Yup, the mayor has been indicted... that gives you a hint.
A person I knew's apt. was completely wiped clean. Couches, TVs, laptops, jewelry, papers, hair gel, EVERYTHING stolen. They knew that person's routine and did it all while that person was at work. Renter's insurance only covered 1/10th of what was taken
Surely someone else on here has the Bullshit episode of PETA. That had to be one of the most aggravating episodes; "We know our insulin/medical shots come from animals, but we are allowed to use them because we are PETA, but no one else can."
Ugh, commercial alarm companies are scammers. I get a new house, and guess what? Every sensor from EVERY window and door is conveniently removed so I have to sign up for some shitty contract. I'm guessing the previous owners had theirs "disconnected" at some point which involved removing the sensors. That, and the fact that ADT fills my mail with ads and warnings that I'm about to get robbed and crap like that.
If It didn't have the DRM, I would have bought it instead of pirated it. Although, I am somewhat considering purchasing it. Maybe when it goes down to $30 instead of 9 thousand.
That's exactly my point. Instead of working harder to prevent plugging in answers, they should work harder and grade the exams by hand.
This was in my early Calculus classes at UT Arlington.
Well, my US university insists on making the math exams all multiple choice--to make grading easier, I presume. However, they convolute the problems so much, and require you to "add both solutions, if any, together after multiplying them by the phase of the moon on July 18th, 1993, and divide by 2.5503342134 to get the answer," or something similar that it makes it extremely annoying.
Good thing I'm done with my math requirements.
What a coincidence, I'm "suffering" from jet lag right now. I just got back (to the US) from Europe 2 days ago and am having the worst jet lag ever. This is weird because it's usually when I'm going in the other direction I suffer the worst.
Anyway, if I eat I tend to want to "nap" right afterwards and then I end up sleeping in the middle of the day for 8 hours. Not eating seems to keep me awake, with my stomach threatening to eat itself.
One of the worst routers I have ever had. Besides resetting itself arbitrarily, it would forget it's own settings and revert to the default, or half of the settings would revert to the default and the other half.... ? Also, right before I threw it out my window, it forgot it was a wireless router completely. I mean, it reset itself one last time and quit broadcasting completely. Even the setup pages lost the wireless part. I could manually enter in the wireless setup URL, and it would show one with random values in each field.
I'm just waiting for a nice cooler day to take it to the shooting range. The manual traps and some shotgun pellets might make up for all my anguish.
Is this going another failure like our stupid abstinence program?
I remember the sex ed. teacher saying: "These condom things, they just don't work. They break all the time. You'll get sick. And die. Just don't have sex at all."
Newsflash: 1/4 US teens has an STD...
I can see it now:
"This internet thing, it just is so dangerous. There's all kinds of nude pictures, controversial information and videos, none of which you hormonal, impulsive teenagers would ever be interested in. You'll get sick. And die. Just don't use the internet at all."
I'm guessing it will be taught by completely inept teachers who have no clue, just like the rest of those non-core classes in HS
It says that they simply have a thousand albums in mp3 format. The latter says they waste a lot of money on records that are big, bulky, wear with each use, melt, scratch, etc.
It doesn't mean each record was "individually chosen". Each one of my mp3s were individually chosen when I ripped them, downloaded them, etc. I have some records however, that I got for free or nearly free that I don't like.
"Time was invested, thought was expressed, identity is reflected."
You have to be joking...
Yes, it seems ridiculous to arrest someone for making a video game map based on a physical place. They did it merely because other kids have shot up schools, and some of those other kids played video games, therefore every kid that makes a map is going to shoot up a school. Just a wee bit preemptive. I think everyone should start making maps of famous places, schools, office buildings, cities, etc. Let's see how many people they think they can arrest under... what law?
A lot of people say that Gentoo is compiled for your system and thus results in a massively faster system. This only has some truth to it. They also say that Gentoo allows for a much deeper understanding of linux and how their computer works. This is even less true.
There used to be a site up making fun of gentoo users who think they are bad ass by using gentoo, but I believe it is MIA now. You can browse this thread to get the jist of what it said: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=181330&po stdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
I'll admit that Gentoo is far harder to get running then say, Ubuntu, but by no means does it make you an expert. At the least, it makes you really efficient at copying-pasting errors in google... at the most... ???
Although, I run it on my laptop, and it took a bit of time to get everything working. Would I switch distros? no, I like it a lot.
I was on a flight once with another pilot sitting right next to me. I asked him about the cell phones deal, and he said exactly that: crowd control. He said that they want people to listen to the flight crew, not someone on the other end of a phone call, when there's an "emergency".
Except, when something does happen everyone goes in to panic mode and they just end up making it worse... but that's a different story.
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Yup, the mayor has been indicted... that gives you a hint. A person I knew's apt. was completely wiped clean. Couches, TVs, laptops, jewelry, papers, hair gel, EVERYTHING stolen. They knew that person's routine and did it all while that person was at work. Renter's insurance only covered 1/10th of what was taken
Surely someone else on here has the Bullshit episode of PETA. That had to be one of the most aggravating episodes; "We know our insulin/medical shots come from animals, but we are allowed to use them because we are PETA, but no one else can."
Ugh, commercial alarm companies are scammers. I get a new house, and guess what? Every sensor from EVERY window and door is conveniently removed so I have to sign up for some shitty contract. I'm guessing the previous owners had theirs "disconnected" at some point which involved removing the sensors. That, and the fact that ADT fills my mail with ads and warnings that I'm about to get robbed and crap like that.
If It didn't have the DRM, I would have bought it instead of pirated it. Although, I am somewhat considering purchasing it. Maybe when it goes down to $30 instead of 9 thousand.
AC was the only one I ever got into also. Then too many people got into it, and then money was weightless, and then ... I quit.
That's exactly my point. Instead of working harder to prevent plugging in answers, they should work harder and grade the exams by hand. This was in my early Calculus classes at UT Arlington.
Well, my US university insists on making the math exams all multiple choice--to make grading easier, I presume. However, they convolute the problems so much, and require you to "add both solutions, if any, together after multiplying them by the phase of the moon on July 18th, 1993, and divide by 2.5503342134 to get the answer," or something similar that it makes it extremely annoying. Good thing I'm done with my math requirements.
What a coincidence, I'm "suffering" from jet lag right now. I just got back (to the US) from Europe 2 days ago and am having the worst jet lag ever. This is weird because it's usually when I'm going in the other direction I suffer the worst. Anyway, if I eat I tend to want to "nap" right afterwards and then I end up sleeping in the middle of the day for 8 hours. Not eating seems to keep me awake, with my stomach threatening to eat itself.
I also store all my pr0n in a folder named, "pr0n".
Haha, yeah there's about 10 of those 2wireXXXX from my place too. Most of them are WPA, which is surprising.
One of the worst routers I have ever had. Besides resetting itself arbitrarily, it would forget it's own settings and revert to the default, or half of the settings would revert to the default and the other half.... ? Also, right before I threw it out my window, it forgot it was a wireless router completely. I mean, it reset itself one last time and quit broadcasting completely. Even the setup pages lost the wireless part. I could manually enter in the wireless setup URL, and it would show one with random values in each field.
I'm just waiting for a nice cooler day to take it to the shooting range. The manual traps and some shotgun pellets might make up for all my anguish.
Is this going another failure like our stupid abstinence program?
I remember the sex ed. teacher saying: "These condom things, they just don't work. They break all the time. You'll get sick. And die. Just don't have sex at all."
Newsflash: 1/4 US teens has an STD...
I can see it now: "This internet thing, it just is so dangerous. There's all kinds of nude pictures, controversial information and videos, none of which you hormonal, impulsive teenagers would ever be interested in. You'll get sick. And die. Just don't use the internet at all."
I'm guessing it will be taught by completely inept teachers who have no clue, just like the rest of those non-core classes in HS
My videogames... my precious videogames!
Seems ever so glaring now that I have read through it...
True, but he mentions it like it's almost completely useless.
I "gained" 3,000 passwords that the hacker won't get. So we should all have short passwords, huh? Since there's obviously no point.
It says that they simply have a thousand albums in mp3 format. The latter says they waste a lot of money on records that are big, bulky, wear with each use, melt, scratch, etc. It doesn't mean each record was "individually chosen". Each one of my mp3s were individually chosen when I ripped them, downloaded them, etc. I have some records however, that I got for free or nearly free that I don't like. "Time was invested, thought was expressed, identity is reflected." You have to be joking...
I think the suckitcreationists was more directed to the young-earth idiot types, and such.
If I were in the UK. But I'm not. Adjective 1. having a specific orientation; an alternative British English form of the word oriented
The seemingly more stupid and less customer orientated they are. Those damned corporations.
Yes, it seems ridiculous to arrest someone for making a video game map based on a physical place. They did it merely because other kids have shot up schools, and some of those other kids played video games, therefore every kid that makes a map is going to shoot up a school. Just a wee bit preemptive. I think everyone should start making maps of famous places, schools, office buildings, cities, etc. Let's see how many people they think they can arrest under... what law?
A lot of people say that Gentoo is compiled for your system and thus results in a massively faster system. This only has some truth to it. They also say that Gentoo allows for a much deeper understanding of linux and how their computer works. This is even less true. There used to be a site up making fun of gentoo users who think they are bad ass by using gentoo, but I believe it is MIA now. You can browse this thread to get the jist of what it said: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=181330&po stdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
I'll admit that Gentoo is far harder to get running then say, Ubuntu, but by no means does it make you an expert. At the least, it makes you really efficient at copying-pasting errors in google... at the most... ???
Although, I run it on my laptop, and it took a bit of time to get everything working. Would I switch distros? no, I like it a lot.
Um. Well, that's one way to look at it... in the looooooooong run. maybe.
I was on a flight once with another pilot sitting right next to me. I asked him about the cell phones deal, and he said exactly that: crowd control. He said that they want people to listen to the flight crew, not someone on the other end of a phone call, when there's an "emergency".
Except, when something does happen everyone goes in to panic mode and they just end up making it worse... but that's a different story.