> I can't even count the number of times I've read a greasy menu with food on it.
If someone had already been eating food, why would they be reading a menu to get grease all over it? Usually your menu is gone before you start eating. The two or three exceptions are if the menus are left on the table all the time, or if they are ordering dessert, or eating an appetizer while deciding a main course. Most of the time, though, people order all at once, and the menus are taken away. I don't think it's as big a deal as you seem to think it is (not that you're raving about it or anything).
> people [tend to] wash their ass more than their hands
I would imagine that in most cases -- there's some sick exception to almost any rule -- people wash their asses in the shower. This means that these people don't get their hands clean while showering? Wow.
> unless strange people regularly pull their pants down and sit on your keyboard.
What, that never happens to you? Maybe I need to stop taking my computer out all night to the strip club. For a slight investment, I guess I can convert to laptop dances.
Maybe Assgonomics. That would be an interesting job -- I guess there's someone who has to design ass-imprinted seats. I wonder what it pays? Do they get ass models to make the mold? Are there any super-ass models? I know many supermodels have that feature... ("a super ass")
> Did the toothbrushes that were kept away from the bathroom pick up the germs from the house or from the factory where they were made?
Good point -- they should have had a control control, where one was left in the package. Maybe they did & found the same amount so didn't want to get sued by the toothbrush company.
I have my own research that proves there is also as much volcanic ash on a keyboard as there is on a toilet! There has been a grand conspiracy from the government to cover up this fact to protect the monopoly on volcanoes. Makes you sick, don't it?
> the manufacturers are CLAIMING that they will also have to give up proprietary "calibration codes"
Well, they shouldn't have put calibration codes in the same places as problem codes. Besides, I am fairly sure they are lieing about that. Anyone can retrieve the information from the computer, this is like a map legend to tell them what they do. Calibration codes refer to things you can adjust, which are not (in an intelligently designed system, at least) in the same part of the computer. If they raelly ARE in the same place, they can just release the parts that service techs need to know.
No, this is an attempt to force limited choice & higher prices on car owners so the company can make a few extra bucks. There is no other good reason.
> But at least it is my dirt & germs on the keyboard
You may have been joking, but what is the difference between "your germs" and "my germs," other than the fact that there may be a fraction of a percent that I haven't contacted recently? I don't really understand people too much and this is one of those things that really gets me.
> I don't know about your private bits, but mine are in clean underwear all day
Yes, clean, then warm, then moist with sweat from your private bits. When you wash 'em, you can't get rid of all germs, and they have a field day in the warm, dark, wetness of your cock'n'balls. So no, they are not clean.
Also, there is a difference in the types of germs that hang out in your underwear vs. your desk.
> They sell cutting boards with Microban, so it must be food-safe.
I would like to point out that just because something is sold it is not necessarily safe. You should probably say "it is most likely food safe." We don't know for sure.
> his directly buying a product and copying it onto the net makes him afoul of the law to me
There are no fine details to this: It should never be illegal to post a copy of a law to a website, regardless of how he got it. If he stole the publisher's "Look & Feel" of the page, then it is arguable (very arguable, I believe the way something vaguely looks should not be copyrightable).
The first thing you need to do is look at what you are actually replying to. He did not say there would be no viruses/virusware, he said there would not be as much of it.
> to me it's obvious that none of Linux's protections help here at all
Then obviously, you don't know anything about Linux. Regular users CAN'T INSTALL SOFTWARE, and even more important, SOFTWARE CAN'T INSTALL ITSELF.
Then you bring up the BS argument that "all users would need root." No, they would not. Where this stuff counts the most is on a company network, where those users would NOT have root access, and the admin should be smart enough not to install shit like Realplayer.
And your other scenario requires users running the software manually. Well, if a user will do it on Windows, they will do it in Linux. The difference is that ONLY THAT USER WILL BE AFFECTED. Anyone else who logs in will never be affected by it, so right there I have showed you are wrong (remember what the argument really is about).
Why are you so religiously anti-Linux? Was your great aunt run over by a penguin or something?
> If you're convicted, it's public record. I'd guess the fact of your arrest is also public record...
I wasn't convicted, I was "processed and released." I believe the fact of the arrest was public, but the details were to be kept by just one office for a year until expunged. Instead it was sent to the FBI. Not sure how that one happened, other than the judge lied to my face... But, I have the last laugh. They tried to suspend my license that had expired. Big 'ole middle finger to them. Somehow I don't constantly complain about it though, which is very much in my nature.
Oh, so they also have sedici and dieci sizes? If I run a shop and my sizes are small, regular, large, and twenty, wouldn't you think that was pretty stupid? What if I had 12oz, 16oz, and blue? I'm talking about the consistency of their marketing. I'm calling them stupid for doing it. I didn't say they HAD to do things my way, that's fascism.
It's also a jab at the rich snob customers of such places who think they are cool because they drink coffee with fancy names.
Because I have not seen much improvement since? Yeah, that would be a pretty good reason to me.
> There's no "get over it".
Okay, you don't have to get over it if you don't want, but there's not much point in you being upset over something I couldn't do.
> Would you also hate MSSQL because it doesn't install or run well on NT4?
Yes, if that was the platform I intended to run it on.
> PostgreSQL is as easy to install and configure as MySQL. Yours were not reasonable limits.
What, getting it to run at all were not reasonable limits? You could say they CURRENTLY aren't reasonable (ie, using a recent distro), but you said "were not." What was not reasonable about it?
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> Do you know what's even dirtier?
A pig in mud? Even dirtier? An Elephant in a WHOLE LOT of mud?
> try to tell me that's not as bad as a computer station.
That's not as bad as a computer station.
There is no try, only do.
> A recent survey indicated a**hole per Oval office in the Whitehouse.
Just like most surveys -- the results are exactly what everyone has known for the last 30 years.
> I can't even count the number of times I've read a greasy menu with food on it.
If someone had already been eating food, why would they be reading a menu to get grease all over it? Usually your menu is gone before you start eating. The two or three exceptions are if the menus are left on the table all the time, or if they are ordering dessert, or eating an appetizer while deciding a main course. Most of the time, though, people order all at once, and the menus are taken away. I don't think it's as big a deal as you seem to think it is (not that you're raving about it or anything).
> people [tend to] wash their ass more than their hands
I would imagine that in most cases -- there's some sick exception to almost any rule -- people wash their asses in the shower. This means that these people don't get their hands clean while showering? Wow.
> unless strange people regularly pull their pants down and sit on your keyboard.
What, that never happens to you? Maybe I need to stop taking my computer out all night to the strip club. For a slight investment, I guess I can convert to laptop dances.
> Now that's ergonomics!
Maybe Assgonomics. That would be an interesting job -- I guess there's someone who has to design ass-imprinted seats. I wonder what it pays? Do they get ass models to make the mold? Are there any super-ass models? I know many supermodels have that feature... ("a super ass")
> just get flourinert
Is that stuff clear? And I wonder how thick it is -- is it more like water or Karo syrup?
> But I thot I covered up all the germs with boogers to seal them under
QUICK!!!! Go patent it as a new "Microbal Seal/Jail!" You'll make millions! Boogers, I mean...
> Did the toothbrushes that were kept away from the bathroom pick up the germs from the house or from the factory where they were made?
Good point -- they should have had a control control, where one was left in the package. Maybe they did & found the same amount so didn't want to get sued by the toothbrush company.
> What the article doesn't report is [...]
I have my own research that proves there is also as much volcanic ash on a keyboard as there is on a toilet! There has been a grand conspiracy from the government to cover up this fact to protect the monopoly on volcanoes. Makes you sick, don't it?
> the manufacturers are CLAIMING that they will also have to give up proprietary "calibration codes"
Well, they shouldn't have put calibration codes in the same places as problem codes. Besides, I am fairly sure they are lieing about that. Anyone can retrieve the information from the computer, this is like a map legend to tell them what they do. Calibration codes refer to things you can adjust, which are not (in an intelligently designed system, at least) in the same part of the computer. If they raelly ARE in the same place, they can just release the parts that service techs need to know.
No, this is an attempt to force limited choice & higher prices on car owners so the company can make a few extra bucks. There is no other good reason.
> But at least it is my dirt & germs on the keyboard
You may have been joking, but what is the difference between "your germs" and "my germs," other than the fact that there may be a fraction of a percent that I haven't contacted recently? I don't really understand people too much and this is one of those things that really gets me.
> I don't know about your private bits, but mine are in clean underwear all day
Yes, clean, then warm, then moist with sweat from your private bits. When you wash 'em, you can't get rid of all germs, and they have a field day in the warm, dark, wetness of your cock'n'balls. So no, they are not clean.
Also, there is a difference in the types of germs that hang out in your underwear vs. your desk.
> No sane DOJ employee is going to use his or her official workstation for that kind of recreational browsing. Not worth the risks
Have you ever actually held a government job? It would take a whole lot more than downloading occasional porn to have any risk of being fired.
> They sell cutting boards with Microban, so it must be food-safe.
I would like to point out that just because something is sold it is not necessarily safe. You should probably say "it is most likely food safe." We don't know for sure.
> People pick their keyboard?
Can't say I've done that, but I have picked my mouse. You know, that gunk that gets on the rollers. I wonder what kind of microbes are in there...
> his directly buying a product and copying it onto the net makes him afoul of the law to me
There are no fine details to this: It should never be illegal to post a copy of a law to a website, regardless of how he got it. If he stole the publisher's "Look & Feel" of the page, then it is arguable (very arguable, I believe the way something vaguely looks should not be copyrightable).
> Not sure what "YAW" stands for
His nick is "You're All Wrong"... YAW
The first thing you need to do is look at what you are actually replying to. He did not say there would be no viruses/virusware, he said there would not be as much of it.
> to me it's obvious that none of Linux's protections help here at all
Then obviously, you don't know anything about Linux. Regular users CAN'T INSTALL SOFTWARE, and even more important, SOFTWARE CAN'T INSTALL ITSELF.
Then you bring up the BS argument that "all users would need root." No, they would not. Where this stuff counts the most is on a company network, where those users would NOT have root access, and the admin should be smart enough not to install shit like Realplayer.
And your other scenario requires users running the software manually. Well, if a user will do it on Windows, they will do it in Linux. The difference is that ONLY THAT USER WILL BE AFFECTED. Anyone else who logs in will never be affected by it, so right there I have showed you are wrong (remember what the argument really is about).
Why are you so religiously anti-Linux? Was your great aunt run over by a penguin or something?
> If you're convicted, it's public record. I'd guess the fact of your arrest is also public record...
I wasn't convicted, I was "processed and released." I believe the fact of the arrest was public, but the details were to be kept by just one office for a year until expunged. Instead it was sent to the FBI. Not sure how that one happened, other than the judge lied to my face... But, I have the last laugh. They tried to suspend my license that had expired. Big 'ole middle finger to them. Somehow I don't constantly complain about it though, which is very much in my nature.
> What's so ridiculous about that?
Oh, so they also have sedici and dieci sizes? If I run a shop and my sizes are small, regular, large, and twenty, wouldn't you think that was pretty stupid? What if I had 12oz, 16oz, and blue? I'm talking about the consistency of their marketing. I'm calling them stupid for doing it. I didn't say they HAD to do things my way, that's fascism.
It's also a jab at the rich snob customers of such places who think they are cool because they drink coffee with fancy names.
> How can you gloss over that so easily?
Because I have not seen much improvement since? Yeah, that would be a pretty good reason to me.
> There's no "get over it".
Okay, you don't have to get over it if you don't want, but there's not much point in you being upset over something I couldn't do.
> Would you also hate MSSQL because it doesn't install or run well on NT4?
Yes, if that was the platform I intended to run it on.
> PostgreSQL is as easy to install and configure as MySQL. Yours were not reasonable limits.
What, getting it to run at all were not reasonable limits? You could say they CURRENTLY aren't reasonable (ie, using a recent distro), but you said "were not." What was not reasonable about it?
> I think what they are talking about is other companies building parts for the engines and selling them cheaper.
No, the DIAGNOSTIC CODES at issue would not help them one iota in remaking a part.
> Somebody needs to get the idea of letting people putting together setlists of songs that form virtual radio stations.
Ummm... you mean streaming audio, which was around before P2P filesharing?