Sheesh. Or whoosh. (More like both.) It was a joke, okay?:) I was attempting to portray the "average consumer," not fool you (so easily, no less!) into thinking that I actualy was one!
Seriously, Oh Mighty Bearded Ones, highschool is (presumably) long over with (malingering trauma inflicted by evil preps, preps and hoodlums nothwithstanding); isn't it time we all took a deep breath (let it flow slowly out through our coffee-stained incisors - our sinuses are probably too stuffed-up to perform this one by the book)... and make an attempt to find our inner senses of humor? They've gotta be under those rotund bellies somewhere! (Even my friends with Asperger's let out a chuckle every now and then)!*:)
*I suppose I'm guilty of having forgotten about the whole *nix-admin stereotype: extremely nitpicky about technical details, completely awkward in social situations, not at all able to relate to more easy-going folk...
Many of us have been expecting this sort of thing for a while. I suspect at the heart of it this has less to do with Microsofft and more to do with TPTB wanting to make inroads against general-purpose computing... hopefully that cat is safely out of [reach of] their bag...
Because 3 Japanese Americans aided an enemy (they didn't even kill or hurt anyone themselves) that explained why the US rounded up everyone of Japanese descent and put them in prison camps?
No, it was a simple knee jerk reaction. Some combination of racism and cowardice and a complete disregard for what this country stood for. It would be like imprisoning every Muslim or Arab American because of 9/11. I'm sure there are some Americans who think we should do exactly that, but people are individuals and should not be held responsible for actions taken by others just because they, or their parents/grandparents were born in the same geographical area. Human rights are human rights. Do you respect them and even fight to preserve them or do you give them up completely when they cause even the slightest danger or inconvenience?
You sound confused. I very much doubt that you'll find a single historian anywhere who would argue that what happened was even remotely appropriate... but it certainly sounds as if that's what you're arguing against. Discussing how a critical event influenced another event isn't the same as claiming the first event somehow serves as a justification for the second...
Just make sure it's a suitably thick wire. You might want a sacrificial anode, because with enough of a potential that salt water is going to eat that wire quickly.
A proper sailboat will have the mast bolted directly to the top of the keel...
ubuntu is fine one you rip out unity. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu with mate desktop, all work great just because unity and gnome are a flaming pile doesn't make the rest bad. apt-get purge unity && apt-get install anything-else(except gnome3) problem solved.
user@gateway ~ $ apt-get install anything-else
E: Could not open lock file/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
user@gateway ~ $
The majority also supported the roundup of Japanese-americans during WW2, depriving them of their liberty, property, and right to a jury trial. That doesn't make the majority's trampeling of individual rights okay, either then or now.
Does anybody here know why they were rounded up? I'm embarrassed to admit (as someone raised in Japan) that I thought the round-up was a simple knee-jerk reaction to Pearl Harbor. Rather, even our gullible, culturally-clueless 40's era forebears could obviously sense that there was something extremely different about culturally-homogenous Japanese society; even 2nd and 3rd-generation Japanese-Americans demonstrated that they weren't immune to its conditioning effect.
See, Aussies? This is why they disarmed you: so that when you finally begin to clue in to the fact that certain politicians seem to understand suspiciously well what fuels the fantasies of the twisted and demented, you can't do anything about it...
Eventually, when all you are permitted is a single-shot rimfire, what use will it be for you?
Virtually none whatsoever, I imagine. All the more reason why it's so crucial that the "brainwashed left" see past the false left-right paradigm and realize before it's too late that they've fallen for the lie that guns aren just for the "brainwashed right." History clearly shows that they're for anyone who wants to be able to protect themselves and their loved ones and have a faint chance of being able to preserve what little remains of their liberty.
I strongly suggest that everyone check this out, regardless of their political "assumptions."
I don't think you are any better off than me in the UK or anyone else in this part of the world.. Your 1776 revolutionaries must be turning in their graves...
At least we've still got our guns (perhaps for not much longer, mind you).
Back in the day (say, 2008 as in the article), if you wanted to buy a server, you'd buy one from the big three.
If you wanted a piece of shit (and let's be fair; there are plenty of times that a piece of shit is exactly what a situation requires), then yes; a server from the big three was the way to go. If, however, you wanted something "better" than that (the quotes are due to the admittedly subjective use of the word), you ordered a Supermicro or Intel serverboard, server case, high quality power supplies, etc, etc... and you never looked back (not if you belonged anywhere near a server, anyway!).
The servers from the Big Three were truly low-quality dogshit compared to what just about any reasonably competent and knowledgeable systems engineer could slap together in a couple hours using quality off-the-shelf parts costing a fraction as much.
I heard all the arguments against this back then (usually from extremely incompetent PHB's); those arguments failed to hold much water then and they hold even less now, looking back on it.
Dead from oil will likely lead to a lack of oxygen anyway but with the added benefit of petroleum byproducts and other persistent nastiness permeating everything...
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...and that was a serious question.
Sheesh. Or whoosh. (More like both.) It was a joke, okay? :) I was attempting to portray the "average consumer," not fool you (so easily, no less!) into thinking that I actualy was one!
Seriously, Oh Mighty Bearded Ones, highschool is (presumably) long over with (malingering trauma inflicted by evil preps, preps and hoodlums nothwithstanding); isn't it time we all took a deep breath (let it flow slowly out through our coffee-stained incisors - our sinuses are probably too stuffed-up to perform this one by the book)... and make an attempt to find our inner senses of humor? They've gotta be under those rotund bellies somewhere! (Even my friends with Asperger's let out a chuckle every now and then)!* :)
*I suppose I'm guilty of having forgotten about the whole *nix-admin stereotype: extremely nitpicky about technical details, completely awkward in social situations, not at all able to relate to more easy-going folk...
This is your average consumer, and that was a serious question.
I have been called a lot of things but average consumer is definitely a first! :p
reaks? reeks. :)
Many of us have been expecting this sort of thing for a while. I suspect at the heart of it this has less to do with Microsofft and more to do with TPTB wanting to make inroads against general-purpose computing... hopefully that cat is safely out of [reach of] their bag...
The idea behind a design patent is to protect the manufacturer and the consumer from counterfeit products.
Huh?? Aren't you getting patents confused with trademarks?
Because 3 Japanese Americans aided an enemy (they didn't even kill or hurt anyone themselves) that explained why the US rounded up everyone of Japanese descent and put them in prison camps?
No, it was a simple knee jerk reaction. Some combination of racism and cowardice and a complete disregard for what this country stood for. It would be like imprisoning every Muslim or Arab American because of 9/11. I'm sure there are some Americans who think we should do exactly that, but people are individuals and should not be held responsible for actions taken by others just because they, or their parents/grandparents were born in the same geographical area. Human rights are human rights. Do you respect them and even fight to preserve them or do you give them up completely when they cause even the slightest danger or inconvenience?
You sound confused. I very much doubt that you'll find a single historian anywhere who would argue that what happened was even remotely appropriate... but it certainly sounds as if that's what you're arguing against. Discussing how a critical event influenced another event isn't the same as claiming the first event somehow serves as a justification for the second...
Well, were you root?
Who the hell are you calling a root, buddy??
A proper sailboat will have the mast bolted directly to the top of the keel...
I thought we were talking about lightning protection; I feel dumb now (no, wait! I already did...)
You want to ask a bunch of people who live in their mother's basement...
My mother lives in my basement, you insensitive clod!
Just make sure it's a suitably thick wire. You might want a sacrificial anode, because with enough of a potential that salt water is going to eat that wire quickly.
A proper sailboat will have the mast bolted directly to the top of the keel...
Yes, imprisoning your own citizens prevents foreign powers from attacking. Riiiiight.
Can you believe some of these people don't drown when it rains??
ubuntu is fine one you rip out unity. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu with mate desktop, all work great just because unity and gnome are a flaming pile doesn't make the rest bad. apt-get purge unity && apt-get install anything-else(except gnome3) problem solved.
user@gateway ~ $ apt-get install anything-else /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Could not open lock file
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
user@gateway ~ $
???! :(
The majority also supported the roundup of Japanese-americans during WW2, depriving them of their liberty, property, and right to a jury trial. That doesn't make the majority's trampeling of individual rights okay, either then or now.
Does anybody here know why they were rounded up? I'm embarrassed to admit (as someone raised in Japan) that I thought the round-up was a simple knee-jerk reaction to Pearl Harbor. Rather, even our gullible, culturally-clueless 40's era forebears could obviously sense that there was something extremely different about culturally-homogenous Japanese society; even 2nd and 3rd-generation Japanese-Americans demonstrated that they weren't immune to its conditioning effect.
See, Aussies? This is why they disarmed you: so that when you finally begin to clue in to the fact that certain politicians seem to understand suspiciously well what fuels the fantasies of the twisted and demented, you can't do anything about it...
Eventually, when all you are permitted is a single-shot rimfire, what use will it be for you?
Virtually none whatsoever, I imagine. All the more reason why it's so crucial that the "brainwashed left" see past the false left-right paradigm and realize before it's too late that they've fallen for the lie that guns aren just for the "brainwashed right." History clearly shows that they're for anyone who wants to be able to protect themselves and their loved ones and have a faint chance of being able to preserve what little remains of their liberty.
I strongly suggest that everyone check this out, regardless of their political "assumptions."
This is equally relevant.
He's going to sign it...but he didn't mean to.
He's going to fight for our civil rights next year. He promises. Honest.
He may be a fascist CIA puppet like the others (well, besides Kennedy of course) but hey! He drinks microbrewed ales, man!
Constitutional republic?
I don't think you are any better off than me in the UK or anyone else in this part of the world.. Your 1776 revolutionaries must be turning in their graves...
At least we've still got our guns (perhaps for not much longer, mind you).
Back in the day (say, 2008 as in the article), if you wanted to buy a server, you'd buy one from the big three.
If you wanted a piece of shit (and let's be fair; there are plenty of times that a piece of shit is exactly what a situation requires), then yes; a server from the big three was the way to go. If, however, you wanted something "better" than that (the quotes are due to the admittedly subjective use of the word), you ordered a Supermicro or Intel serverboard, server case, high quality power supplies, etc, etc... and you never looked back (not if you belonged anywhere near a server, anyway!).
The servers from the Big Three were truly low-quality dogshit compared to what just about any reasonably competent and knowledgeable systems engineer could slap together in a couple hours using quality off-the-shelf parts costing a fraction as much.
I heard all the arguments against this back then (usually from extremely incompetent PHB's); those arguments failed to hold much water then and they hold even less now, looking back on it.
Nature has mechanisms to deal with spills of this magnitude without any intervention from us.
She certainly does; the question is, do you have the vaguest grasp of what those mechanisms entail?!
Anyone who actually has studied some Geology knows this was not a big deal for the environment...
Surely I can't be the only one who thinks this should be modded funny!
Dead from oil or dead from lack of oxygen?
One isn't better than the other.
Dead from oil will likely lead to a lack of oxygen anyway but with the added benefit of petroleum byproducts and other persistent nastiness permeating everything...
Maybe he's hoping our obvious class will rub off on him! :)
Is this just more money funneled to U.S. companies
This is a trick question, right? :)
It's designed to navigate both shallow rivers and the freezing depths of the Northern Sea.
"Is this a submarine?!"
When I hear the name AliBaba my first thought is "40 Thieves"
Not exactly inspiring confidence in the business.
I guess it means something else in Chinese.
40 Victims? :P