB 2.0 technologies. The NEWCARD format is also aimed at both Mobile and Desktop PCs". Check out the rest of the article here."
Neat!
For the last year, I've been posting inflamatory messages under various handles. I'm not proud of what I've done, but I hope to explain my actions so everyone can at least understand it.
When I first joined AOL, I hadn't had that much experience with the internet. I naturally gravitated to the politics forums, since I watch tv to keep myself informed of current events.
I was shocked by all the Republican rhetoric - war is good, civil liberties are bad, people demonizing poor mothers, racist and anti-semetic attacks, and constant ass kissing of the rich and powerful. I am a conservative, but I would post against these people and register my disapproval.
Of course, writing a well reasoned response to rabid propaganda had the expected effect: just more attacks, and lots of insinuations that I was involved in sexual practices that I most certainly am not.
After one particualarly obscene posting from someone CLAIMING to be a Republican, I shot back a witty comeback in which I claimed to be a Republican too, and I took his idea to a ridiculous point that would offend all normal Americans. Reductio ad absurdem, as the French would say. I expected him to call me names again, but I was shocked that he took me seriously, and told me he forwarded my posts to a few Republican friends. I was amused, somewhat frightened, and a bit curious.
Then everything got out of hand. I started posting the most vile, crazy, semi-illiterate crap, and the Republicans and conservatives keep agreeing. I wrote that the ACLU was hell bent on destroying our country because they defend free speech for bad people like the KKK. I said that Bill Clinton personally trained terrorists in Arkansas. I explained that Fox news is really centrist, but all the other large corporations were so hell bent on destroying capitalism that FOX seemed conservative in comparison. And I wrote that one black welfare queen was responsible for 2% of the 1998 federal budget, and posted a link to a long, complicated chart about accounting or something.
Since then, things have gone pretty well. I've got a blog now, I've been a semi-regular guest on a few talk radio shows, and I'm in discussion with Bantam for a book tentatively titled, Why Do You Hate America So Much?
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who responded, and especially those of you who took my writing and reposted it around the internet. I think that was what kept me going, even when someone called me on that welfare link (boy, was that embarrasing!)
And I am truly very sorry for trolling.
I'll be signing copies of some of my most classic posts at Borders Books in San Francisco March 3, 7:00 PM. See you there!
Karma: Bad (Mostly due to being such an asshole)
See subject shithead.
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billwg - 05:53pm Feb 21, 2003 EST (# 6460 of 6462)
SCO, has a strong claim and with Boies to make the argument, the penguins might be pecking no more!
Well it's against the law! Anyone can give away software if they steal it from the rightful copyright holders. Now let's see what the open sourcerers can do if they have to obey the law for once.
billwg - 05:59pm Feb 21, 2003 EST (# 6461 of 6462)
SCO is, of course, not the Santa Cruz Operation that the unixers once loved and that once tried to bring unix to the intel world. SCO is the new shell inhabited by that software hermit crab Caldera and funded by Novell Noorda in an attempt to bring consternation and uncertainty to the computing world. The penguins may wish to note that he is a pew mate of the staid Orren Hatch who is spoiling for a comeback from his inauspicious showing against Herr Gates. Live in real fear, penguins! LOL!!!
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I don't know, none of the women there really did it for me.
I guess I'll just have to get my phone sex the old fasioned way, calling 1-800-DENTIST.
The shows a unit labled 'Single Wide'. I wonder what that implies for the future
Not sure. Here's a double wide, though. You can pick one up today, for low, low prices.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
What the FUCK is this???
Found in Google Directory here. All I can say is FUCK YOU , France, and FUCK YOU , Google.
Version 4.0 further increases the speed of MySQL Server in a number of areas, such as bulk INSERTs, searching on packed indexes, creation of FULLTEXT indexes, as well as COUNT(DISTINCT).
The InnoDB storage engine is now offered as a feature of the standard MySQL server, including full support for transactions and row-level locking.
Our German, Austrian, and Swiss users will note that we have a new character set, latin1_de, which corrects the German sorting order, placing German umlauts in the same order as German telephone books.
Features to simplify migration from other database systems to MySQL Server include TRUNCATE TABLE (like in Oracle) and IDENTITY as a synonym for automatically incremented keys (like in Sybase). Many users will also be happy to learn that MySQL Server now supports the UNION statement, a long-awaited standard SQL feature.
In the process of building features for new users, we have not forgotten requests by the community of loyal users. We have multi-table DELETE and UPDATE statements. By adding support for symbolic linking to MyISAM on the table level (and not just the database level as before), as well as by enabling symlink handling by default on Windows, we hope to show that we take enhancement requests seriously. Functions like SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and FOUND_ROWS() make it possible to know how many rows a query would have returned without a LIMIT clause.
Fan-fucking-tastic!
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