Actually those homeless kids would be somewhere across the pacific. We don't manufacture electronics here anymore. (As spoken by a bitter former employee of the Semiconductor Industry who was laid off in 1997.)
As one who owns a car but still takes the bus, I take umbrage at the thought that one alternative is superior to the other. In rush hour all gods creatures are created equal, and for what it costs to park in the city I save a bundle with bus fare. Not to mention the fact that I don't have to remember where I parked, nor worry about who is going to drive me home if I decide to get utterly shitfaced at the pub. Yeah, the car is nice for shopping and vacations.
On another note, I also just rebuilt our toilet so I can tell you through my own actions that indoor plumbing is indeed worth the trouble. Communes didn't even catch on under communism, everyone needs a little private place of their own.
Home theater systems are still an utter waste of money. A good movie can be enjoyed on a 3 inch screen with mono sound, on a crappy copy of a copy, or just in the retelling.
Funny. My wife for the longest time wouldn't let us run Gentoo full time because she needed a windows box for her business. After the 8th reformat and re-install of XP in a year she decided to try Gentoo running Win4Lin.
6 months later she and I only use Win4Lin for Office and opening the web-pages we are editing in Internet Exploder for testing.
She delivered our daughter last week. How soon is too soon to get a child started on Linux?
More apt is the legend of the Loaves and the Fish. Jesus started off with 5 loaves and 3 fish and through sharing managed to feed everyone there with leftovers.
I think there is a creature out there that feeds off of flame-wars. Think about the history of internet communication, something out there drives us to argue and bicker despite our best interests.
On second thought, I think it has a few pseudopods in the mainstream media too.
The only image the comes to mind is that creature from STTOS that fed off of terrorizing people to death.
They think they have a leg up because they think that bribing Charon involves money. He digs an occasional free implementation of something too. Hell, he digs a candy bar, the River Styx is a dead zone for vending machines and fast food.
This is the same country that managed to equip their F-4's with rear view windows for pennies on the dollar for what it would have cost the American Air Force.
Since that wasn't part of the story, I'm just assuming that he didn't breath the toxic vapors and lived to tell the tale. Burning aluminum is really nasty stuff.
Reminds me of the stories my Uncle would tell of his days fooling around with Tank batteries. Tanks have enormous cells, 1 meter cubed, that store insane amounts of current. In the field they don't need to bring an arc welder. They just tie the frame to the ass end of the battery, and lug a jumper cable to where they want to weld.
Of course our million dollar tanks, at least at this time, were equipped with cheezy aluminum tools. One a buddy of my uncle was tightening the lugs on a battery and crossed both terminals. The tool literally melted and burned in a flash.
Well, you could actually power very low power devices with an antenna and a rectifier. The radio waves carry a reasonably useful amount of power if you aren't picky about the frequencies.
Not enough to run a laptop, but certainly enough for a potato clock.
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Actually those homeless kids would be somewhere across the pacific. We don't manufacture electronics here anymore. (As spoken by a bitter former employee of the Semiconductor Industry who was laid off in 1997.)
On another note, I also just rebuilt our toilet so I can tell you through my own actions that indoor plumbing is indeed worth the trouble. Communes didn't even catch on under communism, everyone needs a little private place of their own.
Home theater systems are still an utter waste of money. A good movie can be enjoyed on a 3 inch screen with mono sound, on a crappy copy of a copy, or just in the retelling.
To be fair, there are a few executives in the US and China whose pockets you will be lining.
They are going to be a running joke between my wife and I.
We are now at GhandiCon 3
6 months later she and I only use Win4Lin for Office and opening the web-pages we are editing in Internet Exploder for testing.
She delivered our daughter last week. How soon is too soon to get a child started on Linux?
Casts the "holy wars" of CISC vs RISC, Emacs vs. VI, and GNOME vs. KDE in a whole new light, doesn't it?
I always did feel a little squemish capping the buggers. Now I know why.
Oh, no he leapt the hell out of the road. You see a bright flash, you bolt.
More apt is the legend of the Loaves and the Fish. Jesus started off with 5 loaves and 3 fish and through sharing managed to feed everyone there with leftovers.
On second thought, I think it has a few pseudopods in the mainstream media too.
The only image the comes to mind is that creature from STTOS that fed off of terrorizing people to death.
They think they have a leg up because they think that bribing Charon involves money. He digs an occasional free implementation of something too. Hell, he digs a candy bar, the River Styx is a dead zone for vending machines and fast food.
We need not, nor care not, about the opinions of the world regarding our existance, relevance, or lack thereof of both.
I use the Gentoo LiveCD to backup onto an external USB drive. Faster and you don't slog the network.
This is the same country that managed to equip their F-4's with rear view windows for pennies on the dollar for what it would have cost the American Air Force.
In what other country does the Army have more boats than the Navy, and the Navy more aircraft than the Air Force?
Since that wasn't part of the story, I'm just assuming that he didn't breath the toxic vapors and lived to tell the tale. Burning aluminum is really nasty stuff.
Granted that's not much of a help.
Hmmm... call it "the grid" and charge $100/month. You have a winner.
Plutonium gets a bad rap. It's only poisenous when inhaled. Injested it's about as toxic as caffeine.
Of course our million dollar tanks, at least at this time, were equipped with cheezy aluminum tools. One a buddy of my uncle was tightening the lugs on a battery and crossed both terminals. The tool literally melted and burned in a flash.
I'll never look at a cotten-tail the same way again.
Hunting deer takes too much energy. We should sit around, drink beer, and bitch about EvilTwinSkippy.
Not enough to run a laptop, but certainly enough for a potato clock.
Hey, is that the energizer bunny or a new robotic whore?