Have you ever had the pleasure of working in fast food? I've done that and been a grocery store clerk/sacker, and I'll take working in the grocery store every time. It's not hot, you don't go home covered in oil, customers aren't as crabby, you don't get as dirty, you don't have to pick up after those gorram teenage kids so much, and there's more choices in jobs if you want to stick around for a while, instead of just advancing to manglement.
That said, I'm much happier as a university IT tech. Having to just sit at a register for eight hours a day sucks and it's hard on the back and feet, plus I'm paid more than 3x as much and I actually get stuff accomplished besides making money.
We have also sued, and won, against a person that installed a admin password on a laptop the day before she quit.( yes, we should have done that before it was given out, but thats beside the point ). User claimed she never did it. It was in her custody, so it was her responsibility. We got a new laptop and damages.( more to prove a point that we would followup on this stuff, it wasnt the 1500 bucks that was at stake really )
Did she have NTFS filesystem encryption active for the admin account? If not, you didn't have any legal leg to stand on because it's easy enough to find a locksmith utility that will replace any account's password with your own. I've done it myself with several systems at work ($DEPARTMENT will have systems delivered to them and set the admin password themselves, but we techs need to have that access and they don't).
Get yourself a lightweight Linux distro, of which many exist. Another alternative is to do a base install of Debian, then 'apt-get install icewm' or another lightweight window manager. Many smaller apps for different tasks exist, like Abiword and Gnumeric for office tasks and mutt for email. For web browsing, there's Opera, Epiphany, Galeon, or ELinks.
You could always get a circa-1998 Linux distribution, but I wouldn't recommend that.:-)
My HS had pretty much the same policy. Sit there and take it, then go get an authority figure to fix it. If you defend yourself, you're getting detention or suspended too. At one point I'd decided (in my overwrought 15-year-old way) that if I got into one more fight, that was it, I was going to drop out so I didn't have to put up with it any longer, and never mind what I'd do with the rest of my life.
They weren't that stupid about fire drills, though. They'd let us get our coats but we had to be quick about it.
Then the administration should rightly take away your phone if it's on and/or visible during school hours and explain to your parents why not doing that is a stupid and selfish idea.
Any school with cellular service will have a phone in the office that can be used for your parents to send you a message during school hours. If you *must* call your parents, get permission from your teacher to go to the office and use the phone.
Um, no. You can be against a government's policies, but it's bad (mmmkay?) to be against an entire people just because their government is run by selfish fuckwits.
Yes,.us is supposedly a republic, and the citizenry are in theory entirely responsible for what.gov is in place, but in practice right now, the rapacious fuckwits have just enough of a governmental majority to run things and not give a damn what anyone else thinks. A fix is complicated, and it sucks. It probably involves pushing the button and letting the cockroaches have a go.:-/
Different connotations. I use the term "redneck" to describe people with certain attitudes, not necessarily poor white Southerners. To me, a redneck is someone who is ignorant and bigoted. The ones around here are generally homophobic, xenophobic, jingoistic, [insert term for religious bigotry], and/or racist.
I suppose in a way it's a racist term because I'd probably only use it on whites[1], but I don't think it counts because/I'm/ white. Compare black-to-black versus white-to-black usage of "nigger", or geek-to-geek versus mundane-to-geek usage of "geek".
[1] Just because I don't personally know any blacks or Latinos or whatevers with redneck attitudes, though I'm certain they exist. My area's pretty whitebread.
I'm not you, and this is a hard decision to make, but I think I'd just let my child die if I was in your position.
It just doesn't seem fair to the kid for him to have a high likelihood of being imprisoned in that state for the rest of his artificially-extended life.
That assumes that the never-sufficiently-damned government would let me take that step, of course.
But if NASA does the sensible thing and mounts the Shuttle's replacement on top of the stack like they did for Apollo, you don't have to worry about ice falling and hitting heat-resistant tiles, because all that's mounted above the fuel tank.
I wouldn't be suprised if the external tank is insulated just because of how the shuttle is mounted on the assembly.
1. Is C:\ any worse than/dev/sda1 ? OSX still sees devices as files as per its *NIX heritage. Personally I like the idea of discrete drive letters as opposed to the mount point scheme since I like to be able to walk up to any computer that I'm working on and immediately know what physical disk something is on and whether it will be there or not if I unplug said disk and move it to another machine.
On Macs and newer Linuxen, newbies don't have to care about/dev/ names. You pop in a CD or plug in a camera, then the OS sees it and does an automatic mount. All you notice is a new icon popping up on the desktop. Floppy disks are almost as easy with Ubuntu: pop it in, open the System icon, click the floppy icon. Pretty much exactly how it works with XP.
I wonder what legal fallout there will be from idiots who bought Linux "licenses" from SCO when the the judge finds in IBM's favor. I think one could make a definite argument for fraud.
Oh yeah? When SWMBO and I went to the local cable place to change her name on the bill, they had an HDTV (can't remember if it was plasma or LCD or what) playing an HD channel, and I could clearly see the difference. The details were sharper and colors seemed more lifelike.
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Do you know how much ignorance there is in developed nations about same?
Ssshhh... don't let on about birth control education, or the Catholic Church will condemn the program.
You probably knew this, but the reason is cost. The cheaper the CC readers can be, the more they save when they buy ten thousand of them.
Have you ever had the pleasure of working in fast food? I've done that and been a grocery store clerk/sacker, and I'll take working in the grocery store every time. It's not hot, you don't go home covered in oil, customers aren't as crabby, you don't get as dirty, you don't have to pick up after those gorram teenage kids so much, and there's more choices in jobs if you want to stick around for a while, instead of just advancing to manglement.
That said, I'm much happier as a university IT tech. Having to just sit at a register for eight hours a day sucks and it's hard on the back and feet, plus I'm paid more than 3x as much and I actually get stuff accomplished besides making money.
A chair?
(couldn't resist)
Ah, I see. :-)
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I know it's far too late to check this, but maybe this would be useful if there's a next time:
http://www.tech-faq.com/ibm-thinkpad-bios-passwor
Get yourself a lightweight Linux distro, of which many exist. Another alternative is to do a base install of Debian, then 'apt-get install icewm' or another lightweight window manager. Many smaller apps for different tasks exist, like Abiword and Gnumeric for office tasks and mutt for email. For web browsing, there's Opera, Epiphany, Galeon, or ELinks.
:-)
You could always get a circa-1998 Linux distribution, but I wouldn't recommend that.
My HS had pretty much the same policy. Sit there and take it, then go get an authority figure to fix it. If you defend yourself, you're getting detention or suspended too. At one point I'd decided (in my overwrought 15-year-old way) that if I got into one more fight, that was it, I was going to drop out so I didn't have to put up with it any longer, and never mind what I'd do with the rest of my life.
They weren't that stupid about fire drills, though. They'd let us get our coats but we had to be quick about it.
Then the administration should rightly take away your phone if it's on and/or visible during school hours and explain to your parents why not doing that is a stupid and selfish idea.
Any school with cellular service will have a phone in the office that can be used for your parents to send you a message during school hours. If you *must* call your parents, get permission from your teacher to go to the office and use the phone.
You don't *need* a gods-damned noisemaker.
Um, no. You can be against a government's policies, but it's bad (mmmkay?) to be against an entire people just because their government is run by selfish fuckwits.
.us is supposedly a republic, and the citizenry are in theory entirely responsible for what .gov is in place, but in practice right now, the rapacious fuckwits have just enough of a governmental majority to run things and not give a damn what anyone else thinks. A fix is complicated, and it sucks. It probably involves pushing the button and letting the cockroaches have a go. :-/
Yes,
Different connotations. I use the term "redneck" to describe people with certain attitudes, not necessarily poor white Southerners. To me, a redneck is someone who is ignorant and bigoted. The ones around here are generally homophobic, xenophobic, jingoistic, [insert term for religious bigotry], and/or racist.
/I'm/ white. Compare black-to-black versus white-to-black usage of "nigger", or geek-to-geek versus mundane-to-geek usage of "geek".
I suppose in a way it's a racist term because I'd probably only use it on whites[1], but I don't think it counts because
[1] Just because I don't personally know any blacks or Latinos or whatevers with redneck attitudes, though I'm certain they exist. My area's pretty whitebread.
Now I feel bad because my hand never got a name.
Counterexample: the de Havilland Mosquito, a British warplane from the Second World War.
(yes, I know you're trolling.)
I'm not you, and this is a hard decision to make, but I think I'd just let my child die if I was in your position.
It just doesn't seem fair to the kid for him to have a high likelihood of being imprisoned in that state for the rest of his artificially-extended life.
That assumes that the never-sufficiently-damned government would let me take that step, of course.
But if NASA does the sensible thing and mounts the Shuttle's replacement on top of the stack like they did for Apollo, you don't have to worry about ice falling and hitting heat-resistant tiles, because all that's mounted above the fuel tank.
I wouldn't be suprised if the external tank is insulated just because of how the shuttle is mounted on the assembly.
I always thought that "Wargy" would have been a better name for multiplayer Wargasm.
"Who are you?"
"What do you want?"
"Why are you here?"
"Where are you going?"
Probably the same reason people BiCapitalize Firefox or Microsoft.
Jesus, didn't you pay attention in Civics class? A mayor is a city executive.
The executive branch of any government is concerned with executing laws. Police enforcement is execution of the law.
On Macs and newer Linuxen, newbies don't have to care about
I wonder what legal fallout there will be from idiots who bought Linux "licenses" from SCO when the the judge finds in IBM's favor. I think one could make a definite argument for fraud.
That's not a problem with XP. That's a problem with your PHB.
The SC apparently agrees that we can't have wingnuts screaming about activist judges.
WTF? Why was that flamebait?
Oh yeah? When SWMBO and I went to the local cable place to change her name on the bill, they had an HDTV (can't remember if it was plasma or LCD or what) playing an HD channel, and I could clearly see the difference. The details were sharper and colors seemed more lifelike.
It looked like a several-thousand $ set, FWIW.