Wow, has/. finally turned the corner? I avoided this place because of it liberal douce-baggery and one-sided conversations for years. Refreshing to see an opposing view for once here.
This thread was very refreshing to me as I thought I was alone in not ever joining facebook as I saw what it was from the very beginning. A tool to hate the people you once thought of as friends.
But after this thread I feel that there are sensible people and only the gormless attention whores are its users.
I find the internet almost unusable when I have to browse without NoScript or some kind of ad blocker. It's appalling for someone who came from the Arpanet days.
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...speaking of stupid, What did they do with all of the stupid people in the Star Trek universe? Slaughtered? Ground up and used for matter packs for the replicators? There will always be stupid.
I take it one step further and use NoScript with FF. Nothing runs.
Sometimes I'll allow scripts to run wide-open and find most of the internet is almost un-viewable by all the clutter.
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In radio control car racing, I've seen the power shift from gas/nitro motors to electrics in short order. Had everything to do with brushless motors and lithium polymer batteries.
Full size electric cars will have their day, just not yet.
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"I want a car that can go 150 miles on a charge. The city I live in is a vast suburbia, and I want to be able to go to the other end of the city without having to charge to come back."
Exactly, and we must live in the same city.
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I have an original XP build laptop that I have used every single day since 2007 and it ran like a champ until MS recently dropped XP from support. Strange how now it's started running like crap.
Coincidence? I think not.
Thank you, I did. I only have my baby toe dipped into the IT world now in an business ownership role.
Good to know there are still people out there that haven't worked in IT long enough to realize that IT IS NOT A CRAFT and you will never perfect anything and will continue to have to learn things that don't mean a pile a beans just a couple of years later.
Great gig for me in my 20's, not so much in my 40's and approaching 50's.
I'm old school IT and done with it.
Enjoy.
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Why would you want to automate someone or yourself out of a job? I realized years ago that Microsoft was working hard to automate me out of my contracts. It's almost done, why accelerate the inevitable?
"right-wing militarism"???
Civil War started by Southern Democrats - American deaths = 620,000
WWI - War declared by a Democrat - Woodrow Wilson - American deaths = 116,000
WWII - War declared by a Democrat - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - American deaths = 405,000
Korea - War declared by a Democrat - Harry Truman - American deaths = 53,000
Vietnam - War declared by a Democrat - Lyndon Baines Johnson - American deaths = 58,000
"the USA are at an artificial disadvantage is that as each new generation of communication technology rolls out"
I can assure you that future internet access technologies will have nothing to do with laying any kind of land cables. This will bring the U.S. up to par (or above) once all communications are via satellite or some other form of wireless.
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Wow, has /. finally turned the corner? I avoided this place because of it liberal douce-baggery and one-sided conversations for years. Refreshing to see an opposing view for once here.
This thread was very refreshing to me as I thought I was alone in not ever joining facebook as I saw what it was from the very beginning. A tool to hate the people you once thought of as friends. But after this thread I feel that there are sensible people and only the gormless attention whores are its users.
Progressives! Solving the worlds REAL problems. *
I find the internet almost unusable when I have to browse without NoScript or some kind of ad blocker. It's appalling for someone who came from the Arpanet days. *
Are you saying that this alien race are beings 1000's of ft tall? *
MS did sell routers. I still have my MN-700. It's not in use, but I still have it.
...speaking of stupid, What did they do with all of the stupid people in the Star Trek universe? Slaughtered? Ground up and used for matter packs for the replicators? There will always be stupid.
I take it one step further and use NoScript with FF. Nothing runs. Sometimes I'll allow scripts to run wide-open and find most of the internet is almost un-viewable by all the clutter. *
Do you realize how stupid this video will be in 10 years? *
In radio control car racing, I've seen the power shift from gas/nitro motors to electrics in short order. Had everything to do with brushless motors and lithium polymer batteries. Full size electric cars will have their day, just not yet. *
"I want a car that can go 150 miles on a charge. The city I live in is a vast suburbia, and I want to be able to go to the other end of the city without having to charge to come back." Exactly, and we must live in the same city. *
The U.S. is #1 in manufacturing and has been since WWII. http://www.wisegeek.org/what-a...
Is this happening in Tehran at their Apple store as well?
I would be interested in Tim Cook's opinion on Iran's gay rights being that they have a store in Tehran and all. I'll wait......
People who make these decisions need to be publicly called out and forced onto reality TV. *
Whatever happened to hiring the best person for the job? *
"Please" and "Thank you"? *
I have an original XP build laptop that I have used every single day since 2007 and it ran like a champ until MS recently dropped XP from support. Strange how now it's started running like crap. Coincidence? I think not.
Thank you, I did. I only have my baby toe dipped into the IT world now in an business ownership role. Good to know there are still people out there that haven't worked in IT long enough to realize that IT IS NOT A CRAFT and you will never perfect anything and will continue to have to learn things that don't mean a pile a beans just a couple of years later. Great gig for me in my 20's, not so much in my 40's and approaching 50's. I'm old school IT and done with it. Enjoy. *
Whew! Good thing that Germany is 100% not spying on anything or anyone in the United States ever. *
Why would you want to automate someone or yourself out of a job? I realized years ago that Microsoft was working hard to automate me out of my contracts. It's almost done, why accelerate the inevitable?
HAHAHA... I remember laughing at jokes like this in the 1980's. Thanks for the distant memories. *
"right-wing militarism"??? Civil War started by Southern Democrats - American deaths = 620,000 WWI - War declared by a Democrat - Woodrow Wilson - American deaths = 116,000 WWII - War declared by a Democrat - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - American deaths = 405,000 Korea - War declared by a Democrat - Harry Truman - American deaths = 53,000 Vietnam - War declared by a Democrat - Lyndon Baines Johnson - American deaths = 58,000
"the USA are at an artificial disadvantage is that as each new generation of communication technology rolls out" I can assure you that future internet access technologies will have nothing to do with laying any kind of land cables. This will bring the U.S. up to par (or above) once all communications are via satellite or some other form of wireless.
How far will they reach to spin this abomination into a positive?