No it is not. Yes, there are two major parties, but since everyone I know complains about both and wishes there was an alternative, perhaps it is time they began voting for the alternatives. I am so sick of the whining and complaining from those too lazy to vote or write their representatives or fucking vote for a different party. If you think you are throwing away your vote by doing so, why bother at all. It everyone that wishes for another choice actually took one of the available alternatives we may end up better off.
So stfu and vote for somebody new or run for office yourself, but don't pretend there are only 2 choices.
I have had bad experiences with Comcast in the past, but recently my local telco's DSL service began dropping my connections to web pages. Only when attempting to load any web page would I have an issue, and it was across multiple computers. The Qwest helpdesk people would not believe me that my Netflix streaming, games, and torrents were all fine. Finally I called Comcast as the only other provider in my area and the sales lady let me speak with one of the Internet Support guys for about 10 minutes. They are not blocking ports or screwing with my torrent traffic and stated the only 2 restrictions on my account are they will block port 25 if they see more than 999 messages per day on it (which I can call and have them re-enable as it is a SPAM blocking measure) and I cannot go over 250 GB data transfer per month. So far I am averaging 20 - 25 GB per week according to my router running Tomato. Maybe they are being smaller assholes since they had the deal with Xfinity, I don't know.
Also, I pay for a 12 Mbps connection and consistently receive over 30 Mbps down and 5 up, where as I was paying for a 12M/896k DSL connection before and getting 7M down if I was lucky, 750k up. Ping time decreased about 15 ms on the game servers I play on as well. I have to say, I have only had them about 3 weeks this time, but am quite happy so far.
Lack of caps and not blocking ports/services. Comcast blocked everything I wanted to use, Qwest blocks nothing, only thing I want from them is higher upload speed.
I use Linux, and am happy to purchase and use closed source software. I wish there was more. I often prefer the open source version or replacement for specific applications, but when unavailable I am happy to buy them. There is simply not enough offered.
For me I tried Linux because it was free and I had a box running Windows ME...well, you can see why I wanted away from that. I tried it. I loved it. I haven't run Windows at home since. I find it desirable that people want to run different Operating Systems. They can run whatever makes them happy and they are comfortable with. I deal with lack of support from ISV's by finding solutions that work for me. I wish there were better solutions at times, either open source or closed, for certain situations. I would certainly be willing to purchase more.
Those of us with criminal records were just stupid enough to get caught and charged for doing it.
I find this to be true. I would be completely fucked had an ADA not kept screwing up my charges until the case was open long enough the judge told them to finish it that day. I would have had a felony that would have put me in Huntsville State Prison in Texas (min 6 month stay). Because of the miraculous incompetence of the ADA I ended up with a misdemeanor and time served from my arrest as my sentence.
If you care the case entire issue came about after some friends of mine went on a graffiti spree if Houston. I purchased spray paint and had given it to one of them who turned out was under 18. It is illegal in Texas to sell or provide certain aerosol products to minors, part of the state health code dealing with drug abuse. So I should have been charged with Criminal Mischief, a felony, but was charged with distribution of an aerosol paint to a minor for purpose of inhalation. I explain it on every application that asks about arrests or crimes, some specifically mention only reporting felonies on the application, and have not had a problem. If it had been the Criminal Mischief charge however I would likely be where the other two are at this time. One is working rigs in the gulf last I heard, and the other was able to land a job in Portland at some rock club.
I assume there is a major problem, or problems, with sound for many people on Ubuntu? My experience has been the opposite. Since upgrading to 9.10, issues I had with sound just not working have been fixed. Graphics problems I had under 8.10 and 9.04 are resolved (though after the upgrade they were worse until I updated). Overall experience on my old Dell Dimension 3000 is improved.
Then again this is simply my experience, and yours may be worth more.
The biggest problem I have faced when dealing with the sheeple (I really despise that term, but I find it more accurate every day) is that at the very mention of anything political or governemnt related their eyes glass over and they lose interest. It doesn't matter if I am simply relaying a news story or mentioning how we are getting fucked, nobody wants to hear it.
I am worried that if I attempt any harder to get a message across to anyone about how our government is overreaching I will just be labled a nut and lose any/all credibility.
There needs to be a geek/nerd country. I figure we would be too busy arguing over hardware and OS issues to attempt to really oppress each other and if invaded we could take down the invading army's comm and infrastructure rather quickly. Although those of us without guns may be screwed as we tend to be fat and pasty or skinny and weak.
Time to sell my house and move to an island somewhere.
Mesa Networks in Colorado. Great service, they use microwave and RF for service over Motorola equipment. The only issues I ever had were immediately after they bought another company in Southern Colorado they were constantly updating their DNS servers so if you were using them you couldn't connect to sites, and they had a port that my VPN to work uses blocked due to a worm that was using the same. A quick call took care of that. They don't block ports outside of those being used by malware that is currently spreading and they do not engage in packet filtering.
Would a series of providers like this all connecting together help things out? It would seem that agreements among themselves would help out quite a bit as they could avoid connecting to one of the larger provider networks much of the time.
I have the 1.5 Mbps package, but my average connection speed is about 2.5 Mbps and I have hit 6 before. My tower is 8.9 miles away, and they used the dish behind my antenna to help it out.
As an aside, I was downloading several distros the other day and my PC clocked one of them downloading at 49 Mbps for a couple of seconds. Don't know if that was right or not, but out of 650 MB, I gained over 300 MB in a few seconds.
On topic or not, that is my statement and question and mad props for my ISP. Only 12 more hours to go until 2 hours of sleep and another day of work.
There are companies here that take all the old equipment for free. They then separate the materials and sell them to different buyers. Plastics, metals, etc all go off to get recycled and resold to the guys who made them the first time. Except monitors. There is a $10 charge for them to take a monitor. Asshats.
I don't think it would work against law enforcement, but maybe against rentals with RIAA lettering as we know they are not real police and they DO pose a very real threat to my life and property.
Remember, you must shoot to kill anyway. Once dead, it is hard to interrogate.
That's the ultimate problem here. People don't know this is going on, first of all. I suppose the media doesn't deem it exciting enough to report this.
But Fox News reported that Paris Hilton had her full body cavity search going into jail today!
Motorola, VISA, MasterCard, AMEX and US most emergency service dispatch stations (Public Safety Answering Points)- including the US Military still use COBOL. Granted they use Tandems (HP NonStop now)which hardly anyone I meet has even heard of, but they are frequently looking for people who can maintain and fix their COBOL programs. Motorola actually needs people who can write new programs to replace the old ones that were semi-replaced by a failed changeover to.Net for their emergency services Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD), of which the military uses a modified version supported by Motorola. They bought a company that was called PrinTrak (sp?) in Boulder, CO that they got all of this from. Most of the work is done by Chinese and Indian nationals living in Canada, which then must be reviewed line by line in the US as only US citizens are allowed to write the software for both civilian and military emergency services dispatching. The bottom line there is that a lot of fucked up code comes in and needs to be fixed by US citizens.
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No it is not. Yes, there are two major parties, but since everyone I know complains about both and wishes there was an alternative, perhaps it is time they began voting for the alternatives. I am so sick of the whining and complaining from those too lazy to vote or write their representatives or fucking vote for a different party. If you think you are throwing away your vote by doing so, why bother at all. It everyone that wishes for another choice actually took one of the available alternatives we may end up better off. So stfu and vote for somebody new or run for office yourself, but don't pretend there are only 2 choices.
I have had bad experiences with Comcast in the past, but recently my local telco's DSL service began dropping my connections to web pages. Only when attempting to load any web page would I have an issue, and it was across multiple computers. The Qwest helpdesk people would not believe me that my Netflix streaming, games, and torrents were all fine. Finally I called Comcast as the only other provider in my area and the sales lady let me speak with one of the Internet Support guys for about 10 minutes. They are not blocking ports or screwing with my torrent traffic and stated the only 2 restrictions on my account are they will block port 25 if they see more than 999 messages per day on it (which I can call and have them re-enable as it is a SPAM blocking measure) and I cannot go over 250 GB data transfer per month. So far I am averaging 20 - 25 GB per week according to my router running Tomato. Maybe they are being smaller assholes since they had the deal with Xfinity, I don't know. Also, I pay for a 12 Mbps connection and consistently receive over 30 Mbps down and 5 up, where as I was paying for a 12M/896k DSL connection before and getting 7M down if I was lucky, 750k up. Ping time decreased about 15 ms on the game servers I play on as well. I have to say, I have only had them about 3 weeks this time, but am quite happy so far.
Lack of caps and not blocking ports/services. Comcast blocked everything I wanted to use, Qwest blocks nothing, only thing I want from them is higher upload speed.
Actually according to http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html Google broke $10 billion in profit.
I hear this quite a bit, but have not had this problem in over 5 years. Do you have any recent examples?
Painfully.
I use Linux, and am happy to purchase and use closed source software. I wish there was more. I often prefer the open source version or replacement for specific applications, but when unavailable I am happy to buy them. There is simply not enough offered. For me I tried Linux because it was free and I had a box running Windows ME...well, you can see why I wanted away from that. I tried it. I loved it. I haven't run Windows at home since. I find it desirable that people want to run different Operating Systems. They can run whatever makes them happy and they are comfortable with. I deal with lack of support from ISV's by finding solutions that work for me. I wish there were better solutions at times, either open source or closed, for certain situations. I would certainly be willing to purchase more.
Those of us with criminal records were just stupid enough to get caught and charged for doing it.
I find this to be true. I would be completely fucked had an ADA not kept screwing up my charges until the case was open long enough the judge told them to finish it that day. I would have had a felony that would have put me in Huntsville State Prison in Texas (min 6 month stay). Because of the miraculous incompetence of the ADA I ended up with a misdemeanor and time served from my arrest as my sentence. If you care the case entire issue came about after some friends of mine went on a graffiti spree if Houston. I purchased spray paint and had given it to one of them who turned out was under 18. It is illegal in Texas to sell or provide certain aerosol products to minors, part of the state health code dealing with drug abuse. So I should have been charged with Criminal Mischief, a felony, but was charged with distribution of an aerosol paint to a minor for purpose of inhalation. I explain it on every application that asks about arrests or crimes, some specifically mention only reporting felonies on the application, and have not had a problem. If it had been the Criminal Mischief charge however I would likely be where the other two are at this time. One is working rigs in the gulf last I heard, and the other was able to land a job in Portland at some rock club.
That should be "+1: Tinfoil Hat"
I assume there is a major problem, or problems, with sound for many people on Ubuntu? My experience has been the opposite. Since upgrading to 9.10, issues I had with sound just not working have been fixed. Graphics problems I had under 8.10 and 9.04 are resolved (though after the upgrade they were worse until I updated). Overall experience on my old Dell Dimension 3000 is improved. Then again this is simply my experience, and yours may be worth more.
You must work here at IBM too
That she likes the python....of love.
$54 per month for 7 Mbps Down and 896K Up in the Denver, Colorado area of the US. Qwest as the ISP.
I think the mod that did that didn't even bother to read the entire post, just the first line.
Pics or it didn't happen.
That is me. I have rabbit ears. I try to get my wife to agree to a roof mount, but no such luck.
The biggest problem I have faced when dealing with the sheeple (I really despise that term, but I find it more accurate every day) is that at the very mention of anything political or governemnt related their eyes glass over and they lose interest. It doesn't matter if I am simply relaying a news story or mentioning how we are getting fucked, nobody wants to hear it. I am worried that if I attempt any harder to get a message across to anyone about how our government is overreaching I will just be labled a nut and lose any/all credibility. There needs to be a geek/nerd country. I figure we would be too busy arguing over hardware and OS issues to attempt to really oppress each other and if invaded we could take down the invading army's comm and infrastructure rather quickly. Although those of us without guns may be screwed as we tend to be fat and pasty or skinny and weak. Time to sell my house and move to an island somewhere.
Wouldn't Jack fuck up the plan in time?
Mesa Networks in Colorado. Great service, they use microwave and RF for service over Motorola equipment. The only issues I ever had were immediately after they bought another company in Southern Colorado they were constantly updating their DNS servers so if you were using them you couldn't connect to sites, and they had a port that my VPN to work uses blocked due to a worm that was using the same. A quick call took care of that. They don't block ports outside of those being used by malware that is currently spreading and they do not engage in packet filtering.
Would a series of providers like this all connecting together help things out? It would seem that agreements among themselves would help out quite a bit as they could avoid connecting to one of the larger provider networks much of the time.
I have the 1.5 Mbps package, but my average connection speed is about 2.5 Mbps and I have hit 6 before. My tower is 8.9 miles away, and they used the dish behind my antenna to help it out.
As an aside, I was downloading several distros the other day and my PC clocked one of them downloading at 49 Mbps for a couple of seconds. Don't know if that was right or not, but out of 650 MB, I gained over 300 MB in a few seconds.
On topic or not, that is my statement and question and mad props for my ISP. Only 12 more hours to go until 2 hours of sleep and another day of work.
Rock.
There are companies here that take all the old equipment for free. They then separate the materials and sell them to different buyers. Plastics, metals, etc all go off to get recycled and resold to the guys who made them the first time. Except monitors. There is a $10 charge for them to take a monitor. Asshats.
I don't think it would work against law enforcement, but maybe against rentals with RIAA lettering as we know they are not real police and they DO pose a very real threat to my life and property.
Remember, you must shoot to kill anyway. Once dead, it is hard to interrogate.
Slightly Offtopic If the ISP did limit total data transfer, how many botnets would be hurt?
But Fox News reported that Paris Hilton had her full body cavity search going into jail today!
Why not if I post a sign saying "Free Pizza and Beer" and leave some outside on the sidewalk?
Then again, why are you eating pizza off of the sidewalk? Why is back door unlocked? Goddamned kids left it open again....
Motorola, VISA, MasterCard, AMEX and US most emergency service dispatch stations (Public Safety Answering Points)- including the US Military still use COBOL. Granted they use Tandems (HP NonStop now)which hardly anyone I meet has even heard of, but they are frequently looking for people who can maintain and fix their COBOL programs. .Net for their emergency services Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD), of which the military uses a modified version supported by Motorola. They bought a company that was called PrinTrak (sp?) in Boulder, CO that they got all of this from.
Motorola actually needs people who can write new programs to replace the old ones that were semi-replaced by a failed changeover to
Most of the work is done by Chinese and Indian nationals living in Canada, which then must be reviewed line by line in the US as only US citizens are allowed to write the software for both civilian and military emergency services dispatching. The bottom line there is that a lot of fucked up code comes in and needs to be fixed by US citizens.