Scumbag Obama:
Talk about hope and change.
Continue and expand on Bush-era policies.
Hey, I am just glad that He was the one who since last August has personally overseen, analyzed intel, and, finally, authorized the strike which took Osama out.
What a guy. And He is so humble about it.
It's very possible - UID is only an indication of when a particular account was created. I'm not the OP, yet I've 7 digits in my UID, and have been a reader/participant here since '98 or '99. Somewhere in the/. DB I have one or two other usernames, created when needed and forgotten now because sometimes I will go a long time between reading or posting due to work or other circumstances. Shit happens.:)
The networking company I subbed for (they are in another state) did the (poorly implemented IMO) setup, and Yep, they have a yagi mounted that points _down_, at about a 45 degree angle towards the 2 corner rooms with the least amount of signal. I was as surprised as you might have been to have seen that...:)
A networking company I've done contract work for has a small hotel client constructed with steel framing instead of wood. Only 2 floors, 8 rooms per side/floor, front and back, but WiFi is a nightmare. There are *5* AP's in the building; one central, 2 each in the attic space either side of the central router, & one AP even has to have a yagi on it to reach into the bottom, corner room with signal strength sufficient to keep hotel guests from complaining. After working there 3 times in the past 2 years resolving issues, I think that steel construction is more of a concern than a radiant barrier layer on the insulation of an exterior wall...
Not necessarily. Next time you pack for a trip where luggage space is at a premium, try rolling up your clothing instead of packing it folded flat in your suitcase/seabag. When crammed full, not only will the result produce less wrinkles in the clothing (if care is taken with the rolling), but it is easier to go through the entire contents of the luggage container to find a specific item, and then remove it without 'upsetting' other items. Just sayin'...
All snark aside, I do remember quite a bit of talk about the Democrats attempting to reinstate it, from politico's and 'normal people' on both sides of the aisle, perhaps 8-10 years ago. It never went beyond talk, I think, because the Democrats discovered that they didn't need it anymore, having seen that they were becoming much more adept at manipulating public opinion through the 'new media' of the internet - e.g. MoveOn, HuffPo, DU... - than through the traditional outlets.
The Republicans have yet to figure out how to reach the younger demographic of net users, from what I can see. I think they dropped the ball on that, as far as advancing their own interests is concerned. It could be as I've read, though, that younger people as a rule tend more towards a 'liberal' train of thought, and so if that is the case, the 'conservative way' will never quite have as loud a voice online simply due to the fact that the internet is more easily used and understood by those who have grown up with the current state of the tool, instead of those who find themselves having to "reverse engineer" it.
And what will be really interesting to see, is how that shift occurs again in 10 or so years, what will come of *that*...
If you buy any other laptop, you're just pissing away money.
Heh... nice one. I buy mid-range PC laptops (say $600-900 retail at initial release) 6 months to a year after they have come out, when their price has dropped by 30-50%. I then use them for 2-3 years, taking care of them cosmetically (avoid scratches & dents, keep them clean, etc..), and then when I am ready to upgrade, sell them to friends or clients for 1/2 to 2/3 of what I paid for them originally. So my cost per computer / year is usually less than $100. Considering that might be $0.30 or so per day max, and I make my living with them, how is that "pissing away money"?
What is the price difference from a new Apple laptop, to the resell value you get 2-4 years down the road? From what I can see looking online, this means that after selling your MB for $920, you likely paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $600-1000 for the 'privilege' of using it for 4 years. This puts you at a 150-250% higher annual cost/use ratio than what I experience with PC's.
Oh yeah, right - you didn't have to worry about viruses, malware, etc... Ah! But I run Linux on my machines as well as Windows, and work in IT, and it is no challenge to keep my machines clean.
So then you'll argue that I am more "computer savvy" than most users, which I will then counter with the fact that the 7 or 8 year old Acer which I sold a friend 4-5 years ago is still in daily use by a regular porn viewer, after I gave him the brief instruction on which programs to run, and how often, to keep his machine going strong despite his proclivities for questionable website viewing.
And it still is running just fine, that little originally-$400 Acer, even though it has no trendy glowing logo in the lid. By now, the cost of that machine is about $0.07 per day, and continues to fall.
No, it isn't. They frequently refer to traveling between planets obviously from/of different solar systems and/or regions of the 'Verse. They visit the 'core planets', they visit desert planets, water planets, other desert planets, stations around moons, etc etc... During the one episode, when Serenity breaks down and all but Mal abandon ship, reference is made to the fact that they are nowhere near any habitable systems or likely traffic areas between such.
If the total area where all this takes place is all in one system, then it must have at least 20+ man habitable planets, which would make for a pretty crowded orbit there in the Habitable Zone around whatever star that might be...
Of course, they could be in a galaxy-sized Dyson sphere, and *that* would maybe be a way to count the Firefly 'Verse as "one system", yet still pack in all these other features, but...
That works in a system where the travel is between two planets orbiting at different speeds and distance around a common central point, but in interstellar travel, the motion between two stars over a relatively (no pun intended) short time and distance would not produce such startlingly different trajectories.
That said, the two ships meeting on opposing trajectories yet at the relative velocities depicted, was of course a huge amount of artistic license.
Then again, what do *we* know of interstellar travel? Maybe it will work like that, for some strange and currently unforeseen reason...;)
{sarcasm} Given that the well-known CIA/FBI mole and General Proponent of Big Government known as Moxie Marlinspike has stated"Shane and Sarah are easily two of my favorite people in the world." in reference to two of the three hikers, I bet you are exactly right with those assumptions you're making there... {/sarcasm}
Bullshit. That is simply your own hallucination and interpretation which, as I stated above, supports what you choose to believe. When I do see a few minutes of the "news", whatever the station/channel/outlet, I am always amazed that people like yourself choose to *not* see the blatant attempt at brainwashing that these so-called "news shows" exhibit.
FWIW - I stopped watching all of them 7+ years ago, tired of the nonsense and lies and the all-thought-consuming media that is the Idiot Box. I get my news from all over the place, from reading varied sources and applying my judgment as to the likely reliability of said sources taken in context of the whole story and my experience and knowledge about human nature and how the 'machine' that is society works, not from some one-sided corporate entity that is trying to sell me to their advertisers and solidify my support for their upstream political hacks.
Newsflash, 'Foxhaters': Fox is not the only network to pick and choose what they say and how, and/or to use the words of others in the same way in order to boost their ratings. There have been many egregious examples of this by the other AlphabetSoup mass media outlets - ABC/CNN/PBS/CBS/NBC/BBC etc etc...
Like your politicians - your MM outlet of choice simply tells you what you like to hear in order to justify your own outlook. This frequently involves outright lying.
Take off the blinders. Start paying attention to "the man behind the curtain"...
I know this goes against the "Fox-is-teh-Conservative-Bad" groupthink demonstrated above and throughout these comments, but - there it is...
In short live of the land like we are supposed to do.
This is a Fertile land and we will thrive... We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land. I think we should call it... your grave!
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!
Hypothetically, if he had hacked into Baracks email, or Pelosi's, or {insert_major_political_figure_of_choice}, pretty much this same thing would have happened.
Face it - Palin or Pelosi, we're not. Especially not in this overly media-driven culture. It's not that way now, and never really has been, despite the best intentions and ideals of our Founding Fathers.
Most of the righteous sounding rhetoric that has been posted on this topic in all the reports here are nothing much more than thinly veiled expressions of Palin-hate. It's just one ridiculous and oh-so pathetically predictable product of the (D) vs (R) blinders the media has put onto the largely idiot-box-worshiping US public. If the people of the US don't soon get objective about what is really going on with the government - and how badly *all* of these politicos are fucking The People over - we are going to stay in this death spin all the way until we crater.
Sad, that. The remnants of a once-great nation finished off by a bunch of lacquered-hair, mascara-wearing talking heads spouting off at the behest of their bosses, telling the sheeple what to believe and how to think, who's wrong and who's right. All the while, the ones who might have saved it were otherwise just too damned busy-busy, poking holes into each others strawmen...
In general, corporations in the USA are required by law to "maximize shareholder value" as their first priority.
Have a cite for that assertation? No?
Here's why: "Maximizing shareholder value" is a management principle, not a precondition of incorporation. It is something that a company may choose to do in a legally binding contract with shareholders, but our government does not, and has never, required it under law as the 'first priority' for any type of business.
Someone with an anti-US/anti-corporate belief system has been lying to you, and you've believed them. Next time they try to do so, instead of just drinking their KoolAid, I suggest you ask them to cite exactly which US law it is they are referring to. When they can't, maybe you'll see them for what they really are.
If it wasn't phoning home, then why the opened network connection and subsequent traffic, coinciding with these slowdowns?
Anything to do this line in the settings, which you *must* agree to?
"Send basic information to Microsoft about software that Microsoft Security Essentials detects, including where the software came from, the actions that you apply or that Microsoft Security Essentials applies automatically, and whether the actions were successful."
Seems to me, that once MSE had checked and "OK'ed" a directory, it wouldn't need to do so again, had nothing in that directory changed...
At any rate, and whatever the reason, the poor performance made me give up on it.
I used - and recommended to MS using clients - MSE for a while, but found it annoying how often it made me wait to open up directories while it (I'm fairly certain) was phoning home to check whether something therein was suspicious or not.
Getting around that wait was as simple as opening the MSE interface, disabling 'real time protection' (whereupon said directory would immediately open) and then re-enabling 'real time protection'. But... why have to do that, so often? And having to do that, kind of makes it pointless to be running the application, anyway. This behavior persisted through several upgrades, until I finally had enough...
I use Avast on my Win systems now, it seems to be the best of the free a/v's. AVG borks end users systems with their upgrades too often for my taste, Comodo works well but is a little too 'forgetful' of what usually are persistent settings...
Don't let Julian Assange be the last real man on earth.
Melodrama much? Sheesh.... {roll_eyes}
If the story WRT the chirpies is to be believed, I'd argue with you that a real man would have stopped for a moment and swapped out the broken condom before continuing to have sex. What honor is there in unwanted pregnancy? In placing your wants so very far above those of the woman you are with?
"Real man"? He certainly does not seem it to me. Real Loser, more likely.
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Scumbag Obama: Talk about hope and change. Continue and expand on Bush-era policies.
Hey, I am just glad that He was the one who since last August has personally overseen, analyzed intel, and, finally, authorized the strike which took Osama out. What a guy. And He is so humble about it.
Waitagoshdarnminute! Computers aren't 'magic'? Then why do they quit working if you let out the 'magic smoke' from the power supply? Huh???
;D
...and any business operating under the constraints/protection of HIPAA.
It's very possible - UID is only an indication of when a particular account was created. I'm not the OP, yet I've 7 digits in my UID, and have been a reader/participant here since '98 or '99. Somewhere in the /. DB I have one or two other usernames, created when needed and forgotten now because sometimes I will go a long time between reading or posting due to work or other circumstances. Shit happens. :)
Netflix.
The networking company I subbed for (they are in another state) did the (poorly implemented IMO) setup, and Yep, they have a yagi mounted that points _down_, at about a 45 degree angle towards the 2 corner rooms with the least amount of signal. I was as surprised as you might have been to have seen that... :)
A networking company I've done contract work for has a small hotel client constructed with steel framing instead of wood. Only 2 floors, 8 rooms per side/floor, front and back, but WiFi is a nightmare. There are *5* AP's in the building; one central, 2 each in the attic space either side of the central router, & one AP even has to have a yagi on it to reach into the bottom, corner room with signal strength sufficient to keep hotel guests from complaining. After working there 3 times in the past 2 years resolving issues, I think that steel construction is more of a concern than a radiant barrier layer on the insulation of an exterior wall...
This story deserves it's own tag. WTFITWCT (What the fuck is the world coming to), or GMAFB. Something like that...
Rolled up things are an inefficient use of space.
Not necessarily. Next time you pack for a trip where luggage space is at a premium, try rolling up your clothing instead of packing it folded flat in your suitcase/seabag. When crammed full, not only will the result produce less wrinkles in the clothing (if care is taken with the rolling), but it is easier to go through the entire contents of the luggage container to find a specific item, and then remove it without 'upsetting' other items. Just sayin'...
All snark aside, I do remember quite a bit of talk about the Democrats attempting to reinstate it, from politico's and 'normal people' on both sides of the aisle, perhaps 8-10 years ago. It never went beyond talk, I think, because the Democrats discovered that they didn't need it anymore, having seen that they were becoming much more adept at manipulating public opinion through the 'new media' of the internet - e.g. MoveOn, HuffPo, DU... - than through the traditional outlets.
The Republicans have yet to figure out how to reach the younger demographic of net users, from what I can see. I think they dropped the ball on that, as far as advancing their own interests is concerned. It could be as I've read, though, that younger people as a rule tend more towards a 'liberal' train of thought, and so if that is the case, the 'conservative way' will never quite have as loud a voice online simply due to the fact that the internet is more easily used and understood by those who have grown up with the current state of the tool, instead of those who find themselves having to "reverse engineer" it.
And what will be really interesting to see, is how that shift occurs again in 10 or so years, what will come of *that*...
If you buy any other laptop, you're just pissing away money.
Heh... nice one. I buy mid-range PC laptops (say $600-900 retail at initial release) 6 months to a year after they have come out, when their price has dropped by 30-50%. I then use them for 2-3 years, taking care of them cosmetically (avoid scratches & dents, keep them clean, etc..), and then when I am ready to upgrade, sell them to friends or clients for 1/2 to 2/3 of what I paid for them originally. So my cost per computer / year is usually less than $100. Considering that might be $0.30 or so per day max, and I make my living with them, how is that "pissing away money"?
What is the price difference from a new Apple laptop, to the resell value you get 2-4 years down the road? From what I can see looking online, this means that after selling your MB for $920, you likely paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $600-1000 for the 'privilege' of using it for 4 years. This puts you at a 150-250% higher annual cost/use ratio than what I experience with PC's.
Oh yeah, right - you didn't have to worry about viruses, malware, etc... Ah! But I run Linux on my machines as well as Windows, and work in IT, and it is no challenge to keep my machines clean.
So then you'll argue that I am more "computer savvy" than most users, which I will then counter with the fact that the 7 or 8 year old Acer which I sold a friend 4-5 years ago is still in daily use by a regular porn viewer, after I gave him the brief instruction on which programs to run, and how often, to keep his machine going strong despite his proclivities for questionable website viewing.
And it still is running just fine, that little originally-$400 Acer, even though it has no trendy glowing logo in the lid. By now, the cost of that machine is about $0.07 per day, and continues to fall.
"Pissing away money"? Hardly.
No, it isn't. They frequently refer to traveling between planets obviously from/of different solar systems and/or regions of the 'Verse. They visit the 'core planets', they visit desert planets, water planets, other desert planets, stations around moons, etc etc... During the one episode, when Serenity breaks down and all but Mal abandon ship, reference is made to the fact that they are nowhere near any habitable systems or likely traffic areas between such.
If the total area where all this takes place is all in one system, then it must have at least 20+ man habitable planets, which would make for a pretty crowded orbit there in the Habitable Zone around whatever star that might be...
Of course, they could be in a galaxy-sized Dyson sphere, and *that* would maybe be a way to count the Firefly 'Verse as "one system", yet still pack in all these other features, but...
That works in a system where the travel is between two planets orbiting at different speeds and distance around a common central point, but in interstellar travel, the motion between two stars over a relatively (no pun intended) short time and distance would not produce such startlingly different trajectories.
;)
That said, the two ships meeting on opposing trajectories yet at the relative velocities depicted, was of course a huge amount of artistic license.
Then again, what do *we* know of interstellar travel? Maybe it will work like that, for some strange and currently unforeseen reason...
{sarcasm}
Given that the well-known CIA/FBI mole and General Proponent of Big Government known as Moxie Marlinspike has stated "Shane and Sarah are easily two of my favorite people in the world." in reference to two of the three hikers, I bet you are exactly right with those assumptions you're making there...
{/sarcasm}
;)
Bullshit. That is simply your own hallucination and interpretation which, as I stated above, supports what you choose to believe. When I do see a few minutes of the "news", whatever the station/channel/outlet, I am always amazed that people like yourself choose to *not* see the blatant attempt at brainwashing that these so-called "news shows" exhibit.
FWIW - I stopped watching all of them 7+ years ago, tired of the nonsense and lies and the all-thought-consuming media that is the Idiot Box. I get my news from all over the place, from reading varied sources and applying my judgment as to the likely reliability of said sources taken in context of the whole story and my experience and knowledge about human nature and how the 'machine' that is society works, not from some one-sided corporate entity that is trying to sell me to their advertisers and solidify my support for their upstream political hacks.
Newsflash, 'Foxhaters': Fox is not the only network to pick and choose what they say and how, and/or to use the words of others in the same way in order to boost their ratings. There have been many egregious examples of this by the other AlphabetSoup mass media outlets - ABC/CNN/PBS/CBS/NBC/BBC etc etc...
Like your politicians - your MM outlet of choice simply tells you what you like to hear in order to justify your own outlook. This frequently involves outright lying.
Take off the blinders. Start paying attention to "the man behind the curtain"...
I know this goes against the "Fox-is-teh-Conservative-Bad" groupthink demonstrated above and throughout these comments, but - there it is...
In short live of the land like we are supposed to do.
This is a Fertile land and we will thrive... We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land.
I think we should call it... your grave!
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!
Hypothetically, if he had hacked into Baracks email, or Pelosi's, or {insert_major_political_figure_of_choice}, pretty much this same thing would have happened.
Face it - Palin or Pelosi, we're not. Especially not in this overly media-driven culture. It's not that way now, and never really has been, despite the best intentions and ideals of our Founding Fathers.
Most of the righteous sounding rhetoric that has been posted on this topic in all the reports here are nothing much more than thinly veiled expressions of Palin-hate. It's just one ridiculous and oh-so pathetically predictable product of the (D) vs (R) blinders the media has put onto the largely idiot-box-worshiping US public. If the people of the US don't soon get objective about what is really going on with the government - and how badly *all* of these politicos are fucking The People over - we are going to stay in this death spin all the way until we crater.
Sad, that. The remnants of a once-great nation finished off by a bunch of lacquered-hair, mascara-wearing talking heads spouting off at the behest of their bosses, telling the sheeple what to believe and how to think, who's wrong and who's right. All the while, the ones who might have saved it were otherwise just too damned busy-busy, poking holes into each others strawmen...
Weaponize the 'chornet' by including the stinger, & your project will be a shoe-in for some DARPA money.
In general, corporations in the USA are required by law to "maximize shareholder value" as their first priority.
Have a cite for that assertation? No?
Here's why: "Maximizing shareholder value" is a management principle, not a precondition of incorporation. It is something that a company may choose to do in a legally binding contract with shareholders, but our government does not, and has never, required it under law as the 'first priority' for any type of business.
Someone with an anti-US/anti-corporate belief system has been lying to you, and you've believed them. Next time they try to do so, instead of just drinking their KoolAid, I suggest you ask them to cite exactly which US law it is they are referring to. When they can't, maybe you'll see them for what they really are.
Anything to do this line in the settings, which you *must* agree to?
"Send basic information to Microsoft about software that Microsoft Security Essentials detects, including where the software came from, the actions that you apply or that Microsoft Security Essentials applies automatically, and whether the actions were successful."
Seems to me, that once MSE had checked and "OK'ed" a directory, it wouldn't need to do so again, had nothing in that directory changed...
At any rate, and whatever the reason, the poor performance made me give up on it.
I used - and recommended to MS using clients - MSE for a while, but found it annoying how often it made me wait to open up directories while it (I'm fairly certain) was phoning home to check whether something therein was suspicious or not.
Getting around that wait was as simple as opening the MSE interface, disabling 'real time protection' (whereupon said directory would immediately open) and then re-enabling 'real time protection'. But... why have to do that, so often? And having to do that, kind of makes it pointless to be running the application, anyway. This behavior persisted through several upgrades, until I finally had enough...
I use Avast on my Win systems now, it seems to be the best of the free a/v's. AVG borks end users systems with their upgrades too often for my taste, Comodo works well but is a little too 'forgetful' of what usually are persistent settings...
FYI, FWIW: note that the actual submission is from 'kdawson', not CmdrTaco.
Taco posted it. I guess he could have edited that part in, but I think that text is probably from the 'kdawson' submission...
For clarity: "chirpies" is local slang, referring to the bubbly, vacuous talking heads of the mass media outlets...
Don't let Julian Assange be the last real man on earth.
Melodrama much? Sheesh.... {roll_eyes}
If the story WRT the chirpies is to be believed, I'd argue with you that a real man would have stopped for a moment and swapped out the broken condom before continuing to have sex. What honor is there in unwanted pregnancy? In placing your wants so very far above those of the woman you are with?
"Real man"? He certainly does not seem it to me. Real Loser, more likely.