At $JOB-3, I was developping a "silent alarm" (one of the owners didn't trust one associate, so he asked me to rig a silent alarm to the stock room door which called a pager when activated). So, for a few weeks, I carried a beeper, which was set to "vibrate". When it got a message, it would vibrate for something like 5 seconds every 5 minutes until you reset it.
At the same time, I was packing my shit because I was moving. So I put the pants with the beeper in one suitcase without removing the beeper.
When the boss asked for the beeper back, I told him that I misplaced it; it's not lost, I'll find it, but he'll have to wait...
The next day, I opened the suitcase to get something I remember putting it there; just as I put my hand in the suitcase, feeling for the buckle of the belt I was looking for, I feeled the vibration. Total luck!!! Can you figure out the probability of hitting the "vibration window" of the beeper?
but when the *movie theaters* (I thought we hated big media and the MPAA?) start jamming cell phone tranmissions, it's suddenly a great idea? I don't get it.
This is France. There is no MPAA. In fact, there is nothing *AA.
Whatever. I should have not bothered to read you, though, because where I live, it is LEGAL TO COPY MUSIC FOR MY OWN USE; 90% of my music library is blatantly copied from the public library and downloaded from the net and I'm not afraid of saying so.
There is an existing economic system, built in a time where it was not possible to duplicate goods w/o cost. And a lot of people have a lot invested in that system ("Fuck the RIAA" you say? Those companies employ a lot of people... Folks just trying to feed their kids and live life, just like most people).
So do buggy whip manufacturers employees. When your industry becomes useless thanks to obsolecense, should the industry keep surviving by outlawing alternatives?
I've been IT manager in three other jobs (15, 3 years ago and now).
I always enjoyed it, mostly because senior executives and department heads trust me to have their data safe.
Right now, I'm IT manager for a small artisanal paper mill, which is a really filthy place to work in the first place but the people are extremely nice.
So nice (the manager is delightfully cynical) that I don't mind when the boss asks me to help them make some hand-made paper, which involves putting on big boots, a thick apron (because you stand in a big puddle of water laced with paper pulp) and you pull out from a 500 liter vat of pulp a paper mold that weights about 30 kg, drain it on your shoes, then flip the whole heavy shebang without the slightest tremor or vibration, lest the extremely wet paper sheet falls downm with a really shitty sound (come to think of it, drained pulp must have the same consistency as wet shit - at least, it doesn't smell).
When you're done with a pile of about 40 sheets, you then have to run the pile through the 100 ton press, which has to be applied extremely gently (it takes about 5 minutes to have the press travel about 30 centimeters).
And finally, you take the sheets one by one and hang them to dry.
What qualifies a country to be in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd world? You always hear about 1st and 3rd world contries, but what is a 2nd world country? Are there any examples? China and India have bustling cities that have the comforts of a 1st world contry, but also areas of vast poverty. So where do they belong? My gut would say that should be the definition of the 2nd world countries that we never hear about.
Second-world was the Soviet-Union and soviet Eastern Europe... That is, any country where the population is reasonably educated, and there is a stable civil society and a significant industrial base that has sensible technological achievements, and most importantly, where the median standard of living is not too removed from the average.
While India's satellite launches and outsourcing news are already covered in slashdot umpteen times, sometimes her sensible achievements should be covered too."
Her sensible acheivements should be covered too? Can we mark the article blurb as flamebait? Lets keep the bias out of the story. Please.
Now hear the spoiled-child rhetoric! Perhaps it is the yankees who are overrated? Perhaps it is the yankees' lifestyle that's over-inflated? Why do the jobs go out of the US with a great sucking sound??? In the turd-world (so said because life there is nothing but shit, thanks to the yankees sucking-out all the wealth of the world), workers do not have four cars in the driveway and a swimming pool in their backyards.
In most of the civilized world (this is spelled E.U.R.O.P.E.), there is public transit to take the people to their jobs without FORCING them to use an expensive, gas-guzzling heap of junk on wheels which is, thanks to the inherent paranoïa that is so typical of the shitheap-puritan yankee mindset, has to be inflated beyond any semblance of reasonableness for it's owner to retain some kind of status amongst it's hare-brained sheepish co-herders.
After a while of destroying the countryside with strip-malls, the business owners are getting tired of subsidizing the heavy car usage that is so typical of the earth-trashing yankees' lifestyle and are starting to rebel. By moving the work where the workforce do not need to have a subsidized conveyance.
The great sucking sound is nothing but the sound itself of the yankees' suckitude, it's stupid dependence on foreign oil that has done so much in the last few years to alienate most of the earth's population, all thanks to the most miserable failure of all time in yankee politics.
So, mister Anonymous Coward, your sheepish flame, shot from behind your huge cowardice (see how I am NOT afraid of you unwashed barbarians by signing my name), you can roll it, and shove it up your anus so it can give you your long-overdue orgasm thar your sheepish moronic puritanism has prevented you from enjoying all that time.
Morons. (Anybody who moderates this negatively is nothing but one of those stupid spoiled Bush-voting yankees).
The American asked how the KGB agent had left and gone unnoticed for two whole years. The agent responded, "The day I left there was a car accident and my car was burned up with bodies inside. When you work for the KGB it isn't difficult to get ahold of bodies."
What's amazing is that the russian was allowed to have a car in the first place...
By far the easiest method would be to autoreply with the address where DMCA takedown notices are accepted, mentioning that they must include a statement of accuracy made under penalty of perjury.
The best I heard was an ISP who posted the DMCIA take-down notice address on a graphic image posted on the website.
Since the stupid **AA bots took the "abuse@*" contact address and sent the takedown notices there, instead of the proper takedown, they could very well ignore them...
There are a few possible reasons why Americans are so paranoid about driving that I can think of. You're all naturally paranoid (Who made you that way?),
It's the ***FUCKING ASSHOLES*** puritans who made them that way. The yankee's stupid religion makes them distrustful of new stuff, new people, strangers. What you don't know, fear and loathe is the yankees' slogan.
And not trying to be insulting but I personally do not trust any site whose management thinks they own the copyrights so tightly that I cannot print that page for future reference.
Who's your pusher? 'cause you smoke real good one!
Slashdot Mirror
Is that by the same accounting used by SCO???
I write this before having watching it, but I believe that this is the Thunderbirds movie that should have been...
Who remembers "Knowledgeman", that database language of 20 years ago which got eclipsed by dBase???
At the same time, I was packing my shit because I was moving. So I put the pants with the beeper in one suitcase without removing the beeper.
When the boss asked for the beeper back, I told him that I misplaced it; it's not lost, I'll find it, but he'll have to wait...
The next day, I opened the suitcase to get something I remember putting it there; just as I put my hand in the suitcase, feeling for the buckle of the belt I was looking for, I feeled the vibration. Total luck!!! Can you figure out the probability of hitting the "vibration window" of the beeper?
Whatever. I should have not bothered to read you, though, because where I live, it is LEGAL TO COPY MUSIC FOR MY OWN USE; 90% of my music library is blatantly copied from the public library and downloaded from the net and I'm not afraid of saying so.
I always enjoyed it, mostly because senior executives and department heads trust me to have their data safe.
Right now, I'm IT manager for a small artisanal paper mill, which is a really filthy place to work in the first place but the people are extremely nice.
So nice (the manager is delightfully cynical) that I don't mind when the boss asks me to help them make some hand-made paper, which involves putting on big boots, a thick apron (because you stand in a big puddle of water laced with paper pulp) and you pull out from a 500 liter vat of pulp a paper mold that weights about 30 kg, drain it on your shoes, then flip the whole heavy shebang without the slightest tremor or vibration, lest the extremely wet paper sheet falls downm with a really shitty sound (come to think of it, drained pulp must have the same consistency as wet shit - at least, it doesn't smell).
When you're done with a pile of about 40 sheets, you then have to run the pile through the 100 ton press, which has to be applied extremely gently (it takes about 5 minutes to have the press travel about 30 centimeters).
And finally, you take the sheets one by one and hang them to dry.
In most of the civilized world (this is spelled E.U.R.O.P.E.), there is public transit to take the people to their jobs without FORCING them to use an expensive, gas-guzzling heap of junk on wheels which is, thanks to the inherent paranoïa that is so typical of the shitheap-puritan yankee mindset, has to be inflated beyond any semblance of reasonableness for it's owner to retain some kind of status amongst it's hare-brained sheepish co-herders.
After a while of destroying the countryside with strip-malls, the business owners are getting tired of subsidizing the heavy car usage that is so typical of the earth-trashing yankees' lifestyle and are starting to rebel. By moving the work where the workforce do not need to have a subsidized conveyance.
The great sucking sound is nothing but the sound itself of the yankees' suckitude, it's stupid dependence on foreign oil that has done so much in the last few years to alienate most of the earth's population, all thanks to the most miserable failure of all time in yankee politics.
So, mister Anonymous Coward, your sheepish flame, shot from behind your huge cowardice (see how I am NOT afraid of you unwashed barbarians by signing my name), you can roll it, and shove it up your anus so it can give you your long-overdue orgasm thar your sheepish moronic puritanism has prevented you from enjoying all that time.
Morons. (Anybody who moderates this negatively is nothing but one of those stupid spoiled Bush-voting yankees).Trouble is, the chickenboner will only be able to pay with KFC coupons...
This would violate the publishers' god-given right to milk their "creations" until the heat-death of the Universe.
Since the stupid **AA bots took the "abuse@*" contact address and sent the takedown notices there, instead of the proper takedown, they could very well ignore them...
BSD and a good user interface?
Heck, yes!
Comeon, gimme your pusher, 'cause he's really got real good shit...
Here is a PDF of the page I just printed.
Or is it your browser that's buggy???
Yup. It's been there since about July.
Does AOHELL proprietary browser allow malware installation?
Does AOHELL e-mail allows spam and worms through?
Maybe AOHELL is sufficiently "shielded" to not suffer from those scourges...
This is the American corporate way: blame the victims!
Put the burden of fixing the problem on the end-users...
Upscale neighboorhoods are *** ALWAYS *** afraid of anithing different or new...