We, elsewhere in the world, will still be able to startle the stupid yankees with pr0n posted on unsuspecting sites, each time sending the stupid yankee prudes in a fit.
It depends on the degree of anality the museum displays in the choice and care of their exhibits. This will severely restrict your options if you have to replace components to make the computers operable.
Over the last 28 years I've worked at several railroad museums (as a volunteer), and one was extremely anal about the "originality" of the rolling stock.
For example, about 40 years ago they were given a functionning 100 year old steam locomotive, but they totally neglected it because over it's century of service, it was rebuilt several times, so they deemed it to be "not original".
Likewise, I was once involved in repairing a streetcar that was carrying passengers. We were redoing the air-brake system, and whenever we wanted to replace a part (down to a goddammed frigging bolt), some jerk would complain that it made the streetcar "less authentic".
The kicker was a secondary (but vital) air pipe that was totally rotten. We were told that it had to stay as is, even though the proper functionning of brakes depended on it.
Sadly, though, when I was working on the adjoining union, my pipe wrench slipped and totally shatted the "historic" pipe in a thousand crumbs of rust, and we had to replace the pipe itself...
I organize my music several ways by having separate directory trees with hard links. I can have several directory trees arranged by artist, album, date, genre, all pointing out to one copy of the file.
Swamping a spammer is not a good idea, because he can either redirect the attacks to an innocent third party, or simply pointless because they use stolen ressources, like trojaned computers that host illegal sites.
The best way to eradicate spammers would simply be to go after their clients.
Québec labour laws are extremely liberal towards workers (heck, here is the only place where Wall-Marde stores have successfully unionized - make sure you check the edit wars on Wikipedia), so it is very likely that they will be told to pound sand...
Your system takes 100%, puts 90% of it in the hands of 10% of the peole, and the rest of the 10% goes to 80% of the people, leaving 10% with nothing at all.
as opposed to what? You have a better economic model? One where people will be happier, healthier, more likely to get what they want?
As opposed to a better balance between private and public.
Like in France (or Québec, for that matter). Where the State has several smartly managed profitable entreprises. Not hard when, being french, you don't have a neurosis against what the State does and don't find working for the State is demeaning.
For example, our State-owned electric supply reaps huge profits (which are so much taxes we won't have to pay) whilst providing the cheapest electricity in the world. And it's we have the only northeastern grid that did not go down during the last blackout, a testament to the competence of OUR engineers. Or France which has the largest network of the fastest trains (that run on time) in the world.
As of intellectual filth, the drivel spewed forth by Hollywood and US TV networks is the best indicatino of the abject poverty of culture when culture is considered as a merchandise; it has to be mediocre to cater to the tastes of the majority of the population who has mediocre tastes.
Arguably there are 2 things that separate modern powerful nations from third world countries: Public education and a good economic system. I'd argue the first relies on the second.
Four things: free healthcare and sustainable transportation policy, two things the US doesn't have, hence it's third-world like child mortality rate (higher than Cuba!).
Capitalism is hard. People lose big all the time but the big lesson that time has showed us is that overall everyone wins.
Only the richest make it good. In the US, who has abysmal social policies, the middle-class is shrinking fast.
The benefits of capitalsim, a self balancing, self optimizing economic system that motivates a workforce require the hard parts of capitalsim.. the potential to lose big. The alternative is everybody loses big. No thanks.
Typical yankee brainwashing result. Socialism leaves a door wide-open to private entreprise, but it is well steered by the State to insure that nobody gets hurt and has his life destroyed by a greedy entrepreneur.
Some entrepreneurs may feel stifled, but what's important is that the vast majority aren't consigned to abject misery, of which the US is replete with.
What's incredible is seeing someone presumably intelligent wallowing in the intellectual filth of capitalism, and liking it. (Unless, of course, he has a vested interest in the system)...
The economy may be almost nothing to the universe, but it is very important to all of us humans. It doesn't just affect those "fiddling with the markets." Most of your activities relate with the economy in some way, from the foods you get to eat, to your entertainment, driving, working, where you live, how you talk with your friends, and on and on. You would not even get to type your half-formulated thoughts into slashdot had the ecomony turned out differently with respect to computers or the Internet.
I never said that the Economy is irrelevant. It is important, but not less than many other aspects of Society, Life and Existence in general.
Too many important things are being sacrified solely for the economy's sake, and that is just as stupid as wrecking the Economy because it's not ecological.
But more cogently, it serves to stimulate the economy. And without marketing, no one would ever sell anything anywhere but locally, so it also enables the economy.
Oh, the dear übergodly **E-C-O-N-O-M-Y**. Hail! Hail! Bow to the mighty economy god!!! I, for one, welcome our new economical overlords!
Like if the economy was everything in the Universe.
Photons from the Sun certainly don't give a shit about if their crashing on your face or onto the fourth planet around Aldebaran is economical or not.
There are many things besides the economy in the world; trouble is, little peons like you will swallow their master's rethoric about the economy hook, line and sinker and start harping about it as if it was the ONLY THING.
Sure, it's the only thing to someone who does some fiddling about with markets and such, but to everyone else, it's just another thing besides their lives.
And what's wrong with producing and selling locally? At least, you don't haul trinkets 3000 miles away, while destroying the roads with those enormous trucks and belching earth-choking exhaust fumes!
No, little jokers like you who can't look at the whole picture before they do anything and carefully weighs the ultimate consequences of one acts certainly are a poor thing to use for voting citizens. This is why things like Bush get elected.
Marketoïds do not understand the *REAL* universe, the one one that's governed by physical laws and logic.
See, that's where you're an idiot. (I was going to just say wrong, but it doesn't express how I feel very well.) Marketing is all about logic. One of the key datums in marketing is that people make decisions based on emotion, not on logic.
Marketing has **FUCK-ALL** to do with logic. It only plays people like some people play the piano.
It makes people do stupid things, like buy crap they don't need and fatten the bourgeois who peddle the made-by-slave-labour-in-China shit.
Like religion, marketing serves no useful purpose in life, and this is why marketers should be retroactively aborted.
But you seem to be defending marketoids, so you must either be one of them, or worse, you're one of those slimy bourgeois who use their services to peddle your useless crap (it must be useless, because if it was useful, it would sell itself).
Naaah, the only way to stop it is to make it sufficiently unattractive to spam. Like by nailing their balls to the wall. And, most importantly, doing the same to the people who have their products spamvertised.
You write it encoded with a super secret reel (found in all package of Admiral Crunch Hacker Cereals) down on a piece of banana paper using cherry juice so it is only visible when you heat it with a hemp flame, then fold it in 64 and tie it up with a piece of wire, put it in a tiny ziplock bag, dip it in sealing wax and put it in a film canister, which you dip in tar, then wrap it securely in wax paper.
Put it into a tiny sample jar of pineapple jam which you give to your aunt Emma (aunt Emma doesn't like pineapple jam) for her to put in the barley hopper. So, this way, nobody will know the password and be able to know, unless they read/.
There is a magic solution, it's called hemp. Hemp transforms solar energy into biomass more efficiently than just about any other plant, and can be processed into fibre, oil and feedstock. Hemp also grows about anywhere. If the US and Canada planted just the excess farmland and some of the land that can't currently be farmed with hemp, we could solve our energy problems.
Potheads to the rescue!!!:)
You must be smoking real good shit... Who's your pusher???
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What't wrong with 1965????
We, elsewhere in the world, will still be able to startle the stupid yankees with pr0n posted on unsuspecting sites, each time sending the stupid yankee prudes in a fit.
Over the last 28 years I've worked at several railroad museums (as a volunteer), and one was extremely anal about the "originality" of the rolling stock.
For example, about 40 years ago they were given a functionning 100 year old steam locomotive, but they totally neglected it because over it's century of service, it was rebuilt several times, so they deemed it to be "not original".
Likewise, I was once involved in repairing a streetcar that was carrying passengers. We were redoing the air-brake system, and whenever we wanted to replace a part (down to a goddammed frigging bolt), some jerk would complain that it made the streetcar "less authentic".
The kicker was a secondary (but vital) air pipe that was totally rotten. We were told that it had to stay as is, even though the proper functionning of brakes depended on it.
Sadly, though, when I was working on the adjoining union, my pipe wrench slipped and totally shatted the "historic" pipe in a thousand crumbs of rust, and we had to replace the pipe itself...
Looks like a collision between "Monroe" (not this one) and "Cerom"...
I organize my music several ways by having separate directory trees with hard links. I can have several directory trees arranged by artist, album, date, genre, all pointing out to one copy of the file.
Swamping a spammer is not a good idea, because he can either redirect the attacks to an innocent third party, or simply pointless because they use stolen ressources, like trojaned computers that host illegal sites.
The best way to eradicate spammers would simply be to go after their clients.
Québec labour laws are extremely liberal towards workers (heck, here is the only place where Wall-Marde stores have successfully unionized - make sure you check the edit wars on Wikipedia), so it is very likely that they will be told to pound sand...
At least not in cubicle farms...
Congress is examining a new law aimed at prohibiting the pillow to the cool side, citing concerns from air-conditionner makers for reduced sales.
Your system takes 100%, puts 90% of it in the hands of 10% of the peole, and the rest of the 10% goes to 80% of the people, leaving 10% with nothing at all.
Like in France (or Québec, for that matter). Where the State has several smartly managed profitable entreprises. Not hard when, being french, you don't have a neurosis against what the State does and don't find working for the State is demeaning.
For example, our State-owned electric supply reaps huge profits (which are so much taxes we won't have to pay) whilst providing the cheapest electricity in the world. And it's we have the only northeastern grid that did not go down during the last blackout, a testament to the competence of OUR engineers. Or France which has the largest network of the fastest trains (that run on time) in the world.
As of intellectual filth, the drivel spewed forth by Hollywood and US TV networks is the best indicatino of the abject poverty of culture when culture is considered as a merchandise; it has to be mediocre to cater to the tastes of the majority of the population who has mediocre tastes.
Four things: free healthcare and sustainable transportation policy, two things the US doesn't have, hence it's third-world like child mortality rate (higher than Cuba!). Only the richest make it good. In the US, who has abysmal social policies, the middle-class is shrinking fast. Typical yankee brainwashing result. Socialism leaves a door wide-open to private entreprise, but it is well steered by the State to insure that nobody gets hurt and has his life destroyed by a greedy entrepreneur.Some entrepreneurs may feel stifled, but what's important is that the vast majority aren't consigned to abject misery, of which the US is replete with.
What's incredible is seeing someone presumably intelligent wallowing in the intellectual filth of capitalism, and liking it. (Unless, of course, he has a vested interest in the system)...
Try to imagine how little I care whether I exist or not.
Too many important things are being sacrified solely for the economy's sake, and that is just as stupid as wrecking the Economy because it's not ecological.
(Only a stupid bourgeois would equate conception and life and everything with money)
Like if the economy was everything in the Universe.
Photons from the Sun certainly don't give a shit about if their crashing on your face or onto the fourth planet around Aldebaran is economical or not.
There are many things besides the economy in the world; trouble is, little peons like you will swallow their master's rethoric about the economy hook, line and sinker and start harping about it as if it was the ONLY THING.
Sure, it's the only thing to someone who does some fiddling about with markets and such, but to everyone else, it's just another thing besides their lives.
And what's wrong with producing and selling locally? At least, you don't haul trinkets 3000 miles away, while destroying the roads with those enormous trucks and belching earth-choking exhaust fumes!
No, little jokers like you who can't look at the whole picture before they do anything and carefully weighs the ultimate consequences of one acts certainly are a poor thing to use for voting citizens. This is why things like Bush get elected.
It makes people do stupid things, like buy crap they don't need and fatten the bourgeois who peddle the made-by-slave-labour-in-China shit.
Like religion, marketing serves no useful purpose in life, and this is why marketers should be retroactively aborted.
But you seem to be defending marketoids, so you must either be one of them, or worse, you're one of those slimy bourgeois who use their services to peddle your useless crap (it must be useless, because if it was useful, it would sell itself).
Won't work, because everyone has to change.
Naaah, the only way to stop it is to make it sufficiently unattractive to spam. Like by nailing their balls to the wall. And, most importantly, doing the same to the people who have their products spamvertised.
Put it into a tiny sample jar of pineapple jam which you give to your aunt Emma (aunt Emma doesn't like pineapple jam) for her to put in the barley hopper. So, this way, nobody will know the password and be able to know, unless they read /.
You must be smoking real good shit... Who's your pusher???