Microsoft products have sucked like a chest wound since way before windows, when they were lying, cheating and breaking the law offering sweetheart deals, bribes, threatening their competition and using other strong-arm tactics to gain dominance on the desktop.
Seriously. People have been suckered into shelling out for crap for thirty year. They expect everything from Microsoft before version 3.x to stick out of their rib cages like the steering columns on a Corvair.
Its one thing when eou don't care what the fuck you buy when its so cheap and when you don't actually have to use it. And that is how M$ made their money.
But now that they've finally infected the board rooms across the corporate world, people are sticking for something that they know because they really don't need all the friggin' "geegaws".
M$ is screwed. People are expecting them to deliver of their promises they made on WinNT and Win2k.
Windows 7 may NEVER actually ship. It might not be necessary. And that's why Gates is retired... And Balmer is left holding the bag.
With health, medical and drugs, you have NO market place.
You have a captive (and increasing with the aging of Americans and the wounded in the oil wars on the far side of the world,) 15% of the population which is disabled to some degree and with some permanence.
You don't have a marketplace.
You have Health-DON'T-Care.
You don't have a marketplace.
You have HMOs who are responsible strictly, within the letter of fiduciary responsibility, only to their bottom line. If you're sick, you're an expense as long as you're alive. (And that YOUR problem.)
McCain has no fucking idea of which end is up.
He's dangling his schmangles and coughing in some govt. HMO doctor's office, (not very likely since he married money.)
He's NOT struggling to pay a doctor bill because he's unemployed, uninsured or just under-insured (and trying to keep it quiet so the HMOs don't find out.)
America's got a system of health-DON'T-care and its not going to get any better with the band-aids that the candidates are proposing, when you can even get them to say anything about it.
The TSA's mainly bull shit and bluster by little tin-pot tyrants.
If I was so inclined (and not crippled,) I'd high jack a FedEx or a UPS plane.
Why mess with security if you don't have to.
A fully fueled and loaded plane will go into a large federally owned building regardless of whether there are a hundred passengers plotting a coup on your ass, or a crew lying quietly dead in the back of the plane.
Private aviation is a lot more vulnerable than the cash strapped public carriers.
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No.
But the Fibonacci sequence is fascinating.
This material is definitely odd. (Lets hope it can be related down atomic scale.)
The reason it makes a good insulator is the Fibonacci gaps. They make for discrete jumps like quantum jumps because there is no smooth path for electron 'energy bands' to follow.
Good thing Bush and the Imperial Presidency(TM)® did away with it and instead we have Guantanamo Bay, the Department of Homeland Security and Bush's insistence that he can sign bills into law and not obey them.
Watch what happens in November.
We can pinpoint the movements of anybody anywhere in the 'States, Chine, Europe and Russia, to within a few feet and yet we can let Bin Laden go free for years?
Pull the other one.
Its got fur on it...
The election's not going to take place while the "emergency lasts" (And guess when its going to end? NEVER...)
When the car companies, the tire companies and the oil companies were paying off municipal governments to tear up the subway tracks and get the scars paved over, they knew EXACTLY what they were letting us in for.
This was deliberate, wanton and craven indifference to the information that was already published and widely available (Peak oil and the Hubbert theory was published back in 1956.)
If Sprint goes "tits up" I'll have to get another provider and I might as well bite the frickin' bullet and buy a couple of iPhones (for the wife and me.)
Sprint is not the stablest and/or the most financially secure of companies and this could tip them into a death spiral.
glass reflecting an image shown on the dash of the vehicle.
Jet fighters have had this for years.
And speaking as an older person, FUCK YOU!
Ya snotty kids; wanting to keep all the kewl shit for yourself and thinking "Yhe old man wouldn't understand it anyway.'
We're still pissed off at never getting our flying cars.
And the best part is; projecting porn on a HUD can make flying alone, keeping the sky safe for you lot, in a damn tight cockpit for hours on end, a little less boring.
spew forth whatever vile, bigoted, evil, narrow-minded and just plain wrong corruption because I hold that sewing any ones mouth shut is essentially wrong.
So Dem. Nancy Pelosi or Newt Gingrich, you are dumber than I.
one that constricts blood flow to the brain if the geolocating device detects that you have left your destination and strayed too far from where the "authorities" were told you'd travel to.
The guy who had his head blown off by a collar was probably field testing an early model.
That would certainly cut down on the kidnapping of tourist by terrorist groups in South America.
I still remember an old cartoon in National Lampoon with some guy leaning out of a helicopter drawing a bead on an Innu (their real name,) and laughing like hell.
It was totally tasteless then and politically incorrect as hell.
But the artist had drawn it so well, (the hunters obviously seemed to be having such a good time, [probably because he'd managed to combine 3 things, alcohol, tobacco and fire arms, into a single picture,]) that you just had to laugh.
The author doesn't know what the difference is, that's his look out.
I never considered Google stats to be science.
There is a world of difference between knowing that objects fall at 32ft/s/s and knowing that something has a probability of correlation with some index or other.
The difference between quantum physics and statistics, (apart from Einstein's objection that "God does not play dice with the universe,') is that the "unknowns" in quantum physics are matters of fractions (like: 80% of the universe is hidden from us in Dark Matter and Dark Energy,:-) and are things that we know we don't know.
But we know that we don't know them...
Statistics can lead one anywhere in the KNOWN universe.
specially when its a willful and premeditated evasion tactic.
Its another actionable thing I'd rack up against this administration.
Bush has really started off the millennium right.
He pissed off all our allies, trampled our rights, got the US into wars that have killed thousands of US citizens and hundreds of thousands of Afghani and Iraqi citizens, and now he's saying "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA.'
Does he seriously think we're NOT going to prosecute him after January?
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Microsoft products have sucked like a chest wound since way before windows, when they were lying, cheating and breaking the law offering sweetheart deals, bribes, threatening their competition and using other strong-arm tactics to gain dominance on the desktop.
Seriously. People have been suckered into shelling out for crap for thirty year. They expect everything from Microsoft before version 3.x to stick out of their rib cages like the steering columns on a Corvair.
Its one thing when eou don't care what the fuck you buy when its so cheap and when you don't actually have to use it. And that is how M$ made their money.
But now that they've finally infected the board rooms across the corporate world, people are sticking for something that they know because they really don't need all the friggin' "geegaws".
M$ is screwed. People are expecting them to deliver of their promises they made on WinNT and Win2k.
Windows 7 may NEVER actually ship. It might not be necessary. And that's why Gates is retired... And Balmer is left holding the bag.
With health, medical and drugs, you have NO market place.
You have a captive (and increasing with the aging of Americans and the wounded in the oil wars on the far side of the world,) 15% of the population which is disabled to some degree and with some permanence.
You don't have a marketplace.
You have Health-DON'T-Care.
You don't have a marketplace.
You have HMOs who are responsible strictly, within the letter of fiduciary responsibility, only to their bottom line. If you're sick, you're an expense as long as you're alive. (And that YOUR problem.)
McCain has no fucking idea of which end is up.
He's dangling his schmangles and coughing in some govt. HMO doctor's office, (not very likely since he married money.)
He's NOT struggling to pay a doctor bill because he's unemployed, uninsured or just under-insured (and trying to keep it quiet so the HMOs don't find out.)
America's got a system of health-DON'T-care and its not going to get any better with the band-aids that the candidates are proposing, when you can even get them to say anything about it.
The TSA's mainly bull shit and bluster by little tin-pot tyrants.
If I was so inclined (and not crippled,) I'd high jack a FedEx or a UPS plane.
Why mess with security if you don't have to.
A fully fueled and loaded plane will go into a large federally owned building regardless of whether there are a hundred passengers plotting a coup on your ass, or a crew lying quietly dead in the back of the plane.
Private aviation is a lot more vulnerable than the cash strapped public carriers.
No.
But the Fibonacci sequence is fascinating.
This material is definitely odd. (Lets hope it can be related down atomic scale.)
The reason it makes a good insulator is the Fibonacci gaps. They make for discrete jumps like quantum jumps because there is no smooth path for electron 'energy bands' to follow.
Good thing Bush and the Imperial Presidency(TM)® did away with it and instead we have Guantanamo Bay, the Department of Homeland Security and Bush's insistence that he can sign bills into law and not obey them.
Watch what happens in November.
We can pinpoint the movements of anybody anywhere in the 'States, Chine, Europe and Russia, to within a few feet and yet we can let Bin Laden go free for years?
Pull the other one.
Its got fur on it...
The election's not going to take place while the "emergency lasts" (And guess when its going to end? NEVER...)
When the car companies, the tire companies and the oil companies were paying off municipal governments to tear up the subway tracks and get the scars paved over, they knew EXACTLY what they were letting us in for.
This was deliberate, wanton and craven indifference to the information that was already published and widely available (Peak oil and the Hubbert theory was published back in 1956.)
If Sprint goes "tits up" I'll have to get another provider and I might as well bite the frickin' bullet and buy a couple of iPhones (for the wife and me.)
Sprint is not the stablest and/or the most financially secure of companies and this could tip them into a death spiral.
But wait 'till I get behind a firewall before you turn the key...
glass reflecting an image shown on the dash of the vehicle.
Jet fighters have had this for years.
And speaking as an older person, FUCK YOU!
Ya snotty kids; wanting to keep all the kewl shit for yourself and thinking "Yhe old man wouldn't understand it anyway.'
We're still pissed off at never getting our flying cars.
And the best part is; projecting porn on a HUD can make flying alone, keeping the sky safe for you lot, in a damn tight cockpit for hours on end, a little less boring.
scalpel.
http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/knife_with_a_co.php
that statement has to be qualified.
300,000 KPS in a vacuum or...
the article which made me ask myself if the author and/or the editor knew WTF the press release was about.
Come back when you've learned the difference between nano (millionth) and pico (billionth or 1,000th of a millionth.)
This is the problem when 'soit disant' journalists aren't.
I'll believe a hacker any day before a journalist who can't get the facts straight.
spew forth whatever vile, bigoted, evil, narrow-minded and just plain wrong corruption because I hold that sewing any ones mouth shut is essentially wrong.
So Dem. Nancy Pelosi or Newt Gingrich, you are dumber than I.
Because nobody can look as good as your mind can make them.
HD makes Jenna Jamison look like Joseph Merrick.
With the mountable packs? (And head assemblies?)
DASDs were fun back then :-)
one that constricts blood flow to the brain if the geolocating device detects that you have left your destination and strayed too far from where the "authorities" were told you'd travel to.
The guy who had his head blown off by a collar was probably field testing an early model.
That would certainly cut down on the kidnapping of tourist by terrorist groups in South America.
I'm not running a damn thing off the PC except for loading a CD-ROM.
Since I use the laptop as a dumb terminal, it's relatively secure and fast enough for what I need.
And if I sound like a hit man, make that Musical Hits and you're closer than you think. :-)
and VPN into my network here. (In defense, I keep NICE toys up here. Stuff the client doesn't need to know about.)
The client picks up the cost and I don't carry anything when I travel.
The safest place to keep my data is right at home.
When the job is over I wipe the drive anyway, hand it back to the rental place and catch a flight back.
That why there were 'old Francs' and 'new Francs'.
And the rate was that about 100 old Francs would buy you 1 new Franc. (Or was it 1000 to 1 :-)
That avoids the problem of having your currency being essentially worthless (like the Zimbabwean dollar is right now.)
I still remember an old cartoon in National Lampoon with some guy leaning out of a helicopter drawing a bead on an Innu (their real name,) and laughing like hell.
It was totally tasteless then and politically incorrect as hell.
But the artist had drawn it so well, (the hunters obviously seemed to be having such a good time, [probably because he'd managed to combine 3 things, alcohol, tobacco and fire arms, into a single picture,]) that you just had to laugh.
Broadcasters can lick the sweat off of my balls.
Getting any media off of the air is so passé.
but speaking as one of the 15% who aren't, I'm less keen.
How many more years of this crap would I have to endure?
this is the first time I hear of this.
Where did they announce the settlement and the financial award?
Somebody somewhere knew "exactly" what he was doing when he buried this information in some obscure legal journal somewhere.
The author doesn't know what the difference is, that's his look out.
I never considered Google stats to be science.
There is a world of difference between knowing that objects fall at 32ft/s/s and knowing that something has a probability of correlation with some index or other.
The difference between quantum physics and statistics, (apart from Einstein's objection that "God does not play dice with the universe,') is that the "unknowns" in quantum physics are matters of fractions (like: 80% of the universe is hidden from us in Dark Matter and Dark Energy,:-) and are things that we know we don't know.
But we know that we don't know them...
Statistics can lead one anywhere in the KNOWN universe.
Science can lead one into the unknown.
specially when its a willful and premeditated evasion tactic.
Its another actionable thing I'd rack up against this administration.
Bush has really started off the millennium right.
He pissed off all our allies, trampled our rights, got the US into wars that have killed thousands of US citizens and hundreds of thousands of Afghani and Iraqi citizens, and now he's saying "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA.'
Does he seriously think we're NOT going to prosecute him after January?
I'm betting he goes like Ceauescu went.
Claiming to be loved by all the people...
What a big buffoon-eared dork.