Whether by accident or because you may be depressed and suicidal, it appears that you may have allowed your real name to appear at the top of this post. Regardless, I have great respect for your courage in the face of what will doubtless be a very unpleasant fate.
Where should I send the flowers? Or would you prefer a donation in your name to an appropriate charity?
I'm increasingly glad that my Palm Tungsten E2 with its pathetic little 1G SD card is still my main source of music and e-reading when I'm out and about. I've got 90 songs (all at CD quality), 31 novels, and a bunch of pdf's and Office files, and a few games. And NO DRM! Yes, I shift songs in and out, so I don't have access to every song I ever listened to. So what? I use this stuff to pass time when I'm on public transit and sitting in waiting rooms, not when I'm in an environment where I want to kick back, get comfortable, and give the music and stories the attention the artists who made them really deserve.
Sometimes, I think, cutting edge isn't always the best. When this thing finally dies (it's about 4 years old), I'm going to get another one. I got it because it runs Office files and Outlook and do all the usual business stuff, and you can actually scrawl notes on it. More and more, though, I find the worry-free entertainment is what I'm using.
...for some whack-job fundamentalcase televangelist to declare that this is all a fraud because everybody who isn't going to hell knows the world is only 6,000 years old, and flat as a pancake.
NASA took a bold step down the road to oblivion when it bet the house on the shuttle as its primary launch vehicle. They've never recovered from that gigantic, world-class screw-up. They had reliable, proven heavy lifters, and the approach used by SpaceShipOne would surely be viable for orbiting smaller payloads if NASA had spent even half the development money that went into the shuttle on that kind of project. I don't know what the final answer is, but I see no evidence right now that NASA is anything more than a bunch of pencil-pushing bureaucrats with no vision and no real belief in their mission.
The international language of aviation is English. If the US government doesn't give NASA a good kick in the ass, the international language of space will be Mandarin.
There's bigger rats than that, and they aren't all that rare. They're widely distributed in North America, but tend to congregate in Ottawa and Washington in Parliament, the Senate and Congress.
Too bad most of the sheeple will just yawn and pick their noses when they're told about this. People with enough sense to be nervous about this level of government intrusion into the lives of law-abiding citizens will be laughed at.
And if I hear one more idiot say, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what are you worried about", I'm going to invite the cowardly moron to move to Communist China, where he'll feel right at home.
Might I suggest that upon future occasions when such behaviour is observed, especially when it is captured on film, that we refer to the act of one galaxy gobbling down another as a "Glow Job".
The best way to shut these slime-oids up would be to conduct a forensic audit of their royalty payments to artists. I bet not one of the companies would come out clean.
I'm going to throw a huge Windows 7 bash where we all get together, have a few beers and giggles and do all the neat stuff intelligent, fun-loving people like to do at parties. This one will be just a little different, though. We'll blog and take pictures and videos and upload the whole thing, just the way Microsoft and House Party want.
The climax? Well, the climax will be something really, really special. In honour of Windows 7, we'll all gather 'round and cheer wildly while the Lady Elaine, our resident Make Up Artist/Fashion Goddess/Queen of Sarcasm carefully applies lipstick to a pig.
Is it appropriate to lichen this bizarre construction to a robot? And I have to wonder whether it would be constructed from custom built components, or would they would have to come from a mold.
If Google's privacy standards are lower than those of libraries, how long will it be before merely visiting a library brings you to the attention of some government drone? And then, of course, that question most beloved of fascists and the morally incompetent is asked: "If you don't have anything to hide, what's the big deal?"
So the guy leaves a couple of turds on the rug at NASA, then slinks out the back door to work for a private company. And people think corporations do a better job of running things than the government?
NASA probably didn't know any better when they hired him. What's Dynetics' excuse?
You stand revealed as an idiot, or a Microsoft bumboy. Vista sucks in so many ways it would take more time than I have at the moment to enumerate them. I have to fix that fucking garbage OS just about every other week for a friend's father...and he's running a Core 2 Duo with 2G of RAM. It isn't state of the art, but it should be more than adequate to run an OS without grinding.
If you aren't already jacking off in your mother's basement, then you're jacking off in a Microsoft cube farm somewhere.
Truly, there's a sucker born every minute. Most of them seem to wind up working in business, and most of them have the technological competence of a retarded toaster. With any luck, the movers and shakers will figure out that paying the IT guy more than minimum wage...and having somebody competent to watch over HIM...is a wise investment.
Too bad the Labour Party has been taken over by a bunch of neo-conservative autocrats. The people of the UK now really have no choice except that between far right and even further right. Personal rights and due process are becoming a thing of the past, surveillance cameras proliferate like rats on Viagra, and the state is pushing its way into every area of one's private life...all in the name of security.
I'm entirely unsurprised that this latest assault on individual freedom and dignity is gaining currency with the UK government. Who cares whether the person whose connection is cut was actually responsible for the alleged piracy? Who cares whether they were even breaking the law? And how much more efficient it will be when the notoriously greedy and dishonest entertainment industry can inflict its will on average people without even having to prove its case in court!
All the fascists we fought during WWII would be laughing their asses off, because the current pack of neocon thugs are bringing about everything they wanted with the stroke of a pen. This latest offense against due process and the rule of law is just the cherry on an excrement sundae.
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Whether by accident or because you may be depressed and suicidal, it appears that you may have allowed your real name to appear at the top of this post. Regardless, I have great respect for your courage in the face of what will doubtless be a very unpleasant fate.
Where should I send the flowers? Or would you prefer a donation in your name to an appropriate charity?
I'm increasingly glad that my Palm Tungsten E2 with its pathetic little 1G SD card is still my main source of music and e-reading when I'm out and about. I've got 90 songs (all at CD quality), 31 novels, and a bunch of pdf's and Office files, and a few games. And NO DRM! Yes, I shift songs in and out, so I don't have access to every song I ever listened to. So what? I use this stuff to pass time when I'm on public transit and sitting in waiting rooms, not when I'm in an environment where I want to kick back, get comfortable, and give the music and stories the attention the artists who made them really deserve.
Sometimes, I think, cutting edge isn't always the best. When this thing finally dies (it's about 4 years old), I'm going to get another one. I got it because it runs Office files and Outlook and do all the usual business stuff, and you can actually scrawl notes on it. More and more, though, I find the worry-free entertainment is what I'm using.
I see that a fundamentalcase managed to get some mod points.
Pity.
...for some whack-job fundamentalcase televangelist to declare that this is all a fraud because everybody who isn't going to hell knows the world is only 6,000 years old, and flat as a pancake.
NASA took a bold step down the road to oblivion when it bet the house on the shuttle as its primary launch vehicle. They've never recovered from that gigantic, world-class screw-up. They had reliable, proven heavy lifters, and the approach used by SpaceShipOne would surely be viable for orbiting smaller payloads if NASA had spent even half the development money that went into the shuttle on that kind of project. I don't know what the final answer is, but I see no evidence right now that NASA is anything more than a bunch of pencil-pushing bureaucrats with no vision and no real belief in their mission.
The international language of aviation is English. If the US government doesn't give NASA a good kick in the ass, the international language of space will be Mandarin.
Thanks for the chuckle. You gave me one of those, shake-my-head-and-say-Damned-if-he-isn't-right moments.
There's bigger rats than that, and they aren't all that rare. They're widely distributed in North America, but tend to congregate in Ottawa and Washington in Parliament, the Senate and Congress.
Too bad most of the sheeple will just yawn and pick their noses when they're told about this. People with enough sense to be nervous about this level of government intrusion into the lives of law-abiding citizens will be laughed at.
And if I hear one more idiot say, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what are you worried about", I'm going to invite the cowardly moron to move to Communist China, where he'll feel right at home.
Might I suggest that upon future occasions when such behaviour is observed, especially when it is captured on film, that we refer to the act of one galaxy gobbling down another as a "Glow Job".
Well, let's just say you might want to consider changing Flipper's name to "Flopper".
And liars figure.
The best way to shut these slime-oids up would be to conduct a forensic audit of their royalty payments to artists. I bet not one of the companies would come out clean.
I'm going to throw a huge Windows 7 bash where we all get together, have a few beers and giggles and do all the neat stuff intelligent, fun-loving people like to do at parties. This one will be just a little different, though. We'll blog and take pictures and videos and upload the whole thing, just the way Microsoft and House Party want.
The climax? Well, the climax will be something really, really special. In honour of Windows 7, we'll all gather 'round and cheer wildly while the Lady Elaine, our resident Make Up Artist/Fashion Goddess/Queen of Sarcasm carefully applies lipstick to a pig.
Think House Party will send us a prize pack?
They're testing the wrong head.
I thought they'd see it coming.
Hey, baby, I got yer three-dimensional clinostat sperm storage device right here.
In spite of what some sour little "toad's tool" with mod points and a lack of morels seems to believe, Slashdot always has shroom for a little humour.
Is it appropriate to lichen this bizarre construction to a robot? And I have to wonder whether it would be constructed from custom built components, or would they would have to come from a mold.
If Google's privacy standards are lower than those of libraries, how long will it be before merely visiting a library brings you to the attention of some government drone? And then, of course, that question most beloved of fascists and the morally incompetent is asked: "If you don't have anything to hide, what's the big deal?"
So the guy leaves a couple of turds on the rug at NASA, then slinks out the back door to work for a private company. And people think corporations do a better job of running things than the government?
NASA probably didn't know any better when they hired him. What's Dynetics' excuse?
You stand revealed as an idiot, or a Microsoft bumboy. Vista sucks in so many ways it would take more time than I have at the moment to enumerate them. I have to fix that fucking garbage OS just about every other week for a friend's father...and he's running a Core 2 Duo with 2G of RAM. It isn't state of the art, but it should be more than adequate to run an OS without grinding.
If you aren't already jacking off in your mother's basement, then you're jacking off in a Microsoft cube farm somewhere.
Truly, there's a sucker born every minute. Most of them seem to wind up working in business, and most of them have the technological competence of a retarded toaster. With any luck, the movers and shakers will figure out that paying the IT guy more than minimum wage...and having somebody competent to watch over HIM...is a wise investment.
OK, I solved the problem of overpopulation. But nobody cares and somebody will steal my solution anyway, so now I'm going to kill myself.
I'm so depressed.
So except for the US, who has a huge cruise missile fleet that needs to be guarded against?
Too bad the Labour Party has been taken over by a bunch of neo-conservative autocrats. The people of the UK now really have no choice except that between far right and even further right. Personal rights and due process are becoming a thing of the past, surveillance cameras proliferate like rats on Viagra, and the state is pushing its way into every area of one's private life...all in the name of security.
I'm entirely unsurprised that this latest assault on individual freedom and dignity is gaining currency with the UK government. Who cares whether the person whose connection is cut was actually responsible for the alleged piracy? Who cares whether they were even breaking the law? And how much more efficient it will be when the notoriously greedy and dishonest entertainment industry can inflict its will on average people without even having to prove its case in court!
All the fascists we fought during WWII would be laughing their asses off, because the current pack of neocon thugs are bringing about everything they wanted with the stroke of a pen. This latest offense against due process and the rule of law is just the cherry on an excrement sundae.
Isn't he supposed to be crawling, rather than walking? And isn't there supposed to be a hot babe at the end that he wants to take a shot at?