This is horrible news! People can't see the stars at night! We need to demand that government stop these evil power companies from providing electricity after the sun goes down. And we need to arrest anyone driving around at night with headlights on or anyone using flashlights or candles. And all these tall buildings that block our view of the night sky need to be torn down immediately! It is our constitutional right to be able to see the stars at night. When I sit outside of my cave in the freezing cold I can barely see a single star at all. All these modern conveniences. Who needs 'em!?! It's time we gave up all these new fangled gadgets and went back to the old ways.
I remember my first 300 baud modem. Back then 300 was screaming fast! You could actually see the letters appear on your screen! Having to call your friends and agree on what baud rate, what parity, how many data bits, how many stop bits, and reminding them to put their modem on "answer" and remind their family not to pick up the phone, ah, what fun. I remember calling into sites at work and getting horrible transfer rates, and being pissed that I had to get in my truck and drive 4 hours to the middle of bum hole Kentucky to install an upgrade because you couldn't connect by modem. Fun times. Back then "wireless" meant the modem you were calling was not on an actual phone line but connected to a radio receiver on one or more repeaters from an actual phone line. The lag time was incredible! Back then the internet was called CompuServe or a local BBS. Love those 80's:)
Trying to get people to agree on a standard for web development is like standing in the middle of the dessert screaming you want ice cream. Good luck with that.
If I have the machine in my hands I can do worse things than corrupt the boot process. I can take the damn hard drive out and do whatever the hell I want with it. Not much of a hack.
Linux is for Geeks and it always will be. When I built my own mini computer with a micro atx mb some time ago I was curious about how linux would perform on it vs Windows 2000 and Windows XP. XP was a total dog. The processor just couldn't handle it. Win2k ran nicely. But when I tried to install Fedora I quickly realized it was impossible. The Fedora install didn't recognize the hardware and wouldn't even boot. Of course any geek will tell you just reconfigure the discombobulator and invert the thingamajig and then recompile the root and then burn new install discs and then boot from Alt-Shift-Tilde. Which to a non-Geek is the equivalent of performing brain surgery on yourself. What the hell are you talking about? I have to do what?!? I had to hunt around on the web for several hours just to find out what the problem was, then after reading all the various explanations of how to do it and telling myself I am a software engineer and I have no idea what I just read, I finally found someone who wrote a hack to boot the system, then allow the install disk to run. And after all that I found that it ran worse than Windows becuase it wasn't optimized for the cpu. So I went back to win2k and was happy ever since. Which is why Linux will NEVER be ready for laptops or desktops or anything else besides servers. Because only Geeks have the patience to hack around and kludge it up so that it works. I just want to turn it on and have it work so I can get on to more important things like doing my job or searching for pr0n;) Oh, and I just bought a Dell mini 9 and I didn't hesitate for 1 second between choosing Windows over Linux. It was worth the difference in price. And if want to install another OS it will be OS X and NOT Linux.
It's amazing how much hatred there is for CEO's, capitalism, and Fox News. When Fox came on the scene they spanked everybodies ass. They've kicked CNN's ass for like 10 years straight. All of the great shows were on FOX their first few seasons. Yeah, I don't know what the deal is with moving shows all around, but FOX isn't the only one that does that. I've given up on lots of other network's shows because I got tired of trying to adjust my schedule to match theirs. Back when NBC was king the other networks might as well have gone off the air when LA Law, Cheers, and the Cosby Show were on. But they tinkered with the formula, moving shows to other nights, til they killed off their golden goose. They haven't been the same since. But the truth is after 2 or 3 seasons most shows are washed up anyways. I love LOST for example, but for how many years can the writers strings something along like this, just tossing you bait for next week's show? SciFi shows are hard to maintain for long periods of time, you run out of reasonable ideas. I mean how many time travel episodes can you stand? What? The bad guys are coming? Let's just pull the magic lever and move the island. Yeah, the viewers will go for that!
Before Yahoo! me and like five other guys WERE the internet. Before search engines people like me collected cool links and created content so others wouldn't have to go hunt for it. Those were the days when you had to write 5 different versions of your web site for all of the crappy incompatable browsers, AOL, Netscape, IE, ugh!
Republicans always get blaimed for everything bad that happens in this country. The sad thing is most Americans don't even know which party is in control in Washington. While the Republican hating masses were giving Congress a single digit approval rating, most of them didn't even realize it was the Democrats who were in charge of Congress. And now that there's no opposition in the White House to their stupidity this is what we get. Career politicians protecting the rights of special interests and screw the average citizens. And everyone stands around waiting for Obama to waive his magic wand and everyone gets free healthcare and nobody will ever have to pay for rent or gas and we can all eat cake and ice cream for the rest of our lives. Wake me up when it's over.
So how long until we have fart powered computers? This fart is really strong so it's a "one". That fart, not so bad, it's a "zero". Of course you have to keep each fart insulated well so they last a long time.
All Stealth Bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, August 29th. In a panic they try to pull the plug. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia...
I have a better idea. Why don't they just give us our damn money back and let us decide how to spend it? Why should a bunch of career politicians be allowed to pick and choose who gets the money? Individuals invest money with the intent of making a return on their investment. Politicians spend money to get more votes. Once they get their hands on our money it becomes dirty money, used to buy votes. You might as well be accepting money from crack dealers. I guarantee if they did decide to spend money supporting "open source" software there would be strings attached. They would put so many rules and stipulations on it that it wouldn't be open source anymore.
Think how much easier it would be to see the stars if we just stopped making electricity. The night skies would be black like they were a thousand years ago. We could all go back to living in caves and wearing fur, no wait, we can't kill animals, and wearing fur is evil and sit by the fire, no burning wood produces CO2, so we'll sit in our dark caves, huddled together to stay warm and slowly starve to death. But then there wouldn't be anyone to look up at the stars. And that is the true goal of "environmentalism".
As more and more people switch to newer browsers so do the hackers and virus writers. People who use Macs used to feel safe because they were so few in number that they were mostly ignored. So as virus writes switch to newer browsers and newer OS's wouldn't that automatically make older browsers safer? Who writes viruses for Windows 98 anymore? I haven't seen a decent Windows 3.1 virus in ages!;)
For accent lighting in my bathroom I installed a half dozen or so 12v recessed lights in the window sill and different colored wine bottles sit on the lights, but due to the heat of the incandescent bulbs I would have one burn out about every week. At $5 to $8 a bulb that gets expensive quick. So I found some marine LED replacement bulbs that cost about $20 to $25 and replaced them all. I haven't had a bulb burn out in 2 years now. Each replacement unit has a cluster of LEDs, perhaps 10 or so, and other than having to shorten the leads to fit inside the curve of the reflector, installation was a snap. The first one I bought for testing purposes had a bluish tint, which I wasn't happy about, but under a blue bottle it doesn't really matter. They come in warm (yellowish) or cool (bluish) since LEDs can't produce a full spectrum you can't get true white. After I was satisfied with the performance I ordered the rest with a yellowish tint. Blueish lighting reminds me too much of the damn florescent lights at work. The LEDs have long since paid for themselves. But I will NOT use CFL in my home. I don't care how much energy they save. If I wanted my home to be lit like an office I'd live at the office. Florescent lighting gives me a headache. If I could imagine a perfect Hell it would be lit with florescent lighting.
OMG I CANT TEXT ANYONE! IM GOING TO DIE! Why so serious? Back when everyone was on land lines if we had an ice storm the lines were down. No phone service. Now that we have cell towers every couple miles you expect them to work 100% of the time? A cell tower has to be connected to a land line somewhere, and it needs power. If the power is out or the land lines are down, so is your cell tower. People couldn't wait to abandon their land lines then they bitch about not being able to get good cell service in every arm pit in the country. And now when I'm up in the mountains staying in a nice secluded cabin in the woods I get to sit on the porch and look up at the cell towers blinking away all night. So much for the view but I get 3 bars. Now people can call and pester me anywhere I go. Thank goodness for progress.
I remember back when we used to have wires going all over the place to connect everything. Then they invented wireless connections and everything had to be plugged in to rechargers and we had wires going all over the place. Then they invented wireless charging bases for all our wireless devices and we had wires going all over the place. Then they invented...
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This is horrible news! People can't see the stars at night! We need to demand that government stop these evil power companies from providing electricity after the sun goes down. And we need to arrest anyone driving around at night with headlights on or anyone using flashlights or candles. And all these tall buildings that block our view of the night sky need to be torn down immediately! It is our constitutional right to be able to see the stars at night. When I sit outside of my cave in the freezing cold I can barely see a single star at all. All these modern conveniences. Who needs 'em!?! It's time we gave up all these new fangled gadgets and went back to the old ways.
I remember my first 300 baud modem. Back then 300 was screaming fast! You could actually see the letters appear on your screen! Having to call your friends and agree on what baud rate, what parity, how many data bits, how many stop bits, and reminding them to put their modem on "answer" and remind their family not to pick up the phone, ah, what fun. I remember calling into sites at work and getting horrible transfer rates, and being pissed that I had to get in my truck and drive 4 hours to the middle of bum hole Kentucky to install an upgrade because you couldn't connect by modem. Fun times. Back then "wireless" meant the modem you were calling was not on an actual phone line but connected to a radio receiver on one or more repeaters from an actual phone line. The lag time was incredible! Back then the internet was called CompuServe or a local BBS. Love those 80's :)
Step 1: Dig a hole
Step 2: Climb into hole
Step 3: Bury yourself
Step 4: Earth saved!
Welcome to the 80's :)
but the discs cost 6 grand
female impersonator? Or was he that libertarian that ran for president?
that he's an idiot.
Trying to get people to agree on a standard for web development is like standing in the middle of the dessert screaming you want ice cream. Good luck with that.
If I have the machine in my hands I can do worse things than corrupt the boot process. I can take the damn hard drive out and do whatever the hell I want with it. Not much of a hack.
Linux is for Geeks and it always will be. When I built my own mini computer with a micro atx mb some time ago I was curious about how linux would perform on it vs Windows 2000 and Windows XP. XP was a total dog. The processor just couldn't handle it. Win2k ran nicely. But when I tried to install Fedora I quickly realized it was impossible. The Fedora install didn't recognize the hardware and wouldn't even boot. Of course any geek will tell you just reconfigure the discombobulator and invert the thingamajig and then recompile the root and then burn new install discs and then boot from Alt-Shift-Tilde. Which to a non-Geek is the equivalent of performing brain surgery on yourself. What the hell are you talking about? I have to do what?!? I had to hunt around on the web for several hours just to find out what the problem was, then after reading all the various explanations of how to do it and telling myself I am a software engineer and I have no idea what I just read, I finally found someone who wrote a hack to boot the system, then allow the install disk to run. And after all that I found that it ran worse than Windows becuase it wasn't optimized for the cpu. So I went back to win2k and was happy ever since. Which is why Linux will NEVER be ready for laptops or desktops or anything else besides servers. Because only Geeks have the patience to hack around and kludge it up so that it works. I just want to turn it on and have it work so I can get on to more important things like doing my job or searching for pr0n ;) Oh, and I just bought a Dell mini 9 and I didn't hesitate for 1 second between choosing Windows over Linux. It was worth the difference in price. And if want to install another OS it will be OS X and NOT Linux.
I thought his name was Caesar?
Wow, now we can expect to see spectacular laptop fires hot enough to burn through an engine block. Where can I get some of those batteries? Sony?
It's amazing how much hatred there is for CEO's, capitalism, and Fox News. When Fox came on the scene they spanked everybodies ass. They've kicked CNN's ass for like 10 years straight. All of the great shows were on FOX their first few seasons. Yeah, I don't know what the deal is with moving shows all around, but FOX isn't the only one that does that. I've given up on lots of other network's shows because I got tired of trying to adjust my schedule to match theirs. Back when NBC was king the other networks might as well have gone off the air when LA Law, Cheers, and the Cosby Show were on. But they tinkered with the formula, moving shows to other nights, til they killed off their golden goose. They haven't been the same since. But the truth is after 2 or 3 seasons most shows are washed up anyways. I love LOST for example, but for how many years can the writers strings something along like this, just tossing you bait for next week's show? SciFi shows are hard to maintain for long periods of time, you run out of reasonable ideas. I mean how many time travel episodes can you stand? What? The bad guys are coming? Let's just pull the magic lever and move the island. Yeah, the viewers will go for that!
Before Yahoo! me and like five other guys WERE the internet. Before search engines people like me collected cool links and created content so others wouldn't have to go hunt for it. Those were the days when you had to write 5 different versions of your web site for all of the crappy incompatable browsers, AOL, Netscape, IE, ugh!
Republicans always get blaimed for everything bad that happens in this country. The sad thing is most Americans don't even know which party is in control in Washington. While the Republican hating masses were giving Congress a single digit approval rating, most of them didn't even realize it was the Democrats who were in charge of Congress. And now that there's no opposition in the White House to their stupidity this is what we get. Career politicians protecting the rights of special interests and screw the average citizens. And everyone stands around waiting for Obama to waive his magic wand and everyone gets free healthcare and nobody will ever have to pay for rent or gas and we can all eat cake and ice cream for the rest of our lives. Wake me up when it's over.
So how long until we have fart powered computers? This fart is really strong so it's a "one". That fart, not so bad, it's a "zero". Of course you have to keep each fart insulated well so they last a long time.
Buried alive... buried alive...
All Stealth Bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, August 29th. In a panic they try to pull the plug. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia...
I have a better idea. Why don't they just give us our damn money back and let us decide how to spend it? Why should a bunch of career politicians be allowed to pick and choose who gets the money? Individuals invest money with the intent of making a return on their investment. Politicians spend money to get more votes. Once they get their hands on our money it becomes dirty money, used to buy votes. You might as well be accepting money from crack dealers. I guarantee if they did decide to spend money supporting "open source" software there would be strings attached. They would put so many rules and stipulations on it that it wouldn't be open source anymore.
Think how much easier it would be to see the stars if we just stopped making electricity. The night skies would be black like they were a thousand years ago. We could all go back to living in caves and wearing fur, no wait, we can't kill animals, and wearing fur is evil and sit by the fire, no burning wood produces CO2, so we'll sit in our dark caves, huddled together to stay warm and slowly starve to death. But then there wouldn't be anyone to look up at the stars. And that is the true goal of "environmentalism".
As more and more people switch to newer browsers so do the hackers and virus writers. People who use Macs used to feel safe because they were so few in number that they were mostly ignored. So as virus writes switch to newer browsers and newer OS's wouldn't that automatically make older browsers safer? Who writes viruses for Windows 98 anymore? I haven't seen a decent Windows 3.1 virus in ages! ;)
For accent lighting in my bathroom I installed a half dozen or so 12v recessed lights in the window sill and different colored wine bottles sit on the lights, but due to the heat of the incandescent bulbs I would have one burn out about every week. At $5 to $8 a bulb that gets expensive quick. So I found some marine LED replacement bulbs that cost about $20 to $25 and replaced them all. I haven't had a bulb burn out in 2 years now. Each replacement unit has a cluster of LEDs, perhaps 10 or so, and other than having to shorten the leads to fit inside the curve of the reflector, installation was a snap. The first one I bought for testing purposes had a bluish tint, which I wasn't happy about, but under a blue bottle it doesn't really matter. They come in warm (yellowish) or cool (bluish) since LEDs can't produce a full spectrum you can't get true white. After I was satisfied with the performance I ordered the rest with a yellowish tint. Blueish lighting reminds me too much of the damn florescent lights at work. The LEDs have long since paid for themselves. But I will NOT use CFL in my home. I don't care how much energy they save. If I wanted my home to be lit like an office I'd live at the office. Florescent lighting gives me a headache. If I could imagine a perfect Hell it would be lit with florescent lighting.
OMG I CANT TEXT ANYONE! IM GOING TO DIE! Why so serious? Back when everyone was on land lines if we had an ice storm the lines were down. No phone service. Now that we have cell towers every couple miles you expect them to work 100% of the time? A cell tower has to be connected to a land line somewhere, and it needs power. If the power is out or the land lines are down, so is your cell tower. People couldn't wait to abandon their land lines then they bitch about not being able to get good cell service in every arm pit in the country. And now when I'm up in the mountains staying in a nice secluded cabin in the woods I get to sit on the porch and look up at the cell towers blinking away all night. So much for the view but I get 3 bars. Now people can call and pester me anywhere I go. Thank goodness for progress.
I remember back when we used to have wires going all over the place to connect everything. Then they invented wireless connections and everything had to be plugged in to rechargers and we had wires going all over the place. Then they invented wireless charging bases for all our wireless devices and we had wires going all over the place. Then they invented...