We used then in the computers in the 90s. Old military supplies and maintenance system. Once the systems got replaced with more modern equipment, the old stuff was probably sold off to the companies that keep this stuff for these situations.
Oh sure, you think we're that easy to fool? Trying to get us to use your 8" disks with hidden backdoors encoded in them? No thank you. We get all of our supplies from official channels, which source from the IBM division called Lenovo.
Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein Commander, U.S. Strategic Command
Yes, but the "next generation drive" is always the one that breaks physics to operate. Might as well send a colony ship that uses known physics as soon as we can.
Fuck that shit. Evolution made us the dominant species on this planet, so we are just doing what nature intended. Limiting ourselves until we become 'nice' is against the natural order.
They've been shown to be false by who? John Stewart or Stephen Colbert? The mainstream media that you probably insist isn't liberally biased? The White House?
Because the "phony anecdotes" I keep seeing are from people whose insurance got cancelled because of Obamacare, people whose hours got cut because of Obamacare, and people whose premiums shot up because of Obamacare.
You can keep insisting everyone who claims to have been hurt by this legislation is a liar, but that wears thin after the thousandth time.
how much one person can edit a discussion with mod points...
so, thanks...I appreciate your taking the time to engage with me...some points you should consider:
3. stop making a war on me with your mod points from this point forward..
I never intended to make a war with you, and have no plans to use up future mod points on your comments. But that's because I usually use mod points to raise up comments, not point out trolls. And about half the time, the comments I raise up are ones I don't actually agree with. The people make great arguments for their positions/beliefs, but those positions/beliefs are the opposite of my own. You simply were not making great arguments.
.I admit I make comments that could be modded down, but I am virtually always (attempting) to engage in direct clash and make a coherent point. You modded me down for political reasons and felt guilty
Not quite. I modded you down because you were being rude and demeaning, with little thinking evident in your posts. In other words, a troll.
I removed my mods after a few hours because I had planned to do that from the start. There was no feelings of guilt, that removing the mods lessened. It was more like making a child sit in the corner for 30 minutes; allowing him to get up after that 30 minutes isn't a sign of a guilty conscience.
4. Green/"libertarian"/etc parties all just help maintain oligarchy. It's a false choice. Start understanding that in voting, you always "choose the lesser of two evils"...no one could possibly represent your decisions *perfectly* so it's always the 'best' of many options...ALWAYS.
I don't begrudge a Green party voter, but they are still ruining our country. We're in the fight of our life against the Oligarchy...it's naive to think a hopeless, unelectable Green party vote will help end Oligarchy and the military industrial complex
Actually, I'm trying to figure out which party and candidate you think is going to go against the oligarchy. Certainly it isn't any of the mainstream democrats or republicans. It isn't going to be Obama, if the last 5 years have shown us anything. It will either be the far left-wing of the Democrats or the far right-wing of the Republicans. That is the meaning of my sig -- pick the groups that are the enemy of your enemy. Nothing else will make a differnce.
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He took the time to log in,... he's trolling.
Who the hell actually logs in every time they visit /. ? I logged in months ago, and it just keeps me logged in between sessions.
Either way, shut the fuck up.
You can't violate his First Amendment rights like that. Who do you think you are, Samuel L Jackson?
How could that be resolved against the "Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away..." theme?
What does the IRS think about this little financial transaction?
One of the funniest TV episodes ever.
We used then in the computers in the 90s. Old military supplies and maintenance system. Once the systems got replaced with more modern equipment, the old stuff was probably sold off to the companies that keep this stuff for these situations.
At least they are no longer using a clay tablet reader.
Did they replace that with the CueCat reader?
Oh sure, you think we're that easy to fool? Trying to get us to use your 8" disks with hidden backdoors encoded in them? No thank you. We get all of our supplies from official channels, which source from the IBM division called Lenovo.
Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein
Commander, U.S. Strategic Command
You still can't handle the fact that the US invented the Internet.
Would you like a little cheese to go with that whine?
Where did I say we were gonna become extinct?
Please learn to read.
Yours truly,
Fozzie Bear
Thank you. I always loved that guy. Must be where I get some of my attitude.
The thing you aren't realizing is that "every generation" for colony ships would be a century. At least for the first millennium.
And that still leaves our future scientists a long way off from a warp drive.
I just want a few colonies of humans who have a chance, in case Earth gets wiped out by man or nature.
Yes, but the "next generation drive" is always the one that breaks physics to operate. Might as well send a colony ship that uses known physics as soon as we can.
Fuck that shit. Evolution made us the dominant species on this planet, so we are just doing what nature intended. Limiting ourselves until we become 'nice' is against the natural order.
I have realized I play pool very well when I am drunk, and very poorly when sober.
That's what the claymore mine inside the front door is for.
They've been shown to be false by who? John Stewart or Stephen Colbert? The mainstream media that you probably insist isn't liberally biased? The White House?
Because the "phony anecdotes" I keep seeing are from people whose insurance got cancelled because of Obamacare, people whose hours got cut because of Obamacare, and people whose premiums shot up because of Obamacare.
You can keep insisting everyone who claims to have been hurt by this legislation is a liar, but that wears thin after the thousandth time.
Why on middle earth would you want to pollute the lavas of Mount Doom with Zune players?
Oh sure. NASA fakes a moon landing, but you think Microsoft can't fake a film about a landfill in the desert?
Either word would work, actually. Too bad you don't know as much as you think you do.
That comment got me from terrible to just bad karma.
I just up-modded all of your comments, to help you out.
You can thank me later.
how much one person can edit a discussion with mod points...
so, thanks...I appreciate your taking the time to engage with me...some points you should consider:
3. stop making a war on me with your mod points from this point forward..
I never intended to make a war with you, and have no plans to use up future mod points on your comments. But that's because I usually use mod points to raise up comments, not point out trolls. And about half the time, the comments I raise up are ones I don't actually agree with. The people make great arguments for their positions/beliefs, but those positions/beliefs are the opposite of my own. You simply were not making great arguments.
.I admit I make comments that could be modded down, but I am virtually always (attempting) to engage in direct clash and make a coherent point. You modded me down for political reasons and felt guilty
Not quite. I modded you down because you were being rude and demeaning, with little thinking evident in your posts. In other words, a troll.
I removed my mods after a few hours because I had planned to do that from the start. There was no feelings of guilt, that removing the mods lessened. It was more like making a child sit in the corner for 30 minutes; allowing him to get up after that 30 minutes isn't a sign of a guilty conscience.
4. Green/"libertarian"/etc parties all just help maintain oligarchy. It's a false choice. Start understanding that in voting, you always "choose the lesser of two evils"...no one could possibly represent your decisions *perfectly* so it's always the 'best' of many options...ALWAYS.
I don't begrudge a Green party voter, but they are still ruining our country. We're in the fight of our life against the Oligarchy...it's naive to think a hopeless, unelectable Green party vote will help end Oligarchy and the military industrial complex
Actually, I'm trying to figure out which party and candidate you think is going to go against the oligarchy. Certainly it isn't any of the mainstream democrats or republicans. It isn't going to be Obama, if the last 5 years have shown us anything. It will either be the far left-wing of the Democrats or the far right-wing of the Republicans. That is the meaning of my sig -- pick the groups that are the enemy of your enemy. Nothing else will make a differnce.
I didn't expect such social darwinism from you.
Yeah, but that was the Egyptian subset of Africans.
The parent troll is obviously going after the darker skin subsets that live further south.
A rabbi walks into a bar, holding a phone cord...
I bought five copies for my mother.